Our value added
Capacity-building with a difference

Our value added is based on our unique combination of the following characteristics:

• A global news agency built on the value of developing local reporting and promoting local linkages between media and civil society
• South-South and South-North linkages and information flows
• Cost-effective local approach
• Non-profit institutional structure
• Carrying out baseline mapping of media or communication context for each project
• A longer time frame for working in depth with trainees and clients
• Innovative approach promotes reciprocal sharing of information, expertise and building and strengthening local networks
• Customised training packages based on needs and goals, designed to foster multiplier effects, sustainability and local ownership and leadership
• Student internships at IPS News Agency bureaus
• Multimedia capacity in traditional and new media
• Access to the IPS wire and other IPS news products for disseminating independent reporting generated from training initiatives and projects
• Exchange with academic institutions and policy centres to share updated reflections on media development and communication for development that provides innovative guidance to the IPS Centre’s operational capacity-building