The Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (The Collaborative Media Project) is designed as a multi-level intervention for media independence and government accountability, initiated by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting (WSCIJ) and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The project seeks to strengthen the media’s independence and presence, especially at state and local government levels in a bid to improve public awareness and the ecosystem for accountability at the lower level of government.
It will contribute to improving the robustness of the civic space through capacity building for news media organisations and organisations that provide support for them. It seeks to focus more on media activities at the state and local government levels, to hopefully contribute to civic engagement and government accountability. To ensure the success of the project, WSCIJ partnered with 26 media organisations and then had its onboarding meeting from 27 to 30th March 2022, at Ikeja, Lagos.
The meeting was for the WSCIJ, funders, and the 26 partners to meet and it was also an avenue to explain comprehensively to the partners what was expected of them. This was done through different presentations to the partners. WSCIJ is happy to announce that the three-year funded project has fully taken off and some partners have already started training journalists, making calls for applications for investigative reports, publishing investigative stories, and collaborating with others through re-sharing of stories.
This space is intentionally created for activities that have to do with the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability Project. The WSCIJ looks forward to reading more accountability, and investigative journalism reports from partners.
