Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD)

CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSOs) ENCOURAGE COVID-19 SURVIVORS TO SHUN STIGMATIZATION IDISD participated in an advocacy meeting set up by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Kwara state with CSOs on increased risk communication and community engagement on COVID-19 pandemic in the state on the 21 st of July, 2020. At the end of the meeting, CSO issued a communiqué as quoted below.                                      COMMUNIQUE OF THE ADVOCACY MEETING WITH NOA KWARA /CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION [CSO] ON INCREASED RISK COMMUNICATION ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC DATE: 21 st July, 2020. The National Orientation Agency (NOA), Kwara State Directorate in partnership with coalition of CSO’s in Kwara State deliberated on increased effort on risk communication on COVID-19 pandemic for community participation and State Government intervention/ implementation through the Kwara State Technical Committ...

MEDIA LITERACY AS A PANACEA FOR LEADING AGAINST FAKE NEWS Delivered at IDISD Virtual Training Centre on 5 th July, 2020 By HANAFI, Olanrewaju Rabiu (Executive Director, IDISD)    “Only You Can Stop the Spread of Fake News. It’s not enough to ignore bogus stories. Help slow their proliferation” -           Will Oremus Introduction Fake news is as old as man itself as government and individuals have been guilty of spreading lies to either promote someone or a cause or to dent the image of another person or nation. Evidences of fake news and warning against it can be found in scriptures such as Quran and Bible. For instance, Quran 24:15 said, When you received it with your tongues and said with your mouths that of which you had no knowledge and thought it was insignificant while it was, in the sign of Allah, tremendous. Sarah Churchwell believes that President Woodrow Wilson popularized the phrase 'fake news' in...