prioritisation of activities at country level. performance management system. That process will be rolled out in MISA chapters during 2009-2010. This is in line with key recommendations from previous organisational reviews and particularly the organisational development process. More importantly the organisational development process lends itself to the need for revamping MISA’s governance and reporting structures. It is foreseen that this process will be completed in 20092010 financial year. MISA has further identified the need for improved monitoring, evaluation and reporting mechanisms. Incorporation of the African Media Barometer (AMB) as a monitoring and evaluation tool is key to this strategy. The AMB is an assessment tool of national media environments. In terms of MISA’s own programming, this tool comprehensively assesses media environments across the organisation’s own internal programme spectrum. In addition, this tool incorporates both media and civil society views on media development and as such provides the organisation with clear guidelines for 78