The International Centre for Development Reporting (iCDr) fosters a platform for award-winning journalists in Africa to produce high-impact news using synergy from investigative and development journalism. The platform is designed to assist Third World journalists in reporting good governance by mainstreaming Poverty Reporting, Extractive Industry, Budget Monitoring, Corruption, Water Crisis, Agro
-ecology, Food Security, issues of Climate Change particularly its effect on women; Peace and Conflict projects, ecological disasters, Migration and tracking the performance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Essentially, iCDr is a project directed at partnering African journalists to fulfill the media role of agenda-setting in their respective countries. To this end, the Centre serves as a bridge for collaboration and peer-review interface between Development Reporters in Africa and their counterparts in Emerging Countries, particularly China and India and Brazil. Subject to needs assessment of individual country or region the Centre aims at:
*Bridging reporters’ skill-gaps in accessing and analysing a wide range of financial documents including government budgets and published company accounts;
Improving critical thinking amongst African journalists while providing ethical and objective approach to development reporting;
Offering new and practical approaches on how to uncover and report corruption using cutting-edge investigative techniques;
Serving as a resource base and conduit for information, using data-mining to assist journalists’ acess to critical data including official documents that remain hidden even in countries with Freedom of Information Law and providing same to journalists in the relevant countries. Facilitating transnational collaborations and mentorship to broaden reporters’ scope of coverage of matters of social development and social justice.
