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Community Media: International Perspectives
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Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp.

"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem ... more

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Encuentro internacional de ondas y antenas participativas: Radio - video - cine - televisión y prensa comunitarias, públicas y educativas

Lucelly Villa Betancur (coord.)

Bogotá: Paulinas (2007), 314 pp.

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Ya no es posible el silencio: Textos, experiencias y procesos de comunicación ciudadana

Omar Rincón, María Paula Saffon, Amparo Cadavid et al.

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2007), 152 pp.

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The State of Community Media in the European Union: Study

Gonçalo Macedo (ed.)

Brussels: European Parliament (2007), viii, 67 pp.

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The Alternative Media Handbook

Kate Coyer, Tony Dowmunt, Alan Fountain (eds.)

Abingdon: Routledge (2007), xvi, 352 pp.

"'Alternative Media' is the term used to describe non-mainstream media forms that are independently run and community focussed, such as zines, pirate radio, online discussion boards, community run and owned broadcasting companies, and activist publications such as Red Pepper and Corporate Watch. The ... more

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Seminario internacional de comunicación y paz

Amparo Cadavid Bringe, Mauricio Beltrán Quintero (ed.)

Bogota: Fundación Colombia Multicolor; Unión Europea; Acción Social; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; British Council Colombia (2007), 247 pp.

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Radio Baba Gurgur: A Field-Report on Community Broadcasting in Kirkuk (March 2007)

Naser Hasan

In: Shahadat: Witnessing Iraq's Transformation After 2003

Anja Wollenberg, Klaas Glenewinkel (eds.)

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2007), pp. 86-91

"The work force at Radio Baba Gurgur includes a mixture of four Iraqi ethnicities: Kurds, Turkmens, Arabs and Chaldean-Assyrians. Because our programs aim at targeting all listeners in our multifaceted city, we broadcast in all of Kirkuk’s different languages. Our policy is not to increase the lin ... more

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Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Media and Development Cooperation. 3rd Symposium Forum Media and Development

A. Sofie Jannusch (ed.)

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 ... more

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Ten Years On: The State of Community Radio in Nepal

Ian Pringle, Bikram Subba

Paris: UNESCO (2007), 46 pp.

"1. There has been remarkable growth in both private and non-for-profit radio in Nepal since 1997: 216 licenses had been issued as of July 2007 with 78 FM stations broadcasting; of 93 licenses issued to non-profit groups, 31 were operational as of May 2007. 2. To its detriment, the FM radio sector h ... more

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Community Radio Social Impact Assessment: Removing Barriers Increasing Effectiveness. Challenges, Findings, Reflections, Experiences, Lines of Action for Community Radio Stakeholders. AMARC Global Evaluation 2007

AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2007), 128 pp.

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Guidebook on Sustainability
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Bill Siemering, Jean Fairbairn

Washington, DC: Developing Radio Partners (2007), 90 pp.

"The authors present six local and independent radio stations from Africa - community radio stations, and commercial and NGO run radio stations with strong community participation - showcasing good practices for sustainability, defined as "ability of a radio station to maintain a good quality develo ... more

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Media Development and Poverty Eradication

Barry James

Paris: UNESCO (2006), 70, vi pp.

The articles in this book have been adapted from contributions to the UNESCO-sponsored conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka marking World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2006.

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Haiti Media Assistance and Civic Education Program (RAMAK): Final Report

Creative Associates International

USAID (2006), 60 pp.

"Creative Associates International (Creative) launched the Haiti Media Assistance and Civic Education Program in October 2001. Known by its Creole acronym, RAMAK, which means “Rassemblan Medya pou Aksyon Kominite” or Media Gathering for Community Action, the goals of the project were to increase ... more

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Evaluation of UNESCO's Community Multimedia Centres: Final Report

Heather Creech

Paris: UNESCO, Internal Oversight Service, Evaluation Section (2006), 61 pp.

"Since 2001, UNESCO has established more than 87 Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) in over 22 developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean with major funding provided by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The evaluation describes the initiative's ma ... in achievement: 'The CMCs are accepted by and fully integrated into the communities and can in many cases be sustained beyond the pilot phase without core operating grants. The effort and funding that UNESCO has channeled into this transformative initiative have been exceeded by the hard work and commitment of the CMC staff and the communities where they are based. Among other key findings, the evaluators clearly acknowledge the contribution of CMCs to local development, noting that longer term benefits are already being realized within individual communities, such as the gradual removal of barriers to social inclusion, the stimulation of poverty alleviation through access to knowledge of better health, resource management, agriculture practices and the creation of new livelihoods opportunities. CMCs are also recognized as critical tools for local communities to mediate changes brought on by globalization and the advent of new technologies: The CMC role in fostering cultural resilience. The capacity of a community to retain critical knowledge and at the same time adapt to external influences and pressures - is particularly remarkable. In addition to an extensive review of documentation, the evaluation used field research, interviews, questionnaires, an online survey, and case studies to review the CMC initiative, a flagship activity of UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector. Equitable and expanded access to ICTs is promoted in many ways, such as subsidized training for those with special requirements and/or marginalized groups; close work with schools, small businesses and the independent sector; or the provision of information to more remote communities through radio, says the evaluation report. The evaluation also points out challenges faced by the CMC initiative, including the strategic use of CMC networks as delivery mechanisms for development services, from projects and programmes of UN agencies and national governments to those of local civil society groups. Many challenges relate to sustainability of local facilities in low-income and least-developed localities. As CMCs depend on volunteers for the delivery of training, radio programming and other services, they face difficulties in finding appropriate incentives for volunteers and struggle with managing volunteer turnover. Another challenge consists of opportunities for networking and staff development, which to date have been limited. Evaluators point out the need for CMCs to learn from and access expertise more easily and systematically from each other in order to be sustainable. Enabling national policy environments are very important for the development and sustainability of CMCs. Sudden changes in national policies on connectivity charges can destabilize CMCs and broadcast licensing restrictions or restrictions on press freedom can prevent CMCs from being able to broadcast freely and to a broader constituency, says the report." (UNESCO website) more

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Community Radio for Development: The World and Africa

Patrick Tor Alumuku

Nairobi: Paulines (2006), 272 pp.

"Community radio is best understood against the background of the other forms of broadcasting, namely public service, and commercial or private broadcasting. Unlike these, community broadcasting is not state-owned, but rather community-owned and managed. Neither is it aimed at profit-making, but at ... more

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El horizonte de las radios comunitarias

Etcétera, issue 68 (2006), 104 pp.

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From the Margins to the Cutting Edge: Community Media and Empowerment

Peter M. Lewis, Susan Jones (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2006), vii, 248 pp.

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Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance
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Krishna Kumar

Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner (2006), 189 pp.

"This book represents one step in explaining international efforts to promote independent media. It attempts to examine the nature and significance of media assistance, discussing the evolution of the field, the focus of various programming approaches, and the possible impact of such efforts. It pre ... sents case studies of media assistance programs in different countries. The book concludes with a set of recommendations for expanding and deepening media assistance for the international community. This book project grew out of a multi-country study that I directed in 2002–2004 to examine media assistance programs funded by the US Agency for International Development. The overall purpose of the study was to assess the nature and effectiveness of USAID programs and make policy and programmatic recommendations for the future. In writing this book I have mostly drawn from the massive information collected during two years of research and analysis. The book is based primarily on three sources of information. First are reviews of literature covering scholarly writings, project and program documents, and articles in popular magazines and newspapers on media assistance. Such reviews were country specific as well as global in nature. Because the academic literature is extremely limited and media assistance is hardly covered in magazines and newspapers except in high-profile cases such as Bosnia and Serbia, reviews largely relied on program documentation. I had the unique advantage of perusing thousands of documents that are not available to the public. Although mostly descriptive and often self-serving, they identified critical gaps in our knowledge and illuminated the challenges and achievements of international media endeavors. Second, my colleagues and I undertook extensive fieldwork in seven countries/regions—Afghanistan, Bosnia, Central America, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sierra Leone. In each of these cases, research teams conducted extensive discussions with international donor agencies, officials of host countries, project staff and contractors, and local media experts and journalists. Every possible effort was made to interview all those experts and managers who had intimate knowledge of the ongoing media assistance programs. Teams also examined locally available documents and reports and used translators to translate documents into English when necessary. In the absence of hard quantitative data, they largely relied on available documentation, indepth interviews, and their own knowledge of the media scene for their findings and conclusions. Finally, I organized a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., to discuss the findings of the country studies and explore new directions for media assistance programs. Such meetings helped to identify many problems and challenges facing media assistance programs and helped in formulating a set of recommendation for policymakers." (Chapter 1, page 10-11) more

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Contribution des radios communautaires au developpement local: Cas de la radio rurale locale de Lalo (RRL/Lalo) au Bénin

Marie Madeleine Davakan

Dakar: Université Cheihk Anta Diop, Centre d'Etudes des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information (CESTI) (2006), 19 pp., 84 pp.

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African Media Development Initiative: Ghana. Research Findings and Conclusions

Samuel Kafewo

London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 66 pp.

"The media sector in Ghana has witnessed some dramatic, positive changes over the past few years, made possible by the promulgation of the 1992 democratic Constitution and the election in 2000 of President Kufuor’s government. All interviewees agreed that democratisation and the repeal of the Crim ... more

Community Media: International Perspectives Deep Insights

Guidebook on Sustainability Deep Insights

Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance Deep Insights

Community Media: International Perspectives
Deep Insights

Guidebook on Sustainability
Deep Insights

Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance
Deep Insights