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Mapping of media assistance and journalism support programmes in the Asia, Pacific and Oceania region: With special focus on the top five recipient countries

Waqas Naeem

Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2025), 18 pp.

"The mapping shows that the funding opportunities for media development and journalism support in the Asia region are concentrated in six countries of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and four countries of Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia and the ... more

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What the EU Should Do for Democracy Support in Africa: Ten Proposals for a New Strategic Initiative in Times of Polarisation

Christine Hackenesch, Julia Leininger, Karina Mross

Brussels; Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 36 pp.

"Proposal 1: Bring democracy support and protection to the core of EU external action and implement this strategic priority in EU foreign relations with Africa (and worldwide). Proposal 2: Develop a new narrative and more strategic approach to democracy support in a geopolitical context where democr ... more

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Building Regional Strategies for Media Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Fatima El-Issawi, Nicholas Benequista

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020), 28 pp.

"Experts from 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa agreed on the priorities that could provide the basis for greater collective action to defend independent media in the region. This report provides a summary of those deliberations [...] Building on and strengthening cross-country networ ... more

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Challenges and Entry Points for Regional Media Development Support in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lars Tallert, Peter Mwesige, Renaud de la Brosse, Christer L. Pettersson

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2019), 44 pp.

"The report is written from a media perspective and focuses on regional media initiatives and challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Seven focus areas that are instrumental for the future of quality journalism have been investigated: Professionalism – capacity to demand accountability; Gender and media ... more

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A Regional Approach to Media Development in West Africa: Recommendations from a Consultative Process

Gilbert Tietaah, Sulemana Braimah

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019), 21 pp.

"West Africa sits at a critical juncture that will determine whether the coming years are spent defending against reversals in media freedom and pluralism, or moving forward toward new and lasting progress. In this context, the Media Foundation for West Africa consulted stakeholders from all 16 coun ... more

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La Influencia de la cooperación internacional en el campo latinoamericano de comunicación

María Soledad Segura

Journal of Latin American Communication Research, volume 6, issue 1-2 (2018), pp. 81-97

"¿Cuál ha sido el papel de la cooperación internacional en la configuración de las prácticas, investigación, educación y políticas de comunicación en América Latina desde los años 70? Argumento que la ayuda extranjera a la comunicación en América Latina fue crucial para: (1) desarrollar ... more

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Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and the Transition to Democratic Media in the Western Balkans
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Kristina Irion, Tarik Jusic (eds.)

Budapest: Central European University Press (2018), xiii, 346 pp.

"This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Her ... more

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A Changing Asian Media: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Evolving Media in South and Southeast Asia

International Media Support (IMS); Fojo Media Institute (2017), 51 pp.

"Countries in the regions despite extreme diversity share many of the same challenges with their media environments – particularly when it comes to quality content production and distribution, journalist safety and impunity, the enabling legal environment, gender and social inequality as well as m ... more

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Media Development, DAC, and China: Different Approaches, Same Public Diplomacy

Valerie A. Cooper

Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 25-37

"More than US $441 million was spent on media development worldwide in 2012, with African countries receiving 28% of that amount. This funding came from a variety of sources, including both established Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries and emerging donors such as China. These countrie ... more

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End of an Era and the Debacle of Cross-Border Media Building Projects in Africa

Sam Phiri

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 401-414

"In the 1990s following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the death of Apartheid in South Africa, several cross-national initiatives were undertaken in Africa to strengthen the role of the media in nascent democracies. Some 30 years later, several of these initiatives are dead while the ... more

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Supporting the Media Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa Region: Capitalisation of Experiences in SDC Supported Programs, Kigali 24-26.05.2016. Synthesis Report

Northern Africa and Palestine Division (SENAP) Eastern Southern Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2016), 22 pp.

"Burundi: even in very difficult situations, SDC partners managed to identify entry points and continue their work. Networking with international media as a source of information is very crucial in such situations. Policy dialogue is also important to work on issues that divide the government and me ... more

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Du pluralisme au Darwinisme: Réflexions sur vingt années d'appui aux radios africaines

Johan Deflander

In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)

Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)

Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 41-59

"Johan Deflander revient sur 25 années d'évolution du secteur radiophonique. Il montre comment les multiples nouveaux opérateurs, nombre d'entre eux se présentant comme la voix des sans voix, ont libéré la parole, mais rencontrent aujourd'hui des problèmes de pérennisation, en raison de leur ... more

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Baseline Assessment of the “Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in the Enlargement Countries 2014-20”

Pam van de Bunt, Davor Glavas, Tihomir Loza, Enton Dimni, Dijan Albayrak

European Commission; Particip (2015), 99, 173 pp.

"For this assessment more than 390 surveys were made in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey [...] In addition to the survey a further 150 in-depth interviews were held, complemented by a Focus Group in each country, which ... more

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Re-Orienting the 'Charm Offensive' to the 'Charm Defensive': A Critical Review of Chinese Media Development in Africa

Anbin Shi

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 135-140

"All in all, Chinese media development in Africa can be considered as a ‘charm offensive‘ in terrns of its scale and scope, which is characterised by the following: 1) all the projects are mainly government sponsored, strategically engineered and efficiently irnplemented; 2) projects centre arou ... more

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Africa's Media Boom: The Role of International Aid
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Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 35 pp.

"Since the early 1990s, media outlets in Sub-Saharan Africa have proliferated extraordinarily, freeing Africa's press and liberating the airwaves from monopoly by the state. This paper summarises these developments and analyses in how far foreign donors were catalysts of this development. Myers desc ... more

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DG Enlargement: Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in Enlargement Countries, 2014-2020

European Commission (2014), 15 pp.

"In its political support the Commission will encourage enlargement countries to make legislation more supportive of the media. It will also promote the involvement of media and civil society in the pre-accession process, including in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of sector strategi ... es for EU financial assistance which will be strengthened under IPA II. The Commission's financial assistance will use an appropriate mix of funding instruments to respond to different types of needs and country contexts in a flexible, transparent, cost-effective and results focused manner which also considers the administration burden for the Commission. This will include: aiming for longer term contracts, recognising that capacity building and advocacy work requires time and resources; moving away from project based support to a more flexible approach that fosters partnership and coalition building. It must also be understood that accession-related EU funding is limited in volume and time. Although having been a major donor to Media and Civil Society, the EU cannot and should not aim to fill the funding gap left as other donors exit from the region. As the enlargement countries move towards accession, the Commission will support media organisations become less dependent on international donor funding, including funding from the EU [...] "These guidelines are formulated in the form of a draft results framework. The framework contains goals and results to be achieved by developing and deploying multi-beneficiary and bilateral assistance programmes. Special attention is paid to the aspect of verification: measurable indicators (and benchmarks) are grouped according to particular results to be achieved and possible means of verification (MoV) are identified for each group of indicators. The selection of indicators and MoVs also take into consideration the cost-effectiveness and actual availability of data. Monitoring the guidelines will be supervised by DG ELARG in collaboration with the EU Delegations in the region, international organisations and networks of CSOs already active in media freedom and integrity. The collection of data will include both qualitative and quantitative assessments and will be conducted by means of surveys, peer reviews, independent assessment, etc." (Pages 4-5) more

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Évaluation de l’appui aux médias en période électorale en Afrique subsaharienne. Synthèse du rapport

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Paris: Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (2013), 27 pp.

"L’appui à la couverture médiatique du scrutin vise trois objectifs : offrir une information suffisante au citoyen pour que son choix électoral soit posé en connaissance de cause; garantir le pluralisme à travers la visibilité octroyée aux différentes forces en présence; crédibiliser le ... more

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Differing Paradigms of Media Systems Development in Contemporary Africa: Does the ‘Chinese Model’ Have a Place?

Teke Ngomba

Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 52-67

"This article addresses the emerging patterns of contemporary media-based engagements between China and Africa and argues, after an examination of current media systems in both China and Africa, that, despite expressed worries to the contrary, because of reasons spanning from history to geo-politics ... more

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Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS): Pacific Media Benchmarks (2005)

Andrew Skuse

Melbourne; Adelaide: Australian Aid (AusAID); Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); University of Adelaide (2011), 87 pp.

"This study draws together two bodies of work concerned with media pluralism, effectiveness, development and strengthening in the developing world. One is drawn from UNESCO’s global work on media assessment and impact indicators, the other from AusAID’s Pacific Media and Communications Facility ... more

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Elections and Media Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa

Marie-Soleil Frère

Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2010), 4 pp.

"Recent elections show that despite the apparent diversity of newspapers and broadcasters, political and economic constraints, as well as restricted access to information prevent the development of independent media in Sub-Saharan Africa that can play a part in enlightening citizens", says the autho ... more

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Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and the Transition to Democratic Media in the Western Balkans
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Africa's Media Boom: The Role of International Aid
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