Earth Journalism Network (EJN)
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The Asia Pacific region is impacted by environmental stress resulting from climate change, large scale development projects, urban excess, pollution, deforestation, water scarcity and overfishing among others. Communities affected often lack information of the environmental challenges they are facing which would allow them to voice their concern over the negat...
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The Asia Pacific region is impacted by environmental stress resulting from climate change, large scale development projects, urban excess, pollution, deforestation, water scarcity and overfishing among others. Communities affected often lack information of the environmental challenges they are facing which would allow them to voice their concern over the negative environmental effects of large scale projects as well as to increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change. Existing environmental information is often unintelligible to the public and policy-makers. The voices of those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change – women, youth, and indigenous communities- are marginalised and rarely heard in either local or international media. Environmental journalists and local environmental activists not seldom work in isolation and without support, and may be disconnected from larger global conversations. Moreover, communication infrastructure tends poor at local level. Media workers lack funds, time and expertise and are facing ill-equipped research institutions, or reluctance by authorities to provide open data. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN)’s overarching goal is that policy makers, people and communities use new knowledge to develop better environmental policies and natural resource management plans. EJN aims to boost the quantity and quality of environmental media coverage in the Asia-Pacific region. The approaches include training programmes, fellowships to major environmental summits, sub-grants, story stipends, open data webpage development. The expected results includes: 1) Improved reliable access for public, communities, policy makers to diverse sources of socio-environmental information 2) Improved quantity and quality of socio-environmental information 3) Increased inclusion of women and marginalized groups in socio-environmental media and information 4) Increased peer to peer & multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing and/or collaboration around socio-environmental information The outputs include: - 45 Organizational Grants – Awarded to local media partners, CSOs, NGOs or other grass-roots groups for local capacity-building, networking, content production, etc. - 152 Special Project Awards - grants awarded to individuals/groups, freelancers, videographers, bloggers, entrepreneurs, data journalists, CSOs groups, start-ups and other “non-outlet” groups applying to do socio-environmental projects. - 120 Story Grants – Awarded to individual journalists for production of news and feature pieces. - Training of Trainers for 200 journalists – to build local leadership and enhance the regional network of environmental media partners, editors, trainers and mentors - Around 4,000 trainees trained for producing quality socio-environmental information per year - Around 1,000,000 hits of audience reached globally per year - Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) Fellowships – awarded each year to a dozen leading journalists from the region to attend and cover the annual UNFCCC climate summits, enabling them to engage at the global level, and greatly build their capacity - GeoJournalism – Development and Maintenance of regional websites dedicated to environmental coverage of key regions, including the use of visualized data and other innovative digital media techniques. - Relevant research projects (identified during the implementation phase) Sweden will support EJN from 2017-2021, with the budget as of SEK 46 801 000.
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Result
The Final Evaluation Report of phase 1 2017-2021 concluded that the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) Asia-Pacific has been a successful project, reliably meeting and mostly exceeding all targets, even in the face of a global pandemic. It found that project staff members have been exceptionally attuned to the needs of target groups, committed to building eye-level partnerships, keen to learn from actors on the ground and flexible under changing circumstances. While the Covid-19 pandemic presented a significant challenge, EJN adapted its activities in response, shifted resources and showed organisational flexibility in doing so. Journalists benefited from financial and other assistance and felt supported, comforted and less isolated as a result. In terms of increasing the quality and quantity of environmental stories and improving access to socio-environmental information, the project has achieved and generally exceeded its objectives. More still needs to be worked on to widen the participation of women and marginalised groups, but significant progress has been made and a clear set of recommendations are planned to be taken forward with EJN Phase 2 to increase engagement. A key project outcome, according to the evaluation, is the impact on the lives of individual journalists who reported increased expert knowledge related to environmental issues; technical skills, such as data journalism or video editing skills; writing skills; access to stories through travel; motivation to report on environmental issues; higher confidence; an elevated professional profile leading to new opportunities, and new and bigger professional networks. Organisational grantees benefited primarily from growing internal capacity, external reach and exposure. For individuals and organisations, EJN grant often become catalysts of long-term network growth, producing a snowball effect over time. The evaluators also found many cases where the publication of EJN-supported stories had tangible impact on the ground, e.g. in Indonesia, the Philippines, Fiji, Pakistan and the Solomon Islands. In 2022, EJN has submitted the final report for phase 1. So far, - 26 000 journalists have been trained, online and offline, in environmental reporting - Almost 400 journalists have been directly supported to produce environmental stories. Over 12 000 stories have been published, covering a wide range of environmental topics and amplifying the voices of those who are most at risk of climate change and other environmental impacts - These stories have a combined reach of more than 8,5 million pageviews - Some of these outcomes have resulted in tangible impacts on policies and natural resource management across the region.
Objectives for EJN Asia Pacific Phase 2: Overall Objective: To improve governance and accountability in the Asia-Pacific region through a strengthened information ecosystem for informed decision-making and action by citizens, political leaders, and other key decision makers. Project Objective: Advance public understanding of the serious state of the environment and climate crises to drive changes that can effectively address these challenges through strengthened environmental reporting across media in the Asia-Pacific region. Intermediate-Objectives: 1. Strengthen the capacity of journalists and media organisations to produce high-quality, factual and engaging public environmental information on the consequences of human impacts on climate and the environment and provide viable solutions to respond to these impacts. 2. Increase the quantity of high-quality content and media coverage on key environmental themes - including climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean management, wildlife trafficking, air pollution, energy transition, and sustainable development - to focus public attention on the interdependence of the health and well-being of humans, animals, and their environments. 3. Empower women, the poor, youth, indigenous peoples, and other vulnerable groups to address the disproportionate impacts of environmental degradation by amplifying their voices in environmental reporting and increasing their access to high-quality, publicly available environmental information.
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