"The present Program of activities is informed by the AMARC Africa Strategic Plan of Action adopted in 2009 for the 2011 to 2014 period. Its strategic objective is to empower poor communities through implementation of their right to access to communication and exercise their freedom of expression in order to promote social justice, sustainable, democratic and participatory human development. OBJECTIVE 1: Advocacy and research to promote and defend policy, legal anregulatory frameworks that enable community media to operate. OBJECTIVE 2: Knowledge sharing and capacity building for community media sustainability. OBJECTIVE 3: Contents and social action campaigns to reinforce the social, developmental and humanitarian impact of community media. OBJECTIVE 4: Gender equality and women’s rights. OBJECTIVE 5: Institutional and network development." (Executive summary, pp.3-4)