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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Nigeria: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 4 pp.
"Media and information literacy is paramount to empower the population, and especially the youth, with the capacity of critical thinking and in providing quality information on traditional and social media platforms. During the period of 2018-2021, UNESCO worked towards achieving this goal through t
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Iraq: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"Iraq was added as a target country under the MDP in 2020, building on the first phase of the “Breaking the Silence: Enhancing Public Accountability on Freedom of Expression and the Safety of Journalists in Iraq” project, which was implemented by UNESCO between 2019 and 2021 with funding from th
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Afghanistan: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"To ensure the survival of Afghanistan’s media sector after the regime change, reprogrammed funding from the MDP and the Global Media Defence Fund (GMDF) provided emergency support t o independent Afghan media outlets that had seen their viability disrupted as a result of the crisis. Through this,
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Syria: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"A decade after the beginning of the civil war, Syria remains among the most dangerous environments for journalists and media workers. Between 2011 and 2021, UNESCO’s Observatory recorded 113 killings of journalists. In its 2021 report, covering the years between 2011 and 2020, the Syrian Center f
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP): Regional Action in Africa: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 10 pp.
"[...] in 2019, UNESCO’s Addis Ababa Liaison Office engaged the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and a wide range of partners to ensure adequate responses to the protection of journalists and the fight against impunity in Africa. These consultative meeti
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Burundi: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 6 pp.
"Burundian authorities have shown promising signs of substantive change by initiating the revision of the disputed 2018 press law, an exercise for which they requested UNESCO’s technical support. UNESCO’s participation in this process was made possible by continuous dialogue between UNESCO and t
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Somalia: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"Under the MDP, UNESCO has since 2018 coordinated actions with other development partners through the Somalia Media Sector Group (SMSG) to advocate for improvements in the media legislative framework and to support the implementation of the Somalia Federal Republic Media Strategy 2016-2020 as well a
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Myanmar: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 12 pp.
"The road to media freedom has been winding and narrow for Myanmar. Prior to the February 2021 military takeover, there had been guarded optimism that the country would soon enjoy freedom of expression and democratic principles. The country’s political reform process started in 2011, after 50 year
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Results-Based Report on Projects Approved by the 64th Meeting of the IPDC Bureau (June 2020) and Implemented in 2020-2021. Part II
UNESCO (2022), 278 pp.
"This document reports on the implementation of projects approved by the 64th meeting of the IPDC Bureau (June 2020) and implemented in 2020-2021, and on projects approved as part of IPDC’s rapid response mechanism in January 2021. It also includes the implementation reports of several projects th
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Yemen: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 4 pp.
"Yemen was added as a beneficiary country under the MDP in 2020, with the aim of promoting joint and/or coordinated media development actions to reinforce access to information and freedom of expression, both online and offline. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activities had to be postponed t
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Regional Action in Latin America and the Caribbean: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 10 pp.
"The MDP has since 2018 supported various capacity-building activities for Latin American and Caribbean judicial actors, such as the 5th and 6th edition of the MOOC “International Legal Framework on Freedom of Expression, Access to Public Information and the Safety of Journalists”, additional MO
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 3 pp.
"UNESCO’s support to the DRC in 2020 and 2021, through its Kinshasa Office, has mainly focused on the construction and consolidation of a strategic dialogue between the government, state agencies, the media, social society, academia and international organizations. This way, UNESCO helped pave the
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Nepal: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 4 pp.
"From 2018 to 2021, the implementation of the MDP has been significant for the community media sector of Nepal. UNESCO has led continuous multi-stakeholder dialogue towards an improved framework for community media sustainability. This included the endorsement of the definition of community broadcas
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Pakistan: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 7 pp.
"Overall, Pakistan experienced a shrinking of its space for free expression over the past four years, with censorship and restrictions increasing over time in the form of new stringent rules and regulations, along with intensifying threats and various types of attacks on journalists. Pakistan, who w
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Jordan: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 3 pp.
"Jordan was included as a beneficiary country under the MDP in 2021, responding to a request by the country’s Judicial Training Institute to strengthen the capacities of judicial operators on international standards and issues related to freedom of expression and access to information. This collab
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Bangladesh: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"UNESCO has been a part of the community media development process in Bangladesh since the early days. While the support from UNESCO consisted initially in providing radio equipment to community radio stations, the MDP funded activities in the 2018-2021 period shifted the focus to the reinforcement
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in South Sudan: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 10 pp.
"The role of the media is critical for the future of South Sudan’s peacebuilding process, democracy and development. For this purpose, the Multi-Donor Programme has since 2018 supported the establishment of a safe and enabling environment for media through advocacy, awareness-raising, capacity-bui
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Ethiopia: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"Various media freedom NGOs have noted that progress achieved in 2019 in terms of freedom of expression and of the media was disrupted by a series of internet shutdowns as well as by an anti-hate speech law adopted in 2020, whose vague provisions have drawn criticism from specialized observers. Furt
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Mongolia: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 4 pp.
"The first component of UNESCO’s action in Mongolia under the MDP therefore aimed at promoting the recognition of community media in the national legal framework. During the reporting period, UNESCO has also been working to improve the technical and editorial capacities of managers, staff and volu
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