Annual Review 2006

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Television for the Environment THE EARTH ‘TVE ARE COMMITTED AND PASSIONATE FILMMAKERS WHO HAVE GONE TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH FOR US’ FLORA GREGORY, COMMISSIONING EDITOR, AL JAZEERA ENGLISH

‘TVE’S MESSAGE NEEDS TO BE WIDELY KNOWN IF WE ARE TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF PRODUCING THE BETTER WORLD TOMORROW THAT WE ALL DESIRE’ BRUCE LLOYD, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY, AND TVE SUPPORTER

‘EDUCATIVE AND EYE OPENING’ A VIEWER IN GHANA

TVE makes films that explore the critical To find out more about TVE, contact us on issues facing the planet. With our 45 partners, +44 (0)20 7901 8855. Or order TVE films we span the globe, making and distributing from our website at www.tve.org original, thought-provoking programmes and sparking debate on the environment TVE and development. 21 Elizabeth Street London SW1W 9RP In 2006 we produced, co-produced and United Kingdom commissioned nearly 100 films for broadcast Tel +44 (0)20 7901 8855 and non-broadcast, reaching more than [email protected] 280 million homes many weeks of the year. www.tve.org

Our films were translated into or broadcast in Charity number 326585 23 languages and watched in more than 170 Company number 1811236 countries. Our viewers range from farmers TVE is a company limited by watching films on a video monitor, to business guarantee and registered in executives viewing global channels. England and Wales

Cover image A polluted river in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Credit: Panos Pictures/Fredrik Naumann

TELEVISION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT ANNUAL REVIEW With many thanks to our core donors and founding organisations. 20:06 CONTENTS

REPORTING THE EARTH

20:06: 12.13 FINANCES CHALLENGES, SUCCESSES AND A 2 LEAN, EFFICIENT ORGANISATION. CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ANDY COATES DOES THE SUMS ON INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

20:06: 04.05 20:06: 08.09 20:06: 17 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT TVE’S GLOBAL REACH CONTACT US TVE CROSSES THE EARTH TO FIND HOW FAR DO OUR FILMS GO? TVE OFFICES AND THE STORIES THAT NEED TO BE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF WHO TO CONTACT TOLD, WRITES CHERYL CAMPBELL VIEWERS AND COUNTING. FROM VILLAGE SCREENINGS 2/‘UNEARTH JUSTICE’, TO INTERNATIONAL RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/CAFOD BROADCASTERS, WE SPAN THE GLOBE

20:06: 02.03 20:06: 14 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT FRIENDS OF TVE RICHARD CREASEY, CHAIR 1 HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES OF TVE, ON THE YEAR THAT HOSTS A FRIENDS’ RECEPTION CLIMATE CHANGE HIT THE AND GIVES AN EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL POLITICAL AGENDA INTERVIEW ON THE ENDANGERED ALBATROSS, RECALLS LADY GLENARTHUR

02.03 CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 20:06: 06.07 20:06: 10.11 ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT NICK RANCE ON HOW EARTH GLOBAL TRADE, INEQUALITY 04.05 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT REPORT AND OTHER FILMS AND HIV. WE TACKLE THE BIG TRACK THE STATE OF DEVELOPMENT ISSUES, AS THE WORLD’S ENVIRONMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR JENNY 06.07 ENVIRONMENT RICHARDS EXPLAINS 1/ ‘COLD CORAL DEEP’, NORWEGIAN MARINE INSTITUTE 08.09 TVE’S GLOBAL REACH

10.11 DEVELOPMENT 20:06: 16 PARTNERS 12.13 FINANCES 45 TVE PARTNERS IN AFRICA, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 14 FRIENDS OF TVE

15 TVE TRUSTEES

16 PARTNERS

17 CONTACT US

TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 00.01 1/ ‘EDEN REBORN’ 7/ AERIAL VIEW OF A SETTLEMENT 2/ ‘EDEN REBORN’ IN SOUTHEAST ETHIOPIA CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 3/ ‘AFTER THE WAVE’ PANOS PICTURES/DIETER TELEMANS 4/ ‘BACK IN BUSINESS’ 5/ ‘TIMBER FUTURES’ 6/ ‘COLD CORAL DEEP’, NORWEGIAN MARINE INSTITUTE RICHARD CREASEY ON A YEAR WHEN THE WORLD FACED ITS METAPHORICAL ASTEROID

IN 2006 THE WORLD FINALLY WOKE Scientific predictions vary. Some models indicate a new UP TO THE REALITY OF CLIMATE ice age in western Europe. Some point to desertification CHANGE. TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO, in southern Europe. Most agree that worldwide we’ll have WHEN TVE BEGAN, SCIENTISTS AND more droughts, more storms and rising sea levels. But in highlighting the problem of climate change, let’s not set ENVIRONMENTALISTS WERE BATTLING ourselves up for a backlash – or ignore an even more TO GET THE WORLD TO TAKE NOTICE fundamental challenge to our survival. OF PREDICTIONS OF GLOBAL WARMING. NOW MANY CORPORATIONS, A GROWING Because what TVE has underlined for two decades is NUMBER OF GOVERNMENTS AND MILLIONS the importance of sustainable development. Environmentally OF PEOPLE ARE AWARE THAT CLIMATE friendly development is not a bandwagon – it’s a long-term CHANGE IS HERE - AND THAT IT HAS TO solution to the threats we face. BE FACED. TVE’s films showed this year that it’s possible to develop We know now that we’re facing a metaphorical asteroid, sustainable solutions that are effective, economic and hurtling towards the earth. If we don’t nudge it aside, if we sometimes even profitable. It’s good business to save ignore it, it will hit us head on, with unthinkable consequences. money on packaging, to stop wasting paper, and to cut our carbon footprint. But as California governor Arnold The publication of Sir Nicholas Stern’s report on climate Schwarzenegger put it, environmentalists need to stop change in 2006, the release of former US vice-president making people feel guilty. It’s a lot more effective, as well Al Gore’s film, ’An Inconvenient Truth’, and declarations as more appealing, to make travel pollution-free than from the UK’s Tony Blair and other leaders have put climate to try to persuade people to stop travelling altogether. change firmly on the global public agenda. In our newspapers, on TV, in conversation, people are engaging in the debate In the coming year TVE will carry on investigating real, about what they can do. Use energy-efficient light bulbs. practical, sustainable ways forward in both the industrialised Drive less. Take fewer flights. Install solar panels. Find out world and the developing world, for multinational corporations how to minimise your carbon footprint. and for poor communities. We believe that the planet’s resources can be used intelligently and equitably. Companies So far, so good. As an environmental media charity, TVE and governments are waking up to the need to protect the is delighted people are finally getting the message. But as environment. TVE can help find the solutions. climate change makes the headlines day after day, are we, in our haste to expose one problem, risking overlooking the bigger picture?

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TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 02.0 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S 1 23

CHERYL CAMPBELL ON REPORTING REPORT FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

1/ ‘MELTDOWN’ , TANYA PETERSEN, WWF INTERNATIONAL 2/ ‘MELTDOWN’ , TANYA PETERSEN, WWF INTERNATIONAL 3/ ‘END OF THE WORLD’ , FIVE NEWS 4/ ‘DISASTER CLASS’ 5/ ‘MELTDOWN’, TANYA PETERSEN, WWF INTERNATIONAL 6/ ‘AFTER THE WAVE’

’TVE ARE COMMITTED AND PASSIONATE seen by local viewers as well as international audiences. industry can change our world as we know it,’ she told support has enabled us to expand our network in Africa FILMMAKERS WHO HAVE GONE TO THE Thanks to TVE partners, our films reached millions of the audience. ‘It can prevent disease, encourage healthy with a new partner, Dreadlocks, in Angola. ENDS OF THE EARTH FOR US.’ A RINGING broadcast and non-broadcast viewers. In China, our partner lifestyles, and educate our people on real issues that will ENDORSEMENT FROM AL JAZEERA Earthview versioned 32 Earth Reports into Chinese. In have a meaningful impact on their lives.’ For TVE, 2006 ended with a strengthened financial base, addition to satellite broadcasts, 378 TVE films in Chinese the establishment of two significant regional posts, the ENGLISH’S RESPECTED COMMISSIONING were downloaded nearly 3,500 times from the Earthview REAL ISSUES, REAL IMPACT beginnings of a fourth partner network, and exciting new EDITOR, FLORA GREGORY. digital library. And in seven countries in Latin America and Since TVE was founded in 1984 it has been doing just that – broadcast contacts and commissions. the Caribbean, broadcasters continued to screen the making films about real issues and showing solutions with In 2006, we did indeed go to the ends of the earth. From microMacro series produced by TVE and its partners in impact. In 2007, with the help of our donors, we will It also ended with an award. In recognition of our eyewitness accounts of climate change in Fiji, Germany 2002. In Mexico, over 6,000 students and their teachers continue to do so. commitment to raising global awareness on environment and Nepal to rare footage of environmental recovery in discussed environmental issues after watching one or more and development issues through the use of media, the marshes of southern Iraq, we’ve travelled the globe of the 121 TVE programmes included in the Latin American Thanks to Christian Aid, InterfaceFLOR, Oxfam Novib we won the Gold Mercury Information and Media Award. and worked with local filmmakers to find stories highlighting and Caribbean Environmental Video Library. and the Swedish International Development Cooperation The award acknowledges an organisation’s dedication the changes in our planet affecting us all. Agency (SIDA), we have taken the exciting step of to honesty, impartiality and open communication of ‘TVE brings out the best in us,’ wrote TVE partner Elizabeth appointing TVE regional coordinators for both Africa and information. I would like to thank all those who contributed – Altogether we produced, co-produced or commissioned Roxas from the Philippines. In June, Elizabeth and other south Asia, in line with our international strategy agreed in our donors and broadcasters, partners, trustees, staff, nearly 100 films in 2006. Our films went out on 58 channels members of the 41-strong Broadcasting for Change 2004. And thanks again to Oxfam Novib, our office in Italy filmmakers and production teams – whose commitment in more than 170 countries and were versioned into network met in London to discuss their new series, has been able to take the first steps towards beginning a ensured that hundreds of millions of viewers had the or broadcast in 23 languages. We reached more than Why Women Count. new TVE network in the Arabic-speaking Mediterranean. chance to share TVE’s vision of a greener, fairer world. 280 million homes, many weeks of the year. We are grateful to the Luso-American Foundation, whose TVE support also enabled our partner, the Malawi Economic One of the highlights of the year was building relationships Justice Network, to produce ‘Parliamentarian’ – a television with the newly launched global channel Al Jazeera English show putting local politicians on the spot with questions and major national and regional broadcasters. from their constituents.

THE BIG PICTURE CHANGING THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Thanks to BBC World, TVE’s Earth Report series, focusing Our films really did make a difference. After seeing films on both the big picture and the close-up story of what’s from our series Hands On , which explores solutions to happening to our planet, reached about 280 million homes development problems, the European division of and hotels several times a week. InterfaceFLOR (part of Interface Inc) decided to develop a new, sustainably produced modular floor based on The UK’s Channel Five and Sky News also aired TVE natural materials and manufactured by women in rural films in 2006. A co-production between TVE, the Element India. The new product will be launched in the coming 4 5 6 Partnership and others started airing in 2007 on MTV year. ‘TVE inspired us to think differently with our new European. The five-minute Element programmes bring range, Just (TM) India. We now include social global issues, from climate change to discrimination, to considerations in the development of our new MTV viewers in 25 countries through exceptional stories products, not only environmental,’ says Karin Laljani, from exceptional young people. senior vice-president for marketing.

GLOBAL TO LOCAL At our annual meeting of TVE Africa partners, Namibian As always, it is TVE’s partnerships with filmmakers and information and broadcasting minister the Hon Netumbo distributors around the world that ensure our films are Nandi-Ndaitwah summed up our purpose. ‘The film

TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 04.0 5 ENVIRONMENT 1

NICK RANCE ON HOW TVE TRACKS THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S ENVIRONMENT

TEN YEARS IS A LONG TIME IN adaptations to fishing gear could drastically reduce the amount of ‘bycatch’ or unwanted fish caught by tropical TELEVISION. IN 1996 THE WEB WAS 2 STILL IN ITS INFANCY. GOOGLE WAS A shrimp trawling. TWINKLE IN THE EYE OF ITS INVENTORS. Our scoop was ‘Race to Save the Albatross’, featuring an EBAY WAS CUTTING EDGE. exclusive interview with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, which captured his passion for these magnificent IN THE NEWS, BUSH AND BLAIR HAD NOT birds needlessly threatened with extinction by longline fishing. YET STEPPED ONTO THE GLOBAL STAGE. THE BALKANS WERE ON FIRE, SOUTH BACK TO LIFE AFRICA WAS A FLEDGLING DEMOCRACY. While mainstream news was covering the daily death toll in SCIENTISTS WERE STILL UNDECIDED ON Iraq, in ‘Eden Reborn’, Earth Report – with support from the WHETHER GLOBAL WARMING WAS SCIENCE United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – gained 3 rare access to the marshes of southern Iraq. Drained by FICTION OR FACT. Saddam Hussein, these marshes are now slowly coming back to life. Against this backdrop, TVE – with the support of over a dozen donors and the BBC’s new global satellite channel, Meanwhile, five new Hands On programmes celebrated BBC World – launched a new environment television series, sustainable innovation and enterprise in transport, farming, Earth Report . Our aim was to track the state of the world’s energy and the animal kingdom. environment and to keep global audiences in the loop. We have achieved this by reporting on destruction and But TVE’s coverage of the environment in 2006 wasn’t mismanagement, as well as through telling the stories of limited to Earth Report and Hands On . individuals and groups working to bring about change. Commissioned by new global broadcast channel Al Jazeera Ten years on, and Earth Report is still exposing environmental English, and produced with the support of WWF International, injustice and short-term thinking – still covering innovative TVE’s Meltdown series explored the impact of climate ideas and forward-looking people putting environmental change through the stories of four individuals in very different solutions into practice. environments: a Fijian from the remote island of Kabara, a retired forester in Bavaria, a sherpa guide in the high The aims remain the same, but the series continues to mountains of Nepal, and an eco-tourism entrepreneur on evolve. In 2006, after a decade as series editor, Robert Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Meltdown wove their stories Lamb stepped aside to pursue other projects. His place together with climate scientists’ accounts of the effects of was taken by Christopher Jeans, who has a long and climate change in different ecosystems. distinguished career in current affairs in both UK and US television. Nick Rance became responsible for END OF THE WORLD series development. TVE also broke new ground in a series of short, left-of-field pieces for UK broadcaster Channel 5 and UK satellite TVE produced a total of 19 new Earth Report programmes channel Sky News. Presented by renowned hazardologist in 2006, including five editions of Hands On . Professor Bill McGuire, TVE’s End of the World mini-series

put forward potential scenarios of apocalypse, from the 4 EXPLORING THE SEAS threats posed by asteroids to tsunamis and super- volcanoes. Highlights of the year included ‘Fate of the Oceans’, a two- But as Professor McGuire makes clear, it is the fourth and parter filmed in over a dozen locations, reporting on the final scenario, global warming, which is the biggest threat state of global fisheries. The first programme revealed the of all. Brenda Kelly executive-produced both Meltdown 1/ ‘TRADE TALKING’ reckless exploitation of most of the world’s fishing grounds. and End of the World . 2/ ‘COLD CORAL DEEP’ , NORWEGIAN MARINE INSTITUTE The second identified reasons for hope – like the Canary 3/ ‘CHAMPIONS OF THE EARTH’ Islands fishermen who only take fully mature fish. Working with UNEP again, TVE produced seven three- 4/ BURMESE IMMIGRANT IN THAILAND UNLOADS HIS CATCH minute films profiling the lives and achievements of PANOS PICTURES/PATRICK BROWN The marine theme continued with ‘Cold Coral Deep’, environmental leaders who received UNEP’s Champions 5/ ‘TALE OF TWO CITIES’ a programme that graphically exposed the damage inflicted of the Earth award in 2006. The films were screened at 5 by bottom trawling on extraordinary colonies of deep cold- the award ceremony in Singapore. water coral. ‘Potted Shrimps’ showed how low-cost

TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 06.0 7 GLOBAL REACH

1 2 3 HOW FAR DO OUR FILMS GO? IN 2006, THEY REACHED MORE THAN 280 MILLION HOMES, MANY WEEKS OF THE YEAR, SAYS DINA JUNKERMANN , SALES AND

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER 1/ ‘UNEARTH JUSTICE’, RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/CAFOD 2/ ‘TALE OF TWO CITIES’ 3/ ‘TRADE TALKING’

Our films go out across the globe. In 2006, they were seen in around 170 countries – on big mainstream broadcasters and on national channels via satellite and cable.

As always, they had a life beyond broadcast. They were seen on video monitors in village information centres in Bangladesh and watched on long-distance buses in Nigeria. They were used in HIV outreach programmes in China and seen at World Environment Day celebrations in Ghana. Our films were versioned into or broadcast in 23 languages including Japanese, Urdu, Spanish, Arabic and Kiswahili.

The map on this spread shows how far our films travel:

Global broadcasters brought our films to hundreds of millions of viewers. We reached around 280 million homes and hotels three times a week for 23 weeks in 2006 through BBC World. In November 2006, Al Jazeera English began broadcasting our Snapshots of Change series, reaching 80 million homes.

In addition to global broadcasts, TVE films were also broadcast in these 38 countries on national and regional channels. Through direct sales from our office in London, commissions, distribution by TVE regional offices and our partners’ deals with broadcasters they went out on 56 channels.

Through non-broadcast distribution by partners and commercial agreements, we reached viewers in 47 countries, including North Korea.

In Cuba, all 32 films in the Snapshots of Change series were broadcast on Cuban television.

Our distribution outside global broadcasters provides viewers with a unique window onto the world.

A new relationship with the British Council in Vietnam resulted in the transmission of six climate change programmes nationwide through Vietnam Television. In South Korea, Earth Communications continued to get Life and Earth Report broadcast. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norwegian NGO, continued satellite broadcasts into Burma.

We also distributed footage from our 22-year-archive. In 2006 we sent footage to filmmakers in Canada for a film on human ‘TVE FILMS HELPED US TO GET ‘IN TERMS OF “IMPACT PER BUCK”, trafficking; to Denmark for a production on climate change; to PEOPLE EDUCATED, INFORMED ‘A SOURCE OF INFORMATION, TVE MUST BE ONE OF THE MOST Japan for a programme on female genital mutilation; and to the AND AWARE OF THE ISSUES THAT ‘OUTSTANDING FILMS. INSPIRATION AND EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL UK for a film about African wildlife. Thanks go to our intern from SURROUND US’ VERY SOBERING AS WELL’ ENCOURAGEMENT FOR VIEWERS’ ORGANISATIONS AROUND’ Germany, who continued the huge task of indexing our archive. GEORGE AHADZIE, EXECUTIVE TOBIAS MCELHENY, RASHED IQBEL, COMMUNITY BRUCE LLOYD, EMERITUS DIRECTOR, GREEN EARTH, GHANA HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY, PROFESSOR OF STRATEGIC FOR ASTROPHYSICS, SCIENCE BANGLADESH MANAGEMENT, LONDON SOUTH BANK MEDIA GROUP UNIVERSITY, AND TVE SUPPORTER TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 08.0 9 12 TALKING TRADE THIS YEAR WE TEAMED UP WITH LEADING BRITISH AID AGENCIES TO MAKE CAMPAIGN FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. HERE, TWO TVE PARTNERS, JOE YAGGI AND ELIZABETH ROXAS, TELL DEVELOPMENT THE STORY OF MAKING TRADE TALKING , A SERIES OF VIVID FILMS SHOWING HOW WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION AGREEMENTS COULD DAMAGE LOCAL ECONOMIES AND LOCAL PEOPLE. MADE WITH OXFAM INTERNATIONAL, THE FILMS WERE SHOWN ON OXFAM INTERNATIONAL’S CAMPAIGN DEPUTY DIRECTOR JENNY RICHARDS WEBSITE ON THE EVE OF WTO NEGOTIATIONS. ON A YEAR OF PARTNERSHIP 3 4 JOE YAGGI: JUNGLE RUN PRODUCTIONS, INDONESIA ELIZABETH ROXAS: ENVIRONMENTAL BROADCAST ‘We're TVE's partner in Indonesia: a sprawling archipelago CIRCLE, THE PHILIPPINES containing over 18,000 islands, 230 million people, and ‘Beating a deadline as tough as rocks is as good as economic disparities that make large portions of the breaking it. The excitement of being part of a worldwide 5 population particularly vulnerable to decisions made by team makes us feel like experts in our own right – like industrialised nations. professional and experienced production people. TVE has always offered us this kind of opportunity as a partner, and ‘So when TVE first approached us to produce one of the through the years it has deeply inspired and nourished us. six Trade Talking films, we saw an opportunity to clarify for Indonesians – and people from other developing countries – ‘The Trade Talking series was like everything we’ve done what World Trade Organisation agreements could mean for with TVE: resources might be limited, but we managed them. Indonesia’s seas are some of the richest in the region. to produce our film, back it up with research, language One area in Papua harbours 78 per cent of the world’s hard version it into Tagalog, screen the whole series, distribute coral species and 25 per cent of Indo-Pacific reef fish it, and even provide feedback – all to a tight deadline. species. We’d been intimately involved in Papuan marine conservation in the far east of the country. So it seemed a ‘It was amazing being part of this great project. Imagine, logical progression to look at artisanal fishing in the west. even at the negotiating stage – and not yet sure that the funding was coming through – TVE had already contacted ‘Since time was short, we focused on Java. Working us as a possible partner. Aside from being transparent together with TVE in London, Oxfam and local NGO and inclusive, TVE got the partners’ trust, confidence partners, we narrowed the story down to a fishing community and excitement to the point that they, like us, joined TVE five hours outside Jakarta, with forays into the largest in praying, wishing and hoping that the outcome of commercial fishing ports in the country's capital. negotiations would be a big ’GO’. And it was!

‘Shooting took place over five days. Our footage was ‘Trade Talking is a world collaboration, and we are proud to balanced by interviews with ministers shot in Hong Kong share it with the rest of the world. It’s given us more friends and Europe. Post-production took place in London, and and partners, and brought us closer to communities. TVE the tapes were returned to Indonesia for language always brings out the best in us. As partners, we’re diverse versioning into Bahasa Indonesia. – but working together with TVE, we’re united. It’s great to be a part of the TVE family.’ ‘Bali TV news ran all six films for six days in August 2006. The films were also shown at a number of non-broadcast events including Globalisation Week, an event attended by thousands of activists in Jakarta.’ 6

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Other TVE films on development included: WHY WOMEN COUNT: an exciting new global project with the Broadcasting for Change network. For three days in June, TVE ELEMENT: a new strand of five-minute films for MTV’s global brought together broadcasters and producers from 41 countries youth audience. Exceptional stories from exceptional young to discuss a new series, Why Women Count , on women’s people bringing the big picture issues – climate change, poverty, empowerment – and what it really means for political and economic PARTNERSHIP WAS THE HALLMARK OF OUR PROGRAMMES HIV, discrimination – to MTV viewers in 25 countries. development. TVE coordinated the production of 41 five-minute ON DEVELOPMENT IN 2006. IN JUNE WE BROUGHT See www.element-tv.net films by the members of the network. Why Women Count will be broadcast worldwide in different languages later in 2007. TOGETHER BROADCASTERS AND PRODUCERS FROM 41 LIFE: in 2006 we boosted global outreach of our Life series. COUNTRIES TO BRAINSTORM THEMES AND STORIES FOR In addition to the ongoing distribution of Life to North American BACK IN BUSINESS: five six-minute films highlighting investment A NEW GLOBAL SERIES ON WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT. IN colleges and universities by our long-term distributor Bullfrog Films, opportunities in post-conflict Sierra Leone, and exploring the we began a substantial new contract with US educational publisher agriculture, mining, fishing and tourism sectors. Launched in JULY WE JOINED FORCES WITH SIX TVE PARTNERS FROM Prentice Hall to include Life programmes in its textbooks. With a Freetown by Sierra Leone’s Minister of Trade and Industry and AFRICA, ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA FOR A SERIES ON grant from the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural the UK’s Department for International Development. WORLD TRADE. THROUGHOUT 2006 WE WORKED WITH THE Affairs, we translated 21 Life programmes into Chinese, for ELEMENT PARTNERSHIP ON A FIRST SERIES OF FIVE- broadcast on CCTV and Guangxou television. We sold 34 Life UNEARTH JUSTICE: an eight-minute campaign film on ethically programmes to the Learning Channel in Canada. Selected Life sourced gold for the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. MINUTE FEATURES FOR MTV YOUTH AUDIENCES. programmes were also broadcast on the Planet channel on the Sky network in Italy. In the meantime, production began on a raft CHALLENGE CORPORATES: a five-minute video produced 1/ ‘BACK IN BUSINESS’ 4/ ‘CHALLENGE CORPORATES’ of exciting new Life programmes including an investigation into for British NGO War on Want’s new corporate social 2/ ‘CHAMPIONS OF THE EARTH’ 5/ JUMPING INTO THE GANGES RIVER, the causes of child hunger in Ethiopia and Wales, and responsibility campaign. 3/ ‘TRADE TALKING’, ENVIRONMENTAL INDIA, PANOS PICTURES/ALVARO LEIVA documentaries on the carnage from road traffic accidents BROADCAST CIRCLE 6/ ‘TRADE TALKING’ worldwide and on women soldiers in Eritrea. TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 10. 11 * The six Trade Talking films were produced by Ace Communications in Kenya, Environmental Broadcast Circle in the Philippines, Development Alternatives in India, Jungle Run Productions in Indonesia, Parceria in Brazil, and Panos Southern Africa in Zambia, with support from national Oxfam offices and Oxfam International. For more information, see http://www.tve.org/news/doc.cfm?aid=1791 FINANCES

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ANDY COATES OUR FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN 2006 * EXAMINES INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

Operational Operational support Projects support Projects ££ ££

2006 WAS A CHALLENGING YEAR But despite this drop in income, we produced, INCOME EXPENDITURE FINANCIALLY. HOWEVER, WE BUILT commissioned or co-produced more than 90 films, Voluntary income 197,709 Distribution of films 82,031 as in 2005, and began a series of new, ambitious projects: Distribution of films 169,603 Governance costs 122,509 UP OUR UNRESTRICTED DONATIONS Investment income 15,854 Fundraising 89,501 SUBSTANTIALLY AND NEARLY TRIPLED • ‘The View from the South’, a 20-month project aiming OUR INCOME FROM FILM DISTRIBUTION. Projects Projects to increase European and global public awareness of Life 216,280 Life 143,364 progress and setbacks in achieving the Millennium Earth Report 264,988 Earth Report 338,077 THE THOROUGH REVIEW OF OUR STAFFING Development Goals by providing a southern perspective, Hands On 72,014 Hands On 214,022 STRUCTURE, UNDERTAKEN LATE IN 2005, for which the European Union is providing slightly more Commissioned films 161,255 Commissioned films 164,714 ENSURED THAT COSTS AND INCOME WERE than 50 per cent funding. Broadcasting for Change 245,116 Broadcasting for Change 233,201 ALIGNED AND WE ENDED THE YEAR WITH Work with partners 489,165 Work with partners 311,384 • Capacity building for our North Korean project partner, Other projects 357,454 Other projects 221,995 ONLY A SMALL DEFICIT IN OUR Training 16,392 Training 24,844 OPERATIONAL COSTS. OVERALL, WE the Pyongyang International Information Centre for New Technology and Economy, to translate Earth Report ARE WELL POSITIONED TO BUILD OUR TOTAL INCOME 383,166 1,822,664 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 204,540 1,741,102 and Life into Korean for broadcast and non-broadcast INCOME AND PROGRAMMING IN 2007. use. This has also been funded largely by the Transfers (184,864) 184,864 European Union. (Deficit)/surplus (6,238) 266,426 The financial highlight of 2006 was the progress we made on our strategic objective – agreed at the 2003 and 2004 • A new 41-country project with the Broadcasting for AGMs – to diversify our funding by increasing unrestricted Change network, generously supported by the Sigrid income. The total of our unrestricted, voluntary income Rausing Trust and the Global Opportunities Fund at rose from nil in 2003 to £197,709 in 2006. We now have the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. MAJOR FUNDERS AND COMMISSIONERS a growing number of TVE supporters, both individuals 1 and organisations, who contribute to our core work. • A new Earth Report series launched on BBC World in Al Jazeera English the autumn of 2006, covering a wide range of BBC World BBC World Service Trust With this support, we were able to work with greater environmental stories. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development ( CAFOD ) flexibility, devote more time to oversight and management Channel Five of what is a complex and diverse operation – with up to All these were made possible by generous support from Christian Aid European Union 50 films in development and production at any given time – the wide range of TVE donors listed on the right. As ever, A & N Ferguson Trust and begin to establish TVE posts internationally, fulfilling we are enormously grateful for continuing funding from our Focus Humanitarian Assistance another strategic objective agreed in 2004. longstanding donors, such as UNEP, and from the new Friends of TVE donors joining them, including Oxfam International, the UK's Interface Europe Ltd International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) We were extremely grateful that Christian Aid, Friends Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and MS Danish Association for International Development of TVE, UN-HABITAT and WWF-UK continued to provide the RSPB. Without the help of our donors, none of these NCDO, Netherlands unrestricted funds and delighted that Oxfam Novib and projects would have been undertaken. Npower Renewables Open Society Institute (OSI) World Vision began during 2006 to give us this vital core Oxfam International support. We welcome Islamic Relief as a new core funder GOING FORWARD Oxfam NOVIB in 2007. We significantly reduced our core operating costs following Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) the 2005 rationalisation of our staffing structure. The difficult Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Save the Children MILESTONE AGREEMENT decisions we took then have now paid dividends by Sigrid Rausing Trust Under the direction of TVE’s sales and distribution manager enabling us to stabilise TVE’s operational side as well as Sound Initiatives Ltd Dina Junkermann, our income from film distribution also providing a lean and efficient base from which to manage Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) rose, from £61,575 to £169,603. This was due mainly to film projects. UK Department for International Development (DFID) a milestone agreement with US publishers Prentice Hall UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office to provide footage from TVE’s Life series on development As the figures show, we do not always spend all of our UN Environment Programme (UNEP) issues to accompany its educational textbooks. project income in the year in which it is received. We are UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) UN-HABITAT carrying forward £266,000 of our 2006 income as a surplus UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) TVE’s on-line order facility went live at the end of January, into 2007 to spend on ongoing projects. War on Want and in 2006 two-thirds of our orders were received Westminster Foundation World Bank through our website. Universities, NGOs and commercial Our financial results, together with our reserves – which World Vision organisations accounted for most orders. Dozens of remain within the target range determined by TVE’s trustees WWF International individual viewers also wrote in to request films. Footage – mean that we are now well placed to move forward over WWF-UK sales brought in invaluable income. the coming years. As ever, challenges remain and further income diversification and cost controls will be necessary to 96 FILMS AND MORE ensure that we continue to be able, efficiently and effectively, 2006 saw a reduction in income from £2,584,332 in to meet our charitable objectives. 1/ ‘UNEARTH JUSTICE’, RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/CAFOD 2005 to £2,205,830 in 2006. The decline was chiefly due TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 12. 13 to changes in the funding and management of some of * These are the combined figures for Television Trust for the Environment and Television our more established series in the early part of the year. for the Environment. Copies of the audited 2006 financial statements of both of these UK registered charities can be obtained from Andy Coates, TVE, 21 Elizabeth Street, London SW1W 9RP FRIENDS OF TVE 1/ ‘RACE TO SAVE THE ALBATROSS’ 2/ ‘POTTED SHRIMPS’ 3/ ‘DISASTER CLASS’ 4/ ‘UNEARTH JUSTICE’ , RICHARD A YEAR OF FLYING HIGH, RECALLS LADY GLENARTHUR WAINWRIGHT/CAFOD 5/ BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS , GRAHAME MADGE/RSPB-IMAGES.COM

IT HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT YEAR FOR THE FRIENDS OF TVE. WE CONTINUED TO PURSUE OUR TWIN AIMS OF FUNDRAISING AND, EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY, RAISING THE PROFILE OF TVE WITHIN THE UK.

Our main event of the year was particularly exciting and no doubt about his genuine concern for the plight of these memorable. TVE and the Royal Society for the Protection magnificent birds. We are grateful to our sponsors for the of Birds cooperated in making ‘Race to Save the Albatross’, event: the Fishmongers’ Company, the Hedley Foundation, a film highlighting the plight of a magnificent bird in grave Schroders plc and the Mantis Collection. 1 23 danger of extinction from longline fishing. Through a series of meetings and discussions, and thanks His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales kindly consented to the tireless efforts of our President, Lord St John of to hold the film’s premiere in the newly restored cinema Bletso, we have been able to introduce a number of at his London home, Clarence House, where he hosted influential new supporters to the work of TVE during 2006. a lunchtime reception following the screening. His Royal Highness also contributed a lengthy interview for the film. As a result of all these efforts, and thanks to generous donations from individuals, the Friends were able to hand All those attending the screening said it was both interesting over a substantial cheque to TVE at the end of the year. TVE TRUSTEES and moving. A week later, ‘Race to Save the Albatross’ was shown on BBC World, reaching many millions of viewers Sadly, we have to report the death last December of one Richard Creasey, chairman Winnie De’Ath around the globe. of our original Friends, Shamsi Navidi. Shamsi had been Founder-director, BUR Media Group Director of communications, WWF-UK a staunch supporter since the Friends were formed in 1993. Martin Tyler, finance trustee Rupert Dilnott-Cooper We are most grateful to HRH for hosting both the Her wisdom and enthusiasm will be greatly missed, as will Head of finance and resources, Fairtrade Foundation Former chief executive, content, Carlton Communications plc screening and reception in such splendid surroundings. her wonderful hospitality in hosting Friends’ meetings . Adrian Cowell Eric Falt His conversations with all those who attended left them in Film director and director, Nomad Films Ltd Director of communications and public information, United Nations Environment Programme Uri Fruchtmann Film producer and director, Fragile Films and Ealing Studios Lady Glenarthur 4 5 Chair, Friends of TVE Roger James Managing director, Siguy Films Narendhra Morar Commissioning editor, BBC World V Rukmini Rao President, Gramya Resource Centre for Women Michael Schade Head of corporate policy and media relations, Bayer AG Thomas Schultz-Jagow Former director of communications, WWF International Dr Anna Tibaijuka Under secretary-general of the United Nations and executive director of UN-HABITAT

TRUSTEES EMERITUS

Ivan Hattingh, chairman emeritus Former director of development, WWF-UK Anthony Brough CBE Former assistant secretary-general, United Nations, and former deputy executive director, United Nations Environment Programme Sir Robert Phillis President, Royal Television Society

TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 14. 15 CONTACT US ‘IN 2007 THE TVE AFRICA PARTNER NETWORK WILL PAINT NEW IMAGERY ACROSS THE TVE CONTACTS Asia TVE Japan CONTINENT, HIGHLIGHTING THE ISSUES Executive director [email protected] Shukichi Koizumi, chairman OF GOOD GOVERNANCE, SUSTAINABLE Cheryl Campbell [email protected] Dai 10 Gyoen Kyutei Mansion 9D ENVIRONMENTS, POVERTY ALLEVIATION [email protected] Latin America/Caribbean 2-2-4 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku AND THE ERADICATION OF HIV’ Deputy director/fundraising Rafael Hidalgo Tokyo 160-0022 Enock Chinyenze, TVE regional coordinator, Africa Jenny Richards [email protected] Japan [email protected] Tel +81 3 3353 7531 Chief operating officer OFFICES Fax +81 3 3341 2874 TVE PARTNERS Andy Coates TVE [email protected] [email protected] 21 Elizabeth Street Africa Asia/Pacific Latin America/Caribbean Executive producer London SW1W 9RP Arca Consulting Ace Communications Action IEC (Information Education AlphaMax Foundation Brenda Kelly United Kingdom Vanni Puccioni, regional representative Kenya Communication) Suriname [email protected] Tel +44 (0)20 7901 8855 Via Silvio Pellico, 7 www.acecommunication.org Cambodia [email protected] Sales and distribution manager Fax +44 (0)20 7901 8856 50121 Firenze, Italy Communicating for Change (CFC) www.actioniec.org ALTER VIDA (Centro de Estudios y Dina Junkermann [email protected] Tel +39 055 2342727 Nigeria Centre for Environment Education (CEE) Formación para el Ecodesarollo) [email protected] www.tve.org Fax +39 055 2476699 www.cfcnigeria.org India Paraguay Earth Report/Hands On tve-med@arcaconsulting Dreadlocks www.ceeindia.org www.altervida.org.py Nick Rance Friends of TVE www.tve-med.org Angola Centre for Science and Environment Artevisión – USB [email protected] 21 Elizabeth Street [email protected] (CSE) Venezuela Life/Broadcasting for Change London SW1W 9RP Environmental Foundation for Africa India www.artv.usb.ve Jenny Richards United Kingdom (EFA) www.cseindia.org Asociación Guarango Cine y Video [email protected] Tel +44 (0)20 7901 8855 Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, China Meteorological Administration, Peru Africa [email protected] Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Huafeng Group of Meteorological Audio www.guarango.org Enock Chinyenze www.tve.org/friends Sierra Leone and Togo and Video Information Centro de Comunicación y Producción [email protected] www.efasl.org.uk China Multimedia (CEPA) Film Resource Unit (FRU) www.tvhf.com Dominican Republic South Africa www. weathercn.com www.cepa.org.do www.fru.co.za Community Development Library (CDL) Citurna Productions in Film and Video Gambia Radio and Television Service Bangladesh Colombia (GRTS) www.cdlbd.org [email protected] Gambia Connected Media Trust Fundación del Bosque Tropical www.grts.gm New Zealand (Tropical Rainforest Foundation) 1 ’CLIMATE CHANGE IS PROJECTED Green Earth Organisation (GEO) www.connectedmedia.org Guatemala TO HIT THE MEDITERRANEAN Ghana Development Alternatives www.tropicalrainforest.org HARD. 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