Project profile — Mobilizing the Media to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Tunisia (8.30%)
• Iraq (8.30%)
• Mauritania (8.30%)
• Ghana (8.40%)
• Yemen (8.30%)
• Sierra Leone (8.30%)
• South Africa (8.30%)
• Gambia (8.40%)
• Uganda (8.40%)
• Tanzania (8.40%)
• Liberia (8.30%)
• Mali (8.30%)

• Basic Health: Health education (12261) (30.00%)
• Media and free flow of information:
Media and free flow of information (15153) (40.00%)
Human rights (15160) (20.00%)
Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to combat the impact of COVID-19 on human rights, particularly those of women and girls. Project activities include: (1) providing training to journalists to report on the status of human rights and women’s rights as affected by COVID -19 (for example, access to health-care/social services, etc); (2) providing training to journalists to identify mis/disinformation on COVID-19, to debunk dangerous myths in social media; (3) providing training to journalists to only report scientifically valid information to the public; (4) educating targeted communities on how to both identify mis/disinformation in the media and to source sourcing credible information regarding COVID-19; and (5) and providing training to communities to recognize when their human rights are not being observed due to COVID-19. This project is being implemented in Gambia, Ghana, Iraq, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Yemen.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved media coverage of COVID-19 and its gender impacts in targeted countries; and (2) improved public understanding on the impact of COVID-19 on human rights, in particular the rights of women and girls in targeted countries.

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• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities:
• Mobilizing the Media to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Mobilizing the Media to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19)