"The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has commissioned iMedia Associates (iMedia) to conduct a Capitalisation Exercise (CapEx) of its media assistance, with the primary objective of examining its current programmes and bringing out lessons learned. As the second output of this CapE
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x, iMedia has carried out a review of what other donors are doing on media assistance. As agreed, it focuses on current media support by five donors/agencies: DFID (UK Aid), Sida (Sweden), UNESCO, UNDP and the Knight Foundation. We have chosen the five donors to reflect the diversity of donor-types, namely two large and influential Western donors (UK’s DFID and Swedish Sida), agencies in the UN system (UNDP and UNESCO) and a well-endowed US-based private foundation (Knight Foundation). This review of other donors also synthesises key findings from a literature review of the wider media assistance sector in order to identify good practice and situate SDC’s approach in relation to other donors. Our emphasis is on current programmes, policy documents and funding mechanisms." (Introduction)
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"This report reviews the current status of outcomes of 23 Knight International Journalism fellowships that ran from 2007 through Spring 2010. The initial outcomes of 19 of these fellowships were documented in the September, 2009 report. This year, we review whether the outcomes of those 19 fellowshi
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ps have been sustained and document the outcomes of four additional fellowships that ended relatively recently (initial outcomes for these four fellows were also documented in last years report). International Center for Journalists (ICfJ), the administering agency for the program, had placed these 23 fellows in countries in Africa, Latin, Central and South America, Eurasia, and the Middle East." (Executive summary, page 2)
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