The International Press Centre (lPC) Lagos-Nigeria is Nigeria’s foremost media resource centre dedicated to building media capacities for democracy and development.
IPC’s core thematic programmes cover:
- Elections, Democracy and Good Governance;
- Open government, Anti-corruption, Transparency and Accountability;
- Freedom of Expression, Journalists Rights/Safety and Media Independence;
- Research, Monitoring and Publishing;
- Investigative journalism, use of ICT and new media’;
- Community Journalism, Peace building and Voices to the Vulnerable
Vision: IPC envisions a Nigerian and African media that serves as major catalyst of development.
How they work:
- Training and Capacity Building to advance specialized, professional and ethical reporting of development, governance and democratic issues
- Advocacy & Campaignsfor media independence, journalists’ rights, press freedom, freedom of expression, access to information, citizens’ right to know and media access to vulnerable groups
- Media Monitoring & Evaluationto assess trends in media coverage of development, governance and democratic issues
- Research & Documentationto provide resources and assist researchers on contemporary national, regional and international media and related issues.
- Publishingof media resource books
- Partnership and Networking with national, regional and international media professional bodies and support groups as well as civil society coalitions