About this resource centre
This resource centre is dedicated to the implementation of the OECD Development Cooperation Principles on Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment.
Objectives of the principles
Reinvigorate international support to media and the information environment.
Encourage current development co-operation providers to increase levels of financial and other forms of assistance and to improve the relevance and effectiveness of their existing support to preserve, protect, and promote public interest media and information integrity.
Guide development co-operation providers’ endeavours to the challenges facing the global information environment.
Ensure that the international response to the crisis in the media sector is fit for purpose in a rapidly changing information environment.
What are the six Principles?
The principles, published in March 2024, include a non-exhaustive, indicative list of practical, concrete ways to operationalise each principle.
The first principle on ‘do no harm to public interest media’, is intended as a minimum standard which all development co-operation providers are expected to respect.
The other principles are more ambitious, seeking to function as a guide and an inspiration to development co-operation providers to increase the relevance and effectiveness of their support.
Consultation & adoption
The adoption of the principles followed two years of consultations among more than 200 representatives from bilateral donor agencies, implementing organisations, civil society representatives, and media development experts.
The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), in cooperation with the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), played a leading role in this process, working closely with the OECD DAC secretariat and member states.
For more details about the development and adoption of the principles as well as key milestones in their implementation see:
Implementation and next steps
GFMD - on the request of the OECD DAD and other actors is maintaining a list of events, meetings and other opportunities to promote the implementation of principles.
For more information see the implementation section of the resource centre:
The toolkit
The principles, published in March 2024, include a non-exhaustive, indicative list of practical, concrete ways to operationalise each principle.
The toolkit - commissioned by the Team Europe Democracy (TED) Network - supplements this guidance by providing more detailed and practical user-focused guidance to help EU institutions, EU Member States and other actors to operationalise the OECD DAC Principles across a range of policy and programming contexts.
Other resources
To further support your understanding of the OECD media support principles, their relevance and potential impact, we’ve curated a selection of additional resources that provide deeper insights into media development and the information environment:
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