MONROVIA – The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding and its partners on Monday May 31, 2021hosted a Freedom of Information (FOI) roundtable with journalists and government information officers in Monrovia. It is the first of three regional Freedom of Information (FOI) relationship-building roundtables with twenty-five (25) Freedom of Information Story Grant Fellows, and about 25 Public and County Information Officers. The roundtable held under the theme ‘Building Network to Increase Demand for FOI Use’ was primarily organized to encourage relationship building between public information officers and journalists to bridge bottlenecks in accessing public information. This event (FOI roundtable) forms part of an ongoing Liberia Media Initiative (LMI) project jointly implemented by CEMESP, Internews, the Local Voices Liberia and co-funded by the European Union. As part of the ongoing Liberia Media Initiative project, CEMESP will hold two other roundtables with its 25 FOI fellows and government information officers outside of Monrovia.
