Raising awareness of environmental issues and promoting democracy
Confronted with environmental challenges, journalists have a crucial role to play in order to raise awareness among people and foster change in our behaviour. This is the logic underpinning the Afri’Kibaaru, MediaLab Environment and Dunia projects, which aim to reinforce the media’s capacity to take these questions on board and cover them in a way people can relate to.
Lastly, the promotion of free, independent, democratic news, especially for and by young people, remains one of our core focuses, especially with projects such as Citizen Connections 2 and MediaSahel in Africa, PAMT 2 in Tunisia and QARIB in Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.
CFI’s total activity investment budget leapt by 20% between 2020 and 2021, thanks to our staff’s ever greater sense of commitment in designing, negotiating, implementing and analysing each of our projects, despite the strain of pandemic-related difficulties, security issues and political tensions (in the Sahel region, Sudan, Ukraine and Tunisia).
CFI’s challenge now is to operate according to the principles of accountability, sustainability and ongoing long-term improvement.