RNW Media
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| Formation | 1 January 2013 |
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RNW Media (formerly known as Radio Nederland Wereldomroep) is an international non-governmental organisation based in Hilversum, the Netherlands.
From 1947 to 2012, RNW Media was known as Radio Netherlands Worldwide or RNW (Dutch: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep), the Dutch international public broadcaster, and it was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. In 2013, RNW Media was restructured and became a media NGO for free speech with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The free speech organisational programme ended in 2016. That year, RNW Media developed a new strategy – “Enabling the Next Generation: Young people, media and social change”[1] – and a corresponding organisational programme.
Locations
RNW Media operates in 13 countries: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda in Africa; Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen in the Middle East and North Africa; China in Asia. Through the social franchise-based Love Matters Global Network,[2] RNW Media is also active in India and Mexico via the respective host organisations: Development Consortium and México Vivo.[3]
Funding
RNW Media's main funder is currently the Dutch Foreign Ministry. It also receives funding from AmplifyChange,[4] EuropeAid, the Dutch Nationale Postcode Loterij, the Swedish Postcode Foundation [5] and Nuffic.
Governance
RNW Media is led by a CEO, Jacqueline Lampe, and she is overseen by a supervisory board (Raad van Toezicht).[6]
Supervisory Board
RNW Media is governed by a supervisory board which is responsible for overseeing the policy of the CEO and the general running of the organisation.[7]
Personnel
RNW Media employs a core staff in the Netherlands who are responsible for strategic planning, programme management, communications, branding and stakeholder management, business development and data and digital processes. They manage, coordinate and support the local teams and partners based in the target countries who are responsible for programme implementation. On 1 January 2019, RNW Media had 160 staff members, 55 of whom were based in the Netherlands and 105 in the target countries.