STRATEGIC CAPACITY BUILDING PLAN FOR MEDIA

The Government of Rwanda is committed to the growth and development of a strong and effective Media sector that can deliver quality media services to its citizens. The Media High Council recognises the need for developing a Strategic Capacity Building Plan for media to channelize efforts and resources to support the growth and transformation of the media sector in Rwanda. The development of the Strategic capacity building plan has been thought of at a time when the Media sector in Rwanda is undergoing radical transformation and rapid development. The new reforms are being driven by the revised Media policy of June 30th 2011 adopted by the Government of Rwanda along with associated legal reforms that are supportive and necessary. These reforms define the future framework for media development whereby the Media High Council will be mandated to focus on capacity building in the Media sector. It’s against this background that the MHC has contracted New Media Communication Pvt. Ltd to develop a five-year strategic capacity building plan for Media in Rwanda by identifying the major gaps in the sector and propose actionable mechanisms to bridge such gaps. A consultative-collaborative approach was adopted for developing the capacity building strategy. Individual consultations with experts, workshops with media professionals and regional editors and secondary research were used to support the findings.