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The Dimitra Community Listeners' Clubs on the Move

Dimitra Newsletter, issue 22 (2012), pp. 3-10

"In Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the rate at which listeners’ clubs are being formed and the fact that the approach is now being reproduced in various settings are indications of the success of this strategy and the extent to which it is proving sustainable. In South Kivu, for ... more

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Thai Public Broadcasting Service: Towards Building a Civic-Minded Society

Palphol Rodloytuk

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2011), 190 pp.

"This book documents the researcher's effort to gain insights on how Thailand's public broadcaster Thai Public Broadcasting Service strategised its civil-society strengthening mechanisms, including creating a television programme called 'TV Jor Nuer', that is produced by and for the citizen journali ... more

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Community Media Citizen’s Debate: Handbook for the Community Media Sector and Civil Society Institutions

Münster: European Youth4Media Network (2011), 51 pp.

"Our association is already five years old. During those five years we’ve managed to achieve a lot. Above all, we’ve built a structure which allows us to develop futher. In addition, we’ve managed to transfer our mission and common goals onto concrete actions and programs. For five years we’ ... more

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All Together Now: Oral Testimony, Theatre, Media, Debate. How One Community’s Concerns Reached a National Audience

Siobhan Warrington, Sahar Ali, Olivia Bennett

London: Panos London (2011), 16 pp.

"This case study demonstrates Panos’s integrated approach to communication for development: combining first person testimony, relationship-building, inclusive dialogue and working with the mainstream media so that the voices of people most affected by development issues contribute to national-leve ... more

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Driving Change Through Rural Radio Debate in Uganda

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2011), 100 pp.

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Die Zukunft der Bürgerbeteiligung: Herausforderungen -Trends - Projekte

Marion Stock (Red.)

Bonn: Stiftung Mitarbeit (2011), 292 pp.

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Pera Natin ‘To! Citizen Action for Good Governance

Red Batario (ed.)

Quezon City: Philippine Public Transparency Reporting Project (PPTRP) (2011), 154 pp.

"The starting point of PPTRP has been that real and lasting transparency and accountability are best built from the ground up piece by piece and by ordinary people taking their responsibilities as citizens seriously. It is one of the reasons we subtitled the project and website “Pera Natin ‘to!� ... �� (It’s Our Money!). We wanted to help build public ownership in the issue. Our concern was – and remains still today – that changes introduced at the top by one administration – can so easily be taken away by another unless that change is deeply rooted in the ground and in its people. So we believed- and still believe – that real sustainable change in governance comes only from active and continual participation of citizens. It needs action and engagement at both the national and local level. It needs groups, sectors and communities finding new ways of coming and working together to develop new ideas and build new constituencies and avenues for change. It needs to involve and energise all those hundreds of thousands of honest and professional civil servants across the country who for way too long have quietly despaired going to work each day given the failure of leadership in their own departments and agencies. All this required and still requires a combined response that uses new thinking and approaches. It required first and foremost the start of a public literacy campaign around public finances since citizens cannot ever hope to adequately monitor or engage in things that they don’t understand. So it was that we built our project equally around information, education, training, capacity building, networking, advocacy and campaigns. So it was that we worked with people’s organizations, civil society groups, media and ordinary members of the public at one and the same time. We figured that everybody had a role to play in building and securing transparency and accountability – and so everybody should get involved. We started work on a website full of the basics – (www.transparencyreporting.net) accessible and easy to understand information about all aspects of public finance. We assumed little – partly because we knew little ourselves and were learning on the job as we went. We wrote, commissioned and edited material designed to give readers a sense of understanding about how public finances, systems and cycles worked and what kind of issues and problems there were. We tried to identify how and where money was raised and how it was allocated and spent and why and by whom. Invariably it comes down to money. If you can follow the money, you can find the problems and perhaps even help suggest some solutions. We developed training modules too – modules aimed equally at journalists and activists and ordinary members of the public. And we toured around the Philippines going north and as far south as Tawi-Tawi where we were told few groups ever venture. We encouraged people to report allegations of corruption – but equally we sought out instances of where government was working well and deserved highlighting. It is easy to be negative – but far better to be critically constructive. We received many more allegations than we could investigate – in large part because sources were scared even to follow up and meet with us in confidence. Protection for whistle-blowers remains very much a pressing issue today that needs sorting ... While all projects must by necessity always remain above the political fray, we were naturally delighted that as things turned out, the new incoming administration made improving transparency and accountability a primary goal. When an initiative finds itself working in support of government policy, it is always easier. So we were delighted to see the issue of political abuse of public projects taken up as were the appointment of some leading proponents of open government to key positions in the administration. We were very fortunate also for the chance to work closely with officials in several key departments and on various initiatives linked to the national budget. [...] Perhaps one key achievement we might be remembered for, alongside the website which will remain as hopefully a useful resource for those wanting to learn more about public sector finances -- is having set up four local citizen watchdog groups that demonstrate how easy and important it is for ordinary people to get involved and play their part. We hope more groups can follow their lead. People power needs to be much more than a slogan and become a way of life." (Introduction, page 16-19) more

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Accountability Through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

Sina Odugbemi, Taeku Lee (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xxv, 507 pp.

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Community MHz: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal. A Pilot Assessment of 15 Stations

Raghu Mainali (coord.)

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2011), 124 pp.

"This document reports on the pilot assessment of 15 community radio stations – or of radios that claim to be community radios – based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) developed by the Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) / Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists ( ... more

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Generating Genuine Demand for Accountability Through Communication: A Trainer's Guide

Anne-Katrin Arnold, Helen Garcia

Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), viii, 62 pp.

"This guide is designed for development practitioners in donor organizations, governments, and civil society, who are setting up capacity-building programs for promoting sustainable accountability and governance reform. A conceptual framework for communication and accountability provides trainers wi ... more

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Freedomfone

freedomfone (2011), 117 pp.

"Freedom Fone allows anyone with a phone to access or contribute information on a specific issue 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It takes advantage of audio and text to address language and literacy barriers when reaching out to marginalised audiences that don't have access to other media. No ... more

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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Partizipation im indischen Community Radio

Julia Fröhlich

Köln: Universität Köln, Magisterarbeit (2011), 94 pp.

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Cambodian Communication Review 2011

Phnom Penh: Royal University of Phnom Penh, Department of Media & Communication, Cambodia Communication Institut (2011), 66 pp.

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Community Media and the Rearticulation of State-Civil Society Relations in Venezuela

Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Gisela C. Gil-Egui

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 250-274

"This article critically examines the role of community media movements in articulating state-Civil society relations in the establishment of a popular radical democracy in Venezuela. We employ institutional analysis and a frame-alignment approach to understand how community and alternative media (C ... more

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Getting it Together: Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, Participation and Non-Discrimination with Communication Methods

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 39 pp.

"This Guidance Note suggests concrete ways to enable the people in a country to influence the work of government and public agencies - and in that way ensure democratic development results. While both the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action point to the need for better use of communica ... more

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Applying Local Solutions to Local Problems: Radio Listeners as Agents of Change. An Evaluation of the Impact on Listeners of Radio Programming in Chad and Niger Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Peace Through Development Project (PDEV)

Karen Greiner

USAID (2010), 45, 7 pp.

"This report documents the results of a two-month field research evaluation in Niger and Chad on the media component of the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program funded by USAID under the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). Equal Access, a non-governmental organization (NGO) speci ... more

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Voces y sonoridades de un proceso ciudadano: Sistematización de una experiencia social
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María Orlanda Aristizábal, Eduardo Gutiérrez et al.

Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura (2010), 254 pp.

"El programa ‘Radios Ciudadanas’ es liderado por la Dirección de Comunicaciones del Ministerio de Cultura y su objetivo es impulsar la democracia, la participación ciudadana y la diversidad cultural, por medio de la creación y consolidación de franjas de análisis y opinión, en las radios c ... more

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On Air: A Comparative Study of Four Community Radio Stations in India

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik, Vasuki Belavadi

Hyderabad; New Delhi: University of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication;UNESCO (2010), 31 pp.

"The broad purpose of this study undertaken between March and June 2010 was to document the working of two rural community radio (CR) stations (owned and managed by community-based organizations) and two campus-based CR stations that have completed at least one year of broadcasting. We examined the ... more

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La comunicación como dimensión de la integración andina: Estrategia de comunicación del proyecto SOCICAN

Lima: Proyecto SOCICAN;Comunidad Andina;Comisión Europea (2010), 75 pp.

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Understanding Community Media
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Kevin Howley (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (2010), xii, 410 pp.

"With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis ... more

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