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Educational Issues: Reporting & Media Representation
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Journalists
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Television News
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Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio
Top Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank Institute (WBIST), Program on Civic Engagement, Empowerment & Respect for Diversity (CEERD) (2007), 249 pp. [60 pp. + 5 annexes]
"This report is one of the first studies comparing systematically different aspects of community radio practice in developing countries. Based on five country surveys - Colombia, Mali, Nepal, Peru and South Africa - it provides descriptions and analyses of: participatory processes and volunteerism;
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Assessment Study on Media and the Corporate Sector for Governance
Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2007), 126 pp.
"Governance has been a perennial problem in Bangladesh both in public and private sectors. Against this backdrop, MRDI tries to present an in-depth analysis of the policies and operations of corporate houses in the country and their sweet-and-sour relations with the media, which has a catalytic role
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Evolución y retos de la televisión
Quito: CIESPAL (2003), 328 pp.
"En los últimos años, la televisión ha dado mayor importancia a los intereses del espectador y los ha convertido en el eje de su programación. En este contexto, “Evolución y retos de televisión” recoge los puntos de vista de varios autores sobre el proceso evolutivo que ha experimentado es
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Access to Information: UNDP's Engagement and a Guide to Key Actors
Top Insights
New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy, Democratic Governance Group (2003), 96 pp.
"The first section provides summary information on 69 UNDP supported projects and initiatives as of 2002/03. These initiatives were identified primarily by desk research from three main sources: (i) direct feedback from the Sub-Regional Resource Facilities (SURFs)2), the COs and Regional Bureaux, (i
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Manual: Periodismo de soluciones e integridad
Lima: Fundación Gustavo Mohme Llona; USAID (2025), 54 pp.
Media, Governance and Accountability in Nigeria
Ibadan: Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) (2023), xiii, 280 pp.
Media and Governance in Latin America: Toward a Plurality of Voices
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 273 pp.
"This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book provide empirically grounded theoretical insight in
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Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State
Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 51 pp.
"The discussion is based on an analysis of 46 protest songs, interviews with musicians, music producers and event promoters as well as field interviews and observations among audiences at selected popular music concerts and public workshops in Maputo city. Secondary data were drawn from radio broadc
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Transparent for Whom? Dissemination of Information on Ghana's Petroleum and Mining Revenue Management
Journal of Development Studies, volume 56, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2135-2153
"The dominant transparency narrative in policymaking attributes a key role to the public: once citizens gain information, they are predicted to use it to demand better resource governance. Whether the public receives the available information in the first place, however, has not been scrutinised in
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Talkback Program: Cambodia Communication Assistance Project. Impact Briefing
ABC International Development (2019), 11 pp.
"Talkback radio programs (TBP) were established to educate the Cambodian public on governance issues and provide a channel through which they could communicate with authorities directly. Programs were broadcast in 4 provinces: Battambang, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap, and Kampot. This impact briefing rev
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Media Development and the Open Government Partnership: Can Improved Policy Dialogue Spur Media Reforms?
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"The global effort to promote open and transparent government creates new opportunities to put media development on the political agenda of countries around the world. This report looks in particular at the structures of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which in its 2016 Paris Declaration char
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Haiti Grassroots Watch: Daring to be More Than Alternative
In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 324-334
The Media and Participatory Governance in Ghana: Trends and Challenges
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2019), 15 pp.
"Drawing on available data and literature, this paper begins with an introduction on the media landscape in Ghana and explains how the media have contributed to promoting participatory and accountable governance. It further discusses the trends, barriers of media and governance in Ghana and makes ke
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The Media and Participatory Governance in Burkina Faso
Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2019), 9 pp.
"The paper begins with an introduction on the media landscape in Burkina Faso and explains how they have today become key platforms for citizen-authorities’ engagements - where citizens can express their views and also receive information on the implementation and the operationalization of public
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The Media and Participatory Governance in Senegal: Trends and Challenges
Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2019), 12 pp.
"The paper begins with an introduction on the media landscape in Senegal and explains how they have today become platforms where citizens can get information and express their views on the implementation and the operationalization of public policies. This paper also elaborates on the challenges that
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Research Evidence for the Relationship Between Corruption and Civil Liberties
Transparency International (2018), 8 pp.
"Corrupt individuals have proven very adept at finding ways to get around formal constraints, which is why grassroots and bottom-up approaches to fighting corruption tend to be more sustainable in the long run than isolated institutional and legal reform. Often, well-intentioned laws are poorly enfo
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Beyond Watchdog Journalism: Media and Social Accountability
Top Insights
Grahamstown: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies; Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) (2018), 67 pp.
"The following report is an exploratory case study analysis of social accountability monitoring of the Eastern Cape Department of Education by the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) and mainstream media in the Eastern Cape. It provides in-depth analysis of the education programme’s work
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Doing Debate Differently: Media and Accountability
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 34 pp.
"This paper discusses a number of ways in which media plays a part in increasing accountability. It draws on quantitative and qualitative data from BBC Media Action’s work in nine countries. It finds that: media can influence accountability by empowering people, creating opportunities for construc
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Supporting an Independent, Vibrant Media in Kazakhstan
In: OECD Integrity Scan of Kazakhstan: Preventing Corruption for a Competitive Economy
Paris: OECD (2017), pp. 275-296
"This chapter discusses the role of media in the Republic of Kazakhstan in combating corruption. First, it provides an assessment of the recently passed access to information legislation in the country as it relates to media's access to government information. Second, it analyses the extent to which
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