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The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms: A Positive Agenda for Human Rights Online
London: Global Partners Digital (2015), 20 pp.
"The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms was drafted by African civil society organisations to guide the creation of a positive, rights-based and democratically governed Internet policy environment in Africa. The initiative is part of a rich heritage of freedom of expression advocacy
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CFI’s Programmes: Media & Pluralism
Paris: CFI (2015), 12 pp.
Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategies for Addressing the High Cost and Low Availability Problem
Washington, DC: World Bank (2015), xv, 106 pp.
"The objective of the study is to identify the cost and financing constraints to text book provision and thereby help countries remove constraints on timely provision of affordable textbooks to all students in primary and secondary education. To this end, the study focuses exclusively on cost and fi
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Assessment of Media Legislation in Palestine
MedMedia; European Union (2015), 16 pp.
"Palestine has fewer provisions for media legislation than any other country in the Southern Mediterranean region, and the occupation by and conflict with Israel represents an ongoing threat to press freedom and media development. Steps are being taken, though, that show how civil society might lead
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Public Service Media in Divided Societies: Relic or Renaissance?
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 28 pp.
"Argues that renewed energy and resources should be invested in strategies that support media systems rooted in public service values of trust, independence, universality and putting the public interest before all others. Despite formidable challenges, support strategies should include a revitalised
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The New Syrian Press: Appraisal, Challenges and Outlook
Paris: CFI (2015), 19 pp.
Bringing Plurality and Balance to the Russian Language Media Space: Feasibility Study on Russian Language Media Initiatives (RLMIs) in the Eastern Partnership and Beyond. Summary and Recommendations
European Endowment for Democracy (EED) (2015), 5 pp.
"Recommendations revolve around five building blocks of a co-ordinated strategy that calls for: 1. A regional news hub for the Russian language that embodies the values of fairness, accuracy and watchdog reporting, and builds a network of partners to leverage high-quality news content to wider audie
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Baseline Assessment of the “Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in the Enlargement Countries 2014-20”
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
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Media Development: An Evaluation of Five Capacity-Strengthening Projects
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 60 pp.
"BBC Media Action has been involved in media development since it was founded in 1999. Over the years, we have designed and deployed a broad range of evaluation approaches and methodologies to assess the impact of and learn from our work. This has generated much internal discussion: Are we measuring
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"Our remit was to look for innovative media outlets that are producing high-quality news, that are technologically innovative and that might actually survive financially. Accordingly, we spent three months interviewing media innovators around the world and reading what others have written on the sub
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A Strategic Model for Media Development
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2015), 2 pp.
"Freedom of expression and access to information inform every aspect of DW Akademie’s work in media development. Following on from this, our strategic model has human rights at its core, with our goal being to enable all people to freely inform and express themselves. The model provides a comprehe
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Assessment of Media Legislation in Libya
MedMedia; European Union (2015), 22 pp.
"Libya has no history of free and independent media, and this has not changed post-revolution. As it is therefore not possible to conduct a proper analysis of media legislation in the country, this report focuses on the subject in more general terms." (Executive summary)
CFI’s Programmes: Media & Enterprise
Paris: CFI (2015), 8 pp.
Communication for Development in Peacebuilding: Directions on Research and Evaluation for an Emerging Field
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 6 (2015), pp. 801-817
"This article highlights the key areas in which Communication for Development (C4D) can play a role in the aftermath of conflict, with a focus both at the community and at the national level. It provides an overview of the literature that has begun to discuss C4D in the light of peace creation. It i
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Keystones to Foster Inclusive Knowledge Societies: Access to Information and Knowledge, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Ethics on a Global Internet
Paris: UNESCO (2015), 107 pp.
"UNESCO’s vision of universal Knowledge Societies builds on a free, open and trusted Internet that enables people to not only have the ability to access information resources from around the world, but to also contribute information and knowledge to local and global communities. What can UNESCO do
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"Stop Reporting or We'll Kill Your Family": Threats to Media Freedom in Afghanistan
New York: Human Rights Watch (2015), 45 pp.
"Afghan journalists face threats from all sides: government officials exploiting weak legal protections to intimidate reporters and editors to compel them not to cover controversial topics; the Taliban and other insurgent groups using threats and violence to compel reporting they consider favorable;
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The Politics of Media Development: The Importance of Engaging Government and Civil Society
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 16 pp.
"In the field of media development, the public sector is often viewed as a monolithic barrier to the development of independent and sustainable media. Although governments do frequently pervert and capture media sectors in countries around the globe, the enabling conditions under which media can ach
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Media Assistance and Elections: Toward an Integrated Approach
Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) (2015), 43 pp.
"This paper presents an overview of the main challenges to the integration of media development in electoral assistance programming. Despite widespread acknowledgement that the media is critical to electoral processes, and that it has the potential to impact voter behaviour, electoral assistance pro
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Le paysage médiatique guinéen: état des lieux, enjeux et défis
Chasseur d’Etoiles; Expertise France (2015), 191 pp.
"La libéralisation des médias en Guinée n’a eu lieu que récemment et s’est déroulée dans un contexte politique très instable et souvent violent. Dans cet environnement, qui a impacté la situation économique du pays, le secteur médiatique tente de se développer et de rattraper son reta
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