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"Die Neuorientierung des FES-Medienprojekts für das südliche Afrika hat also zu einer eindeutigen Konzentration auf diese drei Hauptarbeitsbereiche (politische Rahmenbedingungen, alternative Medien und Gender) geführt. Daraus folgt, dass die Stiftung konsequent auf einen Arbeitsbereich verzichtet ... more

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Evaluating INASP-Health: Final Report

Kathleen Armstrong

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2004), 82 pp.

"INASP-Health is a UK-based programme that promotes international networking amongst all those involved in the provision and use of health information including librarians, publishers, biomedical researchers, funding agencies, development professionals, frontline healthcare providers, public health ... more

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The Media Missionaries: American Support for Journalism Exellence and Press Freedom Around the Globe

Ellen Hume

Miami: Knight Foundation (2004), 136 pp.

"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go ... more

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Friends or Foes? Peacekeeping Forces, Humanitarian Aid and Media Development: International Media Support Conference, November 2004

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2004), 20, 4 pp.

"The International Media Support (IMS) Conference, entitled ‘Friends or Foes? - Peacekeeping Forces, Humanitarian Aid and Media Development’ was held in Copenhagen on 26 and 27 November 2004. The theme of the Conference was the dilemma facing media development in the wake of peacekeeping and hum ... more

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Medien und Entwicklung: Neue Impulse für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2004), 67 pp.

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Support for ANEM Member and Affiliate Radio and TV Stations in Serbia

Roland Brunner, Nena Skopljanac

Zurich: medienhilfe (mh) (2004), 11 pp.

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Mission Report: The Media Situation in Angola. Obstacles and Possibilities

Lorraine Mkabela, Per Oesterlund, Anacleta Pereira

AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters;International Media Support (IMS);Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2003), 17 pp.

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The Difficult Birth of the Fourth Estate: Media Development and Democracy Assistance in the Post-Conflict Balkans

Izabella Karlowicz

In: Reinventing Media: Media Policy Reform in East-Central Europe

Miklós Sükösd; Péter Bajomi-Lázár (eds.)

Budapest: Central European University Press;Open Society Institute (2003), pp. 115-135

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Media Assistance: Best Practices and Priorities. Report on a USAID Workshop

Ellen Hume

Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), 17 pp.

"Determining that the time had come to derive lessons from past efforts, think afresh about media assistance, and perhaps add some new models - including approaches for Africa and Asia, where the cultural preconditions and economic prospects are quite different from those of Europe - USAID’s Burea ... more

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International Media Assistance: A Review of Donor Activities and Lessons Learned
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Ross Howard

The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2003), 32 pp.

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Beitrag der Medien zur Krisenprävention und Konfliktbearbeitung

Jörg Becker

Bonn: Arbeitsstelle Friedensforschung Bonn (2003), 34 pp.

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Access to Information: UNDP's Engagement and a Guide to Key Actors
Quick Overview

New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy, Democratic Governance Group (2003), 96 pp.

"The first section provides summary information on 69 UNDP supported projects and initiatives as of 2002/03. These initiatives were identified primarily by desk research from three main sources: (i) direct feedback from the Sub-Regional Resource Facilities (SURFs)2), the COs and Regional Bureaux, (i ... more

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Hearing the Voices of the Poor: Encouraging Good Governance and Poverty Reduction Through Media Sector Support

Ann Hudock

Washington, DC: World Learning for International Development (2003), 7 pp.

"This paper argues that heightened media involvement in the PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers) process could help build a stronger independent media sector while preparing citizens to take an active role in dialogues that will have a huge impact on their lives. Media involvement would help fra ... more

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Facts & Figures 2002: Culture Sector

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2003), 34 pp.

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U.S. Media Assistance Programs in Serbia: July 1997 - June 2002

Rich McClear, Suzi McClear, Peter Graves

Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), xiii, 33 pp.

"Serbian media assistance programs reflect two approaches to media development. Though they occasionally created friction, the differing approaches produced positive results. The goal of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) was to fund programs and media outlets that could dissemin ... more

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Centre Lokole: Bukavu. Evaluation Report

Cheyanne Church, Mark Rogers, Adrien Sindayigaya

Search for Common Ground (2003), 49 pp.

"1. Filled an Important Supporting Role to Indigenous Civil Society: Centre Lokole work supported indigenous civil society, providing them with information and services that enabled them to be more effective and informed in their work. This is important as it reinforces the sustainability of indigen ... more

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Assessment of USAID Media Assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996-2002

Daniel De Luce

Washington, DC: USAID (2003), 29 pp.

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Media Assistance Post the Taliban Regime and the Implications for Transforming the Afghan Social System

Noah W. Miller

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Master Thesis (2003), iii, 45 pp.

"In the case of media assistance in Afghanistan, financial and organizational resources originate almost exclusively from Western donors and INGOs, which largely bypass the Afghan Government. Organizations within the funding chain thus hold a functional form of power arising from the deployment of a ... llocative resources and it enables them to attempt an instigation of social change in Afghanistan. According to the notion of power associated with Talcott Parson, a functional form of power requires coordination and collaboration in order to achieve collective goals within a political process. However, conflicts may arise in Afghanistan if collective goals diverge among the various foreign and domestic participants involved in altering the media space. This could occur if the various participants do not envision the outcome of media assistance objectives as a zero-sum game. Additionally, Giddens asserts that Parson underestimates the contestation of the norms necessary to pursue collective goals in the first place. Even though the Afghan Government and international donors purportedly agree on the installation of a democracy with a free and independent media, they still need to overcome resistance from existing power holders or entrenched structural properties impeding such a development. In the context of Afghanistan, it is very conceivable that media assistance could prompt intentional or even unintentional consequences caused by social actors discontent with the normative values and goals promulgated by media assistance. Such unintentional conditions may render the desired outcomes of media assistance providers impossible and undermine the desired social transformation. It is erroneous, though, to apply a positivist view that judges the success or failure of media assistance according to the outcome of the flux between structure and interaction alluded to in chapter four. In fact, such a view would be contrary to the propositions of structuration theory that imply a lack of definable boundaries in which structure and interaction intermingles. Equally wrong is to evaluate the media assistance effort by funding amounts contributed by donors, even though financial resources are a pre-requisite for rebuilding the media infrastructure. Instead, media assistance can be conceived as a form of empowerment that imbues a target society with a collective consciousness concerning its ability to alter structural properties, which represent forms of power and domination according to Giddens. The success of media assistance therefore is to produce a collective awareness that individuals can influence the structural properties of a social system, regardless of the direction of change emanating from the mediation of structure and action. The process of change requires not only the acquisition of functional power through allocative resources, but also the acquisition of transformative power by means of controlling authoritative resources, which are involved in the coordination of a social system. Afghans need to control the actors or institutions that selectively filter information in order to reflexively “regulate the overall conditions of system reproduction either to keep things as they are or to change them” (Giddens, 1984, page 27). Yet, it remains unresolved to what extent media assistance has provided Afghans with transformative power and whether or not it allows them to influence the underlying forces that mediate the structural properties in society." (Conclusions, page 39-40) more

International Media Assistance: A Review of Donor Activities and Lessons Learned Top Insights

Access to Information: UNDP's Engagement and a Guide to Key Actors Quick Overview

International Media Assistance: A Review of Donor Activities and Lessons Learned
Top Insights

Access to Information: UNDP's Engagement and a Guide to Key Actors
Quick Overview