Duration: 2006-2007
Donor: British Embassy
Description: This project was focused on strengthening relevant national media outlets and public administration representatives with skills and techniques, that will enable them to pursue and maintain action for improving political and economic transparency and accountability at all levels of state organs in Macedonia.
Main activities were trainings in professional investigative journalism for teams of the most important 10 TV stations with national and local outreach, which were delivered by BBC-London. Public administration representatives (deputy prime ministers, top representatives from public/state institutions, other ministers, judges, EU countries ambassadors) participated in the discussions with the journalists about the models of improving the process of transparency and accountability at all levels of state functioning in the country.
As an outcome of the training, 30 investigative stories were aired/published in the media, including the highest-rated news editions on national TV stations in the country.