The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is organising the West Africa Conference on Media and Participatory Governance. According to the Executive Director of MFWA, Sulemana Braimah, the 3-day conference holding in Ghana will run from March 15 to 17, 2016. The conference will bring together about 100 participants from across West Africa. These include representatives
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is organising the West Africa Conference on Media and Participatory Governance. According to the Executive Director of MFWA, Sulemana Braimah, the 3-day conference holding in Ghana will run from March 15 to 17, 2016.
The conference will bring together about 100 participants from across West Africa. These include representatives from the leading free expression and media development organisations from all 16 countries in the region. Also present will be high-level personalities including Mr. Chérif Sy, the former President of the Transitional Parliament of Burkina Faso, the President of the ECOWAS Commission and Ghana’s Minister for Communication.
The aim of the Conference which shall also attract high-level delegates from WACSOF, UN agencies, regional donor agencies and civil society groups is to deliberate on and identify key challenges in the areas of free expression, media development and access to information, and to develop strategies for tackling these challenges to promote good governance and peace in West Africa.
The Conference, which will be under the theme: Promoting Professional Journalism for Good Governance in West Africa, will deliberate on and identify key challenges in the areas of freedom of expression and the role of the media in development and peace; and develop strategies for tackling these challenges to promote good governance, regional integration and peace in West Africa.
ABOUT THE MEDIA FOUNDATION FOR WEST AFRICA:
The MFWA is the biggest and most influential media development and freedom of expression advocacy organisation in West Africa with national partner organisations in all 16 countries of the region. The MFWA is also the Secretariat of the Continental Network of the most Prominent Free Expression and Media Development Organisations in Africa, known at the Africa Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX). In the last 18 years, the MFWA and its partners have promoted free expression rights, media professionalism, and media-led advocacy for peace building, peaceful elections and participatory governance in West Africa.
