Partners
IREX USA | OSIWA | FREEVOICE | BBCWST | JHR | ICTJ | UNESCO | TRUSTAFRICA
RNTC
Informotrac is short for Initiative For Mobile Training of Community Radio. The initiative was launched by Radio Netherlands Training Center, the Dutch-based centre of excellence in the field of media, development and education. The project aims to strengthen the capacities of community radio stations and is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs until the end of 2010.
It is part of the program “Strengthening Media, Empowering People” that RNTC has developed in partnership with Press Now. Informotrac is implemented in collaboration with local partners in the following countries:
- DR Congo – Réseau des Médias Associatifs et Communautaires du Bas Congo
- Guinea Bissau – Informorac/GB
- Guinea Conakry – Informorac/Guinea
- Liberia – Liberia Media Center (LMC)
- Senegal – Informorac/SN
- Sierra Leone – Informotrac/SL
In Liberia, Informotrac is implemented by the Liberia Media Center and targets the development of roughly ten (10) small scale community radio stations in eight of Liberia’s fifteen counties.
http://www.informotrac.org
IREX USA
Founded in 1968, IREX is an international nonprofit organization providing leadership and innovative programs to improve the quality of Education, strengthen Independent Media, and foster pluralistic Civil SocietyDevelopment in more than 50 countries.
The Liberia Media Center will, starting this year collaborate with IREX on its annual Media Sustainability Index (MSI) project. The Index provides in-depth analyses of the conditions for independent media in 76 countries across Africa, Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East.
Since the Eurasian MSI was first conceived in 2000, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the MSI has evolved into an important benchmark study to assess how media systems change over time and across borders.
JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (JHR)
Founded in 2002, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) works with the media in Africa and North America to expand and improve human rights coverage. This allows local media to reach millions of people in their own language who would otherwise have little access to information about their rights.
Within Africa, JHR has worked in 15 countries and will begin a five-year partnership with the Liberia Media Center under a DFID funded project through the Governance and Transparency Fund. The project titled “Good Governance through Strengthened Media in Liberia” is a five-year program designed to build the capacity of the local media in Liberia to report more effectively on good governance and human rights issues.
This will encourage greater respect for democracy and human rights throughout the country, particularly within the media, government and civil society.
The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) is a private operating and grant making Foundation which supports and advocates for initiatives that promote Open Society values in West Africa.
International Media Support, IREX Europe and Open Society Institute, the parent organization of OSIWA, provided original funding for the Liberia Media Center. They collaborated on phase I of the project that saw the physical development of the Center’s infrastructure.
Currently, OSIWA, in conjunction with UNESCO and International Center for Transitional Justice supports LMC’s Transitional Justice Reporting Audit project. OSIWA also supports the activities of the Liberia Free Expression Coalition, of which LMC is a founding member.
FREEVOICE is the media organization in the Netherlands that strives for independent, plural and reliable journalistic press freedom in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. It was founded in August 1986 and renamed in May 2004. The founders of Free Voice are prominent Dutch journalistic and media organizations, which make the organization from the media for the media.
Since 2006, FREEVOICE has been supporting Liberia Media Center infrastructure and skills development and also provides funding for small skill training workshops. Recently the Dutch Media Development group approved funding for the creation of a Press Complaint Committee in response to request for funding submitted by the LMC on behalf of four media organizations including the Press Union of Liberia and others.
BBC World Service Trust is BBC international charity. BBCWST works in partnership with governments, broadcasters, media professionals, and civil society institutions in developing and transitional countries to deliver our programs. The Trust also partner with UN agencies and international NGOs and use media and communications to reduce poverty and promote human rights, thereby enabling people to build better lives.
The Liberia Media Center partnered with the BBC World Service Trust in providing logistical coordination for its August 2007 Journalism Training on Transitional Justice Reporting held Monrovia.
LMC also provides support work with Trust in hosting its Liberian Correspondents reporting on the Charles Taylor trial. The LMC provides monitoring services for the Trust on the impact of its trainings on journalists’ coverage of transitional justice issues under a six-month partnership agreement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust
TRUST AAFRICA / HUMANITY UNITED
Trust Africa seeks to strengthen African initiatives that address the most difficult challenges confronting the continent. Trust Africa works principally through collaboration and partnership with like-minded institutions and donors. As a catalyst and convener, Trust Africa is committed to generating and testing new ideas. It also strives to practice good governance and promote it among the organization’s grantees.
HUMANITY UNITED
Humanity United is an independent grant making organization committed to building a world where modern-day slavery and mass atrocities are no longer possible.
Humanity United supports efforts that empower affected communities and address the root causes of conflict and modern-day slavery to build lasting peace. It invests in the power of ideas and individuals, bringing together the best in research, policy, and public pressure to activate local and global solutions and alleviate human suffering on a broad scale.
http://www.humanityunited.org/
The Liberia Media Center works with both groups under a new partnership to build and sustain media development activities initiated by the Partnership For Media and Conflict Prevention in West Africa.
The LMC will under this project work with media stakeholders to produce a “Media Assistance Strategy” document that is hoped will increase funding options for media development in Liberia. Both groups will also support the center’s “Media Engagement on Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy” project to include a training, media monitoring and publication production.
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. The Center works in societies emerging from repressive rule or armed conflict, as well as in established democracies where historical injustices or systemic abuse remain unresolved.
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