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Aide aux medias et developpement
Echos du COTA, issue 118 (2008), 35 pp.
"Les médiassont appelés à jouer un rôle de plus en plus important dans la lutte contrela pauvreté et la poursuite des Objectifs du Millénaire. Cela fait longtempsqu’on glose à ce sujet. Mais combien de bailleurs et d’ONG s’investissent ne serait-ce que ponc-tuellement dans l’appui aux
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Le paysage médiatique congolais: état des lieux, enjeux et défis
Deep Insights
Paris: France Coopération Internationale (2008), 167 pp.
"La première partie de l’étude vise à décrire autant le fonctionnement des médias congolais que le comportement de leurs publics, essentiellement à Kinshasa et dans les grandes villes de province. La seconde partie tâche de dresser un bilan des principales contraintes auxquelles sont confro
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The Role of Mass Media in Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED)
Abuja: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 21 pp.
"This paper has highlighted that the mass media can play an important, if not critical, role in both enhancing the flow of information and improving public-private dialogue in the local context. The paper therefore recommends explicitly incorporating media into the approaches of LRED. This means wor
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"This briefing builds on DFID’s commitments set out in our 2006 White Paper, Making Governance Work for the Poor. The main purpose is to provide an overview of the relationship between media and governance, and to highlight some of the principal opportunities and challenges to engaging with the se
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Communication for Empowerment in Mozambique: An Assessment of Communication and Media Needs at the Community Level
Oslo; South Orange, New Jersey: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre; Communication for Social Change Consortium (2008), 79 pp.
"Communication for Empowerment is an initiative which, in its global context, aims to enable average citizens including those from marginalised strata of society and those living in poverty to take informed decisions on their own lives, have access to channels that allow their voice to be heard and
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Communication for Empowerment in Madagascar: An Assessment of Communication and Media Needs at the Community Level
Oslo; South Orange, New Jersey: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre; Communication for Social Change Consortium (2008), 54, 17 pp.
Donor Support for Media Development
In: Whose Voices? Media and Pluralism in the Context of Democratisation
Uppsala: Uppsala University, Collegium for Development Studies (2008), pp. 99-113
"This paper is a summary of a desk-review of donor policies, experiencies and evaluations in the realm of media support, which studied 30 of the major aid donors. It attempts to draw together the major lessons learned in terms of media support from a donor perspective." (Page 1)
Informing Citizens: Opportunities for Media and Communications in the Pacific
In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues
Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 34-58
"The Pacific Media & Communications Facility (PMCF) was a three-year regional media governance project involving the 14 Pacific Island Forum countries. It was funded by the Australian government and commenced in May 2004. The report “Informing Citizens: Opportunities for media and communications i
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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11
Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130
"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead,
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Media and Development: The Role and Importance of International Cooperation for the Media Sector in Developing Countries
Hilversum: Radio Nederland Training Centre (RNTC) (2008), 58 pp.
"On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, RNTC invited stakeholders in the field of media and development for a two-day conference, held in Hilversum on June 5-6, 2008, on "Media and development: future scenarios for international cooperation" [...] This report is an attempt to give a reflection of
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Research Project: Political Extremism, Terrorism and Media in Central Asia
Bishkek; Copenhagen: Public Association Journalists; International Media Support (IMS) (2008), 76 pp.
Market Forces, Media Assistance and Democratization
International Conference State and Democracy (2008), 45 pp.
"In the last two decades, western governmental and nongovernmental organizations have invested heavily in the development of media in countries outside their borders in an effort to foster the development of democratic institutions and liberalized economic regimes. This paper examines the assumption
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Medienhilfe als Instrument der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik: Ziele, Motive und Implementierungswege internationaler Akteure in Bosnien-Herzegowina und Kosovo
Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin (wvb) (2008), 363 pp.
"In der Debatte um die politische Wirkung von Medien wird häufig übersehen, dass internationale Akteure schon längst auf ausländische Kommunikationsräume Einfluss nehmen. Thema dieser Arbeit ist das Instrument der externen Medienhilfe, bei der mit finanzieller, materieller und beratender Unters
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The Missing Link: Fostering Positive Citizen-State Relations in Post-Conflict Environments
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2008), 117 pp.
"Donor policies place great emphasis on the importance of state-building in post-Conflict states, and many donors also recognize the relevance civil society and a professional media sector have for successful transformation processes, says this report. However, operationally and conceptually these a
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Neoliberalism, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
In: Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), pp. 243-261
Money Matters: How Independent Media Manage to Survive. 15-16 September 2006
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO); Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome) (2007), 77 pp.
"Discussions on how to support sustainability of independent media generally focus on the political conditions, the legal framework and – especially in German development cooperation – on the quality of journalistic coverage. Nevertheless, economic factors are of equal importance, not only for p
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