(SAIMED)
which
offers
media
management training and development
services.

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From April 2002, MISA work has been
centred on five programme areas as
identified by its members and elaborated
in its Strategic Partnership Programme
April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2005. These
are:
1. Freedom of Expression and Right
to Information Campaign: which
seeks to campaign for citizens to
embrace their right to be informed
through unhindered access to
information. Laws and policies
that militate against these rights
will be challenged and grassroots
campaigns on the concept of
information as a basic right and
need will be done. The basis of this
programme area is founded on the
principle that informed citizens will
make the best decisions for their
wellbeing and in so doing empower
themselves. This will ensure that
they can hold their governors
accountable and is so doing lead
to the reduction of poverty and
disease.
2. Media
Freedom
Monitoring
programme which seeks to continue
the work MISA is renowned
for: monitoring and reporting
media freedom violations in the
region. Through this programme,
reports of incidents of media



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freedom violations, mostly by
state authorities are made and
campaigns against such violations
intensified. MISA is a member of the
International Freedom of Expression
network (IFEX) since 1994 and has
published an annual year book on
the state of media freedom in the
region (So this is Democracy?) every
year from 1994.
The Campaign for Broadcasting
Diversity programme seeks to
continue the work on broadcasting
policy MISA started in 1995 which
laid the foundation for the role
of broadcasting in the region to
enable this major source of news
and opinions to operate effectively.
The three tier system of public,
commercial
and
community
broadcasting, if operated in the
correct manner, can provide services
that assist in the development and
maintenance of democracy.
These have since been adopted as
a part of the African Charter on
Broadcasting adopted by media
practitioners and media freedom
activists who gathered in Windhoek
under the auspices of UNESCO and
MISA in May 2001 to commemorate
the 10th Anniversary of the
Windhoek Declaration of 1991. The
African Commission on Human
and Peoples’ Rights adopted similar
principles in their Declaration on
Freedom of Expression in Africa
in October 2002. Media Support
Activities which form the basis of
the fourth programme area seeks

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