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Heartlines “What’s Your Story?”: Summative Evaluation

Singizi Consulting Africa (2020), 45 pp.

"In the formative evaluation, church data from the retrospective baseline showed that after being exposed to the “What’s Your Story?” methodology by Heartlines, 42% of respondents had engaged in further intentional storytelling with others. In comparison to this, in the summative evaluation, a ... more

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Use of Remote Participatory Video Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic: Experiences from Uganda’s Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement

Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, Master Thesis (2020), 70 pp.

"In the early summer months of the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, three community-produced participatory videos were conducted on a remote basis. These projects were made in Uganda, Germany and Turkey with the use of mobile technology to understand the impact of the virus on lives of differ ... more

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Good Communication Practices in Community Engagement: Accountability at the Heart of Humanitarian Response in DRC

Nisma Le Boul

Dakar: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020), 34 pp.

"Community engagement is an approach to the humanitarian response of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It places people affected by natural disasters, violence, and armed conflict at the heart of decision-making, strategy development and orientation of activities to protect and ... more

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Research Report on Ugandan Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Public Affairs, May-September 2020

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2020), 49 pp.

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Understanding News Coverage of Religious-Based Violence: Empirical and Theoretical Insights from Media Representations of Boko Haram in Nigeria

Leila Demarest, Amélie Godefroidt, Arnim Langer

Journal of Communication, volume 70, issue 4 (2020), pp. 548-573

"Recent studies on conflict and terrorism news coverage have documented an ingroup bias as well as an increasingly negative discourse about Muslims in the wake of Islamist terrorist attacks. Yet, as most of these studies have focused on Western media and settings, the determinants of news media’s ... more

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Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History

Marie-Luce Desgrandschamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka, Kevin O'Sullivan, Bertrand Taithe

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 66-78

"This roundtable took place on 16 January 2020, at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Biafra. It brought together Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka and Kevin O’Sullivan. The roundtable was organised and chaired by Bertrand Taithe, University of ... more

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Producing Journalistic Discourse on War: A Congolese Experience

Justine Brabant

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 58-65

"Based on the author’s experience as both a journalist and an independent researcher working regularly in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this article examines the many constraints that journalists face in areas of armed conflict. It considers two unusual aspects of journalistic practi ... more

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Twenty Years After 'Leave None to Tell the Story', What Do We Now Know About the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda?

Timothy Longman

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 40-47

"In 1999, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published an extensive account of genocide in Rwanda, Leave None to Tell the Story. Based on interviews and archival work conducted by a team of researchers and written primarily by Alison Des Forges, Leave N ... more

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A Spectrum of Shutdowns: Reframing Internet Shutdowns from Africa

Eleanor Marchant, Nicole Stremlau

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 4327-4342

"This article explores the prevailing ways Internet shutdowns are currently understood and makes the case for a new conceptualization—one that recognizes the inherent diversity of cases and how and why they are employed. To do so, we focus on Internet shutdowns in Africa, drawing on data collected ... more

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ICT Aid Flows from China to African Countries: A Communication Network Perspective

Rong Wang, François Bar, Yu Hong

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25

"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014 ... more

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The Changing Landscape of Internet Shutdowns in Africa

Eleanor Marchant, Nicole Stremlau

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 4216-4233

"There is an evolution underway in terms of how Internet access is perceived and understood. The view that Internet access should be a fundamental right has continued to gain traction. At the same time, concerns are increasing about the very real threat of offline harm posed by the dissemination of ... more

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Project: Promoting Professional Standards & Enhancing the Watchdog Role of the Ghanaian Media

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 5 pp.

"The guide below serves as a Glossary of Definitions of the basic principles of ethics to be monitored. It is designed to assist and guide the Monitor in understanding properly and identifying accurately, any violations of particular Ethical principles by the media. The list here is not exhaustive. ... more

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Using Drama to Encourage Non-Violent Conflict Resolution in South Sudan

London: BBC Media Action (2020), 2 pp.

"Mixed methods research found that including entertaining and relatable characters and storylines in the Life in Lulu radio drama engaged listeners and helped them to apply lessons from the programme to resolve conflicts peacefully in their own households and communities." (Page 1)

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Refugee Perception Data in Uganda

Ground Truth Solutions (2020), 8 pp.

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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Kenya

Molly Dean, Kwasi Donkor, Amy Paul, Olu Olutolak

USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2020), 42 pp.

"Kenya’s digital ecosystem has significant strengths not yet fully leveraged: • Political interest in digital technology at national and county level: The Government of Kenya’s (GoK) digital economy blueprint, ICT Masterplan, and eCitizen (government service platform for Kenyan citizens and re ... more

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A digital scramble for Africa: US, EU and Chinese influences on internet regulation in Africa and their effects on freedom of expression and the right to privacy

David Fischer

Coimbra: University of Coimbra, European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Master Thesis (2020), 91 pp.

"Divisive Internet regulation is fragmenting the formerly worldwide web into numerous shards that follow their own rules. The US, the EU and China are influential in shaping regulation even beyond their own jurisdictions, with consequences for human rights, particularly in Africa. This paper argues ... more

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Scaling Up Improved Legume Technologies in Tanzania. From Comics to Radio: Targeted Media Campaigns Drive Adoption of Better Agricultural Practices

Canadian International Food Security Fund (2020), 4 pp.

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African Journalism in the Eye of the Pandemic Storm

Dakar: Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) (2020), 12 pp.

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Training Community-Based Journalists for Climate Change Reporting: Lessons from South Africa

Brett Cohen, Leonie Joubert

Journal of Sustainability Education, volume 23, issue April (2020), 11 pp.

"Reporting to the public on climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation requires journalists to be equipped to engage with a wide range of technical content in order to communicate it in an accessible and engaging way. Recognizing the need for journalists from a wide range of backgrounds, inc ... more

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Technology and Elections in Uganda: A Digital Rights View of the January 2021 General Elections

Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 12 pp.