
Projects
IFJ projects help provide the training, skills and knowledge essential to helping journalists’unions campaign, grow and defend their members’ interests.
IFJ projects help provide the training, skills and knowledge essential to helping journalists’unions campaign, grow and defend their members’ interests.
This wide-reaching project is designed to strengthen the capacity of media civil society organisations to instigate and lead sustainable change development in Malaysia. Through capacity building of journalist unions and CSOs, the project aims to strengthen organisations internally through institutional reform and externally through the creation of solidarity partnerships and alliances. Journalists and media organisations will be supported to take a strategic role in promoting and advancing a strong, independent and diverse media in Malaysia.
In the first year, the project will also examine the impacts of Covid-19 on the health and safety of journalists. Capacity building will be developed to address concerns of media workers arising from the current health crisis.
Key activities include:
Assessment of reporting standards and trust in media
Capacity building of journalists and civil society organisations
National consultations on establishing a media council
Establishment of media reform network
Development of digital code of conduct strategy
Right to association strengthening and campaigning
Media literacy and law reform outreach
Gender and diversity strengthening
Read the launch statement here.
Location: Malaysia
Dates: 2020 - 2024
This project is funded by the European Union