WAN-IFRA Media Freedom is presenting its Strengthening African Media programme at this year’s Paris Peace Forum.

Putting global governance on the agenda of leaders and civil society, the Forum selected WAN-IFRA’s Strengthening African Media programme as one of 80 global projects featured in this year’s event.

“We’re delighted to present our work and the wider issues that WAN-IFRA members are faced with in these difficult times to an audience of the highest calibre,” said Andrew Heslop, Executive Director for WAN-IFRA’s Press Freedom work.

“Media safeguard the public interest yet are under threat at every level. The initiative we’re presenting at the Forum supports African colleagues as they navigate challenges and propose solutions to ensure journalism thrives.”

The Strengthening African Media programme, a three-year initiative funded by the Foreign Ministry of Denmark, ensures citizens in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to accurate, independent information and diverse opinions from quality, professional media sources.

It aims to ensure media professionals are safer, media organisations adapt for sustainability, that there is a diversity of content and opinions, and that media are socially impactful.

Over the next three years, the programme will ensure media professionals are better protected against physical and online threats, provide tools and management capacities to produce public interest reporting, and increase the media’s ability to advocate for greater freedoms.

For more information about WAN-IFRA’s Strengthening African Media programme visit https://wan-ifra.org/initiatives/strengthening-african-media/

To find out more about the Paris Peace Forum please visit https://parispeaceforum.org/en/

Join the panel discussion ‘Information is key: Ensuring a healthier media ecosystem’ on Friday 12^th November at 11:00am CET https://2021.parispeaceforum.org/#/player/1233