Missions and responsibilities

Institutional, legislative and regulatory framework

• coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the sector’s policies, strategies, projects and programmes;
• proposing legislative and regulatory texts and reforms that support the sector’s development, taking into account new value chains and social and mass communication media;
• contributing to defining and improving the sector’s institutional and governance framework;
• defining, together with the competent institutions, the governance principles and tools applicable to community and local media;
• taking part in managing the radio frequency resources allocated to sound and television broadcasting;
• contributing to resource mobilisation and to the development of partnerships with the private sector, technical and financial partners and national, regional and international institutions;
• representing the State in regional and international bodies within its field of competence.

Information, content and public communication

• contributing to defining and implementing the State’s public communication policy;
• contributing to the promotion of government action and to government communication;
• promoting, through media content, social cohesion, dialogue between linguistic and socio-professional communities and the enhancement of cultural identities;
• promoting initiatives against disinformation, misinformation and information manipulation, in compliance with the principles of neutrality, objectivity, pluralism and public freedoms;
• strengthening the quality of the national audiovisual landscape and supporting the promotion of Benin’s image and influence through the media and content, in particular innovative content and content in national languages.

Media development

• proposing and implementing policies, programmes and projects for the development of public, private, community, local and online media;
• co-building with sector stakeholders the economic viability of media companies (audience measurement, advertising market, funding models);
• contributing to the modernisation and transformation of the media, from production to distribution;
• promoting training, capacity building and better working conditions for media professionals;
• contributing to the preservation, digitisation and promotion of the national audiovisual and press heritage;
• ensuring, together with professional organisations, the coordination of relations between the State and media sector stakeholders.

Public service media and supervised bodies

• implementing the strategic orientations on public service media and guaranteeing citizens’ equal access to public service information throughout the national territory;
• exercising the State’s supervision over the sector’s public bodies and ensuring their good governance and performance, in particular by monitoring objectives and performance contracts;
• ensuring the modernisation, transformation and development of the infrastructure and tools for producing, editing and distributing public service media;
• ensuring that public service media contribute to national cohesion, the promotion of republican values, national integration, social peace and Benin’s influence.