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The Sustainability Imperative in Media Development: A Critical Analysis of a Self-Serving Myth
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiv, 396 pp.
"This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader "development" sectors have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas. Analysing 289 project evaluations conducted globally between 1999 and 20
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"The impact framework is a set of tools and guidelines that helps to define targets for, track, and assess the impact of activities under the supported media projects in a clear and organised way; it can also be used for other media projects. Its methodology embraces a user-centric approach, links p
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Independent Media and Free Flow of Information: An Evidence Gap Map Protocol
New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2021), 58 pp.
"This report presents the protocol for a systematic search to identify and map the evidence base of impact evaluations and systematic reviews of interventions that aim to promote an independent media as a democratic institution in low- and middle-income countries. The EGM was developed by 3ie, made
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Media for Democracy Assessment Tool: Learning, Evaluation, and Research (LER) Activity
Key Guides
Washington, DC; Landover, MD: USAID; Cloudburst Group (2021), 93 pp.
"The purpose of the Media for Democracy Assessment Tool (MAT) is to assist United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in producing media assessments to inform strategy on media and democracy programming, help inform potential media development programming goals, and help provide an i
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Decoding Media Impact: Insights, Advice and Recommendations
Philadelphia, Penns.: Media Impact Funders (2020), 31 pp.
"This guide is meant to serve as a practical resource for funders who want to understand where to start. Informed by feedback from our network, it represents a synthesis of the past seven years of work we’ve done in the impact space, and includes examples of successful media impact evaluation, too
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Journalism Impact Primer & Journalism Impact Toolkit
Key Guides
Walton Family Foundation (2018), 25 pp., 21 pp.
"This report puts forth a Walton Family Foundation (WFF) Media Impact Framework and identifies key indicators and research methods that can be used to assess journalism investments across program areas, based on best practices in the field of media strategy and research. The companion WFF Media Impa
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La evaluación de la comunicación para la transformación de conflictos
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 81-94
"La comunicación para la transformación de conflictos es un área relativamente nueva dentro del vasto campo de prevención de conflictos y construcción de paz y por tanto ha sido sometida a escasos procesos evaluativos. Con el fin de comenzar a crear un modelo evaluativo que posibilite un análi
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Rethinking Media Development Through Evaluation: Beyond Freedom
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xiii, 176 pp.
"This book argues for an overhaul of the way media assistance is evaluated, and explores how new thinking about evaluation can reinforce the shifts towards better media development. The pursuit of media freedom has been the bedrock of media development since its height in the 1990s. Today, citizen v
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IDEAS Guide: Innovating, Designing, Evaluating and Applying to Small-Scale Projects. A Guide for Media and Communication Projects
RMIT University (2016), 73 pp.
"The IDEAS Guide is for organisations and people who are doing small media and communication projects. It is designed to cater for a range of different skill levels in evaluation. It is ideal for project managers and team members responsible for reporting and evaluation, as well as any other partici
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IDEAS Facilitators' Guide: Innovating, Designing, Evaluating and Applying to Small-Scale Media and Communication Projects
RMIT University; Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS) (2016), 65 pp.
"The IDEAS Facilitators’ Guide provides briefing notes on how you, as a facilitator, can support small-grant recipients to use the IDEAS Guide to clarify their project design, and to plan and manage their evaluation. The Facilitators’ Guide is best used in conjunction with the IDEAS Guide. These
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"In the end, impact assessment comes down to a dialogue—about goals; how news informs, connects and engages communities; and how best to maintain journalistic integrity in the process. That’s why we’ve created this guide, which features both conceptual perspectives for foundations and nuts-and
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10 Years of Evaluation Practice in Media Assistance: Who, When, Why and How?
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 41-56
"Evaluating the impact of media assistance is challenging for several reasons. Primary among them is that these kinds of initiatives operate in a complex political, social, and cultural environment. Although there has been increased attention to evaluation of media assistance, with a series of inter
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Media Development: An Evaluation of Five Capacity-Strengthening Projects
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 60 pp.
"BBC Media Action has been involved in media development since it was founded in 1999. Over the years, we have designed and deployed a broad range of evaluation approaches and methodologies to assess the impact of and learn from our work. This has generated much internal discussion: Are we measuring
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Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 315 pp.
"This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea, comm
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Evaluating the Impacts of Media Assistance: Problems and Principles
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 21 pp.
"This paper suggests that the problem of impact evaluation of media assistance is understood to be more than a simple issue of methods, and outlines three underlying tensions and challenges that stifle implementation of effective practices in media assistance evaluation. First, there are serious con
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"This thesis explores how the impacts of Australian media assistance on social change and governance can be most effectively evaluated and understood. It is based on a three-stage research design, using predominantly qualitative research methods. In doing so it contributes in-depth insights into the
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Assessing the Impact of TMF on the Tanzanian Media: A Practical Approach
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 11 pp.
"The Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) supports individual journalists and media institutions to produce quality public interest and investigative journalism content that better informs the public, contributes to debate and thereby increases public demand for greater accountability in Tanzania. TMF has used
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Results-Oriented Evaluations: Their Uses, Their Limits and How They Are Driving Implementers‘ Coping Strategies
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 19 pp.
"A results-oriented culture of performance and service has been enforced since the 1990s in the EU. Evaluation systems have been a powerful catalyst in driving the transition from media support to media development and in making the latter more independent from broadcasters and donors. In recent yea
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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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Media Assistance M&E and Democratization Measurement Characteristics in USAID Program Reporting Documents
Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri–Columbia, Master Thesis (2012), vi, 139 pp.
"This case study of USAID media assistance program reporting documents (n=68) looks at specific monitoring and evaluation characteristics as reported over a 20-year period and how reporting documents make the link to democratization. The analysis found that although M&E activity has improved as repo
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