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Which World Bank Reports Are Widely Read?

Doerte Doemeland, James Trevino

Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 32 pp.

"About 49 percent of the World Bank’s policy reports, which are published Economic and Sector Work or Technical Assistance reports, have the stated objective of informing the public debate or influencing the development community. This study uses information on downloads and citations to assess wh ... more

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Committee of Ministers: Declaration on protection of journalism and safety of journalists and other media actors

Tarlach McGonagle

Council of Europe;European Audiovisual Observatory (2014), 3 pp.

"Note on the Declaration on the protection of journalism and safety of journalists and other media actors." (Abstract)

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Does Sustainability Require Transparency? The UN Divide Over Freedom of Information and Media in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Bill Orme

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 9 pp.

"The inclusion of a clear commitment to access to information in the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] – including factual “indicators” to monitor compliance – could have a profound impact on freedom of expression and media globally, advocates contend. Yet it remains uncertain whether any ... more

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Applying UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators: A Practical Guidebook to Assist Researchers

Toby Mendel

UNESCO (2013), 32 pp.

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Communication Rights Ten Years After the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil Society Perceptions

Alan Finlay

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2013), 32 pp.

"This report responds to the opportunity provided by the WSIS+10 review which will culminate in 2015. Its purpose is to collate civil society perceptions of the changes that have taken place over the last ten years since the WSIS Declaration of Principles was adopted in 2003. The results are being u ... more

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Violence Against Journalists and Media Workers: Inter-American Standards and National Practices on Prevention, Protection and Prosecution of Perpetrators

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (2013), viii, 180 pp.

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Bücher für alle: Die UNESCO und die weltweite Förderung des Buches 1946-1982

Christina Lembrecht

Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2013), xv, 608 pp.

"Bücher für alle verfügbar und zugänglich zu machen, war oberste Zielsetzung der Buchförderungsprogramme der UNESCO. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Maßnahmen, die die UNESCO weltweit zur Verbesserung der Produktions- und Distributionsstrukturen des Buches durchführte, und geht Fragen n ... more

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Post-2015 MDGs: Freedom of Expression and the Media

Jan Lublinski, Peter Deselaers, Petra Berner

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2013), 6 pp.

"Access to information, freedom of expression and an independent media are important for a sustainable future. They should be explicitly included in a future framework describing UN development goals for the years beyond 2015. We discuss two options: firstly, integration of “information access and ... more

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Freedom of Expression and the Internet

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (2013), v, 81 pp.

"In this document the Office of the Special Rapporteur endeavors to make available to all States in the region, general principles for the protection of the right to freedom of thought and expression online. These principles are intended to provide guidance to governments, legislative and regulatory ... more

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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2010-2012, Part II: Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 164 pp.

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How to address current threats to journalism? The role of the Council of Europe in protecting journalists and other media actors

Tarlach McGonagle

Belgrade: Council of Europe Conference of Ministers Responsible for Media and Information Society (2013), 35 pp.

"Legal and political responses to the above issues will feature centrally in this paper. More specifically, the paper will consider the role of Council of Europe as a regional body in the concerted international efforts to enhance the protection of journalists and other media actors, in particular t ... more

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Peace Through Peace Media? The Media Activities of the International Missions (KFOR and UNMIK) and Their Contribution to Peacebuilding in Kosovo from 1999 Till 2008

Julia Egleder

Berlin: Lit (2013), xvii, 317 pp.

"How does media contribute to peacebuilding and reconciliation in a post-conflict environment? This question will be answered in respect to the media produced by the UN and NATO mission in Kosovo (UNMIK and KFOR) from the year 1999 until 2008. The theoretical part of the text will deal with existing ... more

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Pressing for Freedom: 20 Years of World Press Freedom Day

William Horsley (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 95 pp.

"The origins of World Press Freedom Day arise from a declaration signed by a group of African journalists who gathered at a UNESCO seminar on “Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Media” that was held in Windhoek, Namibia from 29 April to 3 May 1991. Subsequently, painstaking lobbyin ... more

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UNICEF and Communication for Development: An Integrated Approach to Developing Capacity to Produce Communication for and with Children

Barbara Kolucki

In: The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media

Dafna Lemish (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), pp. 433-441

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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2010-2012, Part I: Africa, Arab Region, Europe

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 181 pp.

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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2007-2009. Part 1: Africa, Arab Region, Europe

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2012), 161 pp.

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Mapping EU Media Support 2000-2010

Andrew Puddephatt, Per Oesterlund

EPRD Policy & Development;European Commission (2012), 52 pp.

"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 ... this field. This is also the case in the CRIS data base, which does not distinguish for example between public diplomacy and media support [...] As a consequence, the amounts and other figures in this report should not be taken as exact values. But the mapping does show some clear trends and tendencies despite the weakness ofthe basic data, and the main findings are: According to the information available in the CRIS data base and the definition of projects applied for this support, the total amount spent on media development and freedom of expression in the period 2000-2010 has been 148,4 Million Euro. More than half of the total amount has been spent in the neighbour countries East and South of the EU. More than 40 % has been spent in the Western Balkans, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey, while 12,5 % has been spent in the Middle East and North Africa. 24,3 % of the total funds have been spent in Sub-Saharan Africa. The EC support for media development and freedomof expression has been limited compared with the bilateral support from EU. Member States and other bilateral donors. For comparison the Swedish budget for media support from SIDA in 2012 is 26 Million Euro and DfiD supports the BBC Media Action with more than 20 Million Euro per year. The funding comes from a variety of thematic and geographic Instruments with the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, EIDHR, as the single biggest source, which accounts for 41 % of the total support. Other significant Instruments are IPA, CARDS, ENPI and MED. The main focus has been on training of journalists and editors in journalistic skills and professional standards. Other initiatives have been support to reform of media related legislation and direct support to endangered journalists and writers. The projects supportedby the EC have not been different from projects funded by bilateral donors. Very few projects have benefitted from the potential comparative advantages of the EC/EU as a multinational entity. Very few projects have been designed and implemented in cooperation with member states or other donor agencies, and the projects do not reflect on-going internal medla developments in the EU. There seems to be more focus on EU visibility than on EU additionallity. The top ten contract holders have implemented 36 % of the total project value with BBC Media Action as the single biggest partner, which has implemented almost ten percent of the total project value in the period 2000-2010. lnternews (with lnternews Europe as the biggest entity) comes second with 4,6 % of the total project value followed by the International Federation of Journalists with 3,4 % of the project value. The EC is seen as a “difficult“ or “bureaucratic“ donor agency, which is difficult to approach for smaller organisations because the possible funding does not correspond with the paper work needed to apply for support." (Executive summary more

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Freedom of Expression, Media and Digital Communications: Key Issues

Andrew Puddephatt, Per Oesterlund

EPRD Policy & Development;European Commission (2012), 35 pp.

"Key recommendations: Explore ways of integrating EU diplomatic power alongside its development programmes in order to support freedom of expression and independent media and communicaitons; Enhance coordination between the different operational arms of the EU; Utilise EU’s convening power to brin ... more

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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2012), 8 pp.

"The Plan of Action aims to creating of a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers, both in conflict and non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide. Its measures include, among other undertakings, the establishment of a coordin ... more

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Communication for Development in Good and Difficult Times: The FAO Experience

Silvia Balit

Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 105-120

"The article tells the story of the evolution of communication for development within the United Nation’s (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), describing the good times in the past as well as the difficult times in the last decade as an example of how the discipline continues to be margin ... more