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Content Analysis: Can Shared Indicators Improve Monitoring and Evaluation?

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 24 pp.

Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), 2nd ed. (2012), 149 pp.
"This report examines seven central areas of media development—funding, digital media, sustainability, media law, journalists' safety, journalism education, and monitoring and evaluation. It also delves in-depth into four areas deserving of greater attention: citizen journalism, investigative jour ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

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 ... more

Methods of Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Environments

Montreaux (CH): Conference "Evaluating the Impact of Media Interventions in Conflict Countries", Caux Conference Center, December 13-17 (2010), 15 pp.

From Mapping Information Ecologies to Evaluating Media Interventions: An Experts Survey on Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2010), 37 pp.

Good, But How Good? Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Assistance Projects

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 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 ... more

Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World

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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

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 ... more

Defining Indicators of Media Development: Background Paper

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 ... more
"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 ... more