SECTOR 4 Follow-up questions Have there been positive changes in the media environment over the last two years? • Elaboration and adoption of implementing orders relating to the organisation and operation of regulatory bodies (CNP and CNCA) in 2006 • Creation and setting up of the Media Support and Development Fund • Liberalization of the broadcasting industry: broadcasting Act 2004-644 and the study on the liberalization of the television sub-sector (2008) • Establishment, in 2007, of the Joint Committee in charge of issuing national professional identification cards (decree signed in 2007, first distributions in 2008) • Effective establishment of media outlets in compliance with the Media Act 2004-643 • Concerns of the sector are better integrated by the relevant authorities • Signing of a collective bargaining agreement in the private media sector Have there been negative changes in the media environment over the last two years? • Proliferation of non representative professional associations • Cooperation and international aid to professional associations are problematic: a decline in the funding and support to professional associations • Challenging of the collective bargaining agreement by media employers • Lack of both national and international scholarships for pre-service and in-service training • Media outlets do not have a training policy AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER IVORY COAST 2009 127