- Program Environment
- Program Area Transforming Development Finance
- Grant Amount $150,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2018–December 31, 2019
- Location Montevideo, Uruguay
- Geographic Focus Brazil, South America, South America
About this grant
This project supports the IPS-Inter Press Service in Montevideo, Uruguay to increase the quality and quantity of journalistic coverage of energy and infrastructure development finance in Brazil and South America. This project will focus on raising public awareness of the social and environmental impacts of large-scale energy finance versus the opportunities and benefits of financing renewable energy for sustainable development. IPS-Inter Press Service is a global news agency operating in more than 100 countries and has been working in Latin America for more than 50 years with a network of journalists reporting from many countries in the region.