Int. Media Exchange Platform (iMEP) This project is a first exploration of with whom and with what partners, Oxfam Novib can establish a global network where African and Dutch journalists / media partners really will be working together. Thirty journalists and key figures from foreign journalism will be interviewed in both the Netherlands and in Africa.

Within the portfolio of the Global Link program in the Netherlands, working with investigative journalists is a relatively new target. During the period 2010-2013 three pilot projects were implemented encountering the necessary successes and pitfalls. A carefully growing process is developing with attention for the stories and expertiseof investigative journalists from Africa, using a think tank from the Dutch journalistic world. Cooperation was established betweenthe Afrika Centrum, the Nederlandse Vereniging van Onderzoeksjournalisten  Financieel Dagblad, Wereldomroep, Lokaal Mondiaal and agroup of freelance foreign correspondents. In 2011-2012, Lokaal Mondiaal commissioned by Oxfam conducted a study on opportunities and threats in connecting Southern journalism to Dutch journalism. Together with the program manager is a line to develop (through the programmatic approach) on this theme has been plotted for 3 to 5 years. really a sustainable program Lokaal Mondiaal will organizea conference to present their research to a group of representatives from the South and from NL (media correspondents,( investigative) journalists, chief editors).The outcome of the conference is a model of change. Meanwhile, experiments will be carried out to build evidence. Through this research, two independent program developers will be appointed by the organization Worldcom to watch themfrom a transcendent view and to develop the program. They will perform an additional research on the difficulties and challenges themselves, they will follow the conference and the theory of change coming from it, they will follow the experiments in order to focus on how this program can get shaped in the best possible way. After this, a donor mapping, a choice of strategic partners will takeplace and grant applications will be done with these partners. This is a tricky subject, but with a high potential.
If the publishing of nuanced stories and articles is successful, the debate and the Dutch publics perception of the issue will be positively influenced. By promoting collaboration, Southern (investigative) journalists can actually have a say in policy on global issues.

It involves the creation of an International Media platform on which active Dutch journalists and media journalists from developed countries exchange (source) material in order to achieve a better and equal cooperation.

In the long term, it also provides the possibilityto bring lifestyle stories and topics form the south by the south to the attention of a larger audience in the Netherlands who now mostly read stories seen from a Dutch perspective.

The two selected program developers of World Com have great track records as  Dutch correspondent and editor for newspapers, radio and television, and as media researcher in the South, as journalist in Africa  asa journalist in South Africa during the apartheid regime, in partnerships between here and there in the media field, etc.
They see the need and the soil to develop this program. They have the tools and the network to develop a viable program in collaboration withstrategic partners.