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TMF Success Stories
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2013), 13 pp.
"TMF wants to add fire to the demand of citizens for accountability – through a strong media that produces a large variety of high-quality stories about things that matter in the lives of Tanzanians. Therefore, TMF is interested in stories from grantees about how their media production changed som
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A Guidebook of Broadcast and Newspaper Indicators
Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 78 pp.
"This guidebook has been developed for use by professionals, policymakers and the research community involved in media development around the world. Its development was based on the UIS questionnaires on media statistics (see Appendices II, III and IV). This guide is not intended to provide a full s
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Global Mapping of Communication for Development Interventions in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
New York: UNICEF (2013), 54 pp.
"The findings of this global mapping are organized into five main sections: The role of children, adolescents and youth in peacebuilding; mainstreaming C4D for peacebuilding in the education system; C4D for peacebuilding: adding value to education; most effective C4D approaches used for peacebuildin
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The Evolution of Media Development: The Media Development Model in a Changing World
Dublin: Dublin Institute of Technology, Arrow@dit (2013), 17 pp.
"The origins of media development can be found in post World War II Europe and the industry grew as a more significant aspect of international aid work in the 1980s and the 1990s, following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the former Soviet Union. It was hoped that exporting the concept o
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Transformations in Egyptian Journalism
London; Oxford: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xviii, 109 pp.
"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio
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La cooperación cultural para el futuro digital: Recuperar la diversidad como eje central en tiempos de crisis
Madrid: Fundación Alternativas, Observatorio de Cultura y Comunicación (2013), 34 pp.
"Este trabajo analiza el estado de situación de la cooperación española, en el contexto de la evolución de la agenda internacional de desarrollo, para preguntarse por su impacto e implicaciones futuras en el ámbito de la cultura. Se trata de detectar los desafíos que tiene la cooperación cult
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Building indicators in media assistance: Four ways evaluation reports present "change"
Shanghai; Brisbane: ICA Regional Conference: Communication and Social Transformation, 8-10 November 2013; Queensland University of Technology (2013), 15 pp.
"This paper draws on some preliminary findings from a comparative thematic analysis of 47 evaluation documents of media assistance programs. The aim of this analysis is to identify trends in impact evaluation practice in the media assistance field, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of differen
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Democracy, Governance and Randomised Media Assistance
Deep Insights
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 26 pp.
"This paper focuses attention on randomised field experiments in the developing world that explicitly address the use of media to achieve democracy and governance (DG) outcomes [...] The first section describes the growth of DG assistance and the increasing interest in DG field experiments. The seco
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Lost: Syrian Refugees and the Information Gap
Internews (2013), 16 pp.
"The report presents findings that pose both unique challenges and opportunities for programs seeking to provide humanitarian information to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. So far, according to the report, there is little evidence of any comprehensive strategy or investment in providing a humanitarian c
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Assisting Media Democratization After Low-Intensity Conflict: The Case of Macedonia
Sarajevo; Skopje: Analitika – Center for Social Research; Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM) (2013), 59 pp.
"Bearing in mind the political and economic circumstances in the early stages of development of a democratic Macedonia, international donors played an important role in providing a vibrant media landscape including legal framework and relevant institutions. Donors in Macedonia engaged in a number of
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When Information Saves Lives: Internews Humanitarian Information Projects. 2011 Annual Report
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC; Paris; London: Internews; Internews Europe (2012), 77 pp.
Tanzania Media Fund: Strategic Plan 2012-2015
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2012), 35 pp.
"The TMF Strategic Plan for 2012 – 2015 provides the background, objectives and approach of TMF’s work in its second phase. Lessons from the pilot phase (2008 – 2012) have led to changes in TMF’s grant strategy, but the objective remains the same: to increase the quantity and quality of inve
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An Assessment of Media Development Challenges and Opportunities in Myanmar: Change is in the Air
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 34 pp.
"At the request of the Norwegian, Swedish and subsequently Danish Embassies in Bangkok, International Media Support (IMS) conducted an assessment of the current media environment inside Myanmar during two missions between July and November 2011. The assessment was motivated by a democratic reform pr
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"Generally, data about media development support are not complete and reliable due to insufficient classification categories in the DAC system, so the EC and most other international institutions and organisations share the problem of not having solid knowledge about the scope and size of support in
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Minority Voices Project: Final Evaluation
Minority Rights Group (2012), vii, 46 pp.
"Minority Voices began in January 2009 and ran for three years. It implemented the vast majority of its planned activities and produced the planned outputs. These include the development of an online hub or newsroom, 11 training workshops, production of reports and briefing materials on minority and
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The Growing Pains of Community Radio in Africa: Emerging Lessons Towards Sustainability
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 135-148
"Community radio is considered as an intervention strategy of choice for deepening participation and community ownership. Donors have funded a proliferation of community radio projects in the Global South, prompted by stories attesting to the power of radio as a tool for social change. The evidence
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International Media Development Cooperation: A Guide to the Literature
Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome), draft version (2012), 41 pp.
"This guide aims to bring together the most relevant literature on media development cooperation, both of practical and academic nature, and regardless of ideological background. It focuses on the role of external actors in media development. Included are publications which explicitly address the ro
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Differing Paradigms of Media Systems Development in Contemporary Africa: Does the ‘Chinese Model’ Have a Place?
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 52-67
"This article addresses the emerging patterns of contemporary media-based engagements between China and Africa and argues, after an examination of current media systems in both China and Africa, that, despite expressed worries to the contrary, because of reasons spanning from history to geo-politics
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Model Interventions: The Evolution of Media Development Strategies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia from 2000 to 2007
New York: Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2012), 309 pp.
"International donors came to see media development as a silver bullet for democratization efforts to foster freedom of speech, civil society, good governance, as well as an engaged citizenry. Donors and practitioners initially believed that institutions, once established, would function in a specif
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