Internews Europe

This project strengthens the capacity of Thai non-state actors (NSAs) to work towards alleviating poverty in the three provinces of southern Thailand within the context of enhancing peace and reconciliation in the divided communities. In improving both the national media’s ability to report on important issues facing the southern region and Civil Society Organisations' (CSOs) capacity to represent their communities, the activities help empower a region traditionally overlooked nationally and internationally

Internews Europe, with two local partners in Tajikistan, provided key skills and opportunities to media and BIOs (Business Intermediary Organisations) and helped them develop simple, yet effective operational systems to better serve SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) and contribute to the overall economic development of the nation. The overall objective of this project which was launched in February 2009 and ended at the end of 2010 enhanced the skills and competence of Tajik BIOs.

My SME (small and medium enterprises) News is a pioneering service that aims to provide the poor in India with essential business news while reaching operating profit within two years at the same time. It leverages the rapid spread of mobile phones in India’s slums and simultaneously relies on traditional media to reach a broad customer base with individually tailored services. Internews Europe, Mahiti and Plural India launched the My SME News pilot in the slums of Kolkata, West Bengal, for 300,000 micro-finance entrepreneurs. My SME News blends the power of technology with existing realities and social networks in India's slums and villages to build a 'Bottom of the Pyramid' media business. It also makes new models of pro-poor media sustainable in the market place.

Since the devastating 7.0 Richter earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, Internews has been working on the ground with local Haitian media and humanitarian aid agencies to get critical information directly to the people who need it most.

In Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, the Internews Europe Consortium and its partners produce and disseminate a range of media vehicles designed to complement national assistance programmes, address challenges with a regional dimension, promote cooperation among partners on issues of mutual interest and highlight the achievement of citizens and institutions of EU member states for the resolution of potentially conflicting situations via negotiation as opposed to confrontation. Through TV, radio, the Internet and print media, Internews aims at maximising the understanding of the values that are at the base of the European Neighbourhood Policy, including democracy, respects of the rule of law, good governance, and respect for human rights.

Media and Stabilisation Action aimed to support media workers and humanitarian organisations in Sri Lanka during the last year of the civil war. The initiative put an emphasis on collaboration with local organisations and building on the work of national and international organisations in the area of media development. The project worked to advise, inform and help sustain these networks in the context of the Sri Lankan crisis. 

This project's goal was to increase the capability of the Pakistani broadcast media in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of the country, and to act as a platform for the citizens of Pakistan in their desire for change – particularly in their demands for good governance and their stand against conflict, radicalisation and extremism. The Radio for Development in Pakistan project seeks to achieve this through the use of new radio formats and techniques, and to help NWFP radio stations produce news and information programming that puts these ideas into practice. 

The Media4Diversity project researches the role of the media in both impeding and advancing the diversity agenda in the European Union with a selection of 30 initiatives and 39 recommendations aimed at working with the media sector to change the attitudes of Europeans towards individuals or groups who are currently discriminated against because of their ethnicity, sex, religious beliefs, age or sexual orientation.

Internews Europe, in partnership with the Timor Leste Media Development Centre (TLMDC) and Intercooperação e Desenvolvimento (INDE), Portugal, has co-ordinated a project that has launched a new international market for Timor Leste. It has put Timor’s 14 radio stations online on a platform that enables them to collect advertising and sponsorship over the Internet from Timorese diaspora individuals and businesses worldwide in some of the most remote parts of the world.

Nearly 500 journalists writing from about 108 countries vied to create the most compelling human rights stories in a competition celebrating the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Internews has implemented a project aimed at harnessing the power of the mass media in the five countries of the Mekong Delta region in South East Asia to help create a more supportive social environment for AIDS prevention, care and treatment efforts.

From 2004 to 2007, “Radio Networking for Democracy in Palestine”, funded by the European Commission, worked to increase the quantity, diversity, and professionalism of Palestine’s independent local radio and to strengthen radio’s role in supporting freedom of expression, democracy and other fundamental aspects of civil society.

As part of its thematic transversal programmes to cover health issues, Internews Europe is working in India to share experience and materials on the responsible and effective use of media to address sensitive social issues, especially the HIV/AIDS crisis. During the second year of the project, efforts have focused on India’s northeastern region where the potential of the media to play a vital role in confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemics in a spirit of openness and honesty was mostly untapped.

Aceh Emergency Broadcast Programme was meant to bring a Rapid Response Communications System for Aceh relief, in the wake of the tsunami disaster of December the 26^th 2004. The project supported a wide range of activities designed to enable the media of Aceh to immediately respond to the urgent information needs of the people of Aceh, whose lives were forever changed by the great loss of life and destruction of property and infrastructure.