"This publication describes the main media assistance funders outside the USA in an alphabetical fashion from 'Arab States' to 'United Kingdom', complemented by data on
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the European Commission (EC), UNESCO and UNDP. The EC is likely to be the biggest single funder of media development projects besides the United States. An approximate and conservative guess was a current yearly commitment by the EC of about $82 million worth of media-related projects. For comparison, Sweden and Norway provided $30 million and $19 million on media support, respectively, in 2008, and the Netherlands and Switzerland were estimated to fund about $37 million and $29 million per year, respectively. In forming part of the "governance" agenda of many donors the rationale for media support is being much more precisely articulated than in the past, and it is no longer as confused with either communications as public relations or with communications as a tool for social or behavioural change. Nevertheless, often there is no long-term strategy or commitment for media development and, as a result, more complex media reform programmes (for instance legislation, reform of state broadcasters, or establishment of national training structures) are not tackled accordingly." (CAMECO Update 1-2010)
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"IPDC’s support for community radio in Nepal has been a strategic, defining factor in the growth of
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the community media sector. The Programme has regularly supported small, distinct projects that have catalyzed the growth of the sector at different times by promoting replicable models, establishing precedents and benchmarks, and building the capacity of key organizational players. Between 1993 and 1997, IPDC played a key role in the establishment of the country’s first independent broadcaster, Radio Sagarmatha. In 1999, the Programme was instrumental in setting up Nepal’s first rural radio licensee, Community Radio Madanpokhara. In 2002, IPDC provided critical support to Radio Lumbini, the region’s fi rst cooperative broadcaster, and Radio Swargadwari, a station in the heart of the country’s armed conflict. In 2006, IPDC supported the Nepal Association of Community Radio Broadcasters in a broad, sector-wide initiative. Community radio has gone from one license in 1997 to nearly 90 at the end of 2007." (Page 3)
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"This paper aims to be 'an analytical tool designed to help stakeholders assess the state of the media and measure
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the impact of media development programmes' (page 7). It has been prepared to define indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for the Development of Communications (IPDC). It suggests five major categories of indicators, and each category is broken down into a number of component issues and sources of verification. The five categories are: a system of regulation and control conductive to freedom of expression; plurality and diversity of media; media as a platform for democratic discourse; professional capacity building and supportive institutions; and infrastructural capacity." (CAMECO Update 2-2008)
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Provides a mappping of 26 initiatives to develop indicators of media development and their respective methodologies, and analyses these initiati
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ves in terms of their value and relevance to the priorities of the IPDC. The paper also proposes sample indicators and data sources for five principal media development outcomes which are broken down into separate categories.
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"The present study of the UNESCO International
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Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) is a follow-up of an evaluation of the Programme undertaken in 2002. The purpose of the study is to assess the efficiency of the reforms that have been undertaken since 2002. The study is mainly a desk study based on relevant project and organisational documents of IPDC and the Communication and Information Sector (CI) in UNESCO. In addition, the team interviewed relevant resource persons." (Executive summary)
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"The International Programme for the
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Development of Communication (IPDC) was created by UNESCO in 1980. The pivotal aim was to increase co-operation and assistance for the development of communication infrastructures and to reduce the gap between countries in the communication field. The programme emerged from debates within UNESCO about a New World Communication and Information order, and reflections on the importance of communications media as tools for development.
Norway has supported IPDC from the very beginning, and was, one of the main founders of the program’s Special Account. Down the years Norway has contributed a total of US$ 11 428 000 to the Special Account from 1982 to 2000. The Norwegian contribution has however gradually decreased from 1 052 000 US$ in 1988, to around 2 million NOK annually in recent years (varying between 226,432 and 308,315 US$ according to the exchange rate). During the last six years Norway has allocated 1 576 474 US$ to the Special Account. Norway is the second largest donor after Denmark. Until 2001 support to IPDC was specified as a separate item in the budget of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For the 2001/2002 budget it was decided to allocate support to the IPDC under the heading of “Good governance” (UD 2002: post 74, page 153–154).
The financial contributions to the IPDC have always been inadequate, and the problem worsened after 1995 due to the drastic drop in funding. In 2001 a moratorium was put on new projects and 46 approved projects were waiting to be financed. Given Norway’s relationship to the IPDC, it is not surprising that it would like to see an evaluation both of the program’s impact and its current impecunious situation. The role of projects in the area of media and communication must be considered within the framework of Norway’s total development policies, but particularly in relation to the commitment to strengthen democracy, accountability and transparency where the media play a central role. The present evaluation is intended to serve as a background for a renewed discussion of the continuation of Norwegian support to the IPDC, and of the reorientation and renewal of the programme." (Fact sheet, page 6)
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"This publication deals with the meeting convened by Unesco at Bangkok, 18-29 January 1960, to draw up a programme for
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the development of information media in South East Asia. The meeting was attended by representatives of Member States of Unesco, mass media experts of the region and observers from international organizations -about 120 participants in all. The Bangkok meeting forms part of a world survey which Unesco is conducting at the request of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Similar meetings are expected tobe held for Latin America at Santiago de Chile in 1961 and for Africa at Addis Ababa in 1962. The survey is intended to enable the United Nations to evaluate the resources needed to help the underdeveloped countries to build up their information media. The present publication contains the inaugural speech by the Director-General of Unesco at the Bangkok meeting, followed by the report adopted by the meeting and by papers submitted to it by various specialists in the mass communication field. These papers are grouped according to the four main subjects coveredby the meeting, namely: (i) newspapers and periodicals / (ii) news agencies and telecommunications / (iii) radio broadcasting, film and television / (iv) training in journalism and mass communication research." (Foreword)
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