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The growth of the broadcasting industry across most of sub-Saharan Africa has been continually hampered by a range of common factors, including: a lack of adequate operating capital; weak revenue models; a chronic absence of business development skills and professional expertise; and often antiquated broadcasting technology.

Consequently, there is a pressing need across sub-Saharan Africa to build the capacity of the free-to-air broadcasting industry by:

• facilitating the generation of an effective sub-Saharan African knowledge dissemination platform, spanning both radio and television
• developing a best industry practice skills transfer template and a strong professional capacity building mechanism to support broadcast station managers and media entrepreneurs across Africa
• creating a dedicated broadcast fellowship in association with those African post-graduate mass communications institutions dedicated to development communications studies
• generating professional regional back-up mechanisms to assist and support the work of the various national regulatory bodies across sub-Saharan Africa.
• creating a strong research support faculty and mechanism that will help regenerate the revenue potential of the independent and public sector broadcast media sector

The African Public Broadcasting Foundation is committed to the process of assisting in creating an institutional framework that will enable the effective capacity building of the free-to-air broadcasting environment across sub-Saharan Africa