Best Practices for ‘Localisation’ and ‘In-Country Ownership’
Can international press freedom organisations such as FPU find new recipes to avoid power imbalances with its partners? And what can it do better also in view of transferring ownership and sharing responsibilities and learning with and from its partners in countries of repression and conflict? These questions are relevant and need renewal in the light of discussions about ‘localisation’ and genuine collaboration. Free Press Unlimited’s mission and vision roots strongly in activism in solidarity with professional independent media and journalists. Its DNA originates from solidarity with independent journalists during apartheid and it also stepped in when independent journalists in former Yugoslavia encountered violence and hatred by the various polarising fragments of their society during the break-up war there.