Bosnia and Herzegovina
Relevant entities for the developing MIL in BiH
- Ministries of Education on Entity and Cantonal levels
- Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CRA)
- Press Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- BH Journalists’ Association
Entities implementing MIL projects:
- United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
- Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo
- Media Centre Sarajevo
- South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM)
- CFI Canal France International
- Media Diversity Institute (MDI)
- Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN BiH)
Piloting MIL in Formal Education:
Building Trust in Media in South East Europe and Turkey – Phase 2
✔️ National multi-stakeholder consultations on Policies and Strategies on Media and Information Literacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: completed
✔️ Background Documents on MIL:
- Study on Policies and Strategies on MIL: https://bit.ly/3rAaCHE
- Position Paper on Policies and Strategies on MIL: https://bit.ly/2PPQCTh
- Position Paper on the role of CSOs in the implementation of MIL: https://bit.ly/3rwAG6m
✔️ MIL school curricula: completed
✔️ Monitoring & Evaluation tools to assess the piloting process and its impact: completed
⏳ Teacher’s MIL training material: in progress
⏳ Teacher training programmes in the selected primary and secondary schools: in progress
📆 Piloting MIL curricula within schools – 30 primary and secondary schools selected (10 in the Sarajevo Canton, 10 in the Hercegovina-Neretva Canton, and 10 in Republika Srpska)
📆 Sharing of best practices and replication of the piloting at a bigger scale: planned for the year 2022
🔗Link to the project: https://bit.ly/3AepG0P
Piloting MIL in Informal Education:
Building Trust in Media in South East Europe and Turkey – Phase 2
⏳ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on MIL localized to BiH context and language: in progress
✔️ MIL training material for youth organisations: completed
✔️ Strategy for implementing MIL actions for youth organisations: completed
✔️ 7 youth organisations from BiH joined the Regional Network of Youth Organisations
The youth organisations are: Centre for Development of Youth Activism (CROA), Udruženje Romska djevojka, Foundation Infohouse, Global Analitika Organisation, Heart on the Palm, Vijeće Mladih Sarajevo Kanton, Vijeće Mladih Grada Mostara
🔗Link to the project: https://bit.ly/3AepG0P
Balkan Voices:
✔️ Establishment of TALMIL online educational platform on MIL: completed https://talmil.org
✔️ Training of 3 trainers in BiH from on MIL: completed
✔️ 1300+ students across Western Balkans trained on MIL through 72 workshops
✔️ 400+ journalism students across Western Balkans trained on disinformation and source verification through 12 masterclasses
✔️ Trainings for teachers’ associations on MIL:
🔗 Link to the project: https://bit.ly/3ad5zFU
Reporting Diversity Network 2.0 (RDN):
⏳Traditional and new media monitoring to uncover hate speech and divisive discourse and reacting to instances (exposing and countering them by partners using mechanisms like articles and blog posts, letters and meetings with editors, reports to social media platforms): in progress (https://bit.ly/3oij27B)
📆 Reporting Diversity Training of Trainers: A group of Network representatives as well as additional number of CSO and media representatives interested and/or experienced in the topic, will be selected in order to attend a training workshop aimed at equipping them to individually provide training and mentoring in the field of representation of diversity: planned for November 2021
📆 Sub-granting overall 30 projects across the region by providing programme and financial support : planned for 2022
📆 National and regional conferences aiming at countering hate speech and diversity advocacy with key stakeholders: planned for 2022
🔗 Link to the project: https://bit.ly/3uNZ3yF
RESILIENCE: Civil society action to reaffirm media freedom and counter disinformation and hateful propaganda in Western Balkans and Turkey
⏳Sub-granting scheme aimed at capacity-building of grassroots organizations to engage in the promotion of MIL in small towns and rural areas that may be particularly vulnerable to disinformation and propaganda: in progress
🔗 Link to the project: https://bit.ly/2Z0sFha
The ongoing projects on MIL
- The regional EU-funded project implemented by UNESCO “Building Trust in Media in South East Europe and Turkey – Phase 2”
- The regional project funded by the European Union: “RESILIENCE: Civil society action to reaffirm media freedom and counter disinformation and hateful propaganda in Western Balkans and Turkey”
- The regional EU-funded project implemented by Media Diversity Institute: “Reporting Diversity Network 2.0”
- The regional project implemented by CFI Canal France International “Balkan Voices”