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Network Identification:

The "Media Professionals for Integrity and Accountability" network is a voluntary group of active media professionals who show potential and commitment to work under the network’s umbrella. The network's goals are:

  • ensuring that the work of all media is independent

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

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

Vision:

A democratic Palestinian society supported by laws and legislations which enforce transparency and accountability as basic requirements for good governance and which are respected and protected in such a manner 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.  raise public awareness of the importance of free media as a basic right of freedom of expression  

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

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

4.  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.  form journalist 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.  lobby for legislations that respect and guarantee the protection of media professionals and ensure freedom of press

 

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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