'Engage to Disengage' is an awareness building and training programme on 'Critical Media and Information Literacy' for youth developed by UNDP Sri Lanka as part of the HackaDev Academy of Learning and Skills in partnership with the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding. The programme aims to equip young people with an understanding of the importance of media and other information providers in order to make informed decisions, learn about the world around them, build a sense of community, maintain public discourse and engage in best practices for community-based interaction.  

Engage to Disengage will enable young people to:

• identify, access, and retrieve information and media content skilfully
• analyze and evaluate media and information critically
• create or produce, share or communicate, and use information and media content ethically, safely, and responsibly for decisionmaking and taking action
• create awareness around fake news, conspiracy theories, misinformation and hate speech
  
• minimize the spread of misinformation and its negative impacts on society by creating a network of youth who are 'Critical Media Literate'

Be Like Max

What is hate speech?

What is fake news?

Freedom of Expression & Right to Information

Webinar Series

As part of the programme, UNDP partnered with ROAR Media to conduct a series of webinars on Critical Media and Information Literacy, Understanding Conspiracy Theories and False News, and Prevention of Violent Extremism.

Webinar 1: Understanding Critical Media Literacy

Webinar 2: Understanding Conspiracy Theories and False News

Webinar 3: Prevention of Violent Extremism

Watch the webinars in Sinhala and Tamil.