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(a) BBC World Service Trust

The BBC World Service Trust is a non-profit-making charitable trust operating within the BBC. Its key role is to use media to promote development and to build media expertise in developing countries. It was set up to focus on learning, training, health and development activities funded outside the core grant-in-aid in one unit, drawing on the expertise within Bush House and the BBC as a whole. Funding for projects comes from a variety of sources including governmental and private foundations. The Trust builds on the BBC’s international experience in balanced journalism and public education. Using all forms of media from traditional radio and print to cutting-edge digital technology, the Trust aims to ensure that more people benefit from the new information age.

P.O. Box 76, Strand

London WC2B 4PH, United Kingdom

Tel +44 20 7557 2462, Fax +44 20 7319 1622

ws.trust@bbc.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust

Programmes

“New Home New Life” (radio soap opera Afghanistan)

Media reconstruction in Afghanistan

Lifeline for Displaced Afghans

Radio Education for Afghan Children (REACH)

Multi-Media Training In Nigeria

Rruga Me Pisha (radio soap opera Albania)

(b) The British Council

The British Council is an independent, non-profit making body registered as a charity. Its aim is to promote international understanding through educational, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation. More recently the British Council has begun to include the right to access information and takes part in knowledge development processes as a key element in their work in the field of governance. In particular the Council has supported work on the role of the media in assisting the democratisation process in developing and transitional economies. The Council has sponsored training programmes for journalists and for ministers and senior civil servants in handling the press in over twenty countries. It has also provided scholarships to overseas journalists to study in the UK.

Bridgewater House, 58 Whitworth Street

Conciliation Resources’ principal objective is to support the sustained activities of those working at community or national levels to prevent or transform armed conflict into opportunities for social, political and economic development based on more just relationships. It aims to do so through different forms of assistance like training, education, workshops, seminars and programme design. Since its founding in 1994, CR has been engaged in media-related activities and the development of working relationships with media practitioners in Africa, the South Pacific, Europe, and the Caucasus. The ‘Media & Conflict in Africa’ programme aims to support African media organisations to develop a sustainable capacity to provide more accurate and constructive coverage of conflict. Issues are human and civic rights, election coverage, conflict analysis and reporting, media ethics and governance.

173 Upper Street, London

(d) Institute for War & Peace Reporting

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting supports democracy and development in societies undergoing crisis and change by strengthening local journalism in areas of conflict, training reporters, facilitating dialogue and providing reliable information. The IWPR’s work is distinguished by intensive on-the-job training, practical collaboration between international and regional journalists to transfer skills and experience for the long term. The Institute takes training out of the classroom and conference hall and brings it into the field, assisting the professional development of the media while addressing journalists’ and editors’ immediate, day-to-day priorities. The IWPR’s activities are based on an integrated programme of support through the entire journalistic process basic training; story development and writing; editing, publication and local syndication; local debate and evaluation. The activities are designed to contribute to public understanding of political issues within the region as well as internationally, with an emphasis on democratisation, human rights, conflict resolution and development. The IWPR has published a comparative study of the role of media in conflict zones. The IWPR maintains offices in Almaty, Belgrade, Bishkek, The Hague, Kabul, Skopje, Tashkent, Tbilisi and Dushanbe with representatives in Baku, Sarajevo, Tirana, Vladikavkaz and Yerevan.

Lancaster House

(e) Reporting the World

Also known as a journalism think-tank Reporting the World is a service for journalists striving to uphold values of balance, fairness and responsibility in their coverage of international affairs. More than two hundred editors, writers, producers and reporters, together with interested professionals from other related fields, have joined to discuss how news can best inform and orientate readers and audiences in today’s increasingly interdependent world. This is accomplished through the web site, which serves as forum. Operating as an independent think tank based at the Conflict & Peace Forums, UK, it offers conferences, training courses, round table discussions and consultancy, organises a series of seminars on issues related to journalism and conflict, and further produces a variety of publications all available online.

Taplow Court, Taplow Berks. SL6 OER

Seminars Israel and the Palestinians, Macedonia, Is coverage of Africa racist?, Iraq - Journalists thinking for themselves.

Reporting the World

Seminars Israel and the Palestinians, Macedonia, Is coverage of Africa racist?, Iraq - Journalists thinking for themselves.

(f) Thomson Foundation

The Thomson Foundation provides practical, intensive training both, as required, in-country as well as at the Foundation’s base in Cardiff, along with a wide range of consultancy, to journalists, managers, technicians and production staff in television, radio and the press. The courses are funded by the European Union, the British Government, the British Council, and Commonwealth sources. A small full-time staff at the UK headquarters is supported by a large number of specialist freelance consultants who deliver more than 60 workshops, seminars, courses and consultancies world-wide and throughout the year.

(a) BBC World Service Trust

(b) The British Council

(c) Conciliation Resources

(d) Institute for War & Peace Reporting

(e) Reporting the World

Reporting the World

(f) Thomson Foundation