{"id":12767,"date":"2020-04-14T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T14:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/?post_type=news&amp;p=12767"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T14:34:44","slug":"rnw-media-annual-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/news\/rnw-media-annual-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"RNW Media Annual Report 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to affect more and more people around the world, everyone at RNW Media is working (from home!) to support the young people in our digital communities with multi-media content that speaks to their local concerns. As well as dealing with the personal and professional consequences of the outbreak, our regular activities continue \u2013 such as compiling our Annual Report for 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The experiences of our local implementing teams in 2019 reflected the larger issues seen\u202fin\u202fthe countries where we work\u2014 shrinking civic\u202fspace, lack of youth inclusion in governance, spread of misinformation and disinformation, lack of media freedom, backlash against expanding\u202f sexual and\u202freproductive\u202f health and rights\u202f(SRHR).\u202fDespite the challenges,\u202f they\u202f carry on creating opportunities for other\u202f young people\u202fto hear and \u202fbe heard. In our Annual Report 2019 you can read more about how our digital communities have helped\u202f increase knowledge,\u202fchange\u202f perceptions and\u202f behaviours,\u202f challenge \u202fsocial norms and \u202finfluence \u202fpolicies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advocating for change<br \/>\n<\/strong>An important development in 2019 was the increased focus on advocacy work. On\u202fcountry \u202flevel\u202fwe seek to influence \u202flaws,\u202f policies, processes and practices to advance the\u202f needs of\u202f young people on topics that link to our programmatic themes and resonate with our young audience. At the international and regional levels, we\u202fdeveloped a strategy focusing on advocating for digital rights, especially the rights to association, assembly, information and expression. Digital rights underpin RNW Media&#8217;s ability to build digital communities\u2014our core business and our work on digital rights is based on the situations and challenges our country teams face\u202fon a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full Annual Report 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.www.rnw.media\/annual-report-2019-rnw-media\/cover\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this animated video for a brief overview of RNW Media in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/407572822<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNW Media staff around the world continue to work under increasingly demanding cirumstances to support our young audience with multi-media content speaking to their concerns. Our Annual Report 2019 offers an overview of what we achieved last year and the foundations we have laid for even greater impact in the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12767","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}