Type of actor
Initiative
Implementing
organization/actor
URL
Civil society
Sexual Minorities Uganda
(SMUG) Fact Checking
SMUG
https://sexualminoritiesuganda.com/missionand-team/
Civil society
Ghana Association of Persons
Living with Albinism (GAPA)
GAPA
https://www.facebook.com/Gapaghana/
Civil society
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
Africa Check
https://www.whatscrap.africa/
Civil society
Witch Camp Integration
Project
The Southern Sector Youth
and Women’s Empowerment
Network
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/
NewsArchive/NGO-launches-witches-campintegration-project-178855
Civil society
Standing Voice
Standing Voice
https://www.standingvoice.org/albinism
Civil society
The Albino Foundation
The Albino Foundation
https://albinofoundation.org/who-we-are/
Civil society
Bloggers of Zambia
Bloggers of Zambia
https://bloggersofzambia.org/
Civil society
Choose Your Own Fake News
Pollicy
https://pollicy.org/projects/choose-your-ownfake-news/
Civil society
RIPOTI
Paradigm Initiative network
(supported by Netherlands
Human Rights Fund and
Omidyar Network)
https://www.ripoti.africa/site/index
Global development
#DontGoViral
UNESCO; Innovation for Policy
Foundation (i4Policy)
https://en.unesco.org/news/dontgoviral-unescoand-i4policy-launch-campaign-crowdsourcelocal-content-combat-infodemic
Global development
Africa Infodemic Response
Alliance (AIRA)
Africa CDC, IFRC (International
Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies), UN
Verified, UNESCO, UNICEF,
UN Global Pulse, US CDC and
WHO
https://www.afro.who.int/aira
Global development
Partnership for EvidenceBased Response to Covid-19
(PERC)
Africa CDC and Novetta
Mission Analytics (NMA)
https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/09/
combatting-covid-19-misinformation-withmachine-learning-vb-live/
Global development
Presimetre
Center for Democracy and
Development (CDD)
https://www.presimetre.bf/
Global development
CDD Fact Check
CDD
https://cddfactcheck.org/
Global development
YALIChecks
Young African Leaders
Initiative
https://yali.state.gov/checks/
Health
Covid-19 Response in
Africa: Together for Reliable
Information
A consortium (Article 19,
Deutsche Welle Akademie,
Fondation Hirondelle, Free
Press Unlimited, International
Media Support, Reporters
Without Borders, and
UNESCO) led by Free Press
Unlimited
https://collaboration.freepressunlimited.org/
projects/covid-19-response-in-africa/
Health
Viral Facts Africa
Part of AIRA
https://who-africa.africa-newsroom.com/
press/viral-facts-africa-initiative-to-combatdangerous-health-misinformation?lang=en
Information/library
services
Misinformation on Covid-19:
Call to action
African Library and
Information Associations and
Institutions (AfLIA)
https://web.aflia.net/misinformation-on-covid19-call-to-action/
Information/library
services
Working Group on Infodemics
(Designing a Policy
Framework)
Forum on Information and
Democracy (Forum sur
l’information et la démocratie)
https://informationdemocracy.org/
I N FO R M ATI O N D I SO R D ER IN THE GLOBA L SOUTH
Sub -Saharan Africa – 1 74