SECTOR 1 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: 2.9 (2008 = 2.0 ; 2006 = 3.6) 1.12 Media legislation evolves from meaningful consultations among state institutions, citizens and interest groups. Stakeholders are invited by government to consultative meetings, but there is little opportunity to debate issues on such occasions. “We can make submissions, but it takes a long time to find out if these have been taken into account. We get no feedback from government once we’ve made our submission.” MISA made many suggestions, comments and inputs during the drafting of various media and communications policies, but few of the organisation’s views were taken on board. There have been a number of attempts to formulate a media policy since the mid-1990s. Delegates explained that in 1997, a consultative conference convened by government adopted a policy that MISA had drafted. It seemed that government would approve the policy, not least because it was backed by the then-Prime Minister. As such, a UN agency funded the printing and distribution of copies of this policy in the belief that government was about to adopt it. “We can make submissions, but it takes a long time to find out if these have been taken into account. We get no feedback from government once we’ve made our submission.” However, the Prime Minister and Information Minister who had backed the policy were later replaced, and their successors did not take the policy forward. Instead, government drafted a new policy some years later, which meant there were AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER LESOTHO 2010 23