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Africa Media Development Initiative research reports
 
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Supporting and strengthening Africa's media sector.
Fostering a stronger media in Africa is an indispensable part of tackling poverty, improving development and enabling Africa to attain its development goals.

The findings of the African Media Development Initiative (AMDI) provide a unique set of insights into how donors, investors, media and media development organisations can collaborate in supporting and strengthening Africa's media sector.

The initiative was the most extensive independent survey of the state of the media in 17 sub-Saharan African countries. Each report consists of three sections:

1) Media sector developments
2) Challenges for future media development activities
3) Case study: illustrating good practice in media development

Each study aims to: assess the key changes and developments in the media sector in Africa over the past five years; to show how training and capacity building activities have contributed to the development of the media; and to identify future actions with the greatest potential impact on the development of the media sector in Africa.

The research reports (per region):

East






South






West





A summary report is also available:

The BBC World Service Trust would like to thank the members of the AMDI Advisory Group and research team, the project funders; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DfID), the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) and Irish Aid; and all those who participated in this important study.

 
 
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