This first edition of the MRCG Newsletter covers January to June 2023. The MRCG continued implementing its activities on the projects Enhancing Press Freedom and Media Reforms and Engaging Media and Minorities to Act for Peacebuilding. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Minority Rights Group Africa are supporting these projects.
During the reporting period, MRCG also implemented project activities for the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Africa Check, and the International Media Support (IMS). These activities were all geared toward training journalists to provide professional media coverage of the June 2023 general elections in Sierra Leone.
The 2023 activities focused practically on the June 2023 general elections in Sierra Leone, thereby providing capacity-building opportunities for journalists to better report on all stages of the elections without compromising their safety.
To ensure that the media covered the elections well, MRCG established a media situation room (MSR) to monitor the country’s media performance during the 2023 elections. The MSR relied on raw information from print and broadcast media content gathered by the MRCG media monitors in the regions and in Freetown. The information was processed and analyzed to provide real-time information on the media’s performance in reporting on elections and conflict-sensitive issues.
The MRCG would like to thank its donors, NED and MRGA, and partners, MFWA, IMS, and Africa Check, for providing the funds used to implement its programs and activities. We continue to look forward to fulfilling the key priorities and objectives of the MRCG in its Media Development Strategy, which will end in 2024. Thanks and appreciation to the Board and Secretariat staff for their support and commitment to the MRCG’s work.
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