Liberia

IMS supports the media community in Liberiaduring the post-conflict transitional period following the peace agreementsigned in August 2003 and help build a coordinated framework for internationalassistance to the media community. Within this framework, IMS has supported thedevelopment of the Liberia Media Centre (LMC), the work of the Liberia MediaLaw and Policy Reform Working Group as well as provided support for thedrafting of a media development section of the Poverty Reduction Strategy forLiberia.

Professionalising coverage of Liberia's upcoming elections

19.08.2011
In a bid to promote professional and fair coverage of the upcoming elections in Liberia, the IMS-supported Liberia Media Center will be stepping up its support to over three hundred local journalists

The participants at the workshop in December. Photo: Malcolm Joseph/IMS

22.12.2010
Transparency and participation in Liberia's governance lie at the heart of the hopes held for Liberia's new Freedom of Information Law - the first to be passed in West Africa. This transpired in a meeting organised in Monrovia in December

Working with IMS - the case of Liberia

21.10.2008
"Without IMS, nothing would have happened" , says Edetan Ojo, Media Rights Agenda in Nigeria in an account about his collaboration with IMS to support media developments in Liberia

Revision of Liberian laws to provide for the establishment of the Liberia Public Broadcasting Service, DRAFt proposal, May 2008

06.05.2008

Freedom of Information Act, DRAFT proposal, The National Legislature of the Republic of Liberia, May 2008