“Gap Analysis of the Independent Media Skills and Needs in the Eastern Partnership 2023”

Late December 2023 the BCME has published its most recent media research report entitled “Gap Analysis of the Independent Media Skills and Needs in the Eastern Partnership 2023”. It focuses on the most practical information of value to donors. That is: the status of the media industry, the country’s media enabling environment, media economics, and most importantly the beneficiaries’ direct input about their skills, and financial and other support needs.

You can find the “Regional Overview, Analysis and Recommendations” here. This document is a summary of six country reports produced by national media experts, based on desk research and semi-structured interviews with journalists, media managers and experts, and national media non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It also draws on the interventions by media and media NGOs at the Donors’ Group meeting which took place early October 2023.

The Gap Analysis is one the Center’s signature reports since 2016 when started tracking media skills gaps in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) as a tool for the design of future projects supporting independent media and to inform donor policy choices.