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Ten Years of Media Support to the Balkans: An Assessment
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Aaron Rhodes

Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Media Task Force (2007), 47 pp.

"From 1995 to 2005, the international community provided significant support to media in the Western Balkans. Based on a meta-analysis of 37 project reports and interviews with a broad range of media experts, this study finds that direct support to independent media was a key factor in helping the c ... more

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Journalists as Power Brokers: Review of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and the Free Media Foundation (FMF)

Alf Skjeseth, Masood Hayat, Cyril Raphael

[Islamabad]: Royal Norwegian Embassy (2006), 25 pp.

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Perceptions and Practice: An Anthology of Impact Assessment Experience

Kay Sayce, Patricia Norrish

Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2006), 186 pp.

"Contains 11 studies, mainly on information projects, each with between four and eight stories told by people involved in those studies. Each set of stories is prefaced by a summary of the study." (commbox)

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Democracy Assisstance to Post-Conflict Mozambique: Intentions and Outcomes

Marc de Tollenaere

Den Haag: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2006), viii, 31 pp.

"The paper presents an overview of three areas of democracy assistance in Mozambique between 1994 and 2005. Support to elections appears as the most prominent sector of democracy assistance in both financial and political terms. External actors have effectively influenced some technical areas and co ... more

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Swedish Support to a Regional Environmental Journalism and Communication Programme in Eastern Africa for the Period 2002-2006

Birgitte Jallov, Charles Lwanga-Ntale

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2006), 96 pp.

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Assessment of USAID/Bosnia and Herzegovina Media Interventions: Final Report

Sinclair Cornell, Terry Thielen

Washington, DC: USAID (2006), 82 pp.

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Estado del arte de los programas de prevención de la violencia en jóvenes: Basados en el uso de medios de communicación

Jair Vega Casanova

Washington, DC; Lima: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS); Cooperación Técnica Alemana (GTZ) (2006), 82 pp.

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Haiti Media Assistance and Civic Education Program (RAMAK): Final Report

Creative Associates International

USAID (2006), 60 pp.

"Creative Associates International (Creative) launched the Haiti Media Assistance and Civic Education Program in October 2001. Known by its Creole acronym, RAMAK, which means “Rassemblan Medya pou Aksyon Kominite” or Media Gathering for Community Action, the goals of the project were to increase ... more

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From the Margins to the Cutting Edge: Community Media and Empowerment

Peter M. Lewis, Susan Jones (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2006), vii, 248 pp.

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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Use of IDRC Research Results in the Acacia / Connectivety Africa Programmes: Creating a Learning Environment for Future Research Dissemination

Catherine N. Adeya-Weya, Alan Finlay, Leila Hassanin, Olivier Sagna

Tina James (ed.)

Dakar: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), ix, 162 pp.

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Radio for Peacebuilding Africa: Project Evaluation. Executive Summary

Brussels: Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2006), 10 pp.

"In 2004, SFCG’s Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa (RFPA) project conducted a baseline survey in 21 sub-Saharan African countries, to ascertain knowledge of, attitude towards, and use of peacebuilding techniques by radio professionals. 1000 radio professionals were surveyed by email with phone follo ... more

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Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance
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Krishna Kumar

Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner (2006), 189 pp.

"This book represents one step in explaining international efforts to promote independent media. It attempts to examine the nature and significance of media assistance, discussing the evolution of the field, the focus of various programming approaches, and the possible impact of such efforts. It pre ... sents case studies of media assistance programs in different countries. The book concludes with a set of recommendations for expanding and deepening media assistance for the international community. This book project grew out of a multi-country study that I directed in 2002–2004 to examine media assistance programs funded by the US Agency for International Development. The overall purpose of the study was to assess the nature and effectiveness of USAID programs and make policy and programmatic recommendations for the future. In writing this book I have mostly drawn from the massive information collected during two years of research and analysis. The book is based primarily on three sources of information. First are reviews of literature covering scholarly writings, project and program documents, and articles in popular magazines and newspapers on media assistance. Such reviews were country specific as well as global in nature. Because the academic literature is extremely limited and media assistance is hardly covered in magazines and newspapers except in high-profile cases such as Bosnia and Serbia, reviews largely relied on program documentation. I had the unique advantage of perusing thousands of documents that are not available to the public. Although mostly descriptive and often self-serving, they identified critical gaps in our knowledge and illuminated the challenges and achievements of international media endeavors. Second, my colleagues and I undertook extensive fieldwork in seven countries/regions—Afghanistan, Bosnia, Central America, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sierra Leone. In each of these cases, research teams conducted extensive discussions with international donor agencies, officials of host countries, project staff and contractors, and local media experts and journalists. Every possible effort was made to interview all those experts and managers who had intimate knowledge of the ongoing media assistance programs. Teams also examined locally available documents and reports and used translators to translate documents into English when necessary. In the absence of hard quantitative data, they largely relied on available documentation, indepth interviews, and their own knowledge of the media scene for their findings and conclusions. Finally, I organized a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., to discuss the findings of the country studies and explore new directions for media assistance programs. Such meetings helped to identify many problems and challenges facing media assistance programs and helped in formulating a set of recommendation for policymakers." (Chapter 1, page 10-11) more

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Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building: Results of a Cross-National Quantitative Study

Steven E. Finkel, Aníbal Pérez-Linán, Mitchell A. Seligson

Dinorah Azpuru (assist.)

Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University (2006), 111 pp.

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Evaluation of UNESCO's Community Multimedia Centres: Final Report

Heather Creech

Paris: UNESCO, Internal Oversight Service, Evaluation Section (2006), 61 pp.

"Since 2001, UNESCO has established more than 87 Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) in over 22 developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean with major funding provided by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The evaluation describes the initiative's ma ... in achievement: 'The CMCs are accepted by and fully integrated into the communities and can in many cases be sustained beyond the pilot phase without core operating grants. The effort and funding that UNESCO has channeled into this transformative initiative have been exceeded by the hard work and commitment of the CMC staff and the communities where they are based. Among other key findings, the evaluators clearly acknowledge the contribution of CMCs to local development, noting that longer term benefits are already being realized within individual communities, such as the gradual removal of barriers to social inclusion, the stimulation of poverty alleviation through access to knowledge of better health, resource management, agriculture practices and the creation of new livelihoods opportunities. CMCs are also recognized as critical tools for local communities to mediate changes brought on by globalization and the advent of new technologies: The CMC role in fostering cultural resilience. The capacity of a community to retain critical knowledge and at the same time adapt to external influences and pressures - is particularly remarkable. In addition to an extensive review of documentation, the evaluation used field research, interviews, questionnaires, an online survey, and case studies to review the CMC initiative, a flagship activity of UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector. Equitable and expanded access to ICTs is promoted in many ways, such as subsidized training for those with special requirements and/or marginalized groups; close work with schools, small businesses and the independent sector; or the provision of information to more remote communities through radio, says the evaluation report. The evaluation also points out challenges faced by the CMC initiative, including the strategic use of CMC networks as delivery mechanisms for development services, from projects and programmes of UN agencies and national governments to those of local civil society groups. Many challenges relate to sustainability of local facilities in low-income and least-developed localities. As CMCs depend on volunteers for the delivery of training, radio programming and other services, they face difficulties in finding appropriate incentives for volunteers and struggle with managing volunteer turnover. Another challenge consists of opportunities for networking and staff development, which to date have been limited. Evaluators point out the need for CMCs to learn from and access expertise more easily and systematically from each other in order to be sustainable. Enabling national policy environments are very important for the development and sustainability of CMCs. Sudden changes in national policies on connectivity charges can destabilize CMCs and broadcast licensing restrictions or restrictions on press freedom can prevent CMCs from being able to broadcast freely and to a broader constituency, says the report." (UNESCO website) more

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Ausdrucksstark: Modelle zur aktiven Medienarbeit mit Heranwachsenden mit Behinderung

Elke Michaelis, Oliver Lieb (eds.)

München: kopaed (2006), 112 pp.

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Journalism as a Tool for the Formation of a Free, Informed and Participatory Democratic Development: Swedish Support to a Palestinian Journalist Training Project on the West Bank and Gaza for the Period 1996-2005

Birgitte Jallov

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2006), 49 pp.

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Evaluation Report on Medienhilfe Network Projects in Macedonia and Kosovo

Mark Thompson

Zürich: medienhilfe (mh) (2006), 17 pp.

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Evaluation Report on Communications and Information Policy Programme

Debbie Budlender

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2006), 55 pp.

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Informe de la evaluación del programa Centroamérica en Sintonía (CAESI)

Andrés Geerts, Margarita Herrera

Free Voice (2006), 38 pp.

"El programa CAESI ha sido el primer intento de trabajar un programa en conjunto entre ALER y AMARC, dos redes con mucha historia y momentos de rivalidad. Fue la primera vez en la historia que se hizo un proyecto de estas características. Se hizo en una región muy problemática, históricamente po ... more

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Towards an Improved Strategy of Support to Public Service Broadcasting: Evaluation of UNESCO's Support to Public Service Broadcasting 2005-2006. Final Report

Mark J. Stiles, Cindy Weeks

Paris: UNESCO; Stiles Association (2006), 50 pp.

"Progress on Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) is more likely to occur when there is collaboration with others; where there are strategic opportunities; when UNESCO uses project funds to reward progressive policy change; where there are staff in the field who are committed to PSB; when there is foll ... more

Ten Years of Media Support to the Balkans: An Assessment Deep Insights

Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance Deep Insights

Ten Years of Media Support to the Balkans: An Assessment
Deep Insights

Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance
Deep Insights