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"The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a tool for assessing the risks for media pluralism in a given country. The Monitor aims to help policymakers, researchers, and civil society to understand the threat to media pluralism in different media systems through research, analysis and the provision of co ... more
"The terms ‘indices’ and ‘indicators’ may immediately cause eyelids to droop. How, then, might they serve to impassion publics and, ultimately, promote social change? This paper examines the extent to which indices and indicators can be considered communication tools for social movements and ... more

Evaluation Criteria

Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 16 pp.
"This guidance note elaborates the nine evaluation criteria introduced in the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy. The guidance note will be most helpful to those who are preparing, commissioning, managing, or conducting a Fund evaluative activity (Figure 1) contracted by a Fund Implementing Entit ... more

Evaluation Principles

Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 18 pp.
"The evaluation principles identify the Adaptation Fund’s values, norms, and global best practice to guide evaluation practice. The Evaluation Policy introduces seven evaluation principles (see Figure 2) to reinforce the Fund’s values, niche, and the Paris Agreement to guide evaluation practice. ... more

Impact Framework for Media Projects. Toolkit

International Media Support (IMS);Local Media for Democracy Project;European Federation of Journalists (EFJ);Journalismfund Europe;Centre of Media Pluralism (2024), 13 pp.
"The impact framework is a set of tools and guidelines that helps to define targets for, track, and assess the impact of activities under the supported media projects in a clear and organised way; it can also be used for other media projects. Its methodology embraces a user-centric approach, links p ... more
"This document discusses how the six evaluation criteria of the OECD DAC (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee) can be used to get environmental sustainability on the agenda for evaluations and monitoring. These criteria are widely used in inter ... more
"IndiKit was developed by the Czech organization People in Need (PIN). It aims to make monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of relief and development interventions easier and better - by helping humanitarian and development workers to use well-formulated project indicators and to correctly collect and an ... more

Designing a Rights-Based Global Index on Responsible AI

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 14 pp.
"As we move forward in deepening our collective understanding of how AI is reshaping our societies, and what policy models are required to best manage its effects in service of human and planetary wellbeing, information is needed on the global state of implementation of the UNESCO principles and the ... more

Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2022

AI Index Steering Committee;Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (2022), 229 pp.
"The fifth edition of the AI Index Report includes data from a broad set of academic, private, and nonprofit organizations as well as more self-collected data and original analysis than any previous editions, including an expanded technical performance chapter, a new survey of robotics researchers a ... more

Integrating a Transformative Equity Criterion Into Evaluations for Promoting Transformative Systemic Change

Republic of South Africa Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME);South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) (2022), 39 pp.
"Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook is intended to teach all users of development data how to handle data effectively, efficiently, and ethically. An empirical revolution has changed the face of development research over the last decade. Increasingly, researchers are ... more
"This paper presents a new set of indicators to assess the viability of news media at a time when the discussion about the survival of quality media is omnipresent, while systematic, fact-based strategies to tackle the problem are omni-absent. As digital transformation is sweeping through the media ... more
"The concept of digital literacy has been defined in numerous ways over the last two decades to incorporate rapid technological changes, its versatility, and to bridge the global digital divide. Most approaches have been technology-centric with an inherent assumption of cultural and political neutra ... more
"The Media Freedom Analyzer developed by Laura Schneider is a new way to measure global media freedom in a more objective, unbiased and transparent way. Grounded in the opinions of around 1000 experts from 126 countries, the index is the first empirically validated tool to assess free and independen ... more
"The four principles identified as key to Internet Universality are summarised as the R-O-A-M principles, and are fundamental to the development of the Internet in ways that are conducive to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with no one left behind. These principles are: R – that the int ... more

Results-Based Management Principles and Standards: The 3+5 Framework for Self-Assessment

New York City: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2019), 30 pp.
"The 3+5 framework consists of three core RBM principles plus five supporting principles. Each principle has an associated set of standards that capture the essential elements of RBM for generating and using results information. The primary focus of the 3+5 framework is to enhance the availability o ... more

Press Freedom and the Global State of Democracy Indices

Stockholm: International IDEA (2019), 11 pp.
"Significant advances in Freedom of Expression and Media Integrity, as measured in the GSoD Indices, have been achieved in the last four decades. Citizens around the world are today more able to enjoy the freedom to openly discuss political issues, and to have access to a diverse and critical media, ... more
"Diana Ingenhoff und Alexander Buhmann führen in den aktuellen Forschungs- und Wissensstand zu Public Diplomacy und insbesondere zu Landesimages ein. Sie reflektieren dabei Fragen der Messung, Entstehung und Gestaltung von Landesimages und geben Antworten auf die folgenden Leitfragen: Welche Aspekt ... more