This project aims to engage and train journalists to improve their understanding and coverage of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy, related issues and reforms which will stimulate a more informed public debate. Two 3-day conferences in France and Germany bring together local media and experts ranging from environmental journalism specialists, lobby groups, research institutes to fish producers.


Start date 04/2012 End date 10/2012
Issues : Environmental Protection
Activities : Media Professionalisation
Media Type :
Mobile Phone
Radio
Online
Print
TV
Funders :

For Libya to continue a peaceful transition after the fall of Gaddafi’s regime, this project addresses the gaps of Libya’s emergent media sector. It aims to foster the creation of a media platform for dialogue and broad participation in line with internationally accepted standards and human rights. 


This project aims to enhance the capacity of media professionals and the main Iraqi electoral and regulatory institutions to cover and monitor the upcoming elections in a professional, independent and timely manner.


Iraq
Start date 02/2012 End date 08/2012
Issues : Democracy and Governance
Media Type :
Online
Print
Partners : Aswat al-Iraq News Agency
Funders : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

This project aims to build an innovative system that will foster a bounded network of trusted local media organisations in CAR to gather real-time first-hand information from populations affected by humanitarian emergencies. This will eventually create a two-way communication flow between international humanitarian agencies that should improve emergency response, community participation & resilience.


The Big Picture Digital Journalism project will strengthen African journalists’ capacities to use crowd-sourcing approaches in modern newsgathering. It aims to support the use of Information and Communications Technologies, which empower journalists but also Civil Society Organisations and communities. Big Picture Digital Journalism will be based in Kenya with supporting activities in Ivory Coast, Uganda, Rwanda and Central African Republic.


Central African Republic
Start date 01/2012 End date 09/2012
Issues : Democracy and Governance
Activities :
Media Type : Online
Funders : International Press Institute (IPI)

InfoAmazonia GeoJournalism’s aim is to create an interactive map of the Amazon basin with the help of Google Earth software. It will help the public and policy groups to accurately report and respond to the region’s needs. Further, enabling Amazon communities to exchange information on destructive and illegal practices will empower these communities to protect and sustain their natural resources.


Brazil
Start date 01/2012 End date 01/2013
Issues : Environmental Protection
Media Type : Online
Partners : O Eco
Funders :

Early elections planned for Kazakhstan in January, coupled with progress towards fully multi-party polls has created the urgent need for media training and capacity building. Internews launched activities to reinforce the media capacity during the electoral and post-electoral periods.


Kazakhstan
Start date 12/2011 End date 06/2012
Issues : Democracy and Governance
Activities : Access to Information
Media Type :
Radio
Online
Print
TV
Partners : Internews Kazakhstan
Funders : European Commission - Instrument for Stability

Over the last 6 years, 1500 journalists from dozens of countries have been trained and have produced over 2000 stories during the project's activities. The projects participants build their capacity through training workshops, support for roduction and distribution, dispersing small grants and fellowships, research, and the development of curricula and briefing materials in order to improve their coverage of environmental issues and challenges.


The activities will seek to restore the information flow, facilitate the reconciliation process and inform the public of key political reform processes. This project happens in the aftermath of the violent overthrow of government in April 2010 and deadly clashes in Southern Kyrgyzstan that saw up to 2,000 people killed in early June 2010. 


Kyrgyzstan
Start date 02/2011 End date 07/2012
Issues :
Activities : Media Professionalisation
Media Type :
Radio
Online
TV
Partners : Deutsche Welle Akademie
Funders : European Commission - Instrument for Stability

This project seeks to promote long term recovery and stabilization efforts in four flood-affected provinces of Pakistan: Sindh, Punjab, KPK and Baluchistan. The activities planned will improve the capacity of local media TV and radio outlets in these areas to engage with and report on grassroots governance issues in flood-affected areas.  will also work on building the communications skills of local government officials. Citizens will be introduced sustainable means to interact with their local media and, thus, those in positions of leadership and authority, to stimulate discourse around effective local governance.


Pakistan
Start date 01/2011 End date 06/2012
Issues :
Activities :
Media Type :
Radio
TV
Funders : European Commission - Instrument for Stability

Iraq Media Junction is a three-year programme designed to strengthen the interaction between Iraq’s independent media and civil society organisations. It promotes mutual understanding and establishes contacts between them. The aim of the project is to improve journalistic skills in social reporting and investigative journalism on the one hand and the capacity of Iraq’s civil society to engage the press and advocate reporting on social issues on the other.


The Climate Change Media Partnership supports journalism in the developing world from the heart of international climate negotiations. 40 journalists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East are selected each year to participate in a climate media fellowship programme designed to improve media coverage of the UN Climate Summits and climate change issues in developing countries.