Supporting local journalism to reach wider audiences, engage communities and drive change.
IWPR’s Impact Reporting initiative supports courageous local journalists to produce authoritative, on-the-ground reporting, connects them with local and international media partners to reach wider audiences, and engages civil society and affected communities to build trust, resonance and the potential for change.
sudan
An artisanal mining boom driven by war and poverty is causing a public health emergency, as chemicals poison soil, water and society.
"Food security is no longer merely a local issue affecting Abu Hamad. It has become a national issue that concerns Sudan as a whole."
Mohamed Fathi al-Rahman al-Khalifa, a local farmer
This story, by independent Sudanese outlet Ayin Network was supported by IWPR and published in partnership with The Guardian.
AFGHANISTAN
Amid USAID cuts and Taliban restrictions, we find clinics closing, midwives disappearing, and women dying.
“If there had been a clinic and a doctor that night, my wife would be alive.”
Zainab's husband, whose wife and newborn baby both died
This story, supported by IWPR was originally published by Zan Times in partnership with OpenDemocracy.
el-salvador
We speak to journalists and defenders of human and environmental rights about how their lives have come under threat.
“If those who report leave and stop speaking, the official narrative goes unchallenged. The task now is to leave no voids. To document from wherever we are.”
Ivania Cruz, El Salvadoran lawyer and spokesperson for the Human Rights and Community Defense Unit
This is an edited version of a special investigation supported by IWPR and first published by FOCOS and openDemocracy.
CAPTION: Images from articles: Inside the Deadly Collapse of Maternity Care in Afghanistan; Leaving to Survive, Staying to Resist. © Focos and Getty Images