Media and broadcasting institutions in Bolivia (at least 15 with national reach) are concentrated in two conglomerates : private corporations and state-owned media. Though community media has increased in number, it hasn’t yet developed the capacity to create independent content. This means that although there appears to be a wide diversity of media, the content production is reduced to a small group of journalists. This scenario restricts the exercise of freedom of the press and threatens the public’s right to access quality information. This situation is aggravated by the fact that educational institutions do not train in content production or critical media reception, nor in investigative journalism. The few training initiatives for journalists which exist in Bolivia have come from foreign institutions. 

As such, this project focuses on strengthening the investigative journalism capacities of 30 journalists – at least 50% women – most working in alternative media. This will be achieved through a course in investigative journalism (techniques, strategies, use of news archives and digital sources) using "The Global Casebook of Investigative journalism" published by UNESCO. Also, two open forums (one live and the other one virtual) will be held, as encounters for discussing on press freedom, rights to access of information, and investigative journalism. A third line of action will be to strengthen digital tools for investigative journalism, in order to improve access to CEDIB´s news archive (Documental Heritage of Cochabamba), as well as the digitalization of the historical news archive.