"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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lding and policy advice. This support builds on past actions undertaken by UNESCO, such as advocacy towards the adoption of Access to Information, Broadcasting Corporation and Media Authority laws, the set-up of a national monitoring and reporting mechanism on media violations through the Union of Journalists’ Media Observatory, and the production of safety training modules adopted by the University of Juba, the Media Development Institute and the Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS)." (Page 2)
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"Through the implementation of the MDP, UNESCO has sought to contribute to better democratic governance through improving freedom of the press and the quality of information available to the population in The Gambia. The “Support to Policy Development for Sustainability of Community Media in The G
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ambia” initiative specifically targeted community media, with the ultimate output being a policy that addresses their financial, technical and administrative needs to ensure their sustainability." (Page 1)
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"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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he Burundian Ministry of Communication on media pluralism issues, and particularly on the issue of community radio stations, an endeavour which has been supported by the MDP since 2018." (Page 2)
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"UNESCO’s Hanoi office requested to be the first country implementing activities under Output 2, with the aim to help media institutions adopting policies on gender equality and raising awareness about gender-based violence in media. The first step consisted in the translation to Vietnamese of UNE
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SCO’s main resource in this field: “Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls – A Handbook for Journalists’. Launched in 2019, this publication is a resource for media professionals with the intention to stimulate reflections on current reporting practices, provide information and promote and improve ethical coverage of gender-based violence. Under the MDP, UNESCO first targeted its action towards media institutions and journalists." (Page 2)
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"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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of capacities, convening key stakeholders, and promoting networking and knowledge exchange among crucial entities." (Page 1)
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"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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at were approved by the 63rd Bureau meeting in June 2019 but whose implementation timeframe was extended until December 2021 due to delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is meant for the information of the IPDC Bureau Members and donors." (Page 1)
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"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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at were approved by the 63rd Bureau meeting in June 2019 but whose implementation timeframe was extended until December 2021 due to delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is meant for the information of the IPDC Bureau Members and donors." (Page 1)
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"In Moldova, a series of hackathons led to the development of tech-based solutions to misinformation. In Ecuador, indigenous groups wrote their own stories on Wikipedia to strengthen their culture's representation and publicly correct misinformation. In Uganda, citizen journalists established a netw
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ork to report on underrepresented issues and groups. And in the Middle East, innovative concepts in journalism training are helping the next generation of journalists to become fit for the challenges of the future. These four case studies illustrate the approaches that DW Akademie and its partners are pursuing worldwide to strengthen the public dialogue. The goal is to foster innovation and increase the visibility of underrepresented topics, and to bring together innovators and experts to pool their knowledge and skills." (Publisher description)
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"No News Is Bad News (NNIBN) was an excellent programme in terms of effort, on the part of Free Press Unlimited (FPU), the European Journalism Centre (EJC) and all their partners. The programme has supported courageous, committed, energetic and initiative-taking partners who have promoted rights to
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access to information, investigative journalism, gender equality, media literacy, content and reach in and for media dark areas, and more. The international programme has achieved some significant milestones around safety of journalists. Most of the partners report increased capacity, stronger organisations and progress on key quality, advocacy and gender goals. Many are more sustainable than before the programme started. FPU has become a learning organisation with strong skills in research, advocacy and M&E. Thanks toNNIBN, FPU has also become a leading advocacy organisation for media freedom that plays a big role in shaping international networks and initiatives.
However, as evaluators we face a conundrum – on the one hand almost all the activities went well, the partners are satisfied, the funders are happy and colleagues in other agencies are, generally, admiring of FPU and EJC. Yet on the other hand, we see few clear decisive impacts at the national level – i.e. ‘a diverse and professional media landscape’ – which is the ‘impact statement’ in the Theory of Change. So why is it difficult to say what it amounted to? Firstly, the programme was probably too thinly spread across too many countries (some with only one or two partners) to really show an impact at the media landscape level as a whole. Which means that the ultimate objective of the Theory of Change is still out of reach in most regions and countries in the programme. Secondly, advocacy and human rights work in general is a slow process, requires working in coalitions (which FPU/EJC do), often invisible, too, and that when there is a breakthrough it is hardly ever acknowledged." (Executive summary)
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"DW Akademie collects and documents the impacts of its projects through a range of methods. There are three approaches that are currently standard in development cooperation: Applied studies, which enable new insights on impacts, impact-oriented monitoring performed with local partners in the course
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of project work, and evaluations prepared by external experts.The present volume focuses on additional methods for presenting impacts: reports from 13 different countries and quantitative data, so-called aggregated impact data, which are reg-ularly collected and bundled. Aggregated impact data sets provide a numerical overview of the people who have been reached through the work of DW Akademie. In 2018, for example, 9.6 million people in rural areas were provided with relevant information with the support of DW Akademie. 26.6 million people have benefited from the restructuring of their state broadcasters and now receive more diverse and attractive reporting. In this publication you will get to know some of the people behind these figures. Their stories are not representative of the totality of the supported target groups but they show which approaches and solutions have worked for individual people and why." (Introduction)
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"Die DW Akademie sammelt und dokumentiert die Wirkungen ihrer Projekte auf verschiedenen Ebenen, mit verschiedenen Methoden. Dazu zählen zunächst drei Wege, die heute Standard in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sind: erstens angewandte Studien, die neues Wissen über Wirkungen ermöglichen, zweiten
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s das sogenannte wirkungsorientierte Monitoring, das im Verlauf der Projektarbeit mit den Partnerorganisationen vor Ort durchgeführt wird, und drittens Evaluationen, die von externen Gutachterinnen und Gutachtern erstellt werden. Der vorliegende Band konzentriert sich auf zusätzliche Methoden, um Wirkungen darzustellen: auf Reportagen aus 13 verschiedenen Ländern und auf quantitative Daten, die sogenannten aggregierten Wirkungsdaten, die regelmäßig gesammelt und gebündelt werden. Die aggregierten Wirkungszahlen geben einen numerischen Überblick der Menschen, die durch die Arbeit der DW Akademie erreicht wurden. Hierzu fragt die DW Akademie jedes Jahr bei ihren Partnerorganisationen vor Ort nach. So wurden beispielsweise im Jahr 2018 mit Unterstützung der DW Akademie 9,6 Mio. Menschen in ländlichen Gebieten mit für sie relevanten Informationen versorgt. 26,6 Mio. Menschen haben von den Umstrukturierungen ihrer Staatssender profitiert und erhalten eine vielfältigere und attraktivere Berichterstattung. In dieser Publikation lernen Sie einige Menschen kennen, die hinter den Zahlen der aggregierten Wirkungen stecken. Ihre Geschichten sind nicht repräsentativ für die Gesamtheit der unterstützten Zielgruppen. Sie zeigen aber, welche Ansätze und Lösungswege für einzelne Menschen funktioniert haben und warum." (Einleitung)
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"The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the support of the American people. Internews and its partners work collaboratively to enhance democratic governance that provides
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economic, political, and social inclusion and advances social stability. Objective One: Improve the environment for a free press; Objective Two: Bolster capacity of media and other organizations to address disinformation; Objective Three: Strengthen self-regulation of the media." (Page 2)
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"Taking into account the actual situation in the region, the support that VIKES provides for independent journalism is more urgent than ever. Journalists in the region are facing unprecedented challenges, from declining revenues, a broken business model and a new form of censorship, threats to journ
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alists’ safety and misinformation campaigns. In these conditions, the work that VIKES has been doing in the region has been relevant and successful. It has promoted the right of civil society to information and the right of media to freedom of expression. Activities that were planned in the programme document on the defense of fundamental rights to exercise free speech and democracy were implemented, and positive results were achieved. All the partner organizations have strengthened the exercise of democracy through digital media and investigative journalism, promoting citizen participation in public policies and improving the open-access and right to information. Networking and cooperation between independent media, journalists and CSOs are more reliable than ever in the region, and a new concept of collaborative journalism was introduced with positive results. VIKES supported media and independent journalists in producing high-quality information and investigative stories, supporting them to attract wider audiences. Training in business development, marketing and effective management was organised by the programme, and the financial sustainability of partners was improved. Even so, the independent media in the region is still dependent on external funding and will be, until the political situation in the region will improve. To be more effective and to improve the effectiveness of the Regional Independent Media Support Programme in the future, VIKES should increase the number of the partners and independent media representatives (also those currently exiled) to receive support from the programme. The main problem of independent public media remains the lack of financing and security. In a meeting with independent journalists in Nicaragua, where the government has threatened to continue to imprison journalists and publicly insults media professionals, they underlined the importance of solidarity networks among international organizations and press associations. According to them, VIKES has done bold work, and its efforts have supported the professionals who remain to practice “survival journalism” and need all the backing to continue to inform the population." (Executive summary, page 7-8)
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"This document reports on the implementation of projects approved by the 62nd meeting of the IPDC Bureau (May 2018) and implemented in 2018-2019. It is meant for the information of the IPDC Bureau Members and donors." (Page 1)
"The project seeks to restore confidence in the media in South East Europe and Turkey. The focus is on improving media accountability mechanisms, media internal governance, and media and information literacy among citizens to strengthen civil society support for the media and demand for quality medi
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a." (Page 3)
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"KAS Media Africa is playing its role by facilitating debates on how good journalism could be financed in the future. We talk about the role of political bloggers and the importance of dialogue between those who regulate the media and those who own it. We bring together the experts from all parts of
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the continent, be they English-, French- or Portuguese-speaking. This brochure invites you to get to know more about our work, be it on fake news, the development of curricula for Business Journalism at African Universities or the strategy meetings on the election campaigns of the future." (About us, page 3)
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