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)

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.


This project aims to build towards consensus on unity and reconciliation. The capacity building of responsible and independent Rwandan media will enhance inclusiveness and pluralism of the Rwandan civil society. Local media outlets in Rwanda and DRC will be able to understand and cover important cross-border issues. The civil society will receive accurate and practical information on the FDLR demobilization process through radio and video/TV programs disseminated on both sides of the border.


Rwanda
Start date 03/2011 End date 02/2012
Issues : Conflict and Stabilisation
Activities : Access to Information
Media Type :
Radio
TV
Partners : Radio Izuba
Funders : European Commission - External Cooperation programmes (EuropeAid)

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

Internews Europe will facilitate the development of a governmental natural disaster communication strategy. This project focuses on information sharing and management through the training of governmental officials and the development of an online platform linking all the relief actors. 


Haiti
Start date 10/2010 End date 03/2012
Issues : Humanitarian Response
Activities : Access to Information
Media Type : Radio
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 overall goal of Infoasaid is to enhance the efficiency of rapid humanitarian responses by maximising the amount of accurate and timely information available to both humanitarian responders and affected populations. It focuses on enhancing information exchange between these groups in the critical first few days and weeks of emergencies.


Global
Start date 01/2010 End date 03/2012
Issues : Humanitarian Response
Activities :
Media Type :
Mobile Phone
Radio
Online
Print
TV
Partners : BBC World Service Trust
Funders : Department for International Development (DFID)

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.