IMS combines rapid response with long-term efforts to create a foundation of trust and collaboration on the ground. We work together with our partners to find local solutions to global problems – and global solutions to local problems.
With partners in more than 30 countries, IMS works where independent media is at the greatest risk: in countries experiencing armed conflict, humanitarian crises, rapid political change or authoritarian rule.
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PenPlusBytes, working with IMS and Research ICT Africa (RIA) and supported by the SIDA-Democracy Hub, will host a national dialogue on electoral disinformation in Accra, Ghana, 12 November 2024.
The new grant programme Pluralistic Media for Democracy is now open to receive applications; a media pluralism fund that will inject €1.400.000 financial support to local and regional outlets, community media, investigative journalism, and public interest news organisations that operate in "news deserts" or areas experiencing strained media pluralism.
For Mariana Rata-Vremea, a TV presenter in Moldova, election night was an opportunity to serve a national audience with quality reporting. It was also a test of Moldovan media’s professionalism.
