Code for Africa (CfA) CheckDesks Fact-Checking Incubation Programme 2025 for West-African Newsrooms.

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Application Deadline: 25 February, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Code for Africa (CfA) CheckDesks Fact-Checking Incubation Programme. Code for Africa (CfA), by means of its flagship community, the African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA), is providing a seven-month incubation programme to established media organisations or watchdog civil society organisations (CSOs) based mostly in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal to assist them arrange or increase CheckDesks.

A CheckDesk is a devoted fact-checking/verification unit inside a information organisation or CSO that makes use of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)-compliant strategies to analysis and debunk deceptive or dangerous data.

The incubation programme

The programme goals to construct a diversified ecosystem of native fact-checking champions to assist improve resilience to mis/disinformation inside the data ecosystem of Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.

Successful organisations will obtain technical assist from CfA, by means of its in-house fact-checking newsroom at PesaCheck, and disinformation investigation crew on the iLAB.

Eligibility Requirements

1. The organisation should not work for any paramilitary or safety organisation.
2. The organisation should be based mostly in one of many following international locations: Côte d’ivoire and Senegal.
3. The organisation should have an current on-line presence, together with an actively maintained web site and/or social media profiles, or a dedication to establishing a digital footprint originally of the programme.
4. The organisation should have web entry to allow collaborating journalists/trainees/researchers to entry mission sources and undertake their fact-checking assignments.
5. The media organisation or newsroom should be a member of the AFCA community. If not a member on the time of application, fill out this form to grow to be an AFCA member, earlier than making use of.
6. The organisation should have managerial and editorial workers dedicated to collaborating within the programme in the course of the agreed-upon interval.
7. The organisation should decide to well timed and open communication from the administration and seconded crew members.
8. The seconded trainees should decide to agreed-upon weekly on-line coaching and task-based class assignments.
9. The organisation should decide to broadcasting or publishing content material produced by means of the programme within the specified cadence and driving engagement on an acceptable public platform.
10. The seconded trainees should be fluent within the language of tuition and mentorship: French.

Benefits

• The AFCA incubation programme will even embody a seed grant, entry to digital sources/instruments, recommendation on cost-efficient editorial manufacturing workflows, peer mentoring, and strategic recommendation on market and viewers methods. The incubation programme will run for seven months.

The programme will include:

• Financial assist: The chosen organisations will obtain a grant to cowl eligible actions and prices.
• Publishing assist: The newsrooms will publish the fact-checking merchandise generated underneath the mission on their respective media platforms. The newsrooms will even be supported to publish internationally.
• Organisation constructing: The chosen organisations will obtain on-line consultations with CfA to raised perceive their viewers, refining fact-checks and growing potential income fashions.
• Growing attain: CfA will supply amplification/progress assist, together with scaling/syndication assist

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Code for Africa (CfA) CheckDesks Fact-Checking Incubation Programme