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The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) is an initiative of the CIJ. It focuses on raising the standard of environmental investigations to enable thoroughly researched public interest reporting and evidence-based advocacy through training and skill-sharing with target audiences across six different regions between April 2022 and March 2024 for its first run. OCRI is providing the necessary tools, techniques and expertise to:

  • Investigate and expose wrongdoing
  • Research and quantify accurate pictures of the situation and the impact of other efforts
  • Craft meaningful stories which garner support for changes in policy, regulation or economic actors’ decisions

Following a successful pilot in Nepal, three regions were covered for Year 1 (April 2022 to March 2023) of the project. They are Latin America (excluding Brazil), Anglophone Africa and Francophone Africa. Brazil & Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) were the Year 2 regions (April 2023 to March 2024).

The next iteration of OCRI running till September 2025 will deliver a Climate Investigations Course in four regions namely Latin America, Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa and South Asia. Read more.

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Pilot in Nepal

Announcements

Published: 11 Apr 2025

Climate Investigations Training Scholarship for 18 Journalists

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is delighted to announce the award of climate investigations training scholarships to 18 deserving journalists from 12 countries under its global Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).
Published: 28 Mar 2025

Implementing OCRI 3 Years On: CIJ Commences Climate Investigations Course

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) London has commenced its new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) launched in January 2025 after months of curriculum development and at the end of the third anniversary of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) implementation.
Published: 09 Dec 2024

Breaking new ground: A 2024 OCRI review

What a year 2024 has been! It still feels like yesterday when we shared about the global difference our Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) made in 2023, and just like a flash, we are here again at the end of 2024.
Published: 11 Nov 2024

Researchers and journalists discuss the use of climate data in Francophone Africa

Researchers from Côte d'Ivoire, journalists from West and Central Africa and other climate advocates met on 13 October, in Abidjan, to discuss a key element in journalistic investigations and climate research: data.
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Adeolu Adekola – Project Manager

Adeolu joined the CIJ to manage its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The initiative has reached beneficiaries in 53 countries and still counting (across Africa, Asia and the Americas), with reported successes that have included making communities more climate-resilient, and reducing the vulnerabilities of local populations to climate change.

Irving Huerta – Regional Coordinator, Latin America (LATAM)

Irving Huerta is a journalist and an academic. He was the first CIJ and Forensic Architecture Gavin MacFadyen Investigative Fellow for the Project ‘Plataforma Ayotzinapa’ on the enforced disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014.

Maxime Koami Domegni – Regional Coordinator, Francophone Africa

Based in Dakar Senegal, Maxime is the Francophone Africa Editor for the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). He is a journalist with years of experience in investigative journalism. Maxime has worked in, and collaborated with, a number of different media organisations, including the CIJ’s Francophone Africa Investigative Practice programme held in February 2022; and has […]

Alice de Souza – Regional Coordinator, Brazil & Lusophone Africa and LATAM

Alice is a Brazilian journalist with multiple national and international awards, including the Vladimir Herzog and One World Media. A researcher at the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji), she is also a freelance reporter, working with OSINT and digital investigations.

Akintunde Babatunde – Regional Coordinator, Anglophone Africa

Akintunde Babatunde is a Programme Manager with extensive experience in international development, public policy, civic technology, climate change, and media innovation. He is the Director of Programs at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and the OCRI regional coordinator for Anglophone Africa.

Lina Yassin – Regional Coordinator, Middle East & North Africa (MENA)

Lina Yassin is a Sudanese climate journalism and development consultant, with experience working on climate change communications and journalism projects across the MENA region. She worked for 5 years as the Operations Manager at Climate Tracker where she implemented a series of journalism fellowships and training on climate change and climate policy across different countries.

Arun Karki – Regional Coordinator, South Asia

Arun Karki is a Nepal-based leading data journalist, trainer and the founder of the Center for Data Journalism Nepal (CDJN). Since 2020, he has spearheaded various data-driven reporting projects, including COVID-19 data reporting and climate investigations, employing open-source intelligence.

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