The project will help to improve skills in reporting on gender, human rights, human mobility, refugees and children issues in Ecuador through professional training for Ecuadorean journaliTo organize a seminar for 50 Ecuadorean journalists and journalism students on how to effectively and ethically report on sensitive issues related to gender, human rights, human mobility, refugee and child issues, following ethical standards. Participation is to be gender equal.sm students and journalists.
Countries: Ecuador
Ecuador has recently approved a Communications Law that restricts the exercise of free expression. In order to minimize this Law's potential for self-censorship and external interference and to build a culture of high-quality journalism, this project will train journalism students, journalists and media leaders on best practices (including self-regulation, transparency and high ethical standards).
Application of the UNESCO Media Development Indicators (MDI) in Ecuador has revealed that media self-regulation mechanisms, such as using codes of ethics or editorial guidelines, are not fully practiced. The study also showed that only one print medium has a Public Ombudsman to receive readers’ complaints, and in the entire country there are no Press Councils or Commissions for complaints that might ensure good journalism practices in day-to-day work. In turn, citizens’ perception of the media is not positive: 51.74% consider the media corrupt. Media self-regulation must therefore be...
A recent study conducted by the civil-society media observation group 'Fundamedios' revealed that journalism in Ecuador is practiced in a hostile environment, with frequent risk of physical aggression, destruction of equipment, and prosecution for cases of defamation, all of which contributes to an overall lack of freedom of expression and poor access to information. For this reason, it is necessary for journalists to learn how to defend and enforce their rights within the national legal framework, and to be made aware of the international mechanisms which protect and promote human rights...
Animación Andina is a project to train young animators from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to produce animation media, primarily targeting children and youth, using the imagery, cultural values and traditional story telling of Andean cultures. Animación Andina will be proposed to public and private media sectors as an educational media tool that can be used in formal school education as well as through informal television viewing. The Andean region, like the rest of Latin America, has a treasure trove of cultural expressions in the plastic arts, as well as in music, literature and...
Ecuador has more than 1000 FM or AM radios. Only 10 of them carry programs in Kichwa. Regarding the written media, there are 45 daily newspapers all in Spanish, with two of them in the Imbabura Province: El Norte and La Verdad. There are no daily nor weekly newspapers in Kichwa language in Ecuador. In this context, the Kichwa Indian population finds it difficult to make its voice heard. The commercial newspapers monopolize virtually all advertising, depriving community publications of the necessary support and restraining media plurality, thereby questioning the development and use of...
Given ALER's capacity and impact in Latin America, through its daily work sustained by its networks?concretely the Continental Information Network?it is absolutely necessary to the develop skills in its media practitioners to enable them to utilize ICTs to strengthen their journalistic work. So, ALER is seeking the ownership and management of ICTs, new ways of interacting with our audiences (having traditionally linked to them through our broadcasting practice), empowerment of citizens to exercise their rights and the use of technology as an instrument to mobilize traditionally...
The project aims at supporting the production of a series of creative micro-programmes based on the debate and reflection of the history of Women's Rights. The programmes will be spread through the radio networks CORAPE, ALER, AMARC and CONDESAN. For this purpose, the project will provide technical and creative training to 20 women during a period of 10 months. This training is expected to strengthen their position within the stations, make their work visible and promote the debate on the need for a gender perspective in the media. The project will not only utilize the potential of new...
This project aims to strengthen technical and human resource capacities of the Voice of Imbabura, a public-service radio station located in Ibarra, capital of the Imbabura Province, with the ultimate goal of encouraging civic participation in decision-making processes. The objectives of the project include modernizing the radio station through the installation of new digital equipment; improving the programming by means of restructuring and the production of informative, educational and cultural programs; and creating radio spots for the participation of youth and women (through journalism...
The Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamín Carrión Radio Station has a regional coverage, reaching the provinces of Pichincha, Imbabura, and Cotopaxi; it broadcasts, in addition to music, information about national news (art, tourism and culture) and information about educational, scientific and technological initiatives. Its archive exchanges both national and international productions, in addition to providing spaces for public participation on current and daily subjects. In order to fulfill CCE's goal of promoting cultural values and development in Ecuador, the current Administration...
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