"Media Assistance is the attempt to influence the media governance of a country or region in order to support the development of the proper functioning of liberal democracies in conditions of peace and respect of human rights. The process of media assistance takes various forms/instruments (see B) and involves several actors (see C) that are described hereunder. Those actors mobilise these instruments in order to create interventions in the media governance of a country/region (i.e. media state policies, media markets and media related civil society) measured against the effort to develop societies that respect the rational choice of the majority during free and fair elections, whereby different groups of the local societies are represented, and their rights as well as the rights of neighbouring counties/regions are respected."