Therefore, this project, which will take as reference the approach of UNESCO’s publication ‘Climate Change in Africa: A Guidebook for Journalists’7, which focused at raising awareness among journalists on the interdisciplinary core of the climate change and on how they can reflect that in their practices. The project aims at providing skills and knowledge for designing and implementing communication campaigns on DRM and CCA to at least 30 local journalists permanently working in the Ancash Region. This would be done through a 60-hour course in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional...
Countries: Peru
Most local and regional media outlets in Peru have very limited financial, technical and professional resources, which negatively affects production quality. Journalists lack knowledge about the Law of Access to Public Information and make few requests for information on sensitive state issues such as corruption. Given that journalists can play a central role in acting as watchdogs and stimulating public debate, it is essential to promote access to public information. This project shall therefore work with journalists and lawyers to develop a special programme for requesting the...
Peru has about nine million indigenous citizens, who speak 43 different languages. However, there are high rates of extreme poverty among the indigenous population and they suffer constant violations of their fundamental rights. In this context, timely access to information is a means for these peoples’ progress and integrated development. Indigenous communication makes sense when practiced within the framework, world-view, language and culture of each native community, so the indigenous peoples themselves must produce, manage and disseminate information on their peoples in the media –...
Peruvian community media have become the voice of thousands of isolated or marginalized persons, significantly democratizing this media platform. In an effort to ensure that community communication services grow stronger, expand and improve in a quality manner, ILLA Education and Communication Center is seeking to train women journalists in key tools to navigate on the internet, create a website, use networks, platform 2.0, create an online radio, upload audio and video to cyberspace, manage blogs and create podcasts. Female journalists will also be trained on how to conduct their radio...
Since the year 2000, IPYS has been working systematically with regional and local media, and journalists of the Andean sub-region. It has proven that most of them have very few financial, technical and professional resources and that this negatively affects the quality of their production. The public, on the other hand, is far from being familiar with fundamental issues such as the design of public policies, as well as matters of finance, health, education and environment. The consequences of such a situation are clear: democratic participation is hindered on matters ranging from electing...
In the provinces of Peru, radio station owners ?frequency permit holders-- rent time space indiscriminately. This practice constitutes a critical problem as far as journalistic practices are concerned, and is criticized by journalists and citizens alike because it is the vehicle used by journalists and pseudo journalists to slander and undertake smear campaigns, defame o blackmail authorities and citizens in exchange for money. It is this recurrent anomaly, related to journalism and ethics, which demands attention and change, in order to gain leeway in the work towards promoting an...
The following project is the development of initiatives carried out by TV Cultura in previous years to seek a new way of producing television in Peru, which we call Citizen Television (Televisión Ciudadana), that promotes democratic values and encourages the participation of people in the debate and search for solutions to their problems. The concrete results of TV Cultura's efforts over the past 8 years with local channels have been the constitution of the National Association of Local Television Channels RED TV. It is a national network that represents local television channels seeking...
Commercial radio stations predominate within the Latin America media scene. However, the presence of local and community radios (indigenous, juvenile, scholar, university and peasant) which respond to civil society's interests is growing up. Local and community radios do have a free and pluralistic mission and vision. Nevertheless, the limitation of their own production and insufficient of income make it difficult to disseminate these values, and compel them to a weak and fragmented programming. RADIOTECA intends to enrich and support the programming of local and community radios. It will...
The general objective of this project is to improve the functioning of the media in Peru as news providers, thus strengthening support for press freedom and freedom of expression. It also intends to provide more access to information and promote civic participation in public affairs, democratic processes and the culture of peace. To acheive this, it proposes to provide local journalists (from radio, newspapers and TV) with a training programme that incorporates conceptual ideas and skills to enable them to work for peace and democracy. This involves: Generating a flow of favourable...
This project is being implemented by the Coordinadora Nacional de Radio (CNR), a non-profit civil association that coordinates more than 70 communal and educational radios in Peru. The project´s objective is to provide training in order to strengthen the production capacities of 16 community and educational radios of the CNR network; it also intends to enhance their role as social actors offering information to citizens and promoting dialogue and civic participation. A strong emphasis will be put on providing greater access to information to the citizens of disadvantaged and excluded...
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