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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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Content Analysis: Can Shared Indicators Improve Monitoring and Evaluation?
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 24 pp.
Impact: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Community Information Projects
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 37 pp.
"This guide will take you through the essential steps for designing an evaluation of your community information project. These steps explain what to do and consider at different stages of the evaluation process: 1. Describe your project and identify your target audience. 2. Identify the evaluation
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Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries: Toward Developing Common Principles and a Community of Practice
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2011), 35 pp.
"A wide array of media development practitioners, donors, international broadcasters, and methodologists, all with extensive experience working in media initiatives in conflict environments met in Caux, Switzerland, in December 2010, to establish the Caux Guiding Principles, whose full text is in th
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The "Fourth Estate" in Democracy Assistance: Practices and Challenges of German and International Media Development Cooperation. 6th Symposium Forum Media and Development
St. Augustin; Berlin; Aachen: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2011), 69 pp.
"The first part of this publication provides insight into the media development practices and policy frameworks of France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom while the second part deals with different issues and projects, such as the role of media for social transformation in Africa and coordina
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"This report maps the evolution of evaluation and donor decision making in media development over the last two decades. Through interviews with media development donors, implementers and academics, we examine major donor perspectives on monitoring and evaluation (M&E), the main challenges within med
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Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development: Evaluating the Evaluators
Deep Insights
New York: Peter Lang (2011), vi, 343 pp.
"Press freedom indices such as those administered by Freedom House, IREX, and Reporters Without Borders have emerged as crucial tools, not only for the general public, but also for donors, implementers, and academics in their attempts to understand the relationships among media assistance, democrati
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Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure
Washington, DC; Philadelphia: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2010), 63 pp.
"The organizations that conduct country rankings should continue to increase technical sophistication, cultural neutrality, and transparency. In particular, continued attention must be paid to digital media, notably the Internet and mobile phones, which now number approximately 4.6 billion worldwide
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Good, But How Good? Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Assistance Projects
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.
Qualitätssicherung in der Weiterbildung internationaler Journalisten: Studie zum konzeptionellen und strategischen Vorgehen für PM+E-Maßnahmen des Internationalen Instituts für Journalismus (IIJ) von InWEnt
Berlin; Dortmund: Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt), Internationales Institut für Journalismus (IIJ); Erich-Brost-Institut (2009), 43 pp.
"Ziel der hier vorgelegten Studie ist es, analog der Vorgaben des PriME-Handbuchs 2008 von InWEnt, gemäß der Kriterien für Evaluation von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nach OECD-DAC, unter Rückgriff auf angelsächsische Modelle für PM+E im Bereich der Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit sowie unter R
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Using Content Analysis to Measure the Influence of Media Development Interventions: Elections Training for Journalists in Yemen
London: BBC World Service Trust (2008), 8 pp.
"The findings from this research reveal the complexity of delivering journalism training and the challenges involved in capturing evidence of impact. Content analysis is a useful tool for measuring change in media output. It can both inform training delivery and provide evidence of improvements to o
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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2008), 96 pp.
"This report provides an assessment of U.S. international media development efforts, both public and private, and calls on future efforts to be more long-term, comprehensive, and need-driven. Recommending a more holistic assistance approach, the report looks at the international media development fi
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Spheres of Influence: We Communicate, Therefore We Are
Kathmandu: Panos South Asia (2008), 31 pp.
"Having a vibrant media scene is a necessary prerequisite to human development and good governance. But, the time has come for us, media practitioners and support organisations, to accept and recognise that this is too complex to bring about on our own. It would be prudent to recognise the limitatio
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Defining Indicators of Media Development: Background Paper
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2007), 80 pp.
Provides a mappping of 26 initiatives to develop indicators of media development and their respective methodologies, and analyses these initiatives in terms of their value and relevance to the priorities of the IPDC. The paper also proposes sample indicators and data sources for five principal media
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Monitoring and Indicators of Communication for Development: Technical Note
Copenhagen: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danida) (2007), 30 pp.
"This note offers a brief and non-technical introduction to indicators and monitoring tools relevant to communication for development in Danida’s countries of cooperation. It is primarily aimed at supporting staff at Danish representations or at HQ responsible for preparing and managing Danish bil
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Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Media and Development Cooperation. 3rd Symposium Forum Media and Development
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2007), 81 pp.
"The symposium Measuring Change. Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation in Media Development focused on the utilisation aspect of evaluation1: The adding of “Planning” to “Monitoring and Evaluation” in the subtitle indicates that emphasis was laid on learning from monitoring and evaluation experie
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A Guide to Measuring the Impact of Right to Information Programmes: Practical Guidance Notes
Key Guides
Oslo: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2006), 29 pp.
"This Guide complements the Practical Guidance Note on Right to Information, which provided guidance on approaches for designing and implementing programmes in this area. It builds on this knowledge, and focuses on the monitoring and evaluation of those programmes, paying particular attention to the
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