Project Overview Project Name i-STREAM (Strengthening Free and Independent Media in South Sudan) Implementation /Funding Mechanism (Cooperative Cooperative Agreement Agreement/ Contract /Grant) Activity Start/ End Date October 2013 – April 2020 Name of Prime Implementing Partner Internews Name of Implementing Sub-Partner Various Contract/Agreement Number AID-668-A-13-00005 Geographical Location South Sudan Prepared for Victor Lako USAID/South Sudan, Juba C/O American Embassy, Kololo Road

Reporting period October 1 to December 31 2019 Financial Expenditure for the Reporting Period See Annex 13 Submitted by Charles Haskins, Chief of Party Internews in South Sudan Afex River Camp, Juba, South Sudan +211 920010961 | +254 790644028 [email protected]

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Table of Contents Project Overview ...... 1 Glossary ...... 3 Executive Summary ...... 4 Project Description...... 5 Objective 1: Strengthen autonomous, journalistic professionalism and facilitate the development of an institutionally well-managed and financially self-sustained, independent media in South Sudan ..... 5 Objective 2: Promote a freer and open media environment through improving the normative-legal- regulatory conditions and supporting media institutions ...... 8 Objective 3: More effective South Sudanese media capacities to raise the quality, quantity and self- sustainability of development communications by the South Sudanese media across democracy- building, peace, economic growth, social, health and other key issues ...... 10 Performance Monitoring and Supervision ...... 15 Actions for the Coming Quarter ...... 15 Management and Administrative Issues ...... 15 Collaboration, Learning & Adapting (CLA) ...... 16 Conflict Sensitivity ...... 17 Resilience ...... 17 Crosscutting Issues ...... 18 Annexes ...... 20 Annex 1: Indicator Progress Table ...... 20 Annex 2: Journalist Trained Report – FY2020 Quarter One ...... 27 Annex 3: Health and Gender Masterclass Report ...... 29 Annex 4: FY2020 Quarter One Radio Content Overview ...... 37 Annex 5: Eye Radio – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights ...... 38 Annex 6: The Radio Community – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights ...... 39 Annex 7: Internews-Managed Radio Stations – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights ...... 42 Annex 8: Small Grant Partners – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights ...... 43 Annex 9: Success Story – Eye Radio Exposes Corruption at National Revenue Authority ...... 44 Annex 10: Success Story – The Radio Community Expands Digital Presence ...... 46 Annex 11: Success Story – Eye Media Wins Investigative Reporting Grant ...... 47 Annex 12: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Internews Recap ...... 48 Annex 13: iSTREAM SF-425 ...... 54

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Glossary AIRS Abyei Information Radio Service MoU Memorandum of Understanding AMDISS Association for Media Development MSF Medicines Sans Frontiers in South Sudan PoC Protection of Civilian Site AYA Active Youth Agency PSA Public Service Announcement BBTT Boda Boda Talk Talk R-ARCSS Revitalized Agreement on the CBOs Community-Based Organizations Resolution to the Conflict in South CCE Community Communication and Sudan Engagement SPLA Sudan People’s Liberation Army CEO Chief Executive Officer SPLAiO Sudan People’s Liberation Army – in CNISS Community Needs Initiative South Opposition Sudan SPLM Sudan People’s Liberation CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists Movement/Army CRN Catholic Radio Network DQA Data quality assessment SPLMiO Sudan People’s Liberation DRC Danish Refugee Council Movement/Army - in Opposition EM Eye Media SSP South Sudan Police ER Eye Radio SSPDF South Sudan Police Defense Forces ERF Environmental Review Form TRC The Radio Community EVD Ebola Virus Disease UJOSS Union of Journalists in South Sudan FPU Free Press Unlimited UN United Nations FYI Foundation for Youth Initiative UNDP United Nations Development GBV Gender-based violence Programme ICRC International Committee for Red UNICEF United Nations International Cross Children’s Emergency Fund UNMISS United Nations Mission in South IDP Internally Displaced Person Sudan IGAD Inter-Governmental Authority on UNOCHA United Nations Office of Development Coordination for Humanitarian IOM International Organizational for Assistance Migration WASH Water, Sanitation and hygiene IP Implementing Partner WHO World Health Organization JHR Journalists for Human Rights M&E Monitoring and Evaluation

MA Media Authority MERL Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning

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Executive Summary The i-STREAM project is a USAID-funded media development project. The goal of the $75 million project is to: strengthen a free and independent media in South Sudan with an emphasis on the independent radio sector by supporting local partner radio stations and focusing on improving the professional preparation of journalists, the economic self-sustainability of media houses, the enabling environment for a free media, and the support institutions for a freer media. Internews marked many achievements this quarter. Internews continued to strengthen the organizational capacity of Eye Media and The Radio Community, by providing support on business development and internal systems strengthening. In addition to these partners, Internews continued to provide subgrants to the Abyei Information and Radio Service (AIRS) and the Association of Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS). Through the subgrant to AMDISS, Internews provided training to 40 aspiring journalists (including nine women) at the Media Development Institute (MDI). Internews also continued to operate radio stations in Malakal (Nile FM) and Bentiu (Kondial FM), which serve communities living inside and outside the PoCs. These stations Internews-managed stations continued core programming on peaceful coexistence and health topics. The stations also brought groups from both inside and outside of the PoC together for discussions on peace and reconciliation. Internews partnered with three other radio stations this quarter: Voice of Reconciliation in Bor, Sama FM in Juba and Pochalla FM in Pochalla. These partners focused on gender-based violence (GBV) content production and received mentoring and training from the Internews Senior Media Adviser. Across all Internews-managed and partner radio stations including Eye Radio and The Radio Community, Internews produced and broadcast 3,527 items of original content covering key themes such as peace (24%), governance (24%) and health (10%). Internews contributed to strengthening the work of organizations across the country, producing 78 original PSAs on critical issues facing listeners. For more, see Annexes 4 – 8. Internews partnered with Resilience Organization, a women-led national NGO to conduct two events for the 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender Based Violence in Juba and Torit. During a public event in Gumbo Shirkat, approximately 400 people witnessed local youth participating in activities to raise awareness about the harmful effects of GBV. A local drama group performed two skits on early marriage and domestic violence. The event was emceed by local radio personality, DJ Lomisak, who also produced and broadcast radio programs leading up to the event on a local station. Internews and Resilience Organization partnered with local narrowcasting service Sultan Jambo, to raise GBV awareness and promote the event in November. For more, see Annex 12. The training of journalists remains a key priority. Internews trained 212 journalists (including 57 women) this period. AMDISS/MDI led four trainings on safety and protection, gender-based violence reporting, media laws and ethics. In addition, Internews’ senior media adviser led a training on gender-based violence reporting in Torit. Internews’ Global Health Adviser also led a health and gender masterclass in Juba in November. The masterclass brought together 20 journalists and seven implementing partners to create greater coordination between them and improve the reporting on health and gender topics in South Sudan. Internews remained committed to providing training opportunities to journalists who don’t regularly have them, thus bringing 13 journalists from outside Juba for this training (see Annex 12). The media environment in South Sudan continued to face pressure this period. Self-censorship is still widely practiced, and press freedom was frequently challenged this quarter. Internews re-engaged a Senior Media Adviser and an experienced national media rights advocate, and continues to work with AMDISS to strengthen local capacity for monitoring and responding to violations.

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Project Description Per the Cooperative Agreement, the following three sections outline key achievements, challenges, lessons learned and plans under the objectives of i-STREAM. Objective 1: Strengthen autonomous, journalistic professionalism and facilitate the development of an institutionally well-managed and financially self-sustained, independent media in South Sudan

Introduction Objective 1 is supported by three core components, each a discrete project in and of itself. These include subgrants to Eye Media (Component 1), The Radio Community (Component 2) and our efforts to increase media and journalism training opportunities (Component 3). Achievements Eye Media (EM) has gained credibility in recent months from the government and their audience as a result of several investigative pieces that highlighted the importance of press freedom and exposed government corruption. Eye Radio published a story on the mishandling of funds by the National Revenue Authority (NRA), which exposed corruption within the institution (see Success Story, Annex 9). Eye Media was issued a formal complaint from the NRA for airing the story, which the Media Authority responded to with a letter that insisted the NRA drop their case against EM in part due to the Media Authority Act which states that a government agency is not permitted to file defamation action against the media outlet. Eye Radio also investigated the illegal sale of Madi land along Nimule road and exposed companies involved in corruption. The story was verified, and the case reached the council of ministers which resulted in protection of the land from fraudulent activities. In addition, a journalist arrested and detained in Rumbek was released and compensated when Eye Radio ran the story several times. Human Rights activists were informed through the story, and the case taken to court which resulted in the journalist being released. The Senior Sustainability Adviser (SSA) provided over 30 hours of mentoring and training to the staff at EM this quarter (see Success Story, Annex 11). The SSA led a series of six workshops and multiple mentoring sessions with the business development and commercial teams at EM on: sourcing and tracking funding opportunities, creating a fundraising portfolio and presentation deck, designing innovative projects, creating thematic proposals, and more. During one workshop, journalists from the programming department led teams of commercial/business development staff to practice drafting proposal ideas around women’s empowerment, environmental sustainability, corruption and governance. The SSA worked with EM to create a fundraising manual, which highlights processes and best practices. The Radio Community’s flagship program, Peace Partners also followed the progress of the peace process. Stations in Aweil, Turalei, Mingkaman and Kapoeta continued to broadcast local news and information in six languages including Dinka (62% of content overall), English (21%) and mixed Arabic (8%). TRC's website design was completed and will be launched following asset transfer of the domain from Internews to TRC (see Success Story, Annex 10). The Hub in Juba continued to make strides towards an independent and sustainable future by taking over management and payment of office rent and VSAT internet in Juba. Three journalists from TRC attended a training on peace journalism in order to strengthen their skills in reporting on the peace process and creating dialogue in communities. The trainees then held a station- level training for their colleagues to cover the content they learned. The TRC board of trustees held their annual general meeting in November. The SSA led a custom-designed workshop for TRC on sustainability

5 planning. During the three-hour workshop, the SSA trained TRC staff to source and track funding opportunities and create a fundraising portfolio and presentation deck. Complete reports on radio content produced by Eye Media and The Radio Community is in Annexes 5-6. Internews held various trainings this period. The Media Development Institute (MDI) and the Association of Media Development in South Sudan (AMIDSS), held three outreach trainings this quarter in Yambio (October 3-6), Yei (November 4-6) and Torit (October 23-25). The trainings utilized the curriculum from MDI to train practicing journalists in safety and protection, gender-based violence reporting, media laws and ethics. The training at MDI also continued this quarter, with 40 students (including nine females) sitting for their exams in December. In addition, Internews held a health and gender masterclass in Juba (see Annex 12), hosted by Internews Global Health Media Adviser, Ida Jooste. During the 16 Days of Activism Campaign (November 25 – December 10), Internews trained 36 journalists on gender-based violence reporting in Juba and Torit (42% were women). In addition to formal training, Component 3 also includes mentoring for partner radio stations. Internews hired a Senior Media Adviser (SMA) this period, who will oversee journalism training efforts. This quarter, the SMA provided on-site mentoring to Pochalla FM and helped them form an editorial team and produce their first PSAs, dramas, talk shows and vox pops. This quarter, the SMA also mentored staff at Voice of Reconciliation in Bor, Sama FM in Juba and Jamjang FM in Ajuong Thok. A complete report on the journalism trainings funded by iSTREAM this period is in Annex 2-3. Additional achievements included: • Eye Radio field reporters from Yei, Yambio, Torit and Bor were trained this quarter on several aspects of journalism including writing, reading news and editing. This resulted in the group strengthening their skills and taking up positions such as weekend editor and morning show producer. Despite staffing challenges due to limited funding, Eye Radio continues to invest in their human resources to ensure sustainability. • Eye Radio (ER) also trained a female journalist this quarter to support the social media editor. With the extra support, ER’s social media saw an increase in likes/followers this quarter: Eye Radio Social Media 1-Oct 31-Dec Increase Facebook Likes 44,217 47,895 8% Twitter Followers 23,381 25,618 10%

• EM secured a $130,000 USD grant from UNICEF to produce and broadcast Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and integrated health programming. The receipt of this funding marks EM’s first grant under a new formal partnership to receive larger funding from UNICEF. • Eye Media updated two organizational policies on sexual exploitation and abuse and anti-fraud, bribery and corruption. • The Radio Community (TRC) migrated to a new radio content tracking software using Kobo. The online platform allows stations to easily record content broadcast on their stations and automatically aggregates it on a server for the TRC Hub to monitor individual station outputs. Station editors and TRC Hub staff were trained by Internews MERL department on how to utilize the software and data to improve adaptive management.

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Key Lessons Learned • Support in creating documents for sustainability and business development have produced a return on investment for EM. Promoting local expertise in the development of proposals and projects (by utilizing experienced EM journalists to design them) has also led to a return. • TRC noted that open communication and constant feedback between TRC and Internews helped them achieve a lot this quarter. • Collaboration between partners increased efficiency this quarter and reduced duplication. For example, TRC collaborated with AMDISS on a peace journalism training, TRC broadcast content from other partner stations and Eye Media is lending the technical skills of their broadcast engineer to small grant partner, Abyei Information & Radio Service (AIRS). Challenges • Some partners are finding it challenging to find experts to interview about trauma healing in South Sudan due to the lack of mental health professionals in the country. • TRC’s website cannot be published until a complicated rights access transfer process is completed. This has been challenging in launching their new website. • Eye Media and TRC expressed that a key challenge this quarter was the need for more journalism training. • Eye Media’s investigative reporting can be challenging when sources are not willing to collaborate for fear of reprisal. Credibility can be challenging with anonymous sources. • Eye Media would like to cover more stories from around the states, but this can be challenging due to human resource constraints and having to seek approval from authorities at the state level. • Partners have a lot of success stories, but it can be challenging for them to identify and document them. Way Forward • Internews is exploring how to provide more training for journalists on priority thematic areas, including bringing a trauma healing expert to Juba to lead a masterclass on the topic. • Internews hired a Senior Media Adviser this period to lead increased efforts to prioritize journalism training and capacity building. • Internews’ subgrants team will plan quarterly meetings to discuss capacity building needs and challenges to ensure that Internews is providing adequate support to partners. • Internews will lead a success story workshop for partners in Q2. • Internews is exploring how to speed up the rights access transfer process for TRC. Opportunities • In the quarterly meetings with partners, Internews’ subgrants team has greater opportunity to support partners and streamline programmatic efforts. • Eye Media recognized this quarter that informative journalism is no longer enough, they need to focus on educating their audience. This creates a unique opportunity for Eye Media to have an impact, for instance EM’s education of citizens can lead to greater civic engagement. • The hiring of the Senior Media Adviser will allow Internews to strengthen the capacity of partners and increase training opportunities.

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Objective 2: Promote a freer and open media environment through improving the normative-legal-regulatory conditions and supporting media institutions

Introduction Objective 2 is supported by three core components including media sector advocacy (Component 4), legal- regulatory environment and safety and security of journalists (Component 5), small grants to local partners (Component 6).

Achievements Internews and partners observed the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign this quarter (see Annex 12). Internews continued to advocate for the media sector through a partnership with AMDISS. AMDISS continued to monitor the media landscape, as per an objective of their subgrant. They produced monthly and quarterly media landscape reports and collaborated with Internews’ Senior Media Rights Adviser to strengthen their capacity to respond to threats on the media sector. This quarter, AMDISS facilitated the approval (by the Media Authority) of some journalists to attend the South Sudan Oil and Power conference in October. Initially some journalists were banned from covering the event. AMDISS held bi-weekly meetings with key stakeholders including UJOSS and the Center for Human Rights Lawyers (who are not subgrantees of iSTREAM) to share information about violations against journalists and media houses. The Senior Media Rights Adviser worked with AMDISS to improve their system of tracking violations and their subsequent response to violations. As reported in the training section of this report (Component 3), AMDISS/MDI led three outreach trainings for journalists on safety, protection, media laws, ethics and gender-based violence reporting. These trainings strengthened the capacity of 78 journalists including 23 women (from 14 different media outlets) to protect themselves against threats they may face reporting in South Sudan. The trainings targeted practicing journalists in the areas of Torit, Yambio and Yei. This quarter, Internews published a request for applications (RFA) to select new partners for the iSTREAM project. In addition to small grants The Radio Community and ADMISS/MDI, Internews continued to support the Abyei Information & Radio Service (AIRS) this quarter (Component 6). AIRS continued to train their team in advance of the launch of their radio station, Abyei FM, in Q2. This quarter the radio station equipment (donated in-kind by IOM) arrived in Agok. The technical capacity of journalists at AIRS has improved as a result of mentorship. They are now able to produce their own clips as a result of learning to edit stories by cutting clips on Adobe Audio, which are then produced and aired on the two AIRS flagship programs. The Senior Sustainability Adviser (SSA) continued to support small grant partners this period. A series of workshops were held in Juba to strengthen the business development skills of The Radio Community, AMDISS/MDI and AIRS. The SSA’s approach was collaborative and integrated, focusing on building the capacity of management and programmatic staff to co-create and design effective and innovative media proposals. The SSA also worked closely with the management of these organizations to update their fundraising profiles and prepare documentation to increase their readiness to apply for and receive direct donor funding. Key Lessons Learned • Trainings for journalists are centralized in Juba. There will always be a need to increase training opportunities for journalists based outside of Juba.

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• AIRS continuous mentorship of journalists has succeeded in improving their skills as consistency is achieved through guidance on professional development. • Despite recent challenges, this quarter, the Media Authority appeared to be expediting support to media partners. This positive development illustrates that advocacy efforts do have the potential to initiate change. • The Media Authority is controlling access to public functions such as the South Sudan Oil and Power conference. AMDISS’ role in advocating for access for the media sector is crucial. Challenges • Though the Media Authority is more responsive towards the needs of media houses, the processes are slow and bureaucratic. • AMDISS cannot make press statements due to previous warnings from the Media Authority and other security authorities. This restriction makes it challenging for AMDISS to do their advocacy work and requires them to be innovative and creative in their approach to advocating for the media sector. • AMDISS doesn’t have the human resource capacity to conduct research about the advocacy efforts needed to make a greater impact. • AIRS lacks technical expertise as they prepare to launch their new radio station. Remote assistance is difficult since the radio equipment is unique to them. In addition, internet bandwidth in Agok is low and is creating challenges for AIRS to share their work with partners. • AMDISS saw an increase in the number of media outlets summoned by the Media Authority this period. This quarter there has been a spike in the number of individual journalists being targeted, detained, arrested and even attacked. Way Forward • AMDISS will hire two interns to support their team on communication, advocacy and research work in Q2. Should the interns succeed, they may be offered fulltime positions with the organization. • Internews has employed several advisers to support with capacity building for partners in the areas of: radio operations, journalism training, organizational management, advocacy, etc. • AIRS is liaising with iSTREAM subgrantee, Eye Media, to support them to build their technical radio capacity. The broadcast engineer from Eye Media is expected to provide remote, and possibly on- site, training for the AIRS team. • Internews will continue to support AMDISS to monitor the media landscape in South Sudan. The Senior Media Rights Adviser and a national counterpart will strengthen AMDISS’ capacity to effectively monitor and respond to violations against both journalists and media houses. Opportunities • Internews will engage more finance, operations and M&E staff to build the capacity of partners in these areas and support them through challenges. • The Internews IT Manager will work closely with AIRS to monitor, assess and upgrade the internet in Agok. • The Senior Media Rights Adviser, who worked closely with Internews in the years prior to 2016, and is a media law and media rights expert, has been re-engaged to follow up on the challenges facing the sector currently.

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Objective 3: More effective South Sudanese media capacities to raise the quality, quantity and self-sustainability of development communications by the South Sudanese media across democracy-building, peace, economic growth, social, health and other key issues

Introduction Objective 3 is supported by three core components including the Humanitarian Information Service (Component 7), priority thematic areas (Component 8) and the Rapid Response Fund1 (Component 9).

Achievements Internews-managed radio stations in Bentiu and Malakal continued to serve the critical information needs of 649,374 IDPs and local communities in South Sudan. This quarter, Internews and the Senior Sustainability Adviser supported the registration and development of a new national NGO, the Community Engagement Network (CEN), which will eventually take ownership over the two radio stations in Bentiu and Malakal, Kondial FM and Nile FM, respectively. CEN formed their board and held their first board meeting, defined their strategy and sustainability plan, completed RRC registration and set up other organizational systems and processes. Internews began to produce relevant and accurate programming related to the priority themes under Component 8: civic engagement, gender-based violence and trauma healing. Training and capacity building for radio stations in these priority thematic areas also took place this quarter and will be ongoing in future periods.

Other achievements this period include:

• Eye Radio, The Radio Community, and Internews-managed radio stations continued to disseminate critical and up-to-date information about the implementation of the R-ARCSS and peace across the country, broadcasting 1,463 original items of content on current events. This included content on security/crime (282), peace/diplomacy (199), and governance/law (190) • On gender-based violence (GBV) and protection, Internews and their partners broadcast 86 items of original content. This included widespread coverage of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence (see Annex 12). Internews and partners across South Sudan marked the annual campaign by producing high-quality, accessible content about gender-based violence (GBV) for the people of South Sudan, which engaged them in critical discussions around the protection of women and girls. In addition to content aired on Eye Radio, The Radio Community and Internews-managed radio stations, Internews also formally contracted three radio stations to produce and broadcast content on GBV. These stations included: Sama FM in Juba; Voice of Reconciliation in Bor; and Pochalla FM in Pochalla. Mentoring was also provided to the stations on how to report on GBV. • On trauma healing and mental health, radio stations produced over 200 original items of content on mental health psychosocial issues and reconciliation.

Specific radio programming highlights are featured in Annexes 4 – 8.

1 In FY2015, Internews triggered a rapid response deployment, and continued to implement activities against this response in the first two quarters of FY2016. This quarter there was no need for an RRF request, thus there are no updates for Component 9.

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Key Lessons Learned • Setting up a new NNGO takes time and resources and the process cannot be rushed. Therefore, keeping Bentiu and Malakal as Internews-managed radio stations through August 2020 will allow for a proper handover to CEN. • Internews piloted a new model of engagement with local partners this period, providing service contracts to three stations to broadcast radio content on GBV. A key lesson learned was that service contracts are best suited for partners with high organizational and technical capacity, while stations with lower capacity are better suited for longer-term, more comprehensive support through the small grants component.

Challenges • The priority thematic areas of GBV and trauma healing require specialized knowledge that many journalists and correspondents do not have. • Civic engagement is a broadly defined topic and radio station partners are not clear on how to report on radio content related to civic engagement.

Way Forward • Internews is dedicating journalism training resources to strengthen the capacity of journalists and correspondents to cover the priority thematic areas of GBV and trauma healing. • Internews’ MERL department is working closely with radio station partners to define content in each of the priority thematic areas. This quarter, this included rolling out a project-wide radio content tracking system in Kobo, which assists radio stations to categorize and report on radio content broadcast on their stations. This also assists station/project managers and Internews to provide support in adaptive management, ensuring that content is relevant to audiences and reflective of the priority thematic areas. • Internews will continue to support the setup of CEN and ensure that they are well-equipped to eventually take ownership of Internews-managed radio stations in Bentiu and Malakal to ensure their sustainability. • Internews will continue to engage high-capacity radio stations in service contracts to produce content on priority thematic areas.

Opportunities • With many stations needing more journalism training, there is an opportunity for Internews to foster greater cross-partner collaboration especially regarding content development around the priority thematic areas. • With greater funding certainty, Internews now has scope to invest in training and capacity building around the priority thematic areas; and forming new partnerships to increase the quantity and quality of content around the priority thematic areas.

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Changes in the Implementation Environment Several factors are key to the successful implementation of the iSTREAM award. Primarily, the political and economic situation both have implications for security in the country, and thus have an impact on the implementation of i-STREAM.

This quarter, the security situation remained relatively stable despite several key developments in the political situation. Throughout October, the international community continued to push for the formation of the R-TGoNU by the November 12th deadline. When the deadline was not met and the stakeholders agreed to a 100-day extension on November 7th, the security situation remained calm. Clashes in Yei River state, and to a lesser extent in Unity and other parts of the country, continued but did not affect Internews programming.

Flooding across South Sudan led the government to declare a state of emergency across much of the country in late October. Internews’ iSTREAM operations were not been affected by the flooding. However, a subgrant partner in Abyei (Abyei Information & Radio Service) faced delays in receiving radio station equipment, procured and donated by IOM. In addition, Internews’ humanitarian project in Maban (funded by BPRM) experienced some delays in project start up due to flooding.

In addition to security and political environment risks, the media landscape in South Sudan also has implications for the implementation of the i-STREAM project. This quarter, the media landscape continues to be affected by the ongoing political and economic fragmentation in the country. Media houses and support organizations face immense financial, technical and logistical challenges which are exacerbated by conflict across the country. This quarter was marred by reports of misinformation, disinformation, harassment, detention and expulsion of journalists. The continued uncertainty around the implementation of the R-ARCSS is a contributing factor to this change in the environment this quarter.

During a UNMISS-led training for journalists in Aweil, the lack of respect and collaboration between the government and media stakeholders was broached. One journalist said, “sometimes differences [of opinion] appear when a journalist touches a specific interest of a particular government institution…this makes [some government] people angry because you have touched a sensitive issue.” In response, a former Minister of Information from Aweil said, “media outlets have their own interests that they want to promote. Conflicts arise when reporters exaggerate.” According to Reporters Without Borders' latest global media report, South Sudan is ranked 139 out of 180 countries on its global media index.

Despite the challenging environment journalists and media houses continue to face in South Sudan, there are numerous efforts to address the issues. A Media Freedom Symposium was organized by some iSTREAM partners (with funding from other sources) to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Committed Against Journalists. Participants called on the government to disclose names of those suspected of harassing and intimidating journalists across the country and to enact policies that ensure the safety of journalists. AMDISS/MDI trained journalists in Yambio, Torit and Yei on safety and protection and media laws/ethics in order to ensure that practicing journalists, especially outside of Juba, are well equipped to protect themselves while working (see Annex 2).

Eye Media, The Radio Community and AMDISS participated in a meeting on November 5, highlighting challenges of media outlets regarding press freedom in South Sudan. The discussion probed the public sector for its crimes against the media. Journalists openly expressed their challenges and sought solutions from the experts on the panel with regards to their safety and security.

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The Managing Director of the Media Authority (MA) commended editors of print media for minimizing ethnic based speech and incitement, claiming it reduced the number of articles removed from newspapers by the National Security Services (NSS). On the same note, the Managing Director disclosed that about 20 foreign correspondents had been denied accreditations on an individual basis for deliberately disseminating false information. A UK journalist was denied access to cover a conference on October 29 in Juba, as he allegedly belonged to the group of 20 foreign journalists who were denied accreditation to work as journalists in South Sudan two years ago because of their history of writing stories that were deemed inciteful by the MA.

In response to sanctions imposed by the Department of Treasury, the government of South Sudan accused the US of holding back the peace progress. Michael Makuei Lueth, minister of information, who is among senior political and military figures that have been sanctioned, accused the United States of obstructing the ongoing peace process by imposing visa restrictions and sanctions on individuals.

It continues to be challenging for Internews’ partners to receive information from outside of Juba about violations against press freedom. Verifying information can be difficult with poor network, lack of airtime and lack of enough power to charge phones. Despite these challenges AMDISS continued to observe the situation and have some few reports as detailed below:

Targeted harassments, arrests and detentions were ongoing against individual journalists this period. On October 1, a journalist working for a government radio station in Bentiu was threatened to be killed by the station manager after he opened a case against him for alleged mismanagement of the radio´s funds. He is currently in hiding at the PoC in Bentiu.

Also, on October 1, the Media Authority summoned the Managing Editor of the Dawn Newspaper, over a published opinion article. The article was decrying the declining press freedom in South Sudan. The article was written by a South Sudanese journalist who was out of the country attending a conference in Germany. The Media Authority summoned the Managing Editor and ordered him to go along with the journalist who wrote the article. The editor-in-chief instead went and met the Media Authority alone. He was asked to bring the journalist who wrote the article to defend what was written. The case was unresolved with no further follow ups.

On October 14, the editor-in-chief of the Dawn newspaper (in a string of incidences) said he survived assassination attempt by unknown gunmen in Juba. He claimed it could have been connected to posts on his social media page coupled with opinion pieces in the newspaper. However, he was later arrested on October 15 by the NSS for criticizing the dress code of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was released on bail but later re-arrested on November 4 and released again on December 5.

On October 18, an UNMISS national staff member and journalists from the UN’s Radio Miraya FM were threatened by Media Authority representatives at JIA when attempting to travel. The Media Authority representatives confiscated their equipment, saying that it was not registered. After negotiating with the authorities, the UN personnel received their equipment back but reportedly were told to act within the restrictions put in place.

On October 21, Radio Good News, one of the Catholic Radio Network based in Rumbek, reported that some soldiers from Tiger Division in Rumbek were looking for one of its journalists. The journalist reported an incident that left a young boy dead after he was kicked by a soldier from the Tiger Division.

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The director of the radio met the state Minister of Information on October 22 to discuss about the matter, but no resolution was reported.

NSS summoned the editor-in-chief of the Witness newspaper in Juba on October 30 for publishing a story said to have been critical of the Government, despite the threat he continued to work as a journalist. According to the newspaper, the opinion article was written by one of their opinion writers about “Equatorians not being united”. The concern of NSS was that the article was calling for tribal unity and was inciting in nature and a violation of the media laws. However, the editor-in-chief said the summons by NSS was intimidating and the matter should have been brought to the Media Authority. AMDISS referred the case to the Media Authority but no further action was taken.

Three female journalists were physically harassed by an army general after being invited to cover a military press conference in Bilpham, South Sudan´s military headquarters on October 31. After Eye Radio published a story regarding this harassment, the general sued the media house at the High Court for defamation. The case is ongoing and Eye Media has sought legal representation with support from Internews.

A stringer working for the Juba Monitor in Western Rumbek state was summoned on November 13, arrested and detained by the state´s High Court. He was arrested for covering a story allegedly to have been critical of the state government, which was run by Radio Tamazuj. He was later released, and the case was dismissed. The Media Authority later cautioned the Juba Monitor to disassociate itself from the stringer. The Juba Monitor released a statement on their website that they indeed employed the stringer but did not take responsibility for his work with other outlets. They further added they in no way do they wish to provoke the government but emphasized the need to follow media laws and refrain from harassing journalists.

On November 26, the Director General of the NSS Internal Bureau made a remark during a workshop stating, “South Sudanese journalists don’t check their facts.” He accused journalists of publishing a story saying the president was dead. He however said also that the NSS was ready to cooperate with the media.

On December 12, NSS removed an article from Agamlong newspaper at the printing press. The article was about the sanctions of five South Sudanese individuals, who hold foreign passports and were sanctioned by the U.S Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for their roles in committing atrocities and other abuses of human rights. The Media Authority summoned the management of Agamlong on the matter. The Media Authority told the management of the newspaper the article was critical about South Sudan, which they deem problematic during this critical juncture.

Last quarter (September 2019), a freelance journalist reporting for the East African Newspaper fled the country for Germany to seek for asylum. He was reportedly being beaten up by unknown people in Kampala, Uganda and hospitalized. AMDISS’ efforts to verify that claim was futile this quarter, but the journalists himself later confirmed that he fled from Uganda and is in Germany.

Despite these incidents, there were some positive developments in the media sector this period. The government of China, through a bilateral relationship with South Sudan, constructed a new studio for SSBC. The Witness, a weekly English newspaper, launched and registered with AMDISS.

On December 17, the Media Authority wrote a letter to Acting Commissioner General of National Revenue Authority (NRA) defending Eye Radio and advising NRA to drop the case they filed against Eye

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Radio on November 25. The NRA accused Eye Radio of publishing unauthorized news about their office. The Media Authority advised the NRA to respect press freedom and referenced the Media Authority Act, 2013, Section (13), (f): journalists are not required to disclose their sources of information obtained upon promise of confidentiality. The Media Authority advised NRA to strengthen administrative measures of protecting their internal and external correspondents and documents in order to avoid future leakage of confidential information.

The free and independent media environment in South Sudan continues to be under threat in the days leading up to the formation of the R-TGoNU. Given the current context, Internews is exploring re-engaging the Senior Media Rights Adviser, and an experienced national media rights advocate, to support capacity building within AMDISS and across the sector.

Performance Monitoring and Supervision This period, routine monitoring and data collection continued per the PMP outlined in the Cooperative Agreement. Internews collected data related to indicators 1.2 (revenue generated), 1.3 (USG assisted CSOs), 1.4 (journalists trained), 2.2 (policy actions), 2.3 (USG assisted non-state news outlets) and 3.3 (HIS reach). As reported previously, due to the ongoing conflict, insecurity and funding constraints, some of the original indicators are no longer measured.

Internews MERL department in Juba continued to collect, aggregate and analyze information from field locations. This included financial reports, subgrant agreements with CSOs and media outlets, records from journalism training, records of policy actions and population data from Internews-managed radio station sites. The MERL team is supervised by the M&E, Reporting & Subgrants Manager who is ultimately responsible for data quality. There were no data quality issues this period.

Annex 1 includes updates to the indicator progress table and supporting documentation.

Actions for the Coming Quarter Event Date/Time Location Request World Radio Day February 13 Countrywide N/A International Women’s March 8 Countrywide N/A Day iSTREAM Subgrantee February TBD AFEX Rivercamp USAID representatives Orientation will be invited to make short remarks at the launching of eight new subgrant partnerships. Details to follow.

Management and Administrative Issues This quarter, Internews received incremental funding shortly before the project was due to begin closeout procedures. This caused staff to quickly switch back to program implementation status. This uncertainty and frequent shift in posture required staff to remain agile and was burdensome on human resources. This period, due in part to this circumstance, Internews reviewed the staffing structure for South Sudan. Internews continues to fill positions to decrease the workload of overburdened staff.

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Collaboration, Learning & Adapting (CLA) Collaboration

Internews facilitated collaboration within the media sector this quarter. At both Eye Media and The Radio Community (TRC), senior leaders continued to serve on the boards of the Association of Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) and the National Editor’s Forum (NEF). This involvement is critical to collaboration within the sector and ensures that Internews’ partners are not duplicating efforts to strengthen the media sector (Eye Media, TRC and AMDISS are all iSTREAM partners).

Eye Media continued to collaborate with many organizations (both national and international) working in South Sudan. This period, Eye Media collaborated OXFAM on a weekly program for women called Peace of Her Mind, which the organization extended through November 2019. In addition, Eye Media solidified an extension with UNESCO to broadcast the Taikh Tanna (meaning ‘our history’) program for another year, through October 2020. Eye Media also collaborated with the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare for the 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence. Three radio talk shows aired in November and December, which addressed gender-based violence (GBV) and resources for survivors of GBV. Finally, PSAs were developed in collaboration with the South Sudan Council of Churches, BBC Media Action, Carter Center, Ministry of Health, OXFAM, UNESCO, UNICEF and World Vision.

The Radio Community stations collaborated with government, civil society and NGOs at the community- level to report independent news and information to their audiences. At the TRC Hub in Juba, the Peace Partners journalists also collaborated with stakeholders and civil society representatives on the ongoing peace process. In a collaboration with UNESCO and AMDISS, TRC provided journalists with training on conflict-sensitive journalism and peace reporting. Finally, TRC initiated a partnership with NNGO, Nile Hope, in Leer and Thonyor. TRC is exploring the feasibility of returning to Leer, where their station Naath FM is currently off-air due to the conflict. Nile Hope will support TRC with staff accommodation and operational support in Leer as TRC launches a community engagement project to provide news and information to communities there through narrowcasting. A formal MoU is expected to be signed in Q2.

Internews works with a variety of NNGOs as subgrant partners of i-STREAM. This period, Internews had subgrant agreements with: Eye Media, The Radio Community, Abyei Information and Radio Service and the AMDISS/Media Development Institute (MDI). Through these agreements, Internews collaborated with these organizations to strengthen organizational development and support their missions. The Senior Sustainability Adviser (SSA) continued to support the partners by finalizing their portfolios and sustainability plans. The SSA also provided in-person mentoring in business development to all the subgrantees.

Internews-managed radio stations in Bentiu and Malakal continued to collaborate with other organizations and stakeholders working on the humanitarian response. Collaboration is crucial, as the interventions are often designed and implemented very quickly, with high risk of duplication and lack of coordination. Internews supports collaboration and program effectiveness by supporting the community feedback mechanism in Bentiu and Malakal. In this regard, Internews shares valuable community feedback and concerns with relevant organizations, collaborating with them to seek a solution, and an answer to the community’s call for information by broadcasting related programming on the radio. At Internews-managed stations in Bentiu and Malakal, stations collaborated with over ten organizations including IOM, World Vision, UNICEF and IMC.

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Learning

This quarter, Internews continued to review their role and the role of their partners in strengthening the media sector in South Sudan. The sector is increasingly complex and unpredictable given the numerous extensions to the formation of the new government. Despite this instability, Internews remains dedicated to the democracy and governance focus of iSTREAM. In addition, Internews continues to learn valuable lessons about sustainability of local partners and the continued need for capacity building as these partners prepare to take on direct donor funding.

Lessons learned from the specific components of iSTREAM are noted throughout this report.

Adaptation

Internews has worked directly or indirectly with most of the key stakeholders in the media sector in South Sudan. With the very fluid political and security situation in the country, it requires Internews to remain flexible. An example of adaptation this period was the need to re-engage a media rights expert. With the increased violations against journalists and media houses, and the relative low capacity of organizations to safely and effectively monitor the media violations in the county, Internews hired a Senior Media Rights Adviser. The adviser, who worked on the iSTREAM project prior to 2016, has in-depth knowledge about the media sector in South Sudan and worked closely with AMDISS and other stakeholders this period to strategize on how to best support the sector to reduce violations.

Another illustration of adaptation this period was the formation of the Community Engagement Network (CEN), a national NGO that will take up ownership of Internews-managed radio stations at the end of iSTREAM. Internews realized that the sustainability of some Internews-managed radio stations was contingent upon a strong national NGO partner that had the capacity and desire to take on radio station partners across the country. A group of dedicated national staff at Internews worked this quarter to set up the organization and create a vision for its future.

Conflict Sensitivity This period, there were no major changes to the conflict dynamics in South Sudan. As reported in the implementing environment section, insecurity and the political environment continue to pose implementation challenges. However, no project activities were disrupted due to this. Internews retains a risk management team, led by the country risk manager to ensure that any necessary mitigating measures are taken. Since the July 2016 events, Internews significantly tightened security protocols and thus have mitigated risk during project implementation.

As insecurity, the political situation and dire economic circumstances across the country continue to pose risks not only to project implementation, but also the population at-large, Internews work is contributing positively to mitigating these risks through the promotion of peace. Contributing positively to social cohesion remains a priority across our radio station partners.

Resilience This section is completed semi-annually and will be reported on in the FY2020 Q2 report.

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Crosscutting Issues Gender

Gender is a key crosscutting issue that Internews aims to address through all components of the iSTREAM project. This period, gender was addressed in a multitude of ways. Across all radio station partners (including Eye Radio, The Radio Community stations and Internews-managed radio stations) 12% of original content was produced by women. Internews remains dedicated to training female journalists and mentoring female journalists at these sites to have more influence on the content that is produced about gender. Of the original content that was broadcast about marginalized groups (1,288 items in total), 732 addressed issues related to women and girls.

Internews supported the production and broadcasting of 200 items of original content on protection, which addressed issues such as gender-based violence, child marriage, persons with disabilities and humanitarian protection efforts.

Under Component 8: Priority Themes, Internews addresses content related to gender-based violence. In the Radio Content Highlights annexes (4-8), programming related to gender issues are highlighted.

Youth

Youth is another priority theme for Internews radio programming across all components of i-STREAM. At Eye Radio, youth issues were a priority. Of the original content that was broadcast about marginalized groups (1,288 items in total), 707 items addressed issues related to youth. Some youth programming highlights included:

• Eye Radio collaborated with BBC Media Action on the Building Futures program, which will begin airing in Q2. The program provides youth with some training. • TRC stations continued to air the Youth and Sports program. • TRC’s Mingkaman FM aired a program about the role of youth in peacebuilding. The program included interviews with the youth leader from Awerial who said that youth empowerment programs are essential to engaging youth in peacebuilding. • TRC’s Mayardit FM aired a program with youth artists about music and how it can promote peace and culture in society. • TRC’s Akol Yam FM aired a program encouraging youth students to sit for their exams and bring all necessary documents to register for the process. • Voice of Reconciliation in Bor aired a program about youth leaders in Jonglei state who met to come up with solutions to empower youth and foster peace in the state. • In Malakal, Nile FM broadcast a program about cultural differences and the importance of peaceful coexistence. During the program, a social activist told youth that they have a vital role to play in the community – to participate in development and promote peacebuilding in their communities. • In Bentiu, Kondial FM produced a peace program with local youth who shared messages of peace and called on fellow youth to refrain from initiating violence.

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Environmental Procedures and Compliance

Internews adheres to environmental procedures and compliance in accordance to 22 CFR 216 and ADS 204. During this quarter, Internews extended subgrant partners’ activities. All activities were screened on environmental effects and comply with the following agreement provision A15.6 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION 5a) A provision for sub-grants is included under this award. The Recipient will be required to use an Environmental Review Form (ERF) checklist to screen grant proposals to ensure the funded proposals will result in no adverse environmental impact, to develop mitigation measures, as necessary, and to specify monitoring and reporting. The Recipient is responsible for ensuring that mitigation measures specified by the ERF checklist process are implemented. There was no construction or other activities under the i-STREAM grant requiring environmental review, mitigation and monitoring plan in this quarter.

Global Climate Change

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Partnership Relations

This quarter, Internews partnered with Resilience Organization, a women-led national NGO to conduct two events for the 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender Based Violence. The events, held in Juba and Torit, included a community event and journalism training component.

Internews provided service contracts to three radio stations, piloting a new model of engagement with local partners this period. Service contracts were provided to: Sama FM in Juba; Voice of Reconciliation in Bor; and Pochalla FM in Pochalla. The contracts, designed to increase the quantity and quality of content accessible to audiences, centered around gender-based violence (GBV) programming this period. In addition to providing funding support to produce and broadcast content on GBV, the Senior Media Adviser also provided mentorship to journalists at the stations. Internews expects to expand these types of partnerships in Q2.

Through the iSTREAM small grants component, Internews formally partnered with four organizations (Eye Media, The Radio Community, Abyei Information and Radio Service, and Association for Media Development in South Sudan). Internews provided organizational development support to these organizations in addition to funding their activities.

Branding, Marking, Outreach and Communications & Dissemination

As news and information are at the center of what Internews does, our radio activities and updates are reflected throughout this report. Internews continues to advise small grant partners and Internews- managed radio stations on proper branding and marking procedures. A training for incoming small grant partners is slated for Q2 and will include a specific module on USAID branding and marking guidelines.

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Annexes The following annexes, as referenced throughout the report, illustrate further the achievements under the i-STREAM project in FY2020 Q1. Each attachment is available upon request, as a high-resolution PDF or Word document. Annex 1: Indicator Progress Table Customized i-STREAM Project Indicators: Customized output and outcome indicators organized by project goal and objectives

BASELINE TARGETS DATA PERFORMANCE DATA RESP. ORG. / INDICATOR DEFINITION FREQUENCY INDICATORS SOURCE STAFFER

Year Value FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 Objective 1: Strengthen autonomous, journalistic professionalism and facilitate the development of institutionally well-managed and financially self-sustained independent media. Objective Level Indicators 1.1: % increase New in score Periodic aggregated assessment – TRC: measuring using standardized matrix; Standardi 10% professional Internews M&E Disaggregated by type of zed Annual TRC: TBD N/A N/A TBD 10% TBD 10% capacity of Team medium, outlet, partner, gender, Matrix 2.2 HIS: journalists and age and location. HIS: 10% managers 2.3 (Outcome) Achieved to date: Disaggregated: gender, location, position (journalists and managers). FY16: Assessment of TRC stations (Mayardit FM, Mingkaman FM, Nhomlaau FM, Nile FM) and HIS/BBTT teams (UN House, Bor, and Bentiu PoCs) were conducted; a detailed report was included as an attachment to the FY16 annual report. TRC: TRC: TRC: FY172: Gender: Male (60%), Female (80%); Location: TRC: Mayardit FM (55%), Mingkaman FM (2%), 2.2 31% 41% Nhomlaau FM (51%), Nile FM (84%); HIS: BBTT/Kondial FM (95%), BBTT UN House (88%); Position: N/A N/A N/A TBD Journalist (65%), Editor (70%) HIS: HIS: HIS: FY183: Gender: Male (46%), Female (49%); Location: TRC: Akol Yam FM (38%), Mingkaman FM 2.3 88% 46% (26%); HIS: Nile FM (46%), Kondial FM (46%), BBTT UN House (45%). FY19: see footnote4. FY20: this indicator will be measured at the end of iSTREAM.

2 Compared to FY16 where n=75, in FY17 n=27 and only 26 of those people were involved in the baseline assessment. Thus, percentage increases reflect n=26 accounting only for the percentage increase of those assessed in both FY16 and FY17. 3 Compared to FY17 where n=27 and only 26 were included in the calculations, in FY18 n=34 but only 11 journalists were included in the sample since they had FY16, FY17 and FY18 scores. 4 This indicator was intended to be measured in Q4, however due to funding uncertainty the exercise could not be completed. This indicator will be measured for a final time, during the endline evaluation of the project. 20

1.2: % of Revenue includes funds revenue generated through advertising, ER generated at Eye Media ER N/A 6% 9% 20% 27% 12% grants from other organizations FY15 Community and 0% Eye Media and or other derived income. Costs TRC Radio stations TRC Annual N/A 0% 3% 6% 11% TBD 0% TRC Station include salary, FY15 and Eye Radio Business TRC Management benefits/insurance, contracts, Avera and then applied Records 0% N/A 3% 6% 13% 19% 12% office supplies, equipment, ge directly to costs materials, travel and ODCs. (Outcome) Achieved to date: Disaggregated: Eye Media annual operating budget is approximately $1.8 million. FY15: Eye Media earned $265,306 in FY15; they expended $186,758 in costs, for a total of 10% of revenue generated applied directly to costs in FY15 (the remainder is carried over). FY16: Eye Media earned $319,931 in FY16; they expended $381,848 in costs, for a total of 21% of revenue generated applied directly to costs in FY16. TRC indicator was planned to begin in Y3, but EM EM EM EM EM EM due to the tragic events in Q4, this has been pushed to Y4-Y5. 10% 21% 11% 6% 10% 3% FY17: Eye Media earned $89,484 in FY17; they expended $199,010 in costs for a total of 11% of N/A revenue generated applied directly to costs in FY17. TRC indicator continues to hold until further TRC TRC TRC TRC TRC TRC notice. 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% FY18: Eye Media earned $137,756.74 in FY18; they expended $112,039.03 in costs for a total of 6% of revenue generated applied directly to costs in FY18. TRC indicator continues to hold. FY19: Eye Media earned $126,411.49 in program income; they expended $124,924.62 in costs for a total of 10% revenue generated applied directly to costs. TRC indicator continues to hold.5 FY20: Eye Media earned $27,871.46 in program income in Q1; they expended $44,294.46 in costs for a total of 2% revenue generated applied directly to costs. TRC indicator continues to hold. Output Indicators 1.3 (F-Indicator CSOs that provide professional 2.4.2-11): # of journalism or media training, USG-assisted lobby on behalf of independent Internews M&E Media-Sector media sector, and/or otherwise Project Quarterly N/A N/A N/A 9 15 20 5 TBD 12 Team and CSOs and serve to strengthen the Records Institutions that functioning of independent Finance Team serve to media. Targets include small strengthen the grants for capacity building and independent media advocacy; pre-identified

5 As the donor funding environment in South Sudan changes, Eye Media has remained responsive to the reduced opportunities for funding. Throughout the past year, EM has continued to streamline operational expenses to enhance sustainability and attract donor funding. They have managed to reduce their annual budget from $1,800,000.00 to $1,300,000.00 through a variety of cost-cutting measures. The FY2019 percentage of revenue generated applied to costs is based on the new ($1.3 million) operating budget. 21

media or local partners; and organizations journalists supported by i-STREAM partners. (Output) The total number for each FY represents unique CSOs and are not accumulative across the entire project.

Achieved to date: Disaggregated: FY16: Eye Media, MDI, Radio Tamazuj, AMDISS, University of Juba, UJOSS, Woyee, Sama FM, CNISS, Voice of Freedom FM, KMIC, Gurtong, Radio Bakhita, Juba Monitor, Nation Mirror, Juba Film Limited FY17: Eye Media, MDI, AMDISS, UJOSS, Voice of Freedom FM, Juba Film Limited, Abyei Information and Radio Service, Catholic Radio Network 6 15 166 8 13 9 5 FY18: Eye Media, MDI, AMDISS, UJOSS, Voice of Freedom FM, Juba Film Limited, Abyei Information and Radio Service, Voice of Hope/Catholic Radio Network, TRC, Active Youth Agency (AYA), Good News Radio/Catholic Radio Network, Foundation for Youth Initiative (FYI), Radio Jonglei FY19: Eye Media, MDI, AMDISS, Abyei Information and Radio Service, The Radio Community, Good News Radio/Catholic Radio Network, Foundation for Youth Initiative, Radio Jonglei, UJOSS FY20: Eye Media, MDI, AMDISS, Abyei Information and Radio Service, The Radio Community Journalists may be freelance, students or staff working for Internews or other media outlets. Training refers to all training or education events whether short-term or long-term; University of 1.4: # of includes basic, technical, Attendanc Juba, MDI, Eye journalists university, and mid-career, e sheets, Radio, TRC trained with USG Quarterly New 0 50 75 100 100 75 TBD 100 certificated training. These partner stations, assistance numbers are noncumulative and reports Internews, other (output) represent the number of unique partners individual journalists trained in a given year. (In a given year, journalists will not be double counted if they receive multiple trainings)

6 This number represents only USG-assisted media sector CSOs and institutions that have received direct support (technical, financial, material), and not organizations that participate in a single training. 22

Achieved to date: Disaggregated: FY14: Male (56); Female (22) FY15: Male (274); Female (132) FY16: Male (333); Female (118) FY17: 78 4067 451 139 254 137 2128 Male (99); Female (40) FY18: Male (186); Female (68) FY19: Male (98); Female (39) FY20: Male (155); Female (57) Objective 2: Promote a freer and open media environment by improving the normative-legal-regulatory conditions and supporting media institutions. Objective Level Indicator Social Leverages all sector-wide Network activities including support 2.1: Density of Analysis: Internews M&E institutions (MDI/UJOSS), media Baseline, media outlet % team; sector working group, key Midterm, New TBD N/A N/A TBD 2% 2% N/A N/A network increase Independent stakeholders, and annual and Final (Outcome) in Consultant conferences. Baseline to be network conducted in Y2. density

Achieved to date: An SNA was partially conducted in FY16Q3, and scheduled for completion in N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A TBD FY16Q4, but renewed conflict has delayed or permanently canceled these research activities.

Output Indicators Policy actions include proposals for legislation, regulations, rules and codes accepted by policy makers; high-level meetings; advocacy efforts including meetings with stakeholders, workshops 2.2: # of policy and conferences etc. Legal and regulatory actions as a environment includes spectrum direct result of i- allocation, management and policy; STREAM internet governance; regulatory practice Policy Albany Assoc.; and procedures affecting media; media activities on Event Semi-Annual New N/A N/A 9 7 2 1 TBD 1 Internews M&E legislation, regulation, rules or codes; media legal and other policies or practices affecting the Tracking team regulatory rights of media or journalists. environment Interventions are in the form of debriefings, distribution of an incident (Output) report, provision of material aid, provision or identification of legal support. The total number for each FY represents unique actions and are not accumulative across the entire project. Achieved to date: Disaggregated: N/A 16 14 2 3 0 0

7 Note this figure differs from what was reported on the FY15 PIRS, as indicator results for subgrantees for FY15 were not received until after the PIRS were submitted to USAID 8 This figure represents the number of journalists trained across Internews portfolio, not just journalist trained through iSTREAM funding. 23

FY15: 1) Legal defense support and advocacy; 2) Comparative report on the signed media bills; 3) Mentoring and advisory services provided to the Ministry of Telecommunications and Postal Services; 4) Advocacy intervention with diplomatic actors to begin the establishment of an early response structure for journalists and media workers; 5) Legal defense support and advocacy – Nation Mirror; 6) JHR Training presentation on the relationship between journalists and the security sector; 7) Mapping of Lawyers inside and outside of Juba; 8)Background document on Legal Defense; 9) Training Manual for 10 workshops; 10) Delivery of a workshop in Torit 27-29 April 2015 (30 participants, 6 women); 11) Delivery of a workshop in Yambio (19-22 May) (33 participants, 8 women); 12) Delivery of a workshop in Wau (16-19 June) (25 participants, 10 women); 13) Support to the World Press Freedom Day Conference (4-5 May 2015); 14) Delivery of a workshop in Kwajok (27 participants, 8 women); 15) Delivery of a workshop in Aweil (28 participants, 8 women); 16) Delivery of a workshop in Rumbek (25 participants, 7 women). FY16: 1) Delivery of workshop in Yei (24 participants, 3 women); 2) Support to International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists; 3) Delivery of a workshop in Bor (9-11 Feb) (27 participants, 3 women); 4) Printing, delivery and dissemination of summarized media laws in English and Arabic; 5) Presentations and radio talk shows on freedom of expression and human rights; 6) Observers at Monroe Price Moot Court in UK; 7) Drafting of legal defense mechanism 8) Delivery of workshop in Juba for Bentiu and Malakal journalists (22 participants, 4 women); 9) Delivery of conference on Access to Justice (150 participants); 10) Delivery of workshop in Juba for human rights lawyers (38 participants); 11) Legal support to Alfred Taban; 12) Production of Manual on Freedom of Expression in South Sudan 13) Financial support to Press Freedom Monitor; 14) Financial support to Center for Human Rights Law re: legal talk show FY17: 1) Publication of Manual of Freedom of Expression Law in South Sudan, 2) Facilitation of learning trip for South Sudanese radio engineers to Ofcom, UK media regulation agency. FY18: 1) Publication of University of Juba Broadcast Journalism Curriculum/Diploma materials, (2) Facilitation of a learning trip for South Sudanese TRC leaders to the UK, (3) Support to AMDISS/UJOSS during Media Authority registration sanctions FY19: no policy actions. FY20: no policy actions this quarter. Non-state-controlled news outlets include privately-owned, community, or independent 2.3: (F-Indicator public service media outlets. 2.4.2-5): # of Internews M&E These numbers are cumulative Project non-state news Quarterly 2013 N/A N/A 5 9 14 20 N/A 27 Team, BBC, FPU, across all five years with the Records outlets assisted NPA anticipation that some assistance by USG (Output) will carry across the entire project, while others will be for a shorter span of time. Achieved to date: Disaggregated: FY14-FY19: Eye Radio, Akol Yam FM/Nhomlaau FM, Mayardit FM, Sobat FM9, Naath FM10, Mingkaman FM, Radio Tamazuj, Nile FM, Bakhita FM, Sama FM, Voice of Freedom FM, Gurtong, Juba Monitor, Nation 7 13 15 18 21 23 Mirror, Singaita FM, Abyei Information and Radio Service, Jamjang FM, Voice of Hope FM, Kondial FM, Good News Radio FM, Radio Jonglei FM, Voice of Reconciliation FM, Pochalla FM

9 Operations were suspended at Sobat FM in FY14 due to the conflict 10 Operations were suspended at Naath FM in FY15 due to the conflict. 24

Objective 3: More effective South Sudanese media capacities to raise the quality, quantity and self-sustainability of development communications by the South Sudanese media across democracy-building, peace, economic growth, social, health and other key issues. Objective Level Indicator Baseline and second wave surveys will be conducted at each At the start HIS and radio-in-a-box sight 3.1: % change of and approx. assessing access to information. Surveys HIS baseline & 4-6 months When new sites are initiated, this conducted 2nd wave survey following Varie Vari survey process will continue. The by Forcier N/A 10% 10% 10% 10% N/A N/A Forcier where HIS and the d ed specific questions to be Consulting radio-in-a-box is implementa evaluated will depend on the site . active (Outcome) tion of an due to differences in needs at HIS each site. Information will be disaggregated by location.

Achieved to date: Disaggregated:

FY1511: UN House PoC 1 (7%); UN House PoC 2 (44%); UN House PoC 3 (43%); Malakal PoC (32%) N/A 31.5% N/A12 N/A N/A N/A

Output Indicators Baseline is derived from the South 3.2: % Sudan National Audience Survey increase of conducted in 2013. It is anticipated actual that the five Internews radio stations listeners of will increase their listenership by Populatio Internews M&E Internews 10% in the aggregate between each n data, Bi-annually 2013 N/A 10% N/A 10% N/A N/A Team

radio stations, survey. Data will be disaggregated by Internews 547,457 662,422 including TRC station. New figures will be derived and Eye Radio from the national audience survey to (Output) be conducted twice over the course of i-STREAM. Achieved to date: Although the 2015 National Audience Survey was successfully conducted, comparability between the 2013 and 2015 surveys is not possible. The conflict, inaccessibility of N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A parts of the country during the 2015 National Audience Survey, massive population shifts, and no

11 Tong Ping and Mingkaman surveys were conducted in FY2014 therefore they are not included in these indicator results. 12 This indicator is used for new sites only. Only one new site opened in FY16, at Bentiu PoC. A baseline survey was conducted at Bentiu PoC, but since a midline survey has not yet been conducted, this value remains N/A as of the end of FY16. 25

reliable population data, makes it impossible to provide actual listener figures, as opposed to the percentage of respondents. This indicator is therefore not relevant for FY15 and will not be counted again due to funding cuts to the i-STREAM budget for research activities. # of individuals based on documented # 3.3: # of of IDPs and host populations at each people POC or spontaneous settlement site reached where the HIS is located. It is

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anticipated Internews will operate a Population Internews HIS Internews M&E total of four such sites per year (2 data, Yearly FY 14 N/A Services TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD Team

radios and 2 BBTT), during the duration Internews 136,000 236,000 (radio-in-a- of the conflict. Average population at box and BBTT spontaneous settlement site (radio in a projects) box location) is 100,000; at POC site (Output) (BBTT location) is 18,000. Achieved to date: Disaggregated: FY15: UN House (28,526); Bor PoC (2,289); Malakal PoC (47,828); Malakal town (50,000); Mingkaman (71,625); Leer (@50,000). FY16: UN House (38,874); Bor PoC (2,001); Malakal PoC (33,052); Malakal town (50,000); Mingkaman (114,837); Leer

(@50,000); Yida/Ajuong Thok (99,601) 18 19 20 21 22 23 FY17: UN House (38,448); Bor PoC (1,940); Malakal County (48,832)13; Mingkaman (114,720); Ajuong Thok/Yida (108,078); 14 Bentiu PoC (200,161) N/A 15

FY18: UN House (39,405); Malakal County (47,940) Mingkaman (114,675) ; Ajuong Thok/Pamir/Yida (128,318); Bentiu PoC 250,268 388,365 512,179 567,231 550,502 649,374 (188,012); Wau16 (48,881) FY19: UN House (32,112); Malakal County (46,797); Ajuong Thok/Pamir/Yida (119,600); Bentiu/Rubkona 17 (284,823); Wau (67,170) FY20: Malakal County (46,797); Ajuong Thok/Pamir/Yida (117,754); Bentiu/Rubkona (284,823); Maban (200,000)

13Consists of data from Malakal PoC, Malakal Town and Wau Shilluk from FY17 onward. 14Consists of data from Bentiu PoC and Bentiu Town Collective Centre from FY17 onward. 15 Mingkaman FM, which started as a mobile broadcasting project in Bor PoC was handed over to TRC and is no longer an HIS project. 16Consists of data from Wau PoC AA, Wau PoC, ECS CC, Nazareth Church CC, Lokoloko CC, St. Joseph School CC. 17 In September 2018, Internews expanded to beyond the Bentiu PoC. These figures represent populations that are now reached including Mankien, Wangkei, Rubkona Town, Nhialdiu, Gol, Kuach, Bieh, Koch, Dingding, Ngop, Nimni, Guit and Kadet. 18Leer data are estimates, as per above notes, and based on known populations at time of setup of stations and before additional population movements; other site data are accurate, September 2015 figures from IOM. While Leer is now closed due to conflict, it was on air from September 2014 to May 2015. 19 The Leer project was active from April to June 2016. 20Bor PoC project closed in March 2017. 21 All figures are September 2018: Ajuong Thok/Pamir/Yida figures from UNHCR (https://goo.gl/jf7jZy); all other data is from IOM (http://iomsouthsudan.org/tracking/biometric). 22 All figures are September 2019 from IOM and UNHCR, except figures from UN House and Wau, which remain from January 2019 when those projects were active. 23 All figures are January 2020 from IOM and UNHCR (Ajuong Thok/Pamir/Yida/Maban). Maban figures are estimated per UNCHR. 26

Annex 2: Journalist Trained Report – FY2020 Quarter One A total of 212 journalists were trained this quarter. Four trainings were conducted by AMDISS/MDI in Juba, Torit, Yambio and Yei. Internews also conducted two trainings this quarter – one in Juba on health/gender masterclass and one in Torit on gender-based violence reporting.

Safety and Protection of Journalists Yambio, October 3 – 6 Implementing Partner: AMDISS/MDI Participants: 28 Women: 7

Participants from Yambio, Maridi and Tombura were trained on safety and protection, media laws, ethics and gender- based violence reporting. Journalists from five radio stations attended including Anisa FM, Yambio FM, Anisa Maridi, Maridi FM and Centenary Tombura. The Juba Monitor posted a story about the training. One participant said, “I realized that gender-based violence happened in our communities but people are silent about it…I got basic ideas on covering GBV like conducting talk shows or doing documentaries after interviewing relevant knowledgeable sources.”

Safety and Protection of Journalists Torit, October 23 - 25 Implementing Partner: AMDISS/MDI Participants: 23 Women: 5

Participants from Torit, Kapoeta and the surrounding areas on safety and protection, media laws, ethics and gender- based violence reporting. Journalists from five radio stations including Singaita FM, Kapoeta FM, Radio Miraya, Radio Emmanuel, Grace FM and Voice of Eastern Equatoria FM were trained.

Safety and Protection of Journalists Yei, November 4 – 6 Implementing Partner: AMDISS/MDI Participants: 27 Women: 11

Participants from the greater Yei area were trained on safety and protection, media laws, ethics and gender-based violence reporting. Despite the area being volatile given recent clashes between the government and opposition, AMDISS/MDI successfully trained the 26 participants from four media houses including Episcopal Presbyterian Church FM, Internews, Radio Easter and Spirit FM. Some participants were also included from the secondary school journalism club and the ministry of information, communication and culture.

Ethical Reporting on Gender-Based Violence Juba, December 3 Implementing Partner: AMDISS/MDI Participants: 11 Women: 8

Internews organized a one-day media training on Ethical reporting on GBV, which was facilitated by AMDISS/MDI. Participants were drawn from various Juba-based media houses including SSBC, Sama FM, Eye Media, City FM and the Juba Monitor. Several freelance journalists also attended the training. The training covered ethical reporting and covering stories about GBV. In addition, journalists discussed the challenges in pitching GBV stories and how the media can protect survivors in finding solutions to GBV. Participants noted that the culture of dowry payments fuels GBV in South Sudan. Participants resolved to produce more GBV related stories. They were also tasked with discussing how best media can be used to demystify some cultural beliefs that fuel GBV. They further agreed to factor in ethical reporting values when covering GBV stories.

Ethical Reporting on Gender-Based Violence Torit, December 9 Implementing agency: Internews Participants: 25 Women: 7

Description of training: The one-day training provided journalists with information on how to report on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Sudan and trained journalists from Torit to produce quality and gender-sensitive programming on GBV. Journalists from three radio stations (Radio Emmanuel, Grace Radio and Torit FM) attended in addition to freelancers and correspondents working for the ministry of information. The training underscored the significance of media ethics when reporting on instances of GBV. The objectives of the training were to: • Ensure participants appreciate the significance of media ethics when it comes to reporting on GBV; • Ensure closer collaboration between the journalists and Internews in scaling up production and broadcast of contents around GBV; • Raise awareness on various forms of GBV; • Help journalists identify topics on GBV and apply gender sensitive interviewing and reporting skills; • Work with participants to raise standards of professionalism and apply ethical reporting when covering issues around GBV.

Participants of the Ethical Reporting on GBV training in Torit Photo/Internews

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Annex 3: Health and Gender Masterclass Report

Internews Health & Gender Journalism Masterclass

November 2019 Juba, South Sudan Since 1982, Internews has supported independent media and access to information in more than 90 countries, based on the belief that high-quality, local information is a root solution to advancing social, economic, and political progress. Internews programs seek to improve news and information quality, increase coverage of vital issues, expand information access, advocate for media law and policy, strengthen the viability of local media, and deliver innovative media solutions. In service of these aims, Internews works directly with local partners to build their capacity to address information poverty and inequality. Training media professionals and citizen journalists is often a key component of these activities, not only to produce original, high-quality programming that meets local needs, but to develop the skills in media and business management that ensure the self- sustainability of media outlets in the long term. In South Sudan, training is integral to Internews’ goal of strengthening the independent media sector. Since 2006, Internews has offered a multitude of training opportunities to journalists working in the country. In 2013, Internews launched the iSTREAM project, a five-year USAID-funded project designed to strengthen the independent media sector in South Sudan. The goal of the $75 million project is to strengthen a free and independent media in South Sudan, with an emphasis on the independent radio sector by supporting the transition to self-sustainability of five previously funded USAID-supported local partner radio stations. The project also focuses on improving the quality of professional journalism training, the economic self-sustainability of media houses, whilst enabling or protecting the environment for a free and independent media, in addition to supporting the professionalization of media sector institutions. Since the start of the iSTREAM project, Internews has trained hundreds of journalists.

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In November 2019, Internews’ Global Health Media Adviser was in Juba to conduct a masterclass with journalists and representatives from health implementing partners. The overarching goal of the training was twofold, (1) to provide continued health and gender training opportunities to practicing journalists from across South Sudan, thereby increasing the capacity within the sector, and (2) to bring journalists and health implementing partners together to strengthen the coordination and cooperation in covering health and gender related topics in South Sudan. The training took place at Internews’ offices in Juba located at AFEX River Camp from November 25 – 29, 2019. The training was co-facilitated by Ida Jooste, Internews’ Global Health Media Adviser and Tidio Betty, journalism trainer at Internews in South Sudan. Internews brought thirteen journalists from partner stations around the country to Juba for the training. They joined seven journalists who are Juba-based for the five-day training. Internews prioritized journalists working outside Juba as they are often not afforded training opportunities, especially in specific areas such as health and gender. Utilizing connections at media outlets throughout the country, with support from AMDISS and other partners, Internews was able to bring a diverse group of practicing journalists to Juba for the training. Approach:

• The trainer Ida Jooste helped participants to understand and cultivate good working relations between the media and health care workers. This enabled each side to appreciate their different roles and points of convergence. • It sought to help participants understand the working conditions and approaches, values and operation standards of each side. • The workshop sought to enable participants break down myths around health reporting by ensuring both sides embrace health communication techniques. • The interactive sessions allowed participants to engage freely and discuss some of the major challenges both sides face in efforts aimed at scaling up production and broadcast of health-related stories. • It also sought to help health experts understand media operations and how journalism can become change agents on health matters. • The practical and role play sessions deployed by the trainer offered firsthand experiences of day to day tasks and challenges by each side in trying to disseminate health information. • Lead trainer’s wealth of experience in health and GBV training came in handy as participants were able to embrace and appreciate her approaches. • The selection of participants, male and female journalists and health experts played to the advantage of the workshop as partcipants shared their personal experiences in trying to disseminate or create knowledge and awareness around health and GBV topics.

Journalists’ Bios

Woja Emmanuel is a multimedia journalist reporting on health, gender, environment and human rights. Woja has worked as a journalist since 2013, beginning his work with Maraba newspaper in Yei. He worked as a senior reporter for the Juba Monitor newspaper and currently works for iSTREAM partner, Eye Radio. He is a graduate of journalism and mass communications from UMCAT in Uganda.

Jabralla Tia Baballa is a community correspondent with the Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Jamjang. He has three years of experience working as a broadcast journalist. Jabralla previously worked with UNHCR as translator and was a teacher back in Sudan before he relocated as a refugee. He attended high secondary school and a teacher training institution in Sudan.

Ibasi Patricia Tobs is a reporter and presenter at Catholic Radio Network partner, Radio Emmanuel in Torit. Ibasi previously worked with the South Sudan Embassy in Uganda and as a volunteer at SSBC. She is a graduate of journalism and mass communications from Makerere University in Uganda. 30

Jacob Bol works as a journalist for Voice of Reconciliation FM in Bor. He previously worked as a web designer in Kenya.

Achai Biong Arop is a community correspondent with iSTREAM partner, Abyei Information Radio Service (AIRS) with three years of experience. She previously worked as a head teacher and attended a teacher training college in Sudan.

Keji Rose Benjamin is a journalist with nine years of experience in print and broadcast journalism. Keji is a certificate recipient of iSTREAM partner, the Media Development Institute. She is also a graduate of development communications and public relations at the University of Juba. Keji works for Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Yei.

Alex Modi Luka is a journalist with one year of experience in broadcast and print journalism. Alex works for Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Yei and is also a graduate of the Media Development Institute in Juba.

Anyar Kuol Anyieth is a broadcast journalist with over five years of experience in presentation, content production and editing. Anyar currently works for iSTREAM partner, The Radio Community. He has a diploma in journalism from Alison College in Ireland and is currently enrolled at Mt. Kenya University for media and communication.

Deng John Nyuol has four years of experience as a journalist. He has worked as presenter, reporter, program editor and producer. Currently, Deng works for iSTREAM partner, The Radio Community. In high school, Deng worked as a journalist too. He has a diploma in information technology and hopes to one day attend university for journalism.

Gatmai John Ruot is a correspondent working for Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Bentiu.

Anila Murtu Charles is a broadcast journalist with seven years of experience. Anila currently works at Top FM in Juba as reporter and presenter. She is a graduate of mass communications from the University of Juba and received a certificate from iSTREAM partner, the Media Development Institute.

Diing Magot is a freelance journalist currently corresponding for Voice of America. She has experience in print, radio and TV, previously working with Citizen TV in Kenya and iSTREAM partner, Eye Radio.

Bogere Charles is a broadcast journalist with over four years of experience in content development, program production, news editing and social media. Charles worked for City FM in Juba, Liberty FM in Yei and currently works for Bakhita Radio in Juba. He attended the Media Development Institute and is currently studying mass communications at Kampala University.

Rebbecca Lochano Akot is a correspondent with Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Malakal. She has four years of experience in program production on health and women. She holds a degree in business administration from the University of Juba.

Obuuy Ojulu is a journalist with one year of experience. Obuuy currently works with Pochalla FM and is a graduate of planning and community development at the University of St. Cloud Minnesota, USA.

Esther Sungu is a journalist working for Anisa Radio in Yambio with one year of experience. She previously worked with South Sudan Red Cross as a volunteer.

Mayen Ayuong Ajuong is a broadcast journalist working with iSTREAM partner, Abyei Information Radio Service (AIRS). He previously worked as a translator for Internews. Mayen has a diploma in mass communications from the University of Khartoum.

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Fernanda Malok has five years of experience in news reporting and presentation. She has a degree in communication science from the University of South Africa and is currently working as a news anchor at SSBC.

Sheila Poni is a journalist working in print and radio. She has written and produced many stories on health and gender and is currently working for Radio One in Juba and writing for the Juba Monitor newspaper. Sheila has a degree in journalism and mass communications.

Chan Paul Amol is a broadcast journalist with five years of experience. He is working as a news reporter and program producer with iSTREAM partner, The Radio Community. Chan has a certificate in investigative journalism from the Netherlands and hopes to enroll in a degree program in journalism. Implementing Partners

Internews, in collaboration with USAID Health, invited seven representatives from health and gender implementing partners to participate in joint training sessions with the journalists. The representatives included the following individuals: 1. Sarah Clement, Rural Health Service 2. Vita Florence, Center for Inclusive Governance Peace and Justice 3. Lou Eluzai, IntraHealth 4. Jenifer Alfred, Association of Media Women in South Sudan 5. Edward Ahonobadha, Health Pool Fund 6. Gabriel Ayuel Goi, John Dau Foundation 7. Peter Mut, Healthcare Foundation

Training Summary

The following outlines the modules covered during this five-day training. The training focused on reporting on health and gender issues with a specific lens on the challenges facing South Sudan in these areas. There are few stories about health and gender reported currently and journalists often face challenges gathering information from health implementing partners. the first two days of the training (November 25-26) included modules for journalists only, while the final three days were reserved for collaborative training with both target audiences. Day 1 Journalists were divided into two groups to discuss health stories they have covered in the past and the significance of these stories. Journalists discussed covering reproductive health issues, poor road conditions hindering access to health facilities and disease, including Ebola Virus Disease and STDs. The first day of the training also marked the launch of the annual, global campaign for 16 Days of Activism. A guest speaker from the Community Empowerment and Progress Organization (CEPO), Bismark Lokuto, talked about the gender landscape in South Sudan. Lokuto shared facts with journalists about gender in South Sudan – that women should have 35% representation in parliament, yet only 25% positions are held by women. Following the guest speaker, journalists were divided into two groups – men and women. They were asked to come up with a list of tasks that the opposite gender would do, relating to activities in the home, office and about their health. The journalists were then directed to envision themselves in the position of the opposite gender to create some shared understanding of gender norms in South Sudan. The activity was very interactive and solicited excellent acting on behalf of the journalists who fully exhibited their new gender roles!

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Day 2 The second day of the journalists-only training was focused on health and Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Journalists were taken through a recap exercise, recalling the information and activities from the day prior. Most journalists referenced the issue of gender inequality and inequitable representation of women in leadership roles in South Sudan. Journalists agreed that the media should produce more stories that highlight the gender disparity in the country. Following the recap, journalists were split again into two groups. They were tasked with coming up with story ideas for radio based on the information provided by the guest speaker, Bismark Lokuto from CEPO. Both groups came up with similar stories about the representation of women in parliament. Following the activity, another guest speaker provided an overview of Internews’ work globally on EVD. Julie Langelier is the Humanitarian Director for Internews in South Sudan and her experience working with Internews’ team in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who are currently implementing several EVD projects. Julie also spoke about Internews’ work in Yei, which is an EVD preparedness project in collaboration with Save the Children, funded by OFDA. Following the discussion by Julie, the journalists were divided into three groups and tasked with creating an EVD communication plan, if there have recently been five suspected cases of EVD in South Sudan. The journalists were asked the following questions: - What would be your EVD communications plan be if you woke up and were told that EVD has entered South Sudan? - What stories would you create on day one, two and three following this news breaking? - What do you need? Who do you need to talk to?

The journalists created communications plans including contact lists of sources where they could get more information that’s confirmed and valid to produce their stories. Day 3 The third day welcomed seven representatives from health and gender implementing partners. The journalists and the partners were separated in different training rooms for the first half of the day. the partners focused on how they can support journalists to produce stronger stories about their areas of interest. They discussed how they can influence stories in the media to make them more accurate, relevant and engaging. The partners then came up with a media briefing outline for Day 4. The journalists pitched their EVD communication plan from the previous day. Shelia Poni, a senior journalist working for Radio One and the Juba Monitor, both in Juba, also shared her experience covering health for many years in South Sudan. She shared a story about interviewing an elderly woman, abandoned by her family due to her illness. Shelia shared how the story touched her as a journalist and changed the way she looked at covering health issues. Day 4 During the fourth day, journalists and partners were introduced to each other during an icebreaker activity to discover commonalities between them. Journalists then shared their story ideas with the partners and had time for a discussion about how to improve them. Following the discussion time, journalists pitched their stories to the partners. A guest speaker from the Catholic Radio Network, Maura Ajak, discussed the challenges of reporting gender-based violence stories in South Sudan. Maura mentioned a rape case where the perpetrator was sentenced to nine years in prison, but one month after sentencing was released. After she shared this story, the journalists were divided into three groups to come up with story ideas from the speech.

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Day 5 During the final day of the training, health partners prepared a press release and call for a press conference. The exercise was designed to illustrate what the partners had gained from the training. The journalists worked on outlining what they need from partners in order to produce better stories on health and gender topics. During the brainstorming session, journalists mentioned some things that can hinder their work, such as: partner staff not being allowed to speak with the media; slow or non-response to emails; and the use of medical terminology that is not widely understood. The journalists discussed things that the partners could do to support them better including: greater cooperation between partners and the media; more frequent communication between partners and the media; availing data to the media; assigning a spokesperson to talk with the media; and joining journalists and the media on field trips. Lessons Learned and Recommendations - Internews utilized a needs assessment form that was filled out by potential participants prior to the training. The needs assessment had some glitches and didn’t produce as relevant information as was hoped for. In the future, the needs assessment will be carefully redesigned with greater input from experienced journalism trainers. - The training was organized by several representatives from Internews including the MERL/Subgrants Manager, Journalism Trainer and Operations Manager. In the future, Internews will assign a dedicated masterclass coordinator to more effectively utilize our human resources to produce a high-quality training. - Some trainees expected a per diem or stipend at the end of the training and although it was communicated that this wouldn’t be provided, Internews should ensure that participants do not have unrealistic expectations by being very clear about the provisions prior to the start of the training. - There were several media houses that had more than one journalist apply. Therefore, it was difficult for Internews to determine who should receive the training opportunity. Therefore, instead of soliciting participation from individual journalists, the training opportunity should be presented to media houses who can then nominate one or two journalists to participate. This ensures that the most deserving candidates receive an opportunity to participate. - Bringing journalists from numerous locations across the country was challenging given flight schedules and frequency. Therefore, the training days should be designed to allow for a travel day when UNHAS flights are scheduled. For example, training Tuesday – Thursday would be preferable so participants can travel on Monday and Friday and avoid having to stay in Juba over the weekend (which is cost prohibitive). - Ending the training with the mock press conference was a great and engaging way to let participants practice what they’ve learned. In the future, ending with a practical exercise that has relevance to the journalists’ daily work is recommended. - Providing trainees with tea breaks and lunch are essential to keep them energized. It is recommended to also provide soft drinks during lunch as this was an expectation of participants. - For trainees traveling to Juba, a bed and breakfast option should be booked to ensure that participants are well energized to begin the day. - The training was co-facilitated by two trainers with multiple sessions overlapping (one trainer was with the journalists while the other was with the partners). To ensure that each trainer is properly prepared for the training, co-trainers should have time to meet and plan together and ensure that each other are prepared. Roles and responsibilities should be clearly defined and agreed upon ahead of time. - Internews prioritized the selection of female participants in this training. Given this prioritization, nearly half the participants were women. This ensured that female voices were represented, and it promoted gender equity throughout the training. Whenever possible, Internews should maintain a gender balance in journalism trainings.

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Participant Evaluations

Internews provided all participants with an evaluation form at the end of the training. This form included questions about what they liked about the training, which modules were the most interesting, what knowledge they gained and how they would have improved the training. Most representatives from the implementing partners said that the training broadened their knowledge on how to effectively work with journalists. One partner said, “Now we know that we need to talk to journalist whenever they need some information from us.” Some partners admitted, they have never been interviewed by the media and previously feared being asked to give an interview. However, following the training partners said they can work together and share information with the media. Journalists equally agreed that the training strengthened their knowledge in the areas of health and gender reporting. They also said that having better information from health partners will help them to do their jobs better. One journalist said the training helped them to understand how to effectively pitch health stories to their editors and how to report on gender-based violence issues. Another journalist said that they learned about the human element to each story and how stories that elicit a human response are a good way to communicate information and inspire listeners/reader to act. One suggestion made by a journalist was to include editors in these trainings, as they can dictate what stories are selected and which are not. Another journalist recommended bringing government stakeholders into the training to understand the role of media. Finally, one journalist said, “I was not expecting to learn much, but I am very delighted that I have learned a lot. I feel completely knowledgeable now with things to do with health.” Below are photos taken at the workshop. Credit: Mary Kadi, Internews.

Internews’ CoP Charles Haskins awards a certificate to one of the participants.

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Participants during a group photo after the workshop.

Speaker on gender landscape in South Sudan presentation during the workshop.

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Annex 4: FY2020 Quarter One Radio Content Overview

Internews and their partners produced 1,140 hours of original content this quarter. In total, 1,536 programs, 1,913 news stories and 78 PSAs were produced and broadcast. Of this content, 12% was produced exclusively by women. The following charts illustrate the original content that was produced: Broadcast Hours by Station 500.0 438.5 450.0 400.0 350.0 300.0 250.0 200.0 180.0 150.0 112.9 95.8 101.2 80.0 100.0 62.1 25.0 36.6 50.0 4.7 3.4 0.0 akol_yam eye jamjang kondial mayardit mingkaman nile singaita trc_hub vor sama

Broadcast Category Distribution

Livelihoods/Business 12%

Human Interest 11%

Current Events 42%

Producer/Presenter Gender mixed female 2% Humanitarian 12% 9%

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Annex 5: Eye Radio – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights This annex provides a selection of some of the radio programming aired this period on Eye Radio. Content this period focused on current events and the peace process (63%), livelihoods/business (13%) and health (10%). Eye Radio produced and broadcast 439 hours of original content this quarter.

Peace Process • The Dawn Show aired a statement from U.S Ambassador to South Sudan, Tom Hushek, during a round table discussion with press in October. Ambassador Hushek said the formation of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity should be inclusive of all parties for it to be a genuine unity government. • Also in October, Eye Radio completed the production and broadcast of eight chapters of the R-ARCSS in English, Arabic and other local languages. Eye Radio completed the production and broadcast in cooperation with AMDISS, who will also distribute the content to radio station partners across the country. • In December, Eye Radio broadcasted a statement by religious leaders after Pope Francis and two other religious leaders sent out a Christmas appeal to the leaders to keep their promise to form at least a transitional unity government early next year. The religious leaders said they wanted the politicians to show the political will. The religious leaders emphasized their “spiritual closeness as you strive for a swift implementation of the Peace Agreements."

Women & Girls • In the lead up to International Teachers’ Day on October 5th, a local teacher named Florence Ayikoru was interviewed on Eye Radio about the importance of female teachers in schools. She said, “The importance and advantage of having female teachers in South Sudan schools today is that women can contribute to policy formation in the education sector… and they can also be role models for girls to stay in schools…The presence of female teachers in schools also encourages parents to send their girls to school with confidence.” • Eye Radio interviewed the USAID Mission Director who said the agency has established a hotline number that can be used to report incidents of GBV in projects that are funded by USAID. Leslie Reed said, “we do not want to see our partners victimizing people in South Sudan.” • Eye Radio aired a news story about a 16-year-old girl that was abducted by men in uniform at Mangateen residential area in Juba. The father of the girl said he reported the case to the police, but they could give him no information about his daughter’s whereabouts. UNMISS human rights officials contacted Eye Radio to connect them to the family to try and track down the girl.

Mental Health and Trauma Healing • The Dawn Show broadcast a program about child soldiers in South Sudan, highlighting first-hand experiences of the soldiers in armed groups and how it has affected their lives. Daniel Lasuba from the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative was interviewed and explained what can be done by both the government and armed forces to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate child soldiers. • Eye Radio covered World Mental Health Day in October, which this year focused on suicide prevention. Journalists interviewed doctors at the Juba Teaching Hospital who explained ways to prevent suicide in the community.

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Annex 6: The Radio Community – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights This annex provides a selection of some of the radio programming aired this period on The Radio Community, organized by station. Programs focused on current events and the peace process (41%), health (22%) and livelihoods/business (14%). In total, 685 programs were broadcast, and 979 news stories were produced during the daily News Hour program. The stations also produced eight PSAs. Over 300 hours of original content were produced this period.

Peace Partners, TRC Hub, Juba Peace Partners is translated into five languages. The program frequently includes in-depth interviews with major players in the peace process. • Peace Partners interviewed a member of the Civil Society Forum, who urged R-ARCSS signatories to resolve the outstanding issues before the November deadline. The program also interviewed UNMISS head, David Shearer, who reiterated the support of the international community, but emphasized tangible results were expected from the parties. • As the November 12 deadline approached, Peace Partners interviewed various stakeholders including a member of the Civil Society Forum, UNMISS head, David Shearer, members of UN Security Council, and other political leaders. While there were varying opinions and views about whether the TGoNU should be formed, all parties agreed that political will and tangible results were expected ahead of the deadline. Peace Partners also interviewed activists who said the R-ARCSS signatories must assure citizens of their intentions with the implementation process. • Peace Partners interviewed the U.S Ambassador to South Sudan about the delay of the parties to form the TGoNU in late November. Ambassador Thomas Hushek said the government should prioritize peace and release money for peace implementation. He said there is money to support peace, but what is lacking is the political will to allocate the funds and spend them transparently. Ambassador Hushek urged the leaders of South Sudan to work towards a unity government and urged them to start meeting on a regular basis. He reiterated the United States commitment to the people of South Sudan. A group of South Sudanese women called for the quick implementation of the agreement and asked the parties to avoid another extension. • Following the 100-day extension period, Peace Partners discussed the arrival of Dr. Riak Machar in Juba to meet President Salva Kiir. The deputy spokesperson of SPLMiO, Mr. Manawa Peter, stated that the two leaders will discuss security arrangements and the number of states to find a solution. Manawa said his group will not take part if the government does not have a clear policy for the future. President Kiir’s security advisor, Mr. Tut Gatluak, said a committee has been formed to address the issue of the number of states and if no agreement is reached, the government will ask the opinion of the citizens. • In December, Peace Partners covered meetings between President Kiir and former Vice President, Riek Machar. The program informed listeners about the most recent talks and featured commentary from different stakeholders. Mohamed Hamdan, the Sudanese Deputy President of Sovereign Council urged both leaders to compromise and give peace a chance. The program also featured peace monitors, who urged the parties to compromise and resolve the outstanding issues. Ambassador Augostino Njoroge, the interim chairperson of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, called on the parties to cooperate fully in the unification of the forces. Martin Elias Lomuro, the secretary of National Pre-transitional committee said the funds budgeted for the 100-day extension have been delivered to the authorities to work under their priorities and mobilize forces for the training.

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Akol Yam 91 FM, Aweil Broadcasts news, information and entertainment in Dinka, Arabic and English and is on air 16 hours a day seven-day a week, running on solar power.

• Akol Yam FM hosted a live talk show program about the opening of an agriculture bank in Aweil. The farmers said the opening of agriculture banks in the state would help them to produce more food locally despite the challenges. Most farmers are willing to do better work on food production if they get a cash loan and seeds from the South Sudan Agriculture bank. The farmers revealed that they are willing to produce enough food locally. Still, the economic crisis in the country is affecting them; in Aweil, there is no insecurity that can prevent farmers from cultivating anywhere, so they look forward to supporting from the agriculture bank. • A South Sudanese artist, visiting from the US, called on artists to stop composing songs that encourage tribalism or conflict. Adut Ajok Aher says artists are very powerful in sending messages through their music, “I am asking my colleagues to be peace makers, but not encouraging conflict among the people of South Sudan, please don’t compose a song against others tribes because this country is be to all of us let find the way of promoting peace instead.” • Akol Yam FM interviewed a pastor who asked leaders of South Sudan to think about their people suffering in the country and encouraged leaders to bring peace to the people. • Government officials in Aweil told Akol Yam FM that they now understand the roles of journalists in encouraging peacebuilding in the community. The statement was made after a workshop organized by UNMISS. The government officials said that journalists should be able to conduct their work freely, because the public needs information. • Covering the 16 Days of Activism Campaign in December, Akol Yam 91 FM interviewed a gender-based violence response officer to discuss how to end GBV against women and girls.

Singaita 88.3 FM, Kapoeta Broadcasts news, information and entertainment in Toposa and Didinga and is-on air 16 hours a day seven-day a week, running on solar power.

• Singaita FM covered a statement by the county commissioner, discouraging robberies and encouraging peace to prevail. The commissioner promised to address cases of robbery. • The station reported on high bride prices leading to cattle raiding in the state. Residents interviewed on the program said civilians in the state are armed and that there should be peaceful disarmament. • The station covered a one-day forum organized by UNMISS and CEPO, which called for political leaders to work together in order to achieve the implementation of the R-ARCSS. During the event, UNMISS head of field office said the UN is ready to offer support to political leaders and that they are working diligently to fight human rights violations. • In December, Singaita FM produced a program about peace during the festive season and discussed how peace can bring development to the state and South Sudan.

Mayardit 90.7 FM, Turalei Broadcasts news, information and entertainment in Dinka, Arabic and English and is on air 17 hours a day seven-day a week, running on solar power.

• In November, leaders from Twic state and Abyei discussed border relations. Mayardit FM covered the meeting between the leaders including the governor of Twic and the chief of administrator of Abyei. The leaders agreed to improve security and infrastructure on the road between the two areas. They also resolved to promote the local economies of the two areas. • Also, in November, the station aired a program about building trust in a post-conflict environment. several people interviewed in Turalei said that building trust is part of peacebuilding. They mentioned that with forgiveness, 40

reconciliation is possible. Community members also said that building trust is difficult and that it takes time and resources. • Every Saturday, Mayardit FM interviews studio guests about issues related to women. During one program in November, the station discussed pregnancy care for women. A midwife and a nutrition officer that were interviewed encouraged women in the community to go to the hospital regularly while pregnant and to deliver in the hospital to avoid complications. The guests also encouraged women to eat nutritious foods. • In December, Mayardit FM covered a story about forced marriage in Twic state. The administration of the church and the secondary school said that six girls were forced into marriage this year. Among these girls were two senior female students who were abducted from the school compound by men in uniform. The church and the school condemned the abduction. Members of parliament and the elders of the community urged the government to apprehend the suspects.

Mingkaman 100 FM, Mingkaman and Bor Broadcasts news, information and entertainment in Dinka and English and is on air 14 hours a day seven-day a week, running on solar power.

• Mingkaman FM aired a program on family planning this period after three fistula cases were reported in the past five months at the reproductive clinic in Mingkaman. Health workers reportedly believe the increase in fistula cases is due to hesitation of women to come to the clinic for reasons of confidentiality. Teresa Achuei, the site manager at the UNFPA-operated clinic said that early marriage, lack of information about family planning and domestic violence are leading causes of fistula. She encouraged the community to focus on prevention – keeping girls in school and avoiding early marriage and pregnancy. A medic interviewed said that a fistula awareness campaign is currently ongoing in Wau, but lack of transportation is hindering some patients in Eastern Lakes state from accessing the free treatment. • Mingkaman FM interviewed the newly appointed governor of Terekeka state. He emphasized the importance of peace in Terekeka and the neighboring states and called on youth to be peace promoters. The governor condemned recent cattle raiding. Youth that were interviewed asked the governor to coordinate disarmament efforts to stabilize the community. • In October, the station broadcast a program about the R-ARCSS implementation. UN security council members called on the government and opposition groups to form the government in November. Political leaders from the government and the opposition welcomed the call. • During another October program, community chiefs called on church leaders to promote peace and unity amongst their delegations. The local chief told Mingkaman FM that the role of the church is to bring peace to communities. He urged church leaders to deliver services to pastoral community.

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Annex 7: Internews-Managed Radio Stations – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights This annex provides a selection of some of the radio programming aired this period on Internews-managed radio stations. In total, 337 programs, 238 news stories and 13 PSAs were aired. Stations broadcast 205 hours of original content. Programs focused on current events (23%), humanitarian issues (21%) and human-interest stories (22%). In total, 337 programs were broadcast, 238 news stories and 13 PSAs. The following highlights two sites funded by the i-STREAM project, in Bentiu and Malakal.

Kondial 97.2 FM, Bentiu Broadcasts 12 hours daily in Arabic and Nuer, ensuring that the local population both inside and outside the PoC receive the right information to make informed decisions. • Kondial FM aired a program about female inclusion in leadership. During the program, women leaders expressed their need for support in leadership roles and decision-making positions. Feedback from the audiences who called in during the program indicated that there is strong support for women to take on leadership roles in the community. • Kondial FM produced programs focusing on gender equality and women's rights. During one program, members of the youth artists union discussed how women and girls can be supported. • Kondial FM produced a peace program with local youth who shared messages of peace and called on fellow youth to refrain from initiating violence. • The station produced a program about suicide prevention and mental health in November. Church leaders were interviewed live in studio and encouraged anyone in the community struggling with trauma or suicidal thoughts to seek counseling and support from the church and IOM’s mental health unit. In addition to church leaders, youth were also interviewed on the program about challenges they face.

Nile 98.0 FM, Malakal Broadcasts 14 hours daily in Arabic, ensuring that the local population both inside and outside the PoC have access to news and information. • Members of the community in the Malakal PoC and Malakal Town arranged exchange visits to discuss peace and reconciliation. Hearing of this, Nile FM’s peace and reconciliation produced mobilized some of the community members to share their experiences and how reconciliation can strengthen peacebuilding. A woman explained that community members should avoid hate speech and focus on reconciliation. • One program informed listeners about a discussion between civilians and military personnel. The discussion was held to restore trust through a dialogue about peace. One community member attending the meeting said that the issues discussed could help in restoring trust between the two parties. • Nile FM raised awareness on ways of combating hate speech in the community. A youth representative explained that hate speech is one of the contributing factors which derails peacebuilding efforts among the communities. • Nile FM broadcast a program about cultural differences and the importance of peaceful coexistence. A guest on the show said that in the past, the Shilluk community was very respectful to each other regardless of their background. He urged young people to also practice this. During another program, a social activist told youth that they have a vital role to play in the community – to participate in development and promote peacebuilding in their communities.

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Annex 8: Small Grant Partners – FY2020 Quarter One Program Highlights This annex provides a selection of some of the radio programming aired this period on partner stations funded either through the small grants program or special service contracts. Programs focused on the following themes Current Events (45%), Livelihoods/Business (24%) and Human Interest (19%). In total, 72 programs, 21 news stories and 2 PSAs were broadcast.

Abyei Information & Radio Service (AIRS), Agok AIRS produced and broadcast 37 programs and 2 PSAs this quarter, which were broadcast on partner stations as they await the installation of their new radio station, Abyei FM.

• The Abyei Information & Radio Service (AIRS) produced a program about the views of citizens in Abyei, criticizing a proposal by official representatives to turn the region into an “integration zone between Sudan and South Sudan.” • AIRS produced a program in October on the state of emergency declaration in Abyei, which was affected by torrential rains and floods. The government and humanitarian organizations were urged to assist people in need. More than 40,000 people were affected in Abyei. As the only radio station providing news and information specifically for the people of Abyei, AIRS broadcasting of this lifesaving information was critical. • AIRS produced a program about World AIDS Day in December in coordination with the ministry of health, Save the Children and MSF. The show increased awareness about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. • In November, AIRS produced a program about the trial of a man for attempted rape of a seven-year-old girl in Abyei. The man was fined 150,000 SSP. A member of the joint court in Abyei said that rape cases are happening in the community often due to a lack of development. Police in Abyei town told AIRS that nine cases of rape had been reported to the government this year. The Abyei Administrative Area adviser on gender and child affairs condemned the rape cases and called on the community to join hands and fight gender-based violence. She encouraged survivors to also speak out.

Voice of Reconciliation FM, Bor Voice of Reconciliation produced and broadcast 66 programs and 21 news stories this quarter. In total, they broadcast 80 hours of original content funded by iSTREAM. The collaboration focused on the priority thematic area of gender-based violence – where the station produced numerous radio talk shows, dramas and news stories about the 16 Days of Activism Campaign.

• In October, the station produced its first episode of a ten-episode drama series on civic engagement and the roles of women in leadership. The series featured call in shows and are a part of Internews’ efforts to increase civic engagement and gender-focused programming throughout South Sudan. The drama series continued throughout the quarter. • A program on gender-based violence discussed the challenges that women face when doing business in the market. Women said they are sexually harassed by men. The program encouraged men not to sexually harass tea women in the market.

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Annex 9: Success Story – Eye Radio Exposes Corruption at National Revenue Authority December 2020

SUCCESS STORY Eye Radio Exposes Corruption at National Revenue Authority

Eye Radio’s investigative journalists uncovered corruption at the National Revenue Authority (NRA) and kept the public informed. In 2018, President Kiir appointed Dr. Olympio Attipoe, a Ghanaian national as the commissioner general of the NRA with the mandate of assessing, collecting, administrating and enforcing laws relating to taxation and revenue. Since his appointment, Eye Radio has been keeping the public informed about the progress made by the NRA. Dr. Attipoe was known for his public announcement of the NRA’s income and the revocation of several multi-million-dollar companies’ tax-exempt statuses. Some government officials did not welcome his reforms. In September 2019, a ministerial order dated August 23, 2019, issued by the Minister of Finance and Planning, Salvatore Garang, terminated Dr. Attipoe’s contract as commissioner general of the NRA. He was subsequently deported from South Sudan. Following the dismissal of Dr. Attipoe, Eye Radio interviewed the acting NRA commissioner, Erjok Bullen Geu, who said that the NRA would no longer be announcing the monthly collection, stating that it never should have happened in the first place. “The former CG [Commissioner General] was announcing what we collect every month, this is not allowed by law,” he told Eye Radio. For several months, the public heard no updates about the NRA’s income. In November 2019, Eye Radio published a document obtained by an anonymous source, which showed an illegal bank transfer by the NRA. The document illustrated that the non-oil revenue block account at Stanbic Bank has transactions that are not in compliance with the NRA Act of 2016 and the R- ARCSS, signed in 2018. According to the NRA Act, the NRA receives no more than 2% of total non-oil revenue collections for operational costs. The transfer documents obtained from Stanbic Bank show more than 84% of total non-oil revenue collection in September 2019 was transferred to the NRA operations account. Eye Radio’s report on this development forced the acting commissioner to explain the bank transfers to the public. Erjok Bullen Geu threatened Eye Radio for reporting on this, but the Media Authority defended Eye Radio and dismissed the case against them (see photo right). The Media Authority advised the NRA acting commissioner to respect media freedom in South Sudan.

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Some of Eye Radio’s headlines on this story included:

• Finance minister fires NRA boss • Kiir’s office acknowledges dismissal of NRA boss amid criticism • Five-man team to investigate ex-NRA boss over “fraud” • NRA’s move to keep taxpayers in the dark criticized • NRA ceases announcing monthly collections • Acting NRA boss makes suspicious bank transfers • More questions emerge as NRA explains away ‘suspicious bank transfers’

Eye Media is a 100% South Sudanese media development organization, which runs Eye Radio 98.6 FM, the most popular radio station in Juba. Since 2013, Eye Media has support from the USAID-funded i-STREAM project, implemented by Internews. Eye Radio’s team of investigative journalists are dedicated to uncovering stories that matter most to their listeners.

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Annex 10: Success Story – The Radio Community Expands Digital Presence December 2020

SUCCESS STORY The Radio Community Expands Digital Presence

Juba, South Sudan – The Radio Community (TRC) expanded their digital presence this quarter by relaunching social media pages and concluding the design of their new website: www.theradiocommunity.org. The network of community radio stations reach thousands of listeners each day, however their presence online was never emphasized. Realizing that an online presence would help them reach a wider audience, connect with the diaspora and provide business development opportunities, TRC dedicated resources to strengthening their presence this quarter. TRC hired a communications and donor liaison officer in July 2019 and trained them extensively on the work of the network. The new staff member established social media accounts for all TRC stations and the TRC Hub in Juba. This included Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. On Twitter, TRC’s Hub and four stations have a combined following of over 500 people. These pages mostly consist of latest news updates including captions that are relevant to each story. Followers left messages appreciating this vital and timely initiative. On Instagram, TRC can be found at @theradiocommunity1. The page allows TRC to post images for listeners to post, share and comment on. Recognizing that social media requires a strategy to be most effective, TRC created a social media strategy checklist that guided the work of the communications and donor liaison officer. The checklist helped the staff member to ensure that the social media pages were reaching the correct audiences both inside and outside of South Sudan. The checklist included the following objectives: Setting goals: to started small with few followers, but plan to grow bigger in few months going forward and increase online audience. Knowing TRC target audience: TRC targets both the South Sudanese in the country and diaspora with access to Internet. Social media: TRC team would focus on posting news stories and images to be followed by short videos that tell stories. Long Term Strategy: TRC will strive to focus on network that will add value to the organization, not just followers who won’t turn to customers. Measurement and Testing: TRC will constantly analyze its social media strategy to know how effective it is. Engage with the audience and evaluate the performance on the digital platform for further recommendations. In addition to social media, TRC also finalized their website this quarter. The beautiful new website highlights TRC station’s impact in the communities where they operate (see right). The website will publicly launch once the asset transfer from Internews is complete. Internews currently still owns the TRC domain. This process is expected to be completed in 2020. TRC continues to explore ways to innovate, attract more audiences and expand their listenership. The Radio Community is a network of radio stations supported by the USAID-funded i-STREAM project (Strengthening Free and Independent Media in South Sudan), implemented by Internews. In 2017, The Radio Community became an official sub-grant partner of i-STREAM as they transition to self-sustaining organization.

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Annex 11: Success Story – Eye Media Wins Investigative Reporting Grant January 2020

SUCCESS STORY Eye Media Wins Investigative Reporting Grant

A team of journalists from South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda will investigate illicit trade of South Sudanese gold with new grant.

South Sudan is a resource rich country with 16 estimated mineral deposits of gold, copper, diamond, bauxite, cement and iron ore. The country’s mineral wealth is yet to be formally regulated to benefit the wider economy or South Sudanese citizen, allowing for a thriving illicit trade across South Sudanese borders with neighboring countries. Internews core partner, Eye Media won a 7,000 Euro (approx. $7,700 USD) investigative multi-media grant about illicit gold trade from Money Trail. Money Trail is a collaborative project between highly regarded journalism and training organizations such as Finance Uncovered, Free Press Unlimited, Oxfam Novib and Journalismfund.eu. Money Trail is supported by the Dutch Nationale Postcode Loterij. The grant will enable Eye Media to produce multimedia content, spanning radio and digital, tracking illicit gold trade between South Sudan and neighboring countries. The grant proposal development was part of six half-day workshops with Internews’ Senior Sustainability Advisor, held in November and December 2019. The business development workshops centered around engaging the radio programming team and business development team to co-create proposal ideas with well researched, relevant journalistic projects along well-planned contextual frameworks, timeframes and budgets. The sustainability exercise is part of a wider effort to make Internews’ partners more resilient regarding funding challenges facing media houses globally. By combining the experience and creativity of the technical business development team and the knowledge and insights of the programming team, proposals are built by combining journalistic relevance and the required business components of proposals. The team engaged in this project was composed of three journalists and two business development Eye Media team members. Eye Media and the Senior Sustainability Advisor continue to envision diverse proposal ideas in the areas of women empowerment, environmental sustainability, social norms and culture. Eye Media intends to continue applying for grants, both inside and outside of South Sudan, to bolster their ability to engage with journalism entrepreneurship in a globally shifting media landscape. Eye Media is a 100% South Sudanese media development organization, which runs Eye Radio 98.6 FM, the most popular radio station in Juba. Since 2013, Eye Media has support from the USAID-funded i-STREAM project, implemented by Internews. This support has included preparation for Eye Media to receive direct donor funding, an area in which this success story illustrates their success.

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Annex 12: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Internews Recap

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2019

48 From November 25 – December 10, 2019, Internews marked the 16 Days of Activism Campaign against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The global campaign aims to raise public awareness of gender-based violence. In South Sudan, Internews collaborated with numerous local partners to bring radio content to the airwaves and stimulate discussions about gender-based violence and the protection of women and girls.

Internews and partners across South Sudan produced high quality, accessible content about gender-based violence, engaging communities in conversations about the protection of women and girls. Over 65 original radio programs (38), PSAs (3) and news stories (24) were aired by Internews’ partner stations. This included content broadcast on Eye Radio, The Radio Community stations, Kondial FM, Nile FM, Jamjang FM, Sama FM, Pochalla FM and Voice of Reconciliation FM. In total, 29% of this content was at least partially produced and edited by women. In addition, the Internews Global Health Media Adviser, Ida Jooste, Internews Global Health Media Adviser, during a training session Ida Jooste (pictured below at a session with gender and health partners), with gender and health implementing partners. Photo/Internews conducted a Gender and Health Masterclass in Juba for practicing journalists from around the country. The masterclass brought together 20 journalists (including nine females) to learn more about covering gender and health issues, including GBV. The masterclass also included a component for health and gender implementing partners, who were trained on how to engage journalists and create appealing story ideas about their work. The final day included a mock press conference where partners fielded questions from journalists. Ida also visited the Media Development Institute (MDI), South Sudan’s only curriculum-based journalism training program, which was launched under the i-STREAM project in 2015. Ida gave a guest lecture to over 30 aspiring journalists about her experience as a health and gender-focused journalist and trainer.

To engage with communities directly in Juba and Torit, Internews partnered with Resilience Organization, a South Sudanese female-led NNGO. Resilience Organization (RO) supports women and girls through GBV- prevention education. RO put on two public events, one in Juba and another in Torit, during the 16 Days of Activism Campaign with funding from i- STREAM. In Juba, an event in Gumbo Shirikat attracted over 400 people to watch local youth raising awareness about the harmful effects of GBV. A local drama group performed two plays about early marriage and domestic violence. The event was hosted by local radio personality, DJ Lomisak, who also produced and broadcast radio programs leading up to the event on a local A group of girls at GBV event in Gumbo holding up a sign that says, "Stop radio station. In addition, Internews and Resilience Organization partnered Violence against children." Photo/ Internews with local narrowcasting service Sultan Jambo, to raise GBV awareness and promote the event.

In Torit, RO worked with different sectors of the community including women’s led by the Internews Senior Media Adviser. The training is part of Internews groups and groups of persons with disabilities. The general public was invited renewed commitment to producing and broadcasting higher quality content to attend the community event at Freedom Square. Students from the primary about women and girls, and GBV specifically. The training helped journalists and secondary schools performed dramas, skits and poetry addressing in Torit to understand and appreciate ethical standards in covering stories on elements of GBV. Song and dance performances included GBV prevention GBV. In addition, the Senior Media Adviser encouraged journalists to think messaging from cultural groups in native languages including Acholi, Lotuho more about creative, innovative stories to address GBV. and others. RO also worked with Radio Emmanuel in Torit to produce and broadcast radio programs ahead of the event (see photo right). Interviews were held with women’s groups, community mobilizers, youth groups and volunteers. Kevine Abalo, the founder of RO, said in her closing remarks that the fight against GBV is an inclusive effort, which needs both men and women to agitate for change. During a Q&A session, participants asked questions about the different types of GBV and applauded the event for being aimed at the community.

In addition, two journalism trainings on how to report ethically and professionally about GBV were held in Torit and Juba. The workshops involved 34 trained journalists who learnt about the different types of GBV, how to report on it and how to conduct interviews that are sensitive to GBV survivors. In Juba, the training was led by Internews subgrantee, AMDISS/Media Development Institute (MDI). MDI’s curriculum includes a component on GBV reporting, which provided an outline for the training. In Torit, the training was

Community representatives during an interview about the upcoming GBV event with Resilience Organization at Emmanuel FM in Torit. Photo/Internews

Secondary school students present a poem on GBV at Freedom Square in Torit during a community event organized by Resilience Organization. Photo/ Internews

50 The following are highlights by radio station: In addition to these programs, Eye Radio aired GBV related PSAs in both Arabic and English, ten times per day during the campaign. During the 16 Days of Activism Campaign, Eye Radio interviewed the USAID Mission Director who said the agency has established a hotline number that can be used to report incidents of GBV in projects that are funded by USAID. Leslie Reed said, “we do not want to see our partners victimizing people in South Sudan.”

Eye Radio also aired a news story about a 16-year-old girl that was abducted by men in uniform at Mangateen residential area in Juba. The father of the girl said he reported the case to the police, but they could give him no information Akol Yam FM, Aweil about his daughter’s whereabouts. UNMISS human rights officials contacted Eye Radio to connect them to the family to try and track down the girl. Eye Akol Yam 91 FM interviewed a GBV response officer and other experts about Radio also received a certificate of recognition for outstanding coverage of how to end GBV against women and girls. See photo, right. HIV/AIDS programs in the country. The certificate was awarded by the Peer Project, in partnership with the Network of Aids Service.

Eye Radio’s Peace of Her Mind program interviewed Esther Akumu Achire, the director general for gender equity and inclusive education at the Ministry of Education. Ms. Achire shared her thoughts about the contribution of women to peace and security in the country, stating that men and women must work together. Without women, she said there will never be development or peace in South Sudan: “I urge men to take care and make sure they end gender- based violence against women and take themselves to be as equal.”

The Under the Tree program featured a member of civil society, Neno Diana. Ms. Diana called on the government to enact policies to punish perpetrators of GBV. This, she believes, will reduce the instances of GBV. She also called on parents to counteract traditional gender norms and treat girls and boys equally.

The Dawn Show interviewed the Minister of Gender and Social Welfare, Jemma Nunu Kumba. The Minister said the government will put in place progressive policies for addressing the barriers to provision of GBV prevention and will fully operationalize a specialized court to try GBV cases by 2021. Akol Yam FM interviews GBV experts for a radio program about ending violence Eye Media’s commercial team also engaged various partners to produce and against women and girls. Photo/ Internews broadcast radio messages about the 16 Days of Activism campaign. The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) sponsored a one-hour radio Mayardit FM, Turalei program that addressed rape and GBV during the Sundown Show. The program will continue beyond the campaign, with three programs aired weekly Mayardit FM aired a program where citizens proposed active awareness during the Sundown Show. One program addressed the role of men in against gender-based violence in South Sudan. Some of the listeners who preventing GBV and discussed how language and communication contributes phoned in during the discussion said there is a need to involve local leaders in to sexual harassment and violence. the communities through sensitization. They said this would help end physical and psychological abuse on girls and women. Some of the listeners calling in

51 said several cases of rape have recently occurred in the community and were of the girl said the perpetrator was her lover with whom she had lived for a long not reported because of the stigma it could cause to the survivors. A female time. She was outraged by her husband’s behaviour and decided to end the caller asked about how to handle a case where a woman in relationship is relationship immediately. A fine of 150,000 SSP equivalent to approximately raped. She cited cultural norms as a barrier and added that this instills fear $500 was paid to the mother of the survivor. The Advisor to Abyei Chief and embarrassment in girls. Administrator on Gender and Child Affairs, Aluel Manyiel Rou (pictured below, right), condemned the act saying rape is a form of gender-based violence that In addition, the station covered a story about forced marriage in Twic state. needs to be fought against in the community. She encouraged gender-based The administration of the church and the secondary school said that six girls violence survivors to speak out and called on women to unite and find ways to were forced into marriage this year. Among these girls were two senior female fight rape. students who were abducted from the school compound by men in uniform. The church and the school condemned the abduction. Members of parliament Feedback from a listener who called in to the show said the program was good. and the elders of the community urged the government to apprehend the “It’s good to let the community know that such kind of things are happening.” suspects. Another female caller said people should not stay silent over such issues. Both women condemned the incident. Mingkaman FM, Mingkaman

In Mingkaman, a community chief called on men to stop assaulting women and warned that men accused of violence against women shall not be recognized in community meetings. Some listeners who phoned in during the discussion said there is a need to involve local leaders in sensitization. They said that it was time to end physical and psychological abuse on women and girls. Other callers said several cases of rape have happened in their community but were not reported because of the stigma it may cause to the victims.

Abyei Information & Radio Service, Agok

AIRS flagship program Abyei This Weekend covered the 16 Days of Activism campaign by producing a story about an attempted rape of a young girl in Abyei. The perpetrator and survivor were from two different communities, the Misseriya and Ngok Dinka. The case was handled by the joint Ngok Dinka-Misseriya court where cases involving people from the two communities are conducted. The mother

“Raping women, raping girls, raping children. We condemn it as something very bad and it should not be happening in our community.” AIRS journalist interviews the advisor to Abyei Chief Administrator on Gender and Child – Advisor to Abyei Chief Administrator on Gender and Child Affairs Affairs. Photo/AIRS

52 Nile FM, Malakal

Nile FM provided live coverage of the launch of the 16 Days of Activism campaign in Malakal Town and in the PoC. The station also re-broadcast the events on the radio. The women’s representative from Malakal town encouraged women and girls to speak out in meetings regarding any kind of violence they face. In addition, the women’s representative in the PoC urged families to work hard to stop the domestic violence within the family through peaceful dialogue.

Jamjang FM, Ajuong Thok

To increase awareness in the community about the 16 Days of Activism campaign, Jamjang FM interviewed the chairperson of the women’s union in Ajuong Thok. The representative said women will actively participate in the campaign. She urged community members to stop harmful practices against women such as female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage and to acknowledge the important role that women play in the community.

Radio Salam, Maban

In Maban, Radio Salam covered events in Gendrassa, Doro and Kaya. The events consisted of presentations, exhibitions, and demonstrations by women groups, agencies and students. After the event, football matches were played between the refugees and the agencies. In addition, PSAs about the 16 Days of Activism campaign were aired through narrowcasting