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Created on 20 October 2011

Uganda Media Development Foundation

1.0 Introduction

Uganda Media Development Foundation (UMDF) is a registered media NGO (Number S.5914/2747) founded in 1994 by a group of journalists with a common vision of a pro-active media that participates in the democratic and development processes in the country. UMDF aims to enhance the capacity of media practitioners to play an active and meaningful role in the realization of democracy, human rights observance, and development in general.

The founding of UMDF was informed by the thinking that any society that cherishes democratic ideals needs an independent, pluralistic, free and informed media to act as a platform for democratic discourse among its citizens. Its membership comprises experienced journalists and professionals working in the media and corporate communications sector sharing a common desire to strengthen the media’s role as a forum for democratic exchange of ideas in society.

UMDF recognizes the need for media practitioners to gain relevant professional skills and consciousness to enable them act effectively as a link between the different centres of power in society and the citizens, as the citizen’s watchdog. It also reckons the need to scrutinize the structural environment in which the media industry operates such as the legal and policy dynamics, and how they affect the role of the media in society.