Learning meetings

Meetings and activities organised by the GFMD International Media Policy and Advisory Centre (IMPACT).

GFMD IMPACT organises three types of meetings:

Donor-practitioner-academic learning meetings

Focus on a thematic area of media development and media viability.

Policy and learning meetings

Organising GFMD members and partners around specific policy and advocacy opportunities.

Regional meetings

Convening members and partners to discuss both media development and policy opportunities on a regional level.

Donor-practitioner-academic learning meetings

GFMD IMPACT organises regular donor-practitioner-academic learning meetings to facilitate regular communication, knowledge sharing and experience exchange between donors and practitioners as well as other forms of local, regional and national consultations, targeted meetings and knowledge exchange events.

GFMD IMPACT learning meetings facilitate regular communication, knowledge sharing and experience exchange between donors, practitioners, academics and other key stakeholders.

Detailed literature reviews and meeting reports are prepared for each meeting.

You can browse the reports, outcomes and insights from previous meetings either by year or by topic.

By year | GFMD IMPACTimpact.gfmd.info

By topic | GFMD IMPACTimpact.gfmd.info

Format of GFMD IMPACT learning meetings

Literature reviews

In preparation for each meeting, the GFMD IMPACT team prepares a literature review analysing the most relevant research and other resources. These are shared with participants in advance of the meeting.

See our resources section for previous literature reviews.

Case studies

Case studies, selected by the GFMD IMPACT team, are presented by researchers, practitioners and donors both ahead of learning meetings on GFMD's Youtube channel. See these examples from the learning meeting on disinformation.

Presenting case studies in this format means that the learning meetings themselves can be more interactive and ensure that those unable to attend are still able to benefit from the presentations.

Breakout groups

Where possible, GFMD IMPACT learning meetings have breakout groups where participants are able to discuss in more details the issues raised in the literature reviews, case studies or presentations.

GFMD IMPACT breakout groups held under the Chatham House rule:

When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

The breakout groups are also recorded but only for the purposes of record-keeping and to enable accurate reporting. The video or audio is never be shared or published.

Meeting reports

After each meeting, the discussions are written up with the literature review to create a briefing on the topic.

Meeting rules

GFMD IMPACT meetings are not for the solicitation of funding.

Policy and learning meetings

GFMD also organises policy and learning meetings for GFMD members (and invited guests from the donor, funder and academic communities) to analyse significant media development and journalism support issues and topics.

Policy & advocacy | GFMD IMPACTimpact.gfmd.info

The topics for these meetings will be chosen based on feedback from GFMD's members and with input from GFMD's policy and learning committee.

If you would like to participate in or propose topics for GFMD policy and learning meetings please contact [email protected]

Regional meetings

Regional meetings | GFMD IMPACTimpact.gfmd.info