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"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more

Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media: Draft Framework of Indicators to Gauge Sensitivity in Media Operations and Content

Paris: UNESCO, Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2012), 32 pp.
"The gender-sensitive indicators for media (GSIM) is a non-prescriptive set of indicators, designed particularly for media of all forms. However it bears much relevance and usefulness to citizens' media groups advocating for gender equality, other non-governmental organizations, media associations, ... more

A Pilot Study for GFMD’s Media Development Toolkit: Testing Standards, Strengthening Professionalism. An Assessment of Ghana’s Media Landscape

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA);IREX;Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2012), 49 pp.
"The study did not aim to carry out new surveys or collect information that was not already publicly available. Since the toolkit is aimed at providing media development organizations with a tool to assess media landscapes without having to carry out extensive new research, the Ghana study worked on ... more
"Press freedom indices such as those administered by Freedom House, IREX, and Reporters Without Borders have emerged as crucial tools, not only for the general public, but also for donors, implementers, and academics in their attempts to understand the relationships among media assistance, democrati ... more

Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS): Pacific Media Benchmarks (2005)

Melbourne; Adelaide: Australian Aid (AusAID);Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC);University of Adelaide (2011), 87 pp.
"This study draws together two bodies of work concerned with media pluralism, effectiveness, development and strengthening in the developing world. One is drawn from UNESCO’s global work on media assessment and impact indicators, the other from AusAID’s Pacific Media and Communications Facility ... more

Monitoring and Measuring Press Freedom on a Global Scale: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Freedom House Index

In: On Media Monitoring: The Media and Their Contribution to Democracy
Josef Trappel; Werner A. Meier (eds.)
New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 25-36

Indicator Gap Analysis Media

Washington, DC: USAID;Management Systems International (MSI), 2nd draft (2010), 55 pp.
"This report discusses the state of media development indicators in relation to a new Results Framework (RF) drafted by USAID in 2009. There were three aims for the report: To collect and screen the strongest indicators developed by different organizations or individuals for measuring meso-level obj ... more

Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure

Washington, DC; Philadelphia: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA);Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2010), 63 pp.
"The organizations that conduct country rankings should continue to increase technical sophistication, cultural neutrality, and transparency. In particular, continued attention must be paid to digital media, notably the Internet and mobile phones, which now number approximately 4.6 billion worldwide ... more

Measuring Change and Results in Voice and Accountability Work

London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFID) (2009), v, 72 pp.
"This Working Paper from DFID’s Evaluation Department offers a menu of Voice & Accountability (V&A) indicators, and suggests steps for building monitoring and evaluation frameworks for V&A interventions. It provides a check list of management issues, and some ideas for data collection. It does not ... more

Independent Study on Indicators for Media Pluralism in the Member States: Towards a Risk-Based Approach

Leuven: KU Leuven, ICRI;Central European University, CMCS;Jönköping International Business School, MMTC (2009), x, 155 pp.
"The outcome of this study is a prototype for a European Media Pluralism Monitor – a riskbased, holistic, user-friendly and evolving monitoring tool that includes indicators of a legal, economic and socio-demographic nature. In order to account for the multi-faceted character of media pluralism, t ... more

Indicateurs du développement des médias: Cadre pour l'evaluation du développement des médias

Paris: UNESCO, Programme International pour le Développement de la Communication (PIDC) (2008), 65 pp.

Media Development Indicators: A Framework for Assessing Media Development

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2008), 101 pp.
"This paper aims to be 'an analytical tool designed to help stakeholders assess the state of the media and measure the impact of media development programmes' (page 7). It has been prepared to define indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for t ... more

Governance Indicators: A Users' Guide

New York: UNDP, 2nd ed. (2007), 93 pp.

Core ICT Indicators

United Nations;Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development (2007), 48 pp.
"[...] a key objective of the global Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is to set standards and harmonize ICT statistics at the global level. To this end, it has worked to develop a core list of ICT indicators that could be collected by all countries and serve as a basis for internationall ... more