SECTOR 1 1.10 Civil society in general and media lobby groups actively advance the cause of media freedom. In general terms, currently there is less pro-freedom of the press activism, which has a lot to do with the situation of institutional weakness in which MISAMoçambique has found itself in the last three to four years. The National Forum of Community Radios (FORCOM) has done important work in defence of radio and its partners; but freedom of the press includes all media and not only a segment of it. In the last two years, there is a ‘Response Commission’, created by IREX, which has done some work which is worthy of notice. But with the moribund MISAMoçambique and the SNJ formallly operational, but materially inactive, the cause of freedom of the press is very poorly defended. With an independent media being an essential pillar of democracy, the inverse of the status quo is even more urgent. And we have to remember that the media of the public sector itself, in terms of the CRM (number 5 of Article 48), give a guarantee of independence. 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: 3.1 (2005 = 1.9; 2007 = 1.1; 2009 = 2.8; 2011 = 2.8) 1.11 Media legislation evolves from meaningful consultations among state institutions, citizens and interest groups. Media legislation indeed is the result of a consultation process between relevant and/or interested parties. In fact, at times, the feeling seems to be that these are done excessively, and as a result the processes which should take less time end up taking an eternity. 78 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER MOZAMBIQUE 2014