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Unesco's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), the only intergovernmental United Nations initiative devoted to promoting independent media, mainly in developing countries, approved on June 18, at its 65th session, 55 projects to strengthen the work of journalists worldwide, of which 18 were presented by Latin American organizations, in order to boost media viability in the region and defend freedom of expression.

"The IPDC's endorsement this year of a large number of projects in Latin America means very significant support for organizations that promote freedom of expression, access to information and journalists¡ safety in the region, and demonstrates the high level of Latin American proposals," said Rosa María González, UNESCO Regional Councilor for Communication and Information for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The projects will be launched in the coming days, to contribute to strengthening follow-up on the Windhoek +30 Declaration and the United Nations Action Plan on Journalists’ Safety and the Issue of Impunity, which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022. The UNESCO Montevideo office, in particular, will pursue eight initiatives of regional scope.

Topics addressed in the projects include promoting journalists’ safety and the issue of impunity, media viability, managing disinformation regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, and safety measures when reporting on the pandemic.

- La Voz Pública Foundation for the Verification of Public Discourse

Strategies to improve coverage of sensitive social issues: fact-checking guides for continuous training of journalists. Scope: Argentina. It seeks to increase the quality of articles that cover sensitive social issues in the region, learning from the best practices of how to communicate fact-checking, taking into account the context and its complexity.

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Local Meeting and Training Course for Journalists in the Inter-American Human Rights System, with regional scope. Journalists attending will use the framework of the Inter-American System for Protecting Human Rights as a central element in their work to disseminate human rights violations in their country’s context and regarding the most challenging current issues, such as migration, women's rights, and others. Similarly, the framework of rights related to protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right of access to information and journalists’ safety for their benefit.

Public policies and regulatory environments suitable for the sustainability of community and local media in Latin America. Promoting analysis and reform of the media sector. Promoting the sustainability of community media and community broadcasting by improving regulatory environments and public policies for the sector, to guarantee media pluralism and freedom of expression rights in Latin America.

Social monitoring to achieve SDG 16. Access to information and journalists’ safety under SDG 16. Monitoring and reporting on SDG 16 (focusing on access to information and/or journalists’ safety). Scope: Paraguay.

Assistance for strengthening journalism in Peru and monitoring the right of access to public information. Monitoring and reporting on SDG 16, focusing on access to information and/or journalists’ safety. Capacities will be transferred to mid-career Peruvian journalists and the UNMSM School of Communication to train investigative journalists, using their own twenty-year experience and other resources, such as those of the IPDC's Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education. The school will be able to teach courses for Peru and Latin America, and will have an academic project based on the new needs of industry and society, the first step in a broader process.

- Association of Technology, Education, Development, Research and Communication

Bootcamp: digital security and digital rights for journalists. Develop spaces for training and discussion about digital rights in Latin America and their challenges at the regional and global level. Produce innovative communication inputs to address the risks and challenges of digital rights based on what has been learned in the different workshops.

The mental health of Latin American journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. Determine the mental health status of journalists during the Covid-19 emergency in Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and the region to develop prevention and promotion strategies at the academic, labor and social levels. Scope: regional - Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and regional.