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The Power of the Media: A Handbook for Peacebuilders
Deep Insights
"Presents case studies from 12 countries and lists 69 organisations working with media as conflict prevention and/or peacebuilding tool." (commbox)
Donor ICT Strategies Matrix, 2003 Edition
Deep Insights
Paris: OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (2003), 85 pp.
"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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Use and Abuse of Media in Vulnerable Societies
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2003), 15 pp.
"Analyzing the “clues to conflict” in vulnerable societies can enable policymakers to identify societies that are particularly vulnerable to media abuse and decide on the most appropriate type and timing of media interventions. These clues are divided into two categories. Structural indicators c
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Access to Information: UNDP's Engagement and a Guide to Key Actors
Deep 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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Communication and Natural Resource Management: Experience - Theory
Deep Insights
Rome: FAO (2003), ix, 98 pp.
"This book has been written as a tool for people involved or interested in communication and natural resource management who seek a better understanding of how different theories and strategic change principles relate to actual practise. It is not, however, a book of theory nor is it an argument for
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SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners. Vol. 1: A Comparative Overview of the Laws and Practice in Malawi, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
Key Guides
Deep Insights
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2003), xii, 144 pp.
International Media Assistance: A Review of Donor Activities and Lessons Learned
Deep Insights
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2003), 32 pp.
Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Good Governance, Human Development and Mass Communications
Deep Insights
Cambridge, Mass.; London: UNDP Human Development Report Office (2002), 43 pp.
"The growth in electoral democracies presents many potential opportunities for human development. Yet in practice transitional and consolidating democracies often remain fragile and incomplete, lacking strong institutions essential for effective voice and accountability, including freedom of express
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Mapping Media Assistance
Deep Insights
Oxford; Philadelphia: University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Progamme in Comparative Media Law and Policy; Annenberg School for Communication (2002), 62 pp.
"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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The Finances of African Newspapers: An Overview of the Financial Situation of Selected Newspapers
Deep Insights
Paris: Partners for Media in Africa (ParMa) (2002), 32 pp.
Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space
Deep Insights
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2002), 408 pp.
"The bloody conflicts of the past decade have focused international attention on the strategic role of the media in promoting war and perpetuating chaos. Written against this backdrop, Forging Peace brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO, and other
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La mondialisation des médias contre la censure: Tiers monde et audiovisuel sans frontières
Deep Insights
Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier (2002), 307 pp.
"La mondialisation des médias est souvent perçue comme une menace pour la souveraineté ou l'identité nationale des pays du Tiers Monde. Elle est en revanche rarement envisagée sous l'angle de ses effets potentiellement subversifs dans ceux de ces pays où le pouvoir, soucieux de son monopole po
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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.
"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry
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Institutional Review of Educational Radio Dramas
Deep Insights
Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2002), 134 pp.
"Taking 14 radio serial dramas from around the world shows that many aspects of the way they are organised are not replicable: what works in one context would just not work in another. This is because of the very nature of pro-social media projects: they depend so much on the personal contacts of th
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World Bank Support for Provision of Textbooks in Sub-Saharan Africa - 1985-2000
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank, Human Development Sector, Africa Regions (2002), 103 pp.
"To help countries establish systems that can ensure reliable provision of textbooks has been an important element of the World Bank's support for education development in Africa over the last two decades. Other development agencies, and African governments, have made similar investments. However, d
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Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy
Deep Insights
London: Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), 2nd ed. (2002), viii, 178 pp.
"Too often the interests of the “producer” dominate in the evolution of IP policy, and that of the ultimate consumer is neither heard nor heeded. So policy tends to be determined more by the interests of the commercial users of the system, than by an impartial conception of the greater public go
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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory
Deep Insights
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), ix, 273 pp.
"A valuable information resource that provides a country-by-country analysis of the “book chain” in 18 English-speaking Africa countries, together with an annotated directory of the major players that make up the book chain within those countries. Four introductory essays provide overviews of bo
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What Works? A Blast from the Past: Project Profiles from the 60s and 70s... Social Marketing, Community Media, Mass Campaigns, Interactive Radio, Gender Equity, Participation, the Media and More
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development (AED) (2001), 283 pp.
"The Academy for Educational Development (AED) has been in the social marketing, communication, and participation business for some 40 years. This book profiles 82 projects carried out in the 1960s and 1970s in countries around the world. These projects were researched and documented by AED under it
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