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| Access to Information Programme (AIP) | Europe/CIS (Bulgaria) | Implementing organization | The AIP Foundation is an NGO with the stated mission of facilitating the implementation of Article 41 of the Bulgarian Constitution which establishes the right of information. AIP’s goals are to encourage individual and public demand for information throu |
| African Women’s Media Centre (AWMC) | Africa | Implementing organization | The AWMC is a project of the International Women's Media Foundation. The Centre has a wide range of programmes for women journalists throughout Africa with the goal of bringing the voices of African women more prominently into the media - as reporters, pr |
| AINA | Asia & the Pacific (Afghanistan) | Implementing organization | AINA is a non-profit foundation focused on developing independent media and cultural expression in Afghanistan. AINA’s projects are directed towards the establishment and operation of media centres and training in audio-visual media technologies. AINA wor |
| Arab Women Media Centre (AWMC) | Arab States | Implementing organization | The AWMC is a non-governmental organization. The centre's objectives include advancing the interests of women in the media through a combination of practical training for women and research. The centre conducts and publishes studies for distribution to ot |
| Article 19 | Global | Implementing organization | ARTICLE 19 is a non-profit organization. It works to promote, protect and fulfil freedom of expression, including access to information, and the means of communication. It does this through advocacy, campaigns, research, litigation and the building of par |
| Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom) | Asia & the Pacific (Afghanistan) | Implementing organization | The Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom) is a NGO with the mandate of strengthening the link between communication and development in Asia. It works closely with many nations in the Asian region, non-governmental organisations, as well a |
| Association for Professional African Women in Communication (APAWC) | Africa (North and Sub-Saharan Africa) | Implementing organization | The APAWC is a professional women’s association that provides a forum for reflection, study, and action on gender and media issues. It promotes new means of media and communication which reflect on women and development in Africa. |
| BBC World Service Trust | Global | Implementing organization | The BBC World Service provides consultancy services and training for journalists and media personnel in developing and post-conflict/transition countries. It has expertise in media development including reconstruction in conflict/post conflict situations, |
| Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) | Global | Implementing organization | CAMECO is a faith based non-profit organization providing research and counselling in the field of communication. It gives advice to media initiatives of local churches and non-governmental organizations on the planning and financing of their activities. |
| CIMERA | Europe/CIS | Implementing organization | CIMERA is a non profit organization active in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans . It supports projects and undertakes research on issues concerned with media development and raising the professional qualifications of journalists. It also initiate |
| Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) | Global | Implementing organization | The CBA is an association that represents the interests of Commonwealth broadcasting organizations. Its activities include training of broadcast media personnel and broadcast journalists for specific civic education campaigns (HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.). It |
| Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) | Global (Commonwealth member countries) | Implementing organization | The CPU is an association of Commonwealth newspapers, news agencies and periodicals. It works to advance the freedom, interests and welfare of the Commonwealth press. It provides a network of training courses and general training of print press journalist |
| Community Media for Development (CMFD) | Africa (Southern Africa) | Implementing organization | The CMFD works with non-profit radio, media organisations, NGOs or individuals working for development and aims to provide technical assistance and training, to enable individuals, organisations and communities, to address social problems through media. |
| Fondation Hirondelle | Global | Implementing organization | Fondation Hirondelle is a non-governmental organization. It carries out advisory missions in post-conflict regions as well as countries in which conflict is either endemic or where there are open hostilities. It has specific experience in setting up indep |
| Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI) | Global | Implementing organization | GIPI is a collaborative project between Internews and the Centre for Democracy and Technology. The project works with local stakeholders in consultative, coalition-based efforts to promote the principles of a decentralized, accessible, user-controlled, an |
| Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS) | Global | Implementing organization | IMPACS is a non-profit organization. It provides a range of communications training, skills development tools, services and materials to not-for-profit organizations of all sizes to develop more effective outreach skills and communication materials. Its’ |
| Instituto para la Conectividad en las Américas (ICA) | Latin America and the Caribbean | Implementing organization | The ICA is a non-profit organization established to promote collaboration between the Americas for better and more innovative uses of ICTs in the Latin America region. Its objective is to connect the Americas by co-funding ICT projects, actively enabling |
| International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) | Global | Implementing organization | ICFJ is an independent non-profit organization. It provides a range of services to journalists including arranging workshops and seminars, as well as support for fellowships and exchanges covering basic and specialized reporting, news-writing, editing, te |
| International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) | Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean | Implementing organization | IICD is an independent non-profit foundation. It works with its partner organizations (from civil society and the public and private sectors) in selected countries to help local stakeholders to assess the potential uses of ICTs in development and to stren |
| International Media, Development, Peacebuilding Consulting | Arab States (Middle East) | Implementing organization | International Media, Development, Peacebuilding Consulting, LLC, provides consulting services to Middle Eastern and international media, private companies and NGOs seeking to operate in the United States and in the Middle East. It focuses on the following |
| International Records Management Trust (IRMT) | Global | Implementing organization | IRMT is a UK registered charity. It supports governments in the development of strategies for managing public sector records. The Trust’s Work falls into three main areas: (i) Consultancy Services: working with local policy makers and records professiona |
| Internews | Global | Implementing organization | Internews is a non-profit organization. It focuses on strengthening independent media through professional training in a range of areas including operations and journalism, radio and TV production, media law and policy, and Internet law and policy. The or |
| Jemstone | Arab States (Middle East) | Implementing organization | Jemstone is a consultancy supporting media development. Typically it works with media organisations, large funders and development organisations, NGOs and community groups and those advocating reform. Co0nsultants assist with media organisation reform, tr |
| Media Action International (MAI) | Global | Implementing organization | MAI is a global network of print, broadcast and Internet professionals with humanitarian, conflict and development experience. It aims to provide reliable information to populations affected by conflicts and disasters; advocate the importance of credible, |
| Media Support | Global | Implementing organization | Media Support is an NGO providing consultancy services on communications for development. Media Support brings together a world-wide group of specialists who have pioneered the use of mass media in humanitarian emergencies and development programmes over |
| Mediae | Africa | Implementing organization | Mediae is a consultancy organisation that aims to enhance the lives of poor people living in Africa, through the development of appropriate communication strategies and the production of effective media. Mediae focus on radio, print and video, as well as |
| PANOS | Global | Implementing organization | Panos is a non-governmental organization. It aims to facilitate North-South and South-South dialogue by providing carefully researched, accessible, and balanced information on poverty issues. Panos’ media and communication activities involve working with |
| Radio for Development | Global | Implementing organization | Radio for Development (RFD) is a media consultancy that specializes in the design and implementation of public education campaigns worldwide. RFD works in partnership with organizations in over 30 countries, supported by major national and international d |
| Search for Common Ground (SFCG) | Global | Implementing organization | SFCG is an international non-profit conflict-resolution organization. It aims to transform the way conflicts are dealt with by moving away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions. Through its media division, Common Ground Productions (CG |
| South East European Network for the Professionalization of the Media (SEENPM) | Europe/CIS (South East Europe) | Implementing organization | SEENPM is a network of 18 media centres and institutes from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia and Montenegro (should these be in alphabetic order?) . It aims to raise jo |
| The Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC) | Africa (South Africa) | Implementing organization | ODAC's mission is to promote transparent democracy, foster a culture of corporate and government accountability, and assist people in South Africa to realize their human rights. ODAC provides practical and niche services to individuals and organizations |
| Voices Media for Social Change | Asia & the Pacific | Implementing organization | VOICES is a non-profit trust. It aims to empower disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society through strengthening communication. It advocates communications for change through communication production and dissemination, communication training and |
| World Association of Christian Communication (WACC) | Global | Implementing organization | WACC is an ecumenical based organization. It aims to broaden people’s access to the mass media and new technology by helping them to produce their own programmes or to gain access to their own communication tools. In addition, WACC facilitates the partici |
| World Bank Institute | Global | Implementing organization | The WBI is the training arm of the World Bank. It provides comprehensive courses and training to journalists from developing countries. It has significant expertise in capacity building in investigative journalism. |
| Southern Africa Media Development Fund (SAMDEF) | Africa (Southern Africa) | Private foundations and funding organization | SAMDEF is an investment company established to provide and facilitate access to affordable financing of the media in the Southern Africa region. It seeks to strengthen existing media and promote the establishment and growth of new independent media by pro |
| Amnesty International | Global | Advocacy organization | Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental int |
| Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations | Eruope/CIS | Advocacy organization | The Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations was established as a human rights organization within the Russian Union of Journalists. Its aims are to (i) assist the establishment and realization of freedom of mass information with a focus on strengtheni |
| Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) | Global | Advocacy organization | Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) is a campaign to ensure that communication rights are central to the information society and to the World Summit to the Information Society (WSIS). The campaign is sponsored and supported by the Plat |
| Freedom House | Global | Advocacy organization | Freedom House, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, focussed on promoting and protecting democracy generally as well as freedom of expression in particular. It does this through an array of international programs and publications. |
| Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIANet) | Global | Advocacy organization | The FOI Advocates Network was formed to meet the need to exchange information between NGOs working actively in the freedom of information area and to facilitate the development of common projects. The FOIA Network aims to help NGOs with campaigning, advoc |
| Index on Censorship | Global | Advocacy organization | Index on Censorship is an advocacy NGO concerned with promoting and protecting freedom of expression. Through a bi-monthly magazine, its website and other publications, it reports on censorship issues from all parts of the world. In addition to the analys |
| Inter American Press Association (IAPA) | Latin America and the Caribbean | Advocacy organization | The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to defending freedom of expression and of the press throughout the Americas. Its chief aims are to: defend press freedom and protect the interests of the press in the Ameri |
| International Women’s Media Foundation | Global | Advocacy & implementing organization | The IWMF's mission is to strengthen the role of women in the news media around the world, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice. It aims to do this increasing the level and depth of debate about women's roles in |
| OURMedia | Global | Advocacy organization | OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios is an emerging global network with the goal of facilitating a long-term dialogue between academics, activists, practitioners and policy experts around citizens' media initiatives. OURMedia aims to provide a space for collaboration |
| Privacy International | Global | Advocacy organization | Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group that monitors privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI conducts campaigns and research throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security, to ID cards, video survei |
| South East Asian Press Association (SEAPA) | Asia & the Pacific | Advocacy organization | SEAPA is a non-profit, non-governmental organization comprising five member organizations: the Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility (Philippines), the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism, the Thai Journalists Association, the Institute f |
| Transparency International | Global | Advocacy organization | Transparency International (TI) is an NGO that raises awareness about the damaging effects of corruption, advocates policy reform, works towards the implementation of multilateral conventions and subsequently monitors compliance by governments, corporatio |
| World Press Freedom Committee | Global | Advocacy organisation & private foundations and funding organization | The World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) is an international umbrella organization that includes 45 journalistic groups from print and broadcast, labour and management, journalists, editors, publishers and owners across the globe. Its activities include: |
| DevMedia | Global | Information, research and networking organization | DevMedia is a web portal for resources and informaton on media and e-governance. |
| International Communication Association | Global | Information, research and networking organization | The International Communication Association (ICA). ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. ICA began as a small association of U.S. researchers and |
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