Media and Governance Focus Group: Issues Paper

Media and Governance Focus Group: Issues Paper
ADF IV on Governance for a Progressing Africa, October 11 – 15 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

National Mass Communication Policy

This memorandum seeks to locate the core structural defects in the current National Mass Communication Policy, examine some of the symptoms of that defect, review some cogent national socio-economic problems, and investigate how they fit into the demands of a vigorous and purposeful broadcast regime.

Media, Good Governance & The Economy:Transparency & Accountability For Development Impact

Media, Good Governance & The Economy:Transparency & Accountability For Development Impact
Daniel Kaufmann And Mark Nelson, The World Bank Institute
World Press Freedom Day 2003 Presentation, Kingston, May 2-3, 2002

Hearing the Voices of the Poor: Encouraging Good Governance and Poverty Reduction Through Media Sector Support

Hudock, A., 2003, Hearing the Voices of the Poor: Encouraging Good Governance and Poverty Reduction Through Media Sector Support, World Learning for International Development, Washington D.C.

The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach

The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach, June 1999. Technical publication series, Office of Democracy and Governance,
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

African Media and ICT4D: Documentary Evidence

This study was commissioned by ECA with support from OSIWA . Roland Stanbridge, Director of the MA in Global Journalism, Department of Media Studies, Örebro University, Sweden, conducted and co-authored the study with Maria Ljunggren, Research Assistant in the Department. Eighteen journalists and media researchers in the nine survey countries conducted the daily media monitoring over a period of two months.

The Media Status Report (MSR): A new source of information for network members.

The goal of the reports is to provide network members with up-to-date, detailed country reports on the media. Each report contains information on the main stakeholders, types of donor support and suggestions for future action. These reports provide directions for future donor activities and facilitate the identification of projects. (They are not intended to take the place of feasibility studies for specific activities.). The website hosts reports from the following African countries: Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Niger and Togo.

Media and governance training modules

The Regional Governance Programme for Asia (PARAGON - prat of the United Nations Development Program) publishes a training module based on a Southeast Asia subregional training seminars on electoral, political and conflict reporting held in Cambodia.

Institutions

The Media and Society Foundation

The Media and Society Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in Geneva, Switzerland, by a group of media professionals, with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), in Bern.

Partners for Media in Africa

The ParMA network was created in December 1995 at a donors' meeting in Paris about supporting the media in developing countries. Participants at the meeting decided to create an informal network of donors that would meet regularly to exchange information on the media in Africa.

Les médias dans les pays francophones

Les médias peuvent constituer des sources d'information importantes pour les chercheurs, principalement dans les disciplines de sciences humaines. Ils présentent également un grand intérêt pour les professeurs de français langue étrangère.

Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest

A l'occasion de la célébration du 2 ème anniversaire du naufrage du bateau le Joola survenu dans la nuit du 26 au 27 septembre 2002, l'Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (IPAO) publie un ouvrage intitulé

South Asia Media and Governance Network Programme (MAGNET)

The South Asia Media and Governance Network Programme (MAGNET) is an action-research project which is supporting the creation of a media - government - civil society forum in each of three South Asian cities: Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia, Sri Lanka; Sangli, India; and Kathmandu, Nepal.

Woyaa media links

WOYAA: African search engine and Web sites directory

All Africa.com

AllAfrica Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. Registered in Mauritius, with offices in Johannesburg, Dakar, Lagos and Washington, D.C., AllAfrica is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce and distribute news from across Africa to tens of millions of end users.

Africa Regional Newspaper and News Media Guide

Website about newspapers, new media and information sources all around the World, a page of hypertext links concerned Africa: newpapers on line, broadcasting, press agencies etc.