"Christoph Hantel hat drei Jahre an einer mosambikanischen Universität Journalisten ausgebildet. In einer landesweiten Befragung ließ er ein Zehntel aller mosambikanischen Journalisten interviewen, sprach mit Herausgebern, Politikern und Dozenten und besuchte Medien und Ministerien. Er zeichnet ei
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n präzises Profil des journalistischen Tagesgeschäfts, stellt die staatsnahen und unabhängigen Medien vor, porträtiert und bewertet die Ausbildungsprogramme und lässt die Mosambikaner selbst zu Wort kommen: Welche Entwicklungen zeichnen sich in den Medien ab? Was müssen Journalisten wissen und können? Welche Demokratieform ist möglich?" (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This study critically evaluates international democratization assistance in postconflict societies to discern what has worked, what has not, and how aid programs can be designed to have a more positive impact. The authors offer a unique recipient perspective as they explore three dimensions of demo
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cracy promotion: elections, free media, and human rights. Drawing on the experiences of Afghanistan, Cambodia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, they suggest concrete ways in which the international community can better foster democratization in the wake of conflict." (Publisher description)
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"Inspired by innovations that emerged from the Kothmale Community Radio and Internet project, Sri Lanka, in 1999 and 2000, UNESCO has since established some fifty CMCs in a wide range of contexts in some twenty countries on three continents. In addition to new facilities and increased local capacity
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in communities around the world, pilot CMCs have involved a wide variety of partnerships, across all levels, and have led to an expanding number of creative and dynamic new initiatives and solutions in key areas, from content creation to financial and social sustainability. Significantly, the first phase of the CMC programme has also led to national ‘scale-up’ projects now underway in Mali, Mozambique and Senegal. This volume not only shares the context and experiences of UNESCO-supported CMCs, but is also intended to facilitate direct, practical cooperation between international and national agencies with CMCs at the ground level by providing a directory of local CMC services and contact information." (Foreword)
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"Impact assessment is one of a variety of monitoring tools available to ensure that a community radio effectively works towards set objectives and aspirations. In Mozambique a ‘bare-foot’ impact assessment methodology has been designed, tested, revised and implemented with eight community-owned
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stations between 2000 and 2005. The present article explores the three separate areas of attention focused upon in this methodology: (1) an internal assessment of the radio's way of functioning as an organism; (2) an assessment of the capacity of the community producers through their programmes to meet the needs and desires of the community; and (3) the overall objective of it all: assessing the extent to which impact can be registered vis-Ã -vis a positive development change within the community, empowerment, mending of the social tissue, etc. resulting from the work of the community radio." (Abstract)
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"El tema principal de este libro es la combinación de Internet y la radio, que ofrece un rango potencial y nuevo de posibilidades para los proyectos de comunicación para el desarrollo. Sus 17 capÃtulos examinan algunos proyectos que incorporan radio e Internet y los agrupan en tres amplias catego
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rÃas que ocasionalmente se superponen: proyectos que crean o apoyan a redes de radiodifusoras; proyectos en los cuales la emisora de radio sirve como portal o como un intermediario comunitario, proporcionando un acceso mediado pero significativo y eficaz, al potencial de conocimientos e información que se encuentran en Internet; proyectos que utilizan la combinación de radio e Internet para facilitar la comunicación con las comunidades emigrantes, proporcionando un acceso mediado pero eficaz al potencial de comunicación de Internet." (https://comunica.org/secreto)
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