Core Contribution to the Interna-tional Fund for Public Interest Me-dia (IFPIM)
Public interest media in low- and middle-income countries face existential threats, impact-ing sustainable development and peace. IFPIM is an organization backing the resilience and independence of public interest media. Through SDC’s contribution to IFPIM, Swit-zerland promotes democracy by combating dis- and misinformation and ensuring media freedom and access to reliable information.
Pays/région | Thème | Période | Budget |
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Monde entier |
Governance
Médias & liberté de l’information
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01.01.2025
- 31.12.2028 |
CHF 2’000’000
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- More and better-informed people, in-cluding voters
- Greater accountability of those in power, including political, economic and social actors
- Other OI
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Secteur selon catégorisation du Comité d'aide au développement de l'OCDE GOUVERNEMENT ET SOCIETE CIVILE
Sous-Secteur selon catégorisation du Comité d'aide au développement de l'OCDE Médias et liberté de l'information
Thème transversal Droits de l'homme
Le projet est axé sur l'amélioration du fonctionnement de l'organisation partenaire
Type d'aide Contribution de base
Mandat sans gestion de fonds
Numéro de projet 7F10901
Contexte | Public interest media, particularly in low- and middle-income countries face challenges like limited funding, government in-terference, media concentration, and inadequate infrastructure. Restrictive laws, cen-sorship, and government control reduce independent voices and spread mis- and dis-information. These undermine media credibility and public trust, leading to a misinformed population, reduction of independent voices, suppression of criticism, loss of pluralism, a more polarized society, more extremism and terrorism. SDC’s contribu-tion to IFPIM was a key part of Switzerland’s commitments at the second Summit for Democracy in 2023, presented by the President Berset. |
Objectifs |
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Groupes cibles | Independent media outlets in low- and mid-dle-income countries that are working in the public interest and are in danger of extinc-tion or capture. |
Effets à moyen terme |
Outcome 1: Public interest media under fi-nancial pressure are sustained Outcome 2: Public interest media improve their economic resilience, by evolving their business strategies and leveraging technol-ogies Outcome 3: Public interest media better serve society, by growing their audience’s reach and/or engagement Outcome 4: Innovations that unlock new, long-term sources of funding for public in-terest media are launched and developed |
Résultats |
Principaux résultats attendus: To Outcome 1: IFPIM provides grants to sustain media facing financial extinction or capture To Outcome 2: IFPIM provides grants to enable media to experiment with and trans-form new models to fund, create and dis-tribute journalism To Outcome 3: IFPIM provides facilitation of capacity strengthening and technical support for media To Outcome 4: IFPIM provides financial and advisory support to test and develop systemic financing solutions to help solve market failures Principaux résultats antérieurs: The following results should be considered with the understanding that IFPIM's primary objective in the first phase was to establish a new international organization: IFPIM has made significant strides in advancing its mission across the world since its start in 2022. It has mobilized approximately USD 52 million to support public in-terest media in low- and middle-income countries. It expanded the global coalition supporting its work, and increased its total investment in news publishers in its focus countries to over USD 8 million across 31 organizations. After the approval of IFPIM’s Statutes and the appointment of its Board, IFPIM transformed into a new multilateral entity with HQ in Paris as a quasi-interna-tional organization. |
Direction/office fédéral responsable |
DDC |
Partenaire de projet |
Partenaire contractuel Autre organisation internationale Partenaire de mise en œuvre
IFPIM
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Coordination avec d'autres projets et acteurs | Fondation Hirondelle (SDC partner); DAC GovNet and its mem-bers; Swiss offices abroad incl. Swiss Em-bassy in Paris; HQ SDC’s geographical units, PHRD, BAKOM. |
Budget | Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF 2’000’000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF 0 Projet total depuis la première phase Budget de la Suisse CHF 2’499’998 Budget y compris partenaires de projet CHF 7’500’000 |
Phases du projet |
Phase 2 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2028 (Active) Phase 1 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024 (Phase en cours) |