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Experience Southern Africa:
NiZA programme ‘Media and Freedom of Expression’
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| About NiZA |
NiZA’s media-programme is one out of three programmes. The other two are ‘Economic relations’ and ‘Human Rights’. Each programme consists of direct project support, personnel assistance and lobby and advocacy in the Netherlands (Europe). NiZA considers itself ‘a bridge’ between civil society in Southern Africa and Europe. In Europe NiZA co-operates with a group of likeminded organisations around Southern Africa: ENIASA (European Network for Information and Action on Southern Africa).
NiZA’s own funds, mostly coming from individual donors in the Netherlands, are very limited and mostly used for lobby and advocacy. However NiZA implements part of the so-called PSO-programme (Personnel Service Overseas), funded by the Dutch government, with which many media-projects are supported. NiZA is partly funded for development education projects in The Netherlands by EU and the Dutch Government (NCDO). |
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| Media programme |
NiZA’s ‘structural involvement’ in the media in Southern Africa dates back to before 1990. NiZA does not implement projects herself, but gives priority to supporting our partner organisations (over 50 for the media programme) in Southern Africa. For NiZA it’s our partners who define the policies for the sector.
Main aim of the media-programme as such is establishing more fruitful contacts between media in Southern Africa and their western colleagues |
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Expertise exchange
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Most important part of the programme is the exchange of expertise.
NiZA has around 1,5 million Euro a year available to support its partner organisations in: |
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Training
Exchanges
In-service training
‘Trainee-places’
Junior placement
Young professionals
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both short (‘expert’) missions and long term placements (gender training, capacity building, quality improvement, research): trainers from any nationality can be elected upon request of our partner organisations.
both South-South (between African countries, but also with South America etc.) and with Europe(workshops, seminars, short training courses for groups)
Individual courses for personnel of the partner organisations in Southern Africa (for instance in The Netherlands)
(Dutch: ‘stage’) for students, both from Southern Africa and from Holland (a small special fund is available to support Dutch students journalism through their institutes)
(Dutch: ‘ervaringsplaats’)for 3-12 months, for which travel costs, and an allowance based on a minimum salary are available – for instance for graduating students
1 to 2 years for instance for students who just finished their studies
‘Expert Missions’ – with a daily fee between 100 and 180 Euro or long term placements
Especially the latter 4 are interesting for students and young journalists |
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| Information: |
NiZA media-personnel assistance officer: Christian Kuystermans,
email: christian@niza.nl |
Newsletter Media Southern Africa
No 1 (Sept. 2000)  |
