Imdev
Our Resources Dedicated to transparency and efficiency, our organization is committed to optimizing resources to achieve our mission effectively. In the pursuit of our goals, we leverage a range of resources strategically, ensuring that each contribution plays a crucial role in advancing our initiatives.
Vulnerabilities in Women’s access to COVID-19 information COVID-19 continues to cause significant health and social problems globally. Women and children in low and middle-income countries are among the most vulnerable. Timely access to complete and accurate information is essential to women’s empowerment regarding COVID-19 prevention, care, and access to impact-mitigation measures. Read More COVID-19 Information
The sustainability and effectiveness of outdoor community radio broadcasts in Sierra Leone Outdoor community broadcasts bring together panelists, including stakeholders and decision-makers in a public place (such as a health center) to discuss a topic and meet with beneficiaries. These broadcasts have helped to build trust between decision- makers and the community through direct participation and the creation of dialogue. Read More
Listener Groups as a mechanism for community message delivery in Sierra Leone The Listener Groups were created to provide feedback on radio programs and their relevance to communities and to monitor whether the programs were broadcasted according to schedule, thus holding radio stations accountable. Each Listener Group consisted of 6 members representing a cross-section of the community, in total there were 180 Listener Group Members across the country. Read More
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Gender Curriculum With funding from the UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), the Initiatives for Media Development (IMdev) has rolled out the “Sierra Leone 2023 Elections: Enhancing the Capacity of Female Journalists in Community Radio to Address Policy Issues on SGBV” project.
As part of the project, IMdev has produced this simple to use handbook. The manual is part of our concerted efforts to engage media and community stakeholders to build cohesive fronts to tackle sexual and gender-based violence challenges during the 2023 elections and beyond. Read More
Strengthening Health Governance The Strengthening Post-Ebola Health Governance programme strived to create greater monitoring, accountability and citizens engagement on Health Governance issues. Output 3 of the project focuses on “Increasing media capacity in Sierra Leone to monitor and oversee health care services” and capitalises on the complimentary role of the media in galvanizing citizens voices and giving them a platform to express their views and opinions on access to the Free Health Care drugs and services. Read More
The Global Media Monitoring Project The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), WACC’s flagship activity, is the largest and longest-running research on gender in the world’s news media. Every five years since 1995, GMMP research has taken the pulse of selected indicators of gender in the news media, including women’s presence in relation to men, gender bias and stereotypes in news stories and other content. The sixth research in the series is scheduled in 2020.

The GMMP is also the largest advocacy initiative on changing the representation of women in the world’s news media. GMMP data has shown that news paints a picture of a world in which women are virtually invisible. Women are dramatically under-represented in the news, with only 24% of them serving as news subjects and sources. Read More
Gender Policy Brief With funding from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, IMdev in collaboration with the Independent Media Commission worked on a policy brief to strengthen the political participation of women in Sierra Leone during the 2023 elections. The brief was officially launched by the Minister of Information and Communications, Honourable Mohamed Rahman Swaray on Tuesday 21st February 2023. Read More
UNESCO IPDC Funding With funding from UNESCO IPDC 2023 on a project titled "Increased Media Capacity to Monitor and Report on the Provisions of the Right to Access Information Law in Sierra Leone," the initiatives for media development developed a curriculum for media practitioners to report on the sustainable development goals and use the right to access information law in Sierra Leone. Read Curriculum