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Lebanon Media Development Assistance Efforts Coordination Meeting - December 16, 2021 - Programmes supporting the sustainability of media in Lebanon

Programmes for media sustainability support in Lebanon

Media Development Assistance Coordination Meeting

December 16, 2021

AGENDA

Aim

The overall aim of the joint coordination is to map and share information between journalism support and media development actors around their plans for media development and recovery activities and efforts in Lebanon.

The focus of this, third coordination meeting is to gather donors, and media and journalism support organisations to discuss the donor practices around:

• How donors design their calls for proposals

• How donors learn about efforts of other funders when issuing calls for proposals and how they work to avoid of duplication and overlap

• What would be best practices in two items above from the perspective of beneficiaries and from the perspective of donors?

Previous activities

Coordination meetings:

The first meeting was held on October 26th 2020 gathering over 35 media development actors with experience of working in Lebanon and implementing recovery assistance programs in the explosion aftermath.​

The second meeting gathered 41 representatives of media development and journalism support organisations, media development actors and Lebanese media organisations to discuss the challenges of achieving sustainability of media and media support organisations in Lebanon. GFMD also conducted a snapshot research on media sustainability as introduction and for the facilitation of discussions.

Mapping: To support ongoing coordination GFMD compiled a spreadsheet that lists the organisations invited to participate in the information-sharing initiative, which provides a background for each organisation, an overview of their projects in the MENA region, and outlines their Lebanon recovery efforts.To access the information sheet mapping media assistance in Lebanon click on the link below and request access. Please note that access will only be granted to donors and those working on media development in Lebanon.​MAPPING - Lebanon Media Assistance (Restricted Access)

Meeting details

Date: 16th December 2021

Time: 16:00 – 17:30 (Beirut, Lebanon time - UTC+3) | 15:00 – 16:30 (Brussels, Belgium time - UTC+2)

Moderator: Ivana Bjelic Vucinic, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)​

WELCOME (15:00-15:10)

• Michael Irving Jensen, International Media Support (IMS)​

• Mira Milosevic, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)​

• Ayman Mhanna, Skeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom

UPDATE ON MEDIA RECOVERY FUND (15:10-15:20)

Speaker:

• Ayman Mhanna, Skeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom

https://coordination.gfmd.info/lebanon-meeting-reports/december-2021/media-recovery-fundcoordination.gfmd.info

Presentation of the report Funding Landscape for Media Development Actors in Lebanon (15:20-15:40)

Presenter: Michael Randall, fundraising expert and researcher

Recommended reading: ​REPORT - Funding Landscape for Media Development Actors in Lebanon

Also, read the presentation of the main findings below.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cywvpeaqhmw0ftu/Lebanon%20Research%20OVERVIEW.pdf?dl=0www.dropbox.com

Donor perspective in programme design (15:40-15:55)

• How donors learn about efforts of other funders when issuing calls for proposals and how they aim to avoid of duplication and overlap

• What would be best practices from the perspective of donors

Contributors: Donor representatives

• Rabeh Ghadban, The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State

• Alessandro Accorsi, The European External Action Service, (EEAS)

Implementor perspective in programme design (15:55-16:10)

• How beneficiaries prepare their proposals based on call and propositions

• What would be best practices from the perspective of beneficiaries

Contributors: Media support organisation representative

• Roula Mikhael, founder and Executive Director, Maharat Foundation

• Michael Irving Jensen, MENA regional director, International Media Support (IMS)​

Q&A (16:10-16:25)

CONCLUSIONS (16:25-16:30)

MEETING ENDS

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