Network Identification:

Media professionals for integrity and accountability network are a voluntary group of active media professionals who show potential and commitment to work under the network’s umbrella to achieve specific goals. The network aims at:

  • ensuring that work of all media is independent

  • Enhancing the role of media in promoting and spreading  values of integrity and accountability in society

  • Encouraging the public’s role in monitoring the performance of the public sector institutions.

Vision:

A democratic Palestinian society where laws and legislations which enforce transparency and accountability, as basic requirements for good governance, are respected and protected in a matter that allows the public to actively and objectively participate in monitoring the performance of the public sector institutions.

 Main Goal:

To create an anti-corruption media that confronts corruption and works to prevent its spread in the Palestinian society, especially in the public sector institutions.

 Specific objectives:

  1. To raise public awareness of the importance of free media as a basic right of freedom of expression.  

  2. To build the capacities of journalists and to improve their skills in areas such investigative reporting as an effective means to combat corruption.

  3. To act as an umbrella for the protection of  journalists who work on corruption cases.

  4. To encourage networks with various media means to take part in the fight against corruption by broadcasting/publishing information on corruption that is restricted through other means.

  5. To form journalists’ pressure groups that can influence the general public opinion in the fight against corruption through putting pressure on officials to investigate serious corruption cases.

  6. To lobby for legislations that respect and grantee protection of media professionals and ensure freedom for journalists and journalism.

Note: For more information, in Arabic only, on the network’s policies, plan of action, membership and structure, please visit our site at the following address: www.aman-palestine.org

 
 

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