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Media Assistance: Review of the Recent Literature and Other Donors’ Approaches
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Mary Myers, Nicola Harford, Katie Bartholomew

iMedia Associates;Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2017), 82 pp.

"The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has commissioned iMedia Associates (iMedia) to conduct a Capitalisation Exercise (CapEx) of its media assistance, with the primary objective of examining its current programmes and bringing out lessons learned. As the second output of this CapE ... more

SDC’s Media Assistance: Report of Capitalisation Exercise

Mary Myers, Nicola Harford, Katie Bartholomew

iMedia Associates (2017), 101 pp.

"This is a review of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) media assistance by consultants from iMedia. The aim is to capitalise on SDC’s experience of media over the last 10 years. The objective is to examine the organisation’s current media assistance programmes and bring ... 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

China in Africa's Media and Telecommunications: Cooperation, Connectivity and Control

Iginio Gagliardone, Sam Geall

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 ... more

Deutsche Förderprogramme für Journalistinnen und Journalisten aus Osteuropa: Eine Bestandsaufnahme und Evaluation

Edith Spielhagen

Berlin: Internationales Journalisten-Kolleg, Freie Universität Berlin (2013), 53 pp.

"Medienförderung für Osteuropa spielt in Deutschland seit dem Beginn der 1990er Jahre eine wichtige Rolle. Eine Vielzahl an Akteuren ist im Bereich der Aus- und Weiterbildung für osteuropäische Journalistinnen und Journalisten aktiv [...] Der Schwerpunkt der Programmbeteiligung liegt bei jungen ... more

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Working in Concert: Coordination and Collaboration in International Media Development

Walter Dean

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 27 pp.

Mapping EU Media Support 2000-2010

Andrew Puddephatt, Per Oesterlund

EPRD Policy & Development;European Commission (2012), 52 pp.

"Generally, data about media development support are not complete and reliable due to insufficient classification categories in the DAC system, so the EC and most other international institutions and organisations share the problem of not having solid knowledge about the scope and size of support in ... this field. This is also the case in the CRIS data base, which does not distinguish for example between public diplomacy and media support [...] As a consequence, the amounts and other figures in this report should not be taken as exact values. But the mapping does show some clear trends and tendencies despite the weakness ofthe basic data, and the main findings are: According to the information available in the CRIS data base and the definition of projects applied for this support, the total amount spent on media development and freedom of expression in the period 2000-2010 has been 148,4 Million Euro. More than half of the total amount has been spent in the neighbour countries East and South of the EU. More than 40 % has been spent in the Western Balkans, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey, while 12,5 % has been spent in the Middle East and North Africa. 24,3 % of the total funds have been spent in Sub-Saharan Africa. The EC support for media development and freedomof expression has been limited compared with the bilateral support from EU. Member States and other bilateral donors. For comparison the Swedish budget for media support from SIDA in 2012 is 26 Million Euro and DfiD supports the BBC Media Action with more than 20 Million Euro per year. The funding comes .from a variety of thematic and geographic Instruments with the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, EIDHR, as the single biggest source, which accounts for 41 % of the total support. Other significant Instruments are IPA, CARDS, ENPI and MED. The main focus has been on training of journalists and editors in journalistic skills and professional standards. Other initiatives have been support to reform of media related legislation and direct support to endangered journalists and writers. The projects supportedby the EC have not been different from projects funded by bilateral donors. Very few projects have benefitted from the potential comparative advantages of the EC/EU as a multinational entity. Very few projects have been designed and implemented in cooperation with member states or other donor agencies, and the projects do not reflect on-going internal medla developments in the EU. There seems to be more focus on EU visibility than on EU additionallity. The top ten contract holders have implemented 36 % of the total project value with BBC Media Action as the single biggest partner, which has implemented almost ten percent of the total project value in the period 2000-2010. lnternews (with lnternews Europe as the biggest entity) comes second with 4,6 % of the total project value followed by the International Federation of Journalists with 3,4 % of the project value. The EC is seen as a “difficult“ or “bureaucratic“ donor agency, which is difficult to approach for smaller organisations because the possible funding does not correspond with the paper work needed to apply for support." (Executive summary more

Journalism and Media Grant Making: Five Things You Need to Know, Five Ways to Get Started

Michele McLellan, Eric Newton

Miami; Philadelphia, Pa.: Knight Foundation;Penn Foundation (2011), 35 pp.

"Foundations are making more media and journalism grants not for the sake of media alone, but because they are finding they need a healthy news ecosystem in order to achieve their strategic goals." With this in mind, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the William Penn Foundation have pub ... more

The "Fourth Estate" in Democracy Assistance: Practices and Challenges of German and International Media Development Cooperation. 6th Symposium Forum Media and Development

Christoph Dietz, Julia Steffenfauseweh, Angelika Mendes (eds.)

St. Augustin; Berlin; Aachen: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2011), 69 pp.

"The first part of this publication provides insight into the media development practices and policy frameworks of France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom while the second part deals with different issues and projects, such as the role of media for social transformation in Africa and coordina ... more

Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report
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Jorgen Ringgaard, Milica Pesic, Moussa Sawadogo, Jean Ouedraogo

Soges;European Union (2010), 50 pp. + annexes

"As a follow up on the Media and Development Forum, which took place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on 11-13 September 2008, the European Commission initiated this study to map out the projects and programmes which European donors have in place to support media development in Africa [...] Some 240 co ... more

Annual Report 2009-2010

Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2010), 146 pp.

Cooperación en cultura-comunicación en el Mediterráneo: España, Francia e Italia con Marruecos, Túnez y Argelia. Creando espejos

Manuel Chaparro

Madrid: Fundación Alternativas, Observatorio de Cultura y Comunicación (2010), 63 pp.

"La cultura-comunicación, más que promover la integración de países, debe buscar la integración de ciudadanos, trabajando los denominadores comunes definidos en las Declaraciones Universales de los Derechos Humanos, Pueblos Indígenas y Medio Ambiente. Es éste el capítulo más deficitario de ... more

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Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States
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Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 64 pp.

"This publication describes the main media assistance funders outside the USA in an alphabetical fashion from 'Arab States' to 'United Kingdom', complemented by data on the European Commission (EC), UNESCO and UNDP. The EC is likely to be the biggest single funder of media development projects besid ... more

U.S. Public and Private Funding of Independent Media Development Abroad

Peter Graves

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 28 pp.

"U.S. funding for international media development in 2006—public and private—exceeded $142 million; U.S. government funding totaled nearly $69 million; U.S. private sector funding totaled over $60 million; and Funding from government-supported nonprofit organizations—the National Endowment for ... more

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International Aid and the News Sector in Cambodia

Judith Clarke

In: Journalism and Democracy in Asia

Angela Rose Romano; Michael Bromley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2005), pp. 41-53

"Aid efforts have encountered a number of problems: oversupply of basic courses, overlapping and duplication of courses and a lack of understanding of local conditions on the part of some donors [...] Better planning and coordination could improve the situation, as could efforts to encourage journal ... more

Broadcasting and Development: Options for the World Bank

Carter Eltzroth, Charles Kenny

Washington, DC: World Bank (2003), 24 pp.

"The World Bank should take a more active role in policy and regulatory activities targeting the broadcasting sector because: broadcasting can have a significant part to play in the fight to reduce global poverty; convergence of information and communications technologies (ICT) is allowing broadcast ... more

Overview of Media Support to Southeast Europe

Yasha Lange

Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Media Task Force (2003), 28 pp.

"The overview of activities to support the media in Southeast Europe is not equally detailed and comprehensive for each country or organization. Also, the information made available for this overview was provided in different ways: narrative or tables, divided by country or type of activity. This ma ... more

Mapping Media Assistance
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Monroe E. Price, Bethany Davis Noll, Daniel De Luce

Oxford; Philadelphia: University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Progamme in Comparative Media Law and Policy;Annenberg School for Communication (2002), 62 pp.

"The purpose of this study is to provide a ‘map’ of media assistance. Like all maps, this one has artificial limitations. It is confined largely to the post-Soviet period. It is a map of media assistance efforts, based almost wholly on experiences on activities emanating from Europe and the Unit ... more

Arbeitsmappe Praxis und Perspektiven der deutschen Medienförderung

Aachen; Bonn: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO);Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED);Fachstelle Eine Welt Medien (2002), 115 pp.

"Listet die Profile von 21 in der Medien- und Journalistenförderung tätigen Institutionen auf, vom BMZ bis zum Solidaritätsfonds Demokratische Medien in der Welt. Außerdem sind die folgenden Veröffentlichungen beigefügt: Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage "Förderung der Medien ... more

Media and Peacebuilding: Concepts, Actors and Challenges

Christoph Spurk

Bern: Swisspeace (2002), 58 pp.

"A concise overview looking at the approaches, activities, and challenges of governmental, international, and nongovernmental organizations in the field of media and peacebuilding." (commbox)