GFMD Levant Regional Meeting on Media Support

The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) invites you to join us at the GFMD Levant Regional Meeting on Media Support online on December 18, 2024. The meeting, which will bring together media assistance and journalism support practitioners working in the Levant region, aims to tackle pressing issues in the media support landscape.

The meeting will take place across the following time zones:

• 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern European Time (EET)
• 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)
• 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Central European Time (CET)

How to Participate

To participate in this meeting, please click here to register.

The meeting agenda, list of speakers, and relevant literature will be published closer to the event on this page.

Objectives

This regional meeting will address critical challenges faced by media practitioners and stakeholders in the region. Key objectives include:

• Identify the most urgent funding needs in crisis and emergency contexts and evaluate how longer-term structural support can be mobilised, especially in areas where some donors have recently withdrawn.
• Provide recommendations to donors and intermediaries on how media assistance to the region can better align with the OECD Development Co-operation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment which donors themselves have subscribed to.
• Review progress on since GFMD’s in-person MENA regional meeting at the ARIJ Conference in Amman, Jordan in November 2023. You can read the outcomes from that meeting, which brought together 80 donors, funders, media development practitioners and independent media actors, here.

How can you contribute?

1. Help us gather data on funding and programmes
   Add details to the spreadsheet compiling funding opportunities in Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Türkiye (exiled media). Please update the data by 30 November 2024. Refer to the “Instructions” sheet for guidance.
2. Share relevant resources
   Share reports analysing the Levant’s current situation and funding landscape to include in the event resource page. Email them to communications@gfmd.info.
3. Sign the technical note
   Support advocacy efforts in Lebanon by signing the Technical note for International Media Assistance Actors in Lebanon. Sign via this form.
4. Emergency resource contributions
   Send us resources to add to the emergency resource page for journalists and media workers specifically dedicated to Lebanon, as well as a general list of over 20 emergency funds for media in crisis and 30+ emergency resources (available in Arabic) specifically for media and journalists, including crucial mental health support.

Please email relevant resources to communications@gfmd.info.

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