Partnerships

Thomson Reuters Foundation believes it can deliver its best by combining its own unique skills and assets with those of strategic partners, leaders in their fields across the public, profit and non-for-profit sectors. We are always keen to explore new partnerships and associations to help us strengthen our programmes and take each of them one step further.

AlertNet, TRF’s humanitarian news website, includes a network of 450 contributing international aid agencies, all actively involved in emergency relief. AlertNet gives greater visibility to their work and to the issues they address, while providing members with additional benefits and resources.

'Dealing with Darfur - What's at Stake?' (2004).

AlertNet also has partnerships with over 40 organisations who contribute their news, features and maps on humanitarian issues. This group includes U.N. bodies like UNICEF, WHO and WFP, as well as organisations like Human Rights Watch, NASA, Global Voices and International Crisis Group.

We are most grateful to partners in the private sector for sharing their invaluable expertise. We work with Microsoft, Active Web Solutions (AWS) and the RESPOND consortium on our mapping products and with Sun Microsystems on the hardware upon which AlertNet runs. Other important technology partners have shared their expertise with us.

AlertNet has also worked with the UK's Department for International Development to establish our MediaBridge services, which help journalists cover difficult emergencies.

The Emergency Information Service (EIS) deploys in major emergencies to help those affected by natural disasters get the information they need to survive and recover. EIS could not achieve its mission without the invaluable cooperation of other media and communications specialists in disaster response.

It works in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and is developing with InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters) innovative ways to use SMS technology in improving/or enabling two-way communications between disaster affected populations and the humanitarian response efforts.

EIS also has a good relationship with UN agencies, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and UNICEF, to ensure that it contributes as effectively as possible to their existing structures and procedures.

Thomson Reuters Foundation works with numerous organisations in its effort to provide journalism and media training throughout the world.

We work with the University of Oxford to provide academic guidance for experienced journalists through the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

The United Nations continues to be another of the Foundations most important partners. We work with the UN News Service, UNICEF, the World Food Program and other UN agencies on media training programmes. From 2004 to 2008 the Foundation worked with UNDP to successfully establish the first independent news agency in Iraq, Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq).

We have also partnered with other media organisations in the creation of a training academy at Twofour54 in the United Arab Emirates. With its studios, production, training facilities and funding for new media businesses, this multimedia centre aims to train, develop and promote Arab talent in journalism, broadcasting, film-making and publishing.

Other key partners of the Foundation include the UK's Department for International Development, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Asia Development Bank, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and most recently the Investment Climate Facility (ICF) for Africa.