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A Safe, Sister Space: An Evaluation of the Safe Sisters Digital Safety Training Program for Women, and Case Studies from Alumni

Neema Iyer
Internews (2021), 52 pp.
"The purpose of this ex-post evaluation is for Internews to understand the impact that Safe Sisters has had on women in East Africa by documenting and publicly sharing their stories and evaluating the training approach itself. As women and girls come online for the first time, they disproportionatel ... more
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Effects of an E-Reader Intervention on Literacy, Numeracy and Non-Verbal Reasoning Among Adolescent Girls in Zambia: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial

Barbara S. Mensch, Nicole Haberland, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Jean Digitale, Natalie Jackson-Hachonda et al.
Journal of Development Effectiveness, volume 13, issue 3 (2021), pp. 247-275
"This paper presents results from a three-arm randomized controlled trial in Zambia with a sample of nearly 1200 adolescent girls enrolled in Grade 7. Selected primary schools (N=36) were randomly assigned within each of three districts to one of three arms: 1) e-readers, which girls could take home ... more
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The State of Radio in Uganda: A 2020 Review and the New Reality of COVID-19

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2021), 51 pp.
"With over 309 licensed radio stations, numerous public and private TV stations, and rapid growth in internet accessibility and usage, the media landscape in Uganda is dynamic, diverse, and rapidly evolving. Ugandans across the country from rural villages to urban centers are presented increasingly ... more
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Media Landscape [Ethiopia]

BBC Media Action (2021), 5 pp.
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Somalia Media Landscape: Key Results

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 1 p.
"Radio remains most popular media platform. Over half listen to the radio weekly. Internet is more accessed than TV. TV is watched mostly by young, urban, wealthier people. Men use all media platforms more than women [...] A nationally representative sample of 2,004 adults aged 18+ in Somalia were i ... more
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Responding to Threats to Press Freedom and the Media in a Time of Crisis: An Assessment of Types and Sources of Threats to Press Freedom and Mitigation Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2021), iii, 23 pp.
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Somali diaspora and digital belonging: Introduction

Sandra Ponzanesi
Journal of Global Diaspora & Media, volume 2, issue 1 (2021), pp. 3-15
"This editorial introduces the theoretical framework, methodological approach and comparative themes of the Special Issue on 'Somali Diaspora and Digital Practices: Gender, Media and Belonging'. The Special Issue proposes to connect the notion of the Somali diaspora to recent advancements in communi ... more
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The Politics of Impunity and the Shifting Media Landscape in Kenya

Philip Onguny
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 7, issue 1 (2021), pp. 61-78
"This article focuses on state-media relations and the shifts in the overall media landscape in Kenya. Drawing on a political economy approach to media operations in Kenya, it argues that while there are competing meanings over what constitutes "news values", "editorial independence", and "critical ... more
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Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Takaaki Masaki et al.
World Bank Group (2021), 49 pp.
"What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using pan ... more
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Manufacturing the Liberal Media Model Through Developmentality in Malawi

Suzanne Temwa Harris
In: Media, Development and Democracy
Heloisa Pait, Juliana Laet (eds.)
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), pp. 23-44
"When questioning the relationship between media, development, and democracy, especially in the ill-defined “Global South,” it’s important to go beyond the commonly held meta-narratives that frame these concepts as common sense. In a quest to investigate alternative characterizations of these ... more
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Data-Driven Advocacy Midterm Performance Evaluation

Washington Katema, Victoria Lihiru, Bernard Kindoli et al.
Washington, DC: USAID (2021), xii, 89 pp.
"Since August 2017, USAID/Tanzania’s five-year Data-Driven Advocacy (DDA) Activity has sought to improve and sustain Tanzanian civil society’s ability to advocate for and influence policy on key national human rights issues using higher-quality data and information to drive results. Implemented ... more
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Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes: Case Studies for Theory and Practice
Deep Insights

Lauren B. Frank, Paul Falzone (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxxiii, 354 pp.
"This book lays out the history of entertainment-education and discusses the boundaries of what counts as entertainment-education and narrative persuasion, includes both authors who work within academia and authors who are practitioners, and chapters focusing on developed and developing countries; d ... more
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Mapping Community Radio in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jacob Sabelo Ntshangase
Kalmar; Johannesburg: Fojo Media Institute; Wits Journalism Programme (2021), 78 pp.
"The study aims to gather information and develop a better understanding of the community radio landscapes in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, in order to identify needs, opportunities and potential partners for developing a programme of support for community radio on the continent. The envisa ... more
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Africa States region

Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 64 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Africa region through ICT-centric Innovation policy monitors and shares insights about good practices strengthening the capacity to integrate ICT innovation in national development agendas. Overall, although sub-Saharan ... more
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Sexual Harassment in the Media: Africa Report

Cherilyn Ireton (ed.)
Paris: World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2021), 51 pp.
"Almost half of women respondents had been sexually harassed at work (47%). Women were twice as likely to experience sexual harassment at work than men. For one in two women, the harassment was verbal (56%), and for one in three, it was physical (38%). Only 30% of cases of sexual harassment were eve ... more
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Misinformed: Sudan’s Centralisation Problem & the Pandemic

Internews; USAID (2021), 81 pp.
"This Information Ecosystem Assessment documents how information around the COVID-19 pandemic is produced, consumed, and shared in Sudan contributing to the existence of multiple and overlapping information sub-systems within the supply side of the broader ecosystem. The findings show how the centra ... more
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The Historicity of Media Regulation in Zambia: Examining the Proposed Statutory Self-Regulation

Youngson Ndawana, Vaughan Joanne Knowles, Christopher
African Journalism Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2021), pp. 59-76
"The media in Zambia have been in a state of uncertainty since Zambia reinstated democratic governance in the early 1990s. Despite promising initial steps to deregulate the media that started under President Chiluba’s government in the mid-1990s, achieving these objectives in successive years has ... more
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How Kenya’s Media Retooled Peer Review to Address Issues of Trust and Quality in News

Zablon Mark Oloo
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 24 pp.
"Self regulation through peer review is a system whereby journalists hold each other accountable for the quality and accuracy of their content. If the Kenyan experience is anything to go by, this measure can provide an additional layer of scrutiny – additional to a state ombudsman or media houses ... more
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Supporting Young Ethiopians to Secure and Succeed in Employment: What Role Can Communication Play?

BBC Media Action (2021), 3 pp.
"Based on this research, it was found that media and communication interventions could seek to leverage young Ethiopians’ optimism and enthusiasm, providing informative and inspiring content to fuel their ideas. This insight informed the creation of a social and behaviour change (SBCC) strategy to ... more
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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 3
Key Guides

Justine Limpitlaw
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), 2nd ed. (2021), xi, 286 pp.