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"Strengthening Africa's Media" is a consultation process to determine the priorities for strengthening media-as-institution in Africa. The consultation process provides a platform for African media actors, in collaboration with their support partners, to articulate concerns and perspectives, identify priority issues and areas requiring support, and propose concrete initiatives and programmes towards a strengthened media sector.

African ownership is a fundamental principle underpinning the process and its outcomes. An important outcome will be a "Strategic Framework for Strengthening Media in Africa" that will make the case for investing in media, and provide the basis for a Stakeholder Conference in September 2006 to discuss and agree on immediate as well as medium- and longer-term priorities that should attract financing.

Updates

New Publication - Framework for the Development of a Sustainable and Pluralistic Media
22 August 2007

The Case for Strengthening Media in Africa: Framework and Proposals (Draft)

North Africa Consultation Meeting
13-14 January, 2007
Cairo, Egypt
Facilitating Organisation - Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
:: Report [Arabic]

Media Sustainability Index
The first North Africa Media Sustainability Index is now available online at www.irex.org/msi. The Media Sustainability Index provides the only comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analysis of media development across North Africa and the Middle East.

The World Congress on Communication for Development
October 25-27, 2006, Rome, Italy
:: The Rome Consensus

  • Recent Consultation Meetings

    October
    9-10
    Task Force
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

September
25 - 26
East Africa
Nairob, Kenya
Facilitating Organisation - FEMNET
:: Report

18-19
West Africa (Anglophone)
Accra, Ghana
Facilitating Organisation - Media Foundation for West Africa
:: Report

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  • Electronic consultation
    The ‘Media Support’ segment of the e-consultation is now at an end. The Moderation Team is in the process of preparing a report highlighting your contributions in some detail, and this report will be sent to you by e-mail in the near future. In the meantime, please find below a short summary of the Recommendations and Proposals that have emerged from this e-consultation. The e-consultation will remain open for one more week, to provide you with the opportunity of elaborating on existing recommendations and proposals, and adding new proposals not covered so far. Each participant will be allowed a single posting. Only concrete proposals will be approved. Summary
  • Electronic Consultation was launched on 20 April 2006

The electronic consultation lasted for 12 weeks. The consultation will be divided into five thematic segments, each covering a two-week period, as follows:

1. PRACTITIONERS – Thursday 20 April – Wednesday 3 May.

2. OWNERS – Thursday 4 – Wednesday 17 May.

3. TRAINERS – Thursday 18 – Wednesday 31 May.

4. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS – Thursday 1 – Wednesday 14 June.

5. SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS – Thursday 15 – Wednesday 28 June.

In the final 2 weeks of the electronic consultation, issues raised will be revisited, and participants will be asked to clarify and flesh out their proposals.

To view the discussion go to
http://www.dgroups.org/groups/AMDP/index.cfm