On August 2014, the Paraguayan law on access to public information was passed. Our institution – IDEA- has been leading efforts towards this goal for 8 years: a process that at times could not to see a light at the end of the tunnel, and required a significant investment in terms of time and funds.
During that process, communicators have been mostly allies; although a small number of the sector opposed. Led by IDEA, the GIAI (a Group of NGOs an individuals who got together to coordinate actions in support of Access to Information) included the press at all times, as main...
Countries: Paraguay
This project aims to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment through print media and television. It will provide training to individuals from the press, radio, television, journalists’ associations and universities in order to encourage these organizations to adopt practices and policies that focus on gender equality.
This project aims to promote social, political and economic participation of women in society by fostering the generation of adequate information for community radio programming, using a rights-based approach that reflects a true and valued image of women and unmasks the power relations between men and women. The importance of working with community radios becomes evident when it is considered that the media forms public opinions, spread messages and can incite a change of cultural and social practices. According to a media analysis carried out in 2009 in Paraguay, newspaper articles...
Thanks to its position and experience, Radio Nacional del Paraguay (RNP) is best suited to train community radio broadcasters on a regular basis. However, RNP's technical equipment is not sufficient to offer quality training courses. For this reason the training purposes require the purchase of additional studio equipment. In its operational planning objectives RNP declared to contribute to the improvement and democratic distribution of information and consequently joined forces with Asociación para la Educación y Comunicación Radiofónica (the association of broadcast education and...
While centralised media determine the agenda of information news to a large extent, the handling of local information and conflicting social issues is what brings together audiences and regional journalists, marking their outstanding influential level. If journalists could count on the support of the national press, with better knowledge of their constitutional rights and with journalistic alliances that would allow them to impose information free of the owners' bias, they could work in much better conditions. This project aims at optimising the independent informative task of local...
Jaku'éke Paraguay is an independent Information Agency for youth that was created in June 2002 by radio FM Trinidad. The news agency, which is located in the facilities of FM Trinidad, currently employs 5 youth correspondents and relies as well on 3 community volunteers and 10 volunteer correspondents from the interior of the country. Its main goals are to involve youths in social debate and to promote their participation in the communication media. Jaku'éke proposes to constitute a link between the different organizations that work in youth sector, by easing the interchange of information...
Period: 1994-1996
Period: 1992-1994
