SECTOR 4 4.9 Media professionals have access to training facilities offering formal qualiication programmes as well as opportunities to upgrade skills. he answer is generally yes if one considers the initiatives that have been undertaken by the structures and the bodies in the sector. he National Institute of Management and Public Administration now runs a training program in journalism. A number of cases can be cited such as the initiative by a daily media house called fraternité which had a 15-day training program for its chief editor, the DANIDA1-funded ODEM project for on-the-job training for journalists, but also and particularly the inancing of 150,000,000 CFA as assistance to the media for the training of media professionals, not to talk of the eforts HAAC deployed through the instrumentality of its “get it done” program for the training of journalists. he panelists also testiied of the cases of individual journalists who personally contributed inancially to get trained due to the expensive nature of the courses. his is one of the reasons why the initiative taken by “La Nation” to get its personnel trained at the African Center for Professional Training in Journalism (Centre Africain de Formation Professionnelle en Journalisme, CAFP) in Cotonou was stalled. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 6 Danish International Development Agency 126 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER BENIN 2011 3.9 (2007 =4.5 ; 2009 =2.2)