Core Contribution to the Interna-tional Fund for Public Interest Me-dia (IFPIM)


Public interest media in low- and middle-income countries face existential threats, impact-ing sustainable development and peace. IFPIM is an organization backing the resilience and independence of public interest media. Through SDC’s contribution to IFPIM, Swit-zerland promotes democracy by combating dis- and misinformation and ensuring media freedom and access to reliable information.

Región/País Tema Período Presupuesto
A nivel mundial
Governance
Medios y libertad de información
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2028
CHF  2’000’000
Contexto Public interest media, particularly in low- and middle-income countries face challenges like limited funding, government in-terference, media concentration, and inadequate infrastructure. Restrictive laws, cen-sorship, and government control reduce independent voices and spread mis- and dis-information. These undermine media credibility and public trust, leading to a misinformed population, reduction of independent voices, suppression of criticism, loss of pluralism, a more polarized society, more extremism and terrorism. SDC’s contribu-tion to IFPIM was a key part of Switzerland’s commitments at the second Summit for Democracy in 2023, presented by the President Berset.
Objetivos
  1. More and better-informed people, in-cluding voters
  2. Greater accountability of those in power, including political, economic and social actors
Grupos destinarios Independent media outlets in low- and mid-dle-income countries that are working in the public interest and are in danger of extinc-tion or capture.
Efectos a medio plazo

Outcome 1: Public interest media under fi-nancial pressure are sustained

Outcome 2: Public interest media improve their economic resilience, by evolving their business strategies and leveraging technol-ogies

Outcome 3: Public interest media better serve society, by growing their audience’s reach and/or engagement

Outcome 4: Innovations that unlock new, long-term sources of funding for public in-terest media are launched and developed

Resultados

Resultados previstos:  

To Outcome 1: IFPIM provides grants to sustain media facing financial extinction or capture

To Outcome 2: IFPIM provides grants to enable media to experiment with and trans-form new models to fund, create and dis-tribute journalism

To Outcome 3: IFPIM provides facilitation of capacity strengthening and technical support for media

To Outcome 4: IFPIM provides financial and advisory support to test and develop systemic financing solutions to help solve market failures


Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

The following results should be considered with the understanding that IFPIM's primary objective in the first phase was to establish a new international organization:

IFPIM has made significant strides in advancing its mission across the world since its start in 2022. It has mobilized approximately USD 52 million to support public in-terest media in low- and middle-income countries. It expanded the global coalition supporting its work, and increased its total investment in news publishers in its focus countries to over USD 8 million across 31 organizations. After the approval of IFPIM’s Statutes and the appointment of its Board, IFPIM transformed into a new multilateral entity with HQ in Paris as a quasi-interna-tional organization.


Dirección / Officina Federal responsable COSUDE
Contrapartes del proyecto Contraparte del contrato
Otra organización internacional
  • Other OI

Contraparte de la implémentación
IFPIM

Coordinación con otros proyectos y actores Fondation Hirondelle (SDC partner); DAC GovNet and its mem-bers; Swiss offices abroad incl. Swiss Em-bassy in Paris; HQ SDC’s geographical units, PHRD, BAKOM.
Presupuesto Fase en curso Presupuesto suizo CHF    2’000’000 Presupuesto actual suizo ya emitido CHF    250’000 Total del proyecto desde la primera fase Presupuesto suizo CHF   2’499’998 Presupuesto inclusive contrapartes del proyecto CHF   7’500’000
Fases del proyecto Fase 2 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2028   (Fase en curso) Fase 1 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024   (Completed)