BBC Media Action

About Us

BBC Media Action is the BBC's international development charity, which uses of media and communications to tackle poverty, promote human rights and contribute to long-term change in areas affected by poverty and conflict. We do this through implementing governance, health and resilience projects in partnership with civil society, local media, governments and others in order to:

• Produce creative programmes and content in multi-media formats which inform and engage audiences about key development issues.
• Strengthen the media sector through building professional capacity and infrastructure

BBC Media Action in Libya
Since the end of 2011 – just months after the fall of the Gaddafi regime – BBC Media Action has been working in Libya to develop programming that will improve Libyans' access to information, and encourage debate and participation in the country's transition. The current extensive fighting across the country has meant that BBC Media Action has relocated its operations to Tunis for an interim period, where it is doing capacity building and media development including hands on production outputs. At the moment, these are mostly news and information and debate programmes which provide moderate, accurate, diverse and engaging platforms for national discussion.