"[This is] a series of short issue briefs for funders on potential priority areas for funding activities or initiatives that would bring the work of digital rights organisations and environmental justice actors closer together. Each brief states the key problem from the perspective of the APC networ
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k, suggests mechanisms or processes for engagement and actors we feel are worth engaging, and includes specific recommendations for donors." (Overview, page 3)
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"Media funders are still looking at questions of media assessment through many different lenses. The survey results indicated that the two biggest challenges facing this field are lack of consensus about what constitutes “impact” (33%) and lack of clarity about methods/measures within the media
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field (30%). Rather than a weakness, however, this may prove to be a strength. The diversity of approaches allows for small groups of like-minded funders and grantees to develop and test tools and methodologies specific to their shared goals. Rather than a single tool or approach, the field may end up with a suite of relevant approaches to be applied in various instances. MIF will continue to track this emerging field, and will work with funders to continue related conversations that help to hone more targeted methods." (Executive summary, page 3)
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"As a component of international cultural cooperation, the donation of second-hand books is a current practice that is both common and controversial. The practice arose from the realization that bibliographic and documentary resources were unevenly distributed in the world. Book donation programmes
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aim to transfer a portion of the books that are plentiful in rich countries to poor countries where they are scarce. [...] Book donations programmes are complex. They require careful planning in order to achieve their objectives. After half a century of experience in this field, UNESCO has amassed knowledge capable of effectively guiding those actively involved in this type of initiative. The donation of books is not just operational but, above all, has to accommodate the needs and demands of sustainable development in the countries and communities concerned. In this guide, UNESCO examines both the policy and practical aspects of book donations. Donation programmes can, we are sure, be a very beneficial and useful practice as long as they consider a complex and variable set of factors. These factors are examined in this work with a view to proposing an integrated approach to their development, within a series of structural interactions which together form the "book chain." (Introduction, page 7-8)
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"This OECD-DAC Donor Information and Communication Technologies Strategies Matrix CD-Rom presents the latest information on how bilateral and multilateral donors [21 OECD countries and 25 multilateral organizations] have mainstreamed information and communication technologies (ICT) in their developm
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ent assistance programmes in order to more effectively and efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This new compilation exercise builds on two previous ones: the first was conducted jointly by the OECD-DCD and IDRC in February 2001, the second was carried out by the OECD-DCD in February 2003. This latest version, prepared as a contribution to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), is not only updated, it is also enriched with the inclusion of a large number of strategy papers and other related documents." (Introduction)
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"Ce manuel, adressé à toutes les composantes du secteur des médias (organes et entreprises de presse, associations, syndicats, journalistes ou techniciens), recense les organismes (coopérations bilatérales, multilatérales, fondations) venant en appui au secteur des médias africains sur le pla
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n financier, matériel ou méthodologique. Des fiches synthétiques présentent les axes privilégiés de travail de chacun des organismes, et des interviews de leurs principaux responsables mettent en perspective leurs actions. Enfin, un chapitre est consacré au point de vue sur l'aide à la presse de plusieurs journalistes et hommes de médias africains." (Dos de couverture)
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