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Central African Republic: Supporting the Media and Humanitarian Information and Communication in a Complex Emergency. Roundtable Report, 5-6 February 2014, Yaoundé, Cameroon
International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 30 pp.
"This two-day roundtable brought together representatives from key organizations and institutions in CAR as well as representatives from international organizations currently operating in CAR. The aim was to address the needs for media support and humanitarian information and communication and to en
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What Was the Role of the Debate Programme Sema Kenya in the 2013 Kenyan Election?
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 62 pp.
"This paper seeks to identify the extent to which the national TV and radio programme Sema Kenya (Kenya Speaks), part of BBC Media Action’s governance work in Kenya, supported accountability, peace and inclusion at the time of the 2013 Kenya election. It shows the specific value placed on Sema Ken
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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.
"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and
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China in Africa's Media and Telecommunications: Cooperation, Connectivity and Control
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (2014), 6 pp.
"China is changing Africa’s media sphere. The country supports African broadcasters with loans, training, and exchange programmes and has set up its own media operations on the continent, creating an African arm of the state-run broadcaster CCTV and expanding existing initiatives, such as the stat
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Media and Elections: A Guide for Electoral Practitioners
New York: UNDP (2014), vi, 110 pp.
"This guide is designed to be a key reference tool for electoral practitioners including electoral management bodies (EMBs), independent broadcasting authorities and international assistance providers. It aims at improving an understanding of some of the key issues related to media and elections. Th
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"The right to freedom of expression and access to information falls within the category of civil and political rights. As an ‘empowering right’, it facilitates the implementation of other human rights such as the right to participation in political and public life. The ability to exercise this r
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Media Aid Beyond the Factual: Culture, Development, and Audiovisual Assistance
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 17 pp.
"In this paper, I examine the aims and motivations behind the EU’s audiovisual assistance programs to countries in the Global South, using data from policy documents and semi-structured, in-depth interviews with program managers and administrative staff in Brussels. These programs prioritize forms
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Media Freedom Indices: What They Tell Us - and What They Don't. A Practical Guidebook
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 67 pp.
"This guidebook aims to give the reader an overview of the existing international media freedom measures and how they can be used. By introducing the methodology and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses, it allows the readers to better understand, judge and thus critically reflect the indices
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Centrafrique: Etat des lieux du secteur médias
Marseille: Panos Europe (2014), 36 pp.
"En République centrafricaine, les médias sont confrontés à des obstacles importants qui les limitent dans leur capacité d’action : fragilité financière, faibles capacités des ressources humaines, dénuement et manque ’équipement. Le paysage médiatique est, en outre, caractérisé par
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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
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Advances in African and Arab Science Journalism: Capacity Building and New Newsroom Structures Through Digital Peer-To-Peer Support
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 4-22
"Journalists who regularly cover science, health, environment and technology in Africa and the Arab world face a number of difficulties: Lack of elementary resources for journalistic research, and newsroom environments that are not always supportive of specialised reporting. Also a need for capacity
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The Power of Talk: Media and Accountability in Three African Countries
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.
"This policy briefing offers an empirical contribution to evolving thinking on governance within the international development landscape. Using the example of media, we argue that interventions designed to foster demand-based accountability may not be as successful in some fragile settings as more d
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"This paper compares and contrasts four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh (JATRI), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan (ARIJ), and The Caucasus Media Investigations Center (
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Communicating with Communities: A Case Study and Guide from Pakistan and Elsewhere
Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM); Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) (2014), xix, 109 pp.
"The purpose of this handbook is to highlight achievements, as well as ongoing efforts and future plans, in improving information delivery to and communication with affected communities. This guide highlights the lack of critical information in emergency response and what needs to be done to ensure
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Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance: A qualitative study of international development communication in practice
Karlstad: Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Thesis (2014), 268 pp.
"This study focuses on the institutional practice of international development communication. Through a qualitative study of the Videoletters project, it examines a situated process of intervention in its complexity and analyzes how the specifics of mediation illuminate issues of proximity and dista
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Media and Conflict: An Assessment of the Evidence
Progress in Development Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2014), pp. 181-195
"This article assesses the evidence used to in arguments for the role of the media in conflict and post-conflict situations. It focuses on two broad areas within the literature. First, it examines literature on the contribution of media in war to peace transitions, including assessment of evidence u
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The Western Way? Democracy and the Media Assistance Model
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 15 pp.
"International media assistance took off during a time where the ideological extremes of USA vs. USSR were set to disappear. Following the Cold War, international relations focused on democracy building, and nurturing independent media was embraced as a key part of this strategy [...] The US and UK
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