Publication of the Media and Development Roadmap

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France has drawn up a strategic document in line with its desire to make the development of media a central and cross-cutting aspect of its development policy.

The Media and Development Roadmap

This Roadmap sets out the approach of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) as regards media development for the 2023-2027 period. This strategy is the result of broad consultation which has brought together MEAE departments and the diplomatic network abroad, in close collaboration with Canal France International (CFI), the French media development agency.

This included 11 hearings bringing together 80 experts who took part in discussions and shared their experiences.

This Roadmap has two main ambitions:

  • To reveal France’s action priorities and how best to achieve them;
  • To increase the coordination of French initiatives in the media development sector.

Focuses of the French strategy for media development

  1. To improve the environment for the media;
  2. To support the production of reliable, high-quality information and step up the fight against disinformation;
  3. To strengthen the production and dissemination of information on the Sustainable Development Goals and global challenges;
  4. To improve the effectiveness of actions supporting media development.

This Roadmap must ensure there is consistency across all initiatives and create spaces for discussion and information-sharing in order to implement a clearer, more effective overall policy.