"The vast majority of IFEX members say it is more difficult now than a year ago to find project funding. Half say it is more difficult now than five years ago to find project funding. The dominant source for project funding is foundations outside the country of the member. A majority of IFEX members
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also say it is more difficult now versus a year ago to raise core funding. Half say it is more difficult now versus five years ago. The dominant source for core funding is foundations outside the country of the member. Members say that half of their budgets comes from projects, and about a quarter comes from core funding. They say this is pretty much unchanged from five years ago. Open Society Institute dominates the list of funders for IFEX members - five years ago and now - with the National Endowment for Democracy figuring prominently as well. Almost all IFEX members say they face challenges in finding funding. About half say funders are requiring them to do things that they did not require five years ago. Members say that funding sources that had supported their work in the past were no longer supporting them. Five IFEX members have neither a full-time nor a part-time person for budget and finance. Twenty-two do not have anyone handling fundraising full-time." (Executive summary)
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"Western-supported media assistance in transition and developing countries has a long history. Building independent media, preferably through the nongovernmental sector, is seen as an important aspect of achieving mondernization and democratization. This article questions the idealized assumptions u
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nderlining such programmes and argues that media assistance donors rarely analyze it critically. The article discusses the political character of Western media assistance and explores the organizational eco-system in which the NGOs flourish. The article concludes by observing NGOs' unexpected power in the process of providing Western media assistance." (Abstract)
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"This report provides an overview of the discussions and findings from the ‘International Partnership Meeting’ held in Copenhagen in September 2009, as well as the best practices and lessons learnt from organisations engaged in Partnerships over the past years. Representatives of twenty one inte
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rnational media support and press freedom advocacy organisations met to assess the experiences of working together in Partnerships, and explored ways to further improve collaborative support to media in countries affected by conflict, human insecurity and political transition." (Introduction)
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"In May 2005, a programme was initiated to support reconstruction and development of media in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province destroyed by the tsunami on December 26, 2005. This programme, which was given the name Aceh Media Construction Assistance (AMRA), received funding of € 1,097,927 from Fr
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ee Voice, Oxfam, ICCO, and NED. Under the coordination of Free Voice, the AMRA programme is run by Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI), Kantor Berita Radio 68H (KBR 68H), and Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia Daerah (KPID) – hereinafter referred to as the AMRA partners. From July through August 2006, Free Voice, in its capacity as programme coordinator, decided to carry out an external evaluation of the AMRA programme through an independent evaluator. The purpose of this evaluation was to compare the results achieved by the partners with the objectives established in the project proposal and other preparatory documents. The evaluation also aims to identify the extent to which the collaboration between the partners had created synergy to build the media in Aceh and to make recommendations for future programme implementation – including specific recommendations on implementation of Aceh’s first ever direct elections of regional heads, which are scheduled to take place on December 10, 2006." (Introduction, page 4)
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"Die Neuorientierung des FES-Medienprojekts für das südliche Afrika hat also zu einer eindeutigen Konzentration auf diese drei Hauptarbeitsbereiche (politische Rahmenbedingungen, alternative Medien und Gender) geführt. Daraus folgt, dass die Stiftung konsequent auf einen Arbeitsbereich verzichtet
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hat, in dem sie früher sehr aktiv war: der Aus- und Fortbildung von Journalisten im rein handwerklichen Bereich (an deren Bedarf es keinen Zweifel geben kann). Das muss nicht notwendigerweise für die gesellschaftspolitisch relevante und themenorientierte Fortbildung gelten. Dieser Rückzug hatte mehrere Gründe: Zum einen mangelt es im südlichen Afrika nicht an entsprechenden Angeboten (auch von Geber-Seite). Zum anderen wurde die Frage, ob dieses Arbeitsfeld zum Kernauftrag einer politischen Stiftung gehört, nach langer Diskussion negativ beantwortet. Und angesichts der immer knapper werdenden Mittel sind die Stiftungen gezwungen, sich auf den Kern ihrer Arbeit zu konzentrieren. Hinzu kamen die durch Erfahrungen bedingten Zweifel an der nachhaltigen Wirksamkeit von relativ kurzen Fortbildungsmaßnahmen, die in der Regel isoliert vom täglichen Arbeitsumfeld der Teilnehmer stattfinden." (Seite 11-12)
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"Listet die Profile von 21 in der Medien- und Journalistenförderung tätigen Institutionen auf, vom BMZ bis zum Solidaritätsfonds Demokratische Medien in der Welt. Außerdem sind die folgenden Veröffentlichungen beigefügt: Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage "Förderung der Medien
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in Entwicklungsländern" (2002); Bärbel Roeben: Medienförderung (2002); Michael Krzeminski: Medien in der Entwicklungspolitik: alte Paradigmen und neue Perspektiven (1999); Manfred Oepen: Deutsche Medienförderung im Abseits (1995)." (commbox)
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"A concise overview looking at the approaches, activities, and challenges of governmental, international, and nongovernmental organizations in the field of media and peacebuilding." (commbox)
"The purpose of this study is to provide a ‘map’ of media assistance. Like all maps, this one has artificial limitations. It is confined largely to the post-Soviet period. It is a map of media assistance efforts, based almost wholly on experiences on activities emanating from Europe and the Unit
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ed States, though a richer analysis would include a much wider geographical net. Unlike the cartographers who map mountains and lakes, we benefit from the cooperation of those being mapped as they help make the document more accurate. Nonetheless, it is a project in process and the complexity of the sector makes it almost impossible to provide every detail in what is inevitably a superficial map. Our method will be to develop broad outlines of the sector and then focus in on a few features of the terrain. As in many industries, there are dominant players at each level, but also many niche participants who play a critical role and are necessary for understanding the overall picture. The sector is growing rapidly and changing in many ways. Donors or ‘investors’ and entities in the sector are always looking for new areas (subject matter, geographical) of growth. Those who require funding seek to expand the pool of suppliers of funds and try to describe an expanded notion of need or demand for their services. There are areas of intense competition and areas of cooperation if not collusion. Over time, ‘successful’ models emerge and some participants withdraw, either because their product is unsupported in the marketplace, or because the nature of the demand changes. Media assistance primarily takes the form of journalism training, direct support to news organisations, efforts to aid media law reform, support for professional journalism and broadcast associations, support for developing financial sustainability of media outlets, and initiatives designed to transcend national, religious or ethnic barriers in the media." (Introduction, page 1-2)
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"The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF) is in the process of restructuring its media support programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. In November 2000, Frank Priess (KAF, Buenos Aires) and I presented the concept for a revised media support strategy. Based on a critical revision of the political framework an
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d ongoing programmes, this study suggested an integrated regional approach in order to refocus media support work and to transfer its broad basic approach to an advanced concept of specialised training and networking. This study was not commissioned as an academic venture, centred on empiric research and data collection. Its qualitative approach was based on an integrated analysis of the media sector and its political framework in two East African and two Southern African countries. The main source for this analysis - besides visits to media houses, universities and training centres - was a series of roundtables and interviews with almost 100 media professionals, academics, lecturers and politicians in Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa, in July and August 2000, focusing on four main areas: Political framework conditions and the legal status, mission, programme, programme dissemination, staff, infrastructure, finances and economic viability of media houses and institutions; job opportunities for, and working conditions of, media personnel with special emphasis on political, legal, economic and professional difficulties; educational and training background and further training of media professionals; character and performance of professional associations in the media sector." (Editor's note, page 7)
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"Eine Darstellung der Förderschwerpunkte der verschiedenen institutionellen Träger der deutschen Medienförderung. Das ausgewertete Datenmaterial bezieht sich v.a. auf die zweite Hälfte der 90er Jahre." (commbox)