Project Activities
The project supports regional independent media outlets across all regions of Uzbekistan in becoming strong actors in democratization.
The project will work to strengthen the capacities of local media to provide quality content to their audiences whilst increasing citizens’ demand for objective, fact-based and reliable information in local communities via media literacy tools. We will also strengthen the resistance of vulnerable youth to online hate speech, gender issues and propaganda through the educational game platform “QLEVER”.
Among the main objectives of the project is to further the development of a viable and sustainable Uzbek fact-checking community across the country involved in trainings, events, fact-checking and related activities. Training and media tours for journalists and bloggers on social and environmental topics will enhance their skills, foster connections with civil society, and amplify coverage of these key issues.
Milestones
- Three Media Hackathons organized for local media outlets to increase networking, intersectoral collaboration and to develop fundraising capacity.
- Follow up small grants and long-term mentorship are available for media to strengthen their organizational capacity, improve content and increase their audiences.
- Three media tours on social and environmental issues for local and international journalists
- Developing a fact-checking methodology and strengthening the capacity of the fact-checking editorial team
- Three Fact-Checking ToTs for 36 local journalists from the 12 regions of Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan Republic organized
- Trained journalists organize a series of 72 events and discussions for journalists, bloggers, students, etc. from their regions on the importance of fact-checking, promoting the program’s tools
- A Factcheck Accelerator, a three-day intensive training workshop focused on fact-checking.
- 16 new educational games for the QLEVER platform
Donors
- US Department of State Bureau of Democracy
- Human Rights
- Labor (DRL)
Partners
- Modern Journalism Development Center – MJDC
