Our work around the world in 2024-2025
Our Impact Report 2024-2025
In one of the toughest years in memory for media and international development, as the world becomes increasingly polarised and conflict-affected and amid cuts to overseas development aid, including the loss of USAID,BBC Media Action has continued to deliver practical impact at scale – reaching nearly 100 million people in 30 countries and 50 languages, through our network of more than 400 media partners around the world.
Our teams have continued to deliver amid conflict in Ukraine, South Sudan and Myanmar. We have reached some of the farthest corners of the Pacific to strengthen local media’s ability to report on climate change and adaptation, local elections, health needs, and gender-based violence. We continue to support women in media in Afghanistan amid fast-changing and tightening restrictions on their basic rights. We have continued critical climate adaptation work in Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania, and expanded this work to Uganda. We have reached young children in crisis in Gaza, giving them precious moments to feel like children again.
We continue to support vibrant, trustworthy media essential to democracy, more inclusive societies and a safer and more habitable planet.
Check out some of our highlights from the year
Global: Pursuit of Truth
In a media landscape increasingly distorted by disinformation, with rising attacks on journalists and shrinking press freedom,our three-year initiative to protect public interest media is providing access to accurate, trusted information in some of the world's poorest, more fragile and conflict-affected countries and contexts.
Global: Building Brave Media
Our Brave Media project, co-funded by the European Commission, is a global initiative to enhance the resilience of independent, public interest media in more than 20 countries across Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Launched in 2024, the three-year global initiative is led by BBC Media Action, working in partnership with eight other organisations.
Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya: BRIDGES
Our Bridges project is connecting climate scientists, journalists, local leaders and communities to help people adapt and prepare for extreme weather and climate change – by ensuring information is shared in ways that can be easily understood, and that weather forecasts are jargon-free, and include details about how people can prepare their homes and families amid life-threatening weather events.
East Africa: New film series
Our 2025 Living Climate Change film series highlights the human impact of climate change in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - displacing and dividing families, and contributing to child marriage. It also examines people's efforts to understand, adapt and respond to this new and difficult reality.
