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The present report provides a comprehensive review of media development needs, based on a more complete data gathering process, and with far greater involvement of local experts and stakeholders. This report was prepared prior to the submission and approval of the Constitution in December 2012. Therefore, while it is published in the beginning of 2013, no reference is made in it to the new Constitution or the relevant constitutional provisions. 

This Assessment Report is based on the Media Development Indicators (MDIs) of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC). The MDIs are a flagship media development tool that has already been successfully applied in ten countries and lies at the very heart of the UNESCO’s mandate to promote the development of free, pluralistic, and independent media in accordance with international standards and best practices. They do not prescribe a fixed methodologic approach but rather offer a ‘toolkit’ approach in which indicators can be tailored to the particularities of the national context by the national actors. 

The Assessment Report throws light on the key components that are relevant to the mass media landscape. It provides local stakeholders – including civil society, state institutions and relevant professional communities – with a detailed mapping of key media development needs in the country, based on the internationally accepted and tested MDI methodology.