Middle East & North Africa media coordination

Organised by MedMedia and the Global Forum for Media Development, the Regional Coordination meeting for Media Development Actors in the Middle East & North Africa from on December 1-2 in Jordan :

• Identified key issues for media development in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Ascertained key issues and expectations from a regional strategy as well as establish a route for better partnerships.
• Searched for commonalities across the region with a view to identifying the next steps to developing regional strategy.
• Identified needs for regional coordination.

The meeting built upon MedMedia’s mapping database, which will soon include details of the EJN’s efforts to establish an Arab Media Hub for Monitoring Hate Speech and work on analysing and providing guidance on migration reporting in the region.