(SAIMED) which offers media management training and development services. 0,6$$FWLYLWLHVDQG SURJUDPPHV 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 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" 3. 4. 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