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Programmes and projects

From priorities to projects

The Ministry’s projects put into practice the orientations adopted to support the sector’s evolution. Each project sheet published on the site will present: objective, description, progress, lead structure, partners and expected results.

Project 1: Digital Register of Beninese Media

  • Objective

    Improve knowledge of the media sector in Benin through a structured digital system.

  • Description

    Study and creation of a digital register providing structured information on Beninese media and making them easier to identify.

  • Issue

    Gain a better understanding of the media landscape in order to improve monitoring of the sector and make reliable information on stakeholders easier to access.

Project 2: Rural and community radio stations

  • Objective

    Strengthen the institutional framework and the administrative and financial governance of rural and community radio stations.

  • Issue

    Help consolidate these local media and their ability to play their role for communities over the long term.

Project 3: Mapping of social media communities in local languages

  • Objective

    Gain a better understanding of the communities that use social media in local languages.

  • Issue

    Identify practices, communities and uses in order to better understand the new spaces where content circulates.

Project 4: Strengthening journalists’ English-language skills

  • Objective

    Strengthen journalists’ language skills.

  • Issue

    Make it easier to access international sources, training, professional exchanges and opportunities in an increasingly open media environment.

Project 5: 2027 Regional Conference on DTT

  • Objective

    Prepare a regional conference on digital terrestrial broadcasting.

  • Issue

    Create a regional forum for discussing the technical, regulatory and professional issues linked to the evolution of broadcasting.

Project 6: Legislative and regulatory framework

  • Objective

    Develop the legislative and regulatory framework applicable to communication and the media in line with the sector’s transformations.

  • Issue

    Have a framework suited to today’s professional, technological and economic realities.

Project 7: Acquisition of content for public service media

  • Objective

    Strengthen the editorial offer of public service media by acquiring content suited to audiences’ needs.

  • Issue

    Diversify and improve the content offered to citizens.

Project 8: National Data Center

  • Objective

    Host and store the content of digital channels on the National Data Center.

  • Issue

    Strengthen hosting, storage and preservation capacity for digital content.

Project 9: Audiovisual production in local languages

  • Objective

    Develop audiovisual production in local languages as part of government communication.

  • Issue

    Make public content more accessible to the different linguistic groups of the population.

Project 10: Thematic workshops with media stakeholders

  • Objective

    Create regular forums for exchange with sector professionals.

  • Issue

    Identify difficulties, gather stakeholders’ proposals and build responses suited to the sector’s evolution.