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How the people of Nepal live with climate change and what communication can do
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 72 pp.
Health on the Move: Can Mobile Phones Save Lives?
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 24 pp.
"With its rapidly expanding penetration within the developing world, mobile telephony offers major new opportunities to build upon and augment existing health communication efforts. As Usha Kiran Tarigopula of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India Programmes put it: “It is increasingly… clea
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Fragile States: The Role of Media and Communication
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 27 pp.
"This briefing examines how current media trends are affecting state and societal fragility, both positively and negatively, and argues that the role of a free and plural media should be prioritised rather than marginalised in fragile states policy. The paper provides case studies on the role and im
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Communicating Climate Change: What You Can Do
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 208 pp.
How Do Political Debate Programmes Influence Political Participation? A Case Study from Nepal
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 56 pp.
"This report focuses on the role of factual debate and discussion programming, defined for the purposes of this review as “dialogic formats”, on political participation, knowledge and efficacy [...] The review of the existing evidence base is followed by an in-depth look at the relationship betw
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Regional Segment Profiles
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 7 pp.
"In order to understand people’s needs and identify opportunities to communicate with them effectively, Climate Asia has analysed survey data from across the seven project countries – Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, and China – and placed people into five discrete segme
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The Media of Pakistan: Fostering Inclusion in a Fragile Democracy?
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 31 pp.
"The Pakistani media’s democratising function is constrained by its historic role as a state-building tool. The media remains vulnerable amid on-going threats to media professionals and the limitations imposed by the industry’s financial model, which must rely heavily on advertising revenue. The
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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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Climate Asia Quantitative Survey Methodology
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 8 pp.
How the people of Vietnam live with climate change and what communication can do
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 74 pp.
How the people of China live with climate change and what communication can do
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 86 pp.
Social Media and Civic Participation: Literature Review and Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh and Palestinian Territories
London: BBC Media Action; London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013), 55 pp.
"Highlights the findings of the LSE students’ work undertaken between October 2012 and March 2013: a literature review and analysis of BBC Media Action data from Palestinian Territories and Bangladesh on use of social media and civic participation. Findings include: Use of social media is positive
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How the Segmentation Analysis for Climate Asia Was Conducted
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 12 pp.
The Media of Iraq Ten Years On: The Problems, the Progress, the Prospects
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 35 pp.
"This briefing argues that the Iraqi media landscape of 2013 may not be the free, plural and professional fourth estate that many in the West had envisaged in 2003 but that it has real strengths – as well as weaknesses – which reflect the reality and complexity of modern Iraq. The seismic shift
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Factual Debate and Discussion Programmes and Their Influence on Political Participation, Political Knowledge and Political Efficacy
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 40 pp.
"The review found that there is evidence that exposure to dialogic formats can have an impact on political participation. It is clear, however, that the relationship between exposure to programming and manifest forms of participation cannot be studied in isolation to other important outcomes such as
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Conceptualising Accountability: An Approach to Measurement
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 31 pp.
"Improving state accountability is a central preoccupation of development efforts. How individuals and institutions can and do hold governments to account for their actions and decisions differs radically between societies. Furthermore, what accountability actually means can differ greatly from one
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Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained: What Works and Why? Global Synthesis Report
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 32 pp.
"This report addresses the challenges of supporting independent media in countries where media freedoms are restricted, based on country case studies in Bangladesh, Cambodia, South Sudan, Syria and Uganda. According to Myers, the dilemmas of foreign support include short-term donor strategies, the l
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