WACC’s Poverty Reporting programme supports civil society organisations to create evidence-based public and media awareness of problems in mainstream media coverage of issues affecting the poor. The program includes access to funding, accompanying measures, networking, and training in WACC’s media monitoring for social change methodology.
People living in poverty rarely figure as the focus of news in mainstream media. Effective media coverage of poverty issues from ground-breaking news articles to hard-hitting human stories can raise the level and quality of public debate on poverty reduction, which in turn can clearly affect decision-making in both public and private spheres.
PHOTO: The day after Typhoon Bopha raged through the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, a girl in the village of Maasin wades through a flooded area.
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance