The purpose of IPS capacity building efforts is to empower journalists, media organisations and civil society to be better able to communicate effectively. We leverage IPS’ unique character as a Southern-focused news agency to offer a different kind of approach and follow-up.

IPS undertakes capacity-building through training programmes, media development initiatives and internships. Our primary target audiences are journalists, journalism students, media houses and civil society communicators. Our primary target demographic is from the South.

In 2008 IPS will establish a separate entity within the IPS network, the IPS Centre for Training and Capacity Building, to market, implement and document IPS’ accumulated experience. It will be a centre of excellence with a profile and approach that clearly distinguishes it from the “Western” training foundations and organisations that currently dominate the market.

The Centre will operate together with the existing IPS regional entities, drawing directly on their expertise, partners and opportunities, while back-stopping their local capacity-building needs.