The Government’s Strategic Action Plan (SAP) 2019 – 2023 provides a detailed development agenda across five priority areas for the administration. Each priority area includes several targets, strategies, and actions, in addition to a timeline and a list of implementing agencies.

Priority area 5.4: Accountable State follows the premise of Article 4 of the Constitution, which affirms that all powers of the State of the Maldives are derived from, and remain with, the citizens. The government has reiterated that State actors need to be accountable and answerable to the public. Strategy 5.3 of this section is focused on Developing the media profession.

Action 5.3c: Identify National skill gaps and Training needs in the field of Media and facilitate training opportunities through relevant national mechanisms to close the skills gap in the field of media.

The Lead Implementer for this action is Ministry of Home Affairs.

According to Ministry of Home Affairs, a proposal has been devised to undertake the research and have reached out to Maldives National University and Islamic University of Maldives, in order to conduct the research. However, due to financial limitations, they have been unable to proceed with this initiative. Other funding agencies were also approached by the Ministry but was unable to fund the research due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The status of this action has been updated based on the response of Ministry of Home Affairs to a RTI Request submitted by Transparency Maldives