Deadline: 8-Apr-22
UNESCO is pleased to announce a call for proposals to help younger generations counter disinformation and hate speech and promote media and information literacy plus access to information, especially during elections.
UNESCO Beirut office would like to spread awareness among young generations and increase their capacities on combating hate speech and disinformation through the production of a social media section for the youth and by the youth.
This activity is made possible by the Government of Netherlands, within its support to UNESCO’s flagship initiative LiBeirut.
Beneficiaries
The target of this project are Lebanese youths with ages ranging between 18 and 24, with a special focus on ensuring gender balance.
Criteria
This call targets NGOs, organizations, institutions and companies working on new media. The selected organization/company will need to undertake the following:
- Development of the concept
- developing a creative concept for a medium-length social media section (maximum of 10 minutes)
- Selection of the youth participants
- Selecting participants (around 15) from Lebanon’s different regions in consultation with UNESCO with agreed upon criteria
- Selection of production team
- Assigning needed members for the production team of the social media segment
- Training of youth selected
- Training selected participants on Media & Information Literacy, combating hate speech, and the technical aspects of producing a social media segment;
- Production of the segment
- Producing the content and visual identity of the segment in close collaboration with selected participants, preparing the set, filming the segment and sharing it on various social media platforms. One video is requested to be produced and posted once a week for 3 consecutive months
- Document the work
- Producing audio-visual material of the preparation phase and technical trainings
- Reporting
- Providing a detailed report to UNESCO on the concept and implementation of the social media segment.
For more information, visit https://en.unesco.org/news/call-proposals-youth-countering-hate-speech-and-misinformation