The Baltic Centre for Media Excellence (BCME) in partnership with the Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) are implementing activities aimed at strengthening and developing investigative journalism sector in Uzbekistan. These activities are part of the EU project “Improving Governance in Uzbekistan: Inclusive Corruption Prevention”.
The objective of the project is to assist the anti-corruption reforms in Uzbekistan by implementing various activities that would strengthen the overall resilience of Uzbekistan’s public institutions, its regional and national governmental ecosystem, as well as its national anti-corruption strategy. The project activities are implemented until the end of 2026.
The investigative journalism support activities are divided into 4 phases:
The first phase – general training on investigative journalism provides knowledge and competences on basic concepts of the investigative journalism. The trainings are aimed at various target groups: journalists, press and communication officials; civil activists and bloggers, and students of journalism.
The second phase of the project focuses on further deepening the skills and knowledge on investigative journalism. This stage is specifically designed to provide an individually tailored capacity building activities and is implemented through mentorships for specific media outlets and journalists.
The third phase of the project is devoted on applying acquired knowledge from previous phases into practical work. Participants are invited to take part in a competitive grant programme aimed at encouraging and enabling their professional efforts to apply gained capacity building skills to produce investigative content.
During the final phase is organized a peer-to-peer learning study visit to Latvia, to participate in discussion-based workshops designed to foster knowledge exchange and share insights of the best European practices.
The project activities in Uzbekistan are implemented in cooperation with the United Nations, the German Cooperation for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Slovenian civil society organisation Regional Dialogu, Transparency International – DELNA, Baltic Centre for Media Excellence and Riga Graduate School of Law.
The project is co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission. Lead partner in Latvia is the Central Finance and Contracting Agency.
