Africa 24 Media Journalism Project

The purpose of this grant is to increase the capacity of Africa 24 Media Limited to train and mentor young people in journalism and communication as well as to support the USADF Office of the President in providing communication-related services to further strengthen USADFs brand identity and expand the Africa 24 Media's capacity to identify, train, and mentor young interns in journalism, as indicated by:.- selecting and training at least 60 youth from across Africa in communication writing, filming, photography, editing, and content creation for digital media and equipping interns with skills that give them an avenue to earn a living..- organizing and conducting an Africa continent-wide competition for the 60 trained youth through which (i) 30 winners will be selected (six from each of five regions: East Africa, West Africa, South Africa, Central Africa, and North Africa) and provided journalism equipment (ii) another 5 winners (one from each region) selected and provided placement with Africa 24 on a contract basis as part of the Yebo team and (iii) another 5 winners (one from each region) selected and provided job placements (contract basis) with partners of Africa 24..- linking the trained interns with media leaders across the African continent and mentoring them to increase their capacity for both job placement and self-employment..- upgrading and enhancing Africa 24's Yebo digital platform in terms of response and interactivity both on the website and on the mobile application.

Source: United States African Development Foundation, IATI activity data via the IATI Bulk Data Service, published under Creative Commons CCZero (cc-zero, as registered on the IATI Registry) (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Read from https://bulk-data.iatistandard.org/usadf/usadf-mauritius.xml. Reshaped by All Business Africa into this record; amounts and currency are as the funder states them.