The InWEnt – Capacity Building International intends to support with its focal point Media Development independent and critical media in developing and transition countries.

The International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) of InWEnt offers young journalists from developing and transitional countries advanced training and dialogue programmes to strengthen freedom of expression and press freedom in the partner countries of the German development cooperation and thus improve the conditions for democratisation and economic and social development.

With the training course Media and ECOWAS the journalists improve their understanding of regional political and economic integration and they are informed about the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS).

The programme In Dialogue with African Media invites print-journalists from reform-oriented countries in sub-Saharan Africa on a research tour through Germany and to Brussel holding conversations with high-ranking people from politics, business and civil society and getting to know different media houses in Germany as well as the European institutions in Brussel.