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Unseeing Eyes: Media Coverage and Gender in Latin American Elections
Civil Society, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, UN Women, Civil SocietyUnseeing Eyes: Media Coverage and Gender in Latin American Elections In a society where mass media is the main venue for political information and electoral competition, limited visibility during a campaign can be challenging to a candidate and limit the possibilities of being elected. This study covers five countries in Latin America and identifies differences and inequalities that women...
An Assessment of the Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding and Development: Case Studies in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Africa, Civil Society, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis five-page report details the results of an evaluation of four community radio stations in rural Sierra Leone and Liberia. The evaluation focused on areas still struggling to achieve meaningful development in a post-conflict setting and was designed to assess the relationships between drivers of development and community radio stations. The study found that community radios are...
Freedom on the Net: a global assessment of Internet and digital media
Civil Society, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThe study evaluates the level of internet and mobile phone freedom experienced by average users and activists in a sample of 15 countries across 6 regions. It is based on a newly developed set of 19 indicators. The index addresses a range of factors that might affect freedom, including the state of telecommunications infrastructure, government restrictions on access to technology,...
The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Parliament, Political Parties, Inter-Governmental OrganizationFormal analysis of policy-making within the realm of political institutions has deepened the understanding of how political institutions shape economic policies. Other than voting, forming political parties, bargaining in the legislature, and the like, there are a number of alternative political technologies (APTs), like threats of violence and of disruption of economic activity,...
Impact assessment of ICT-for-development projects: a compendium of approaches
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Media, Academic/Think TankThis paper is a part of the Development Informatics working paper series, which discusses the broad issues surrounding information, knowledge, information systems, and information and communication technologies in the process of socio-economic development. While there has been an increase in the investment in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects, little is...
Public Broadcast Services in Africa Series - South Africa
Africa, Civil Society, Media, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyAccording to the report, access to South Africa’s wide range of media is unevenly divided. Remote rural areas still do not have access to media. An average newspaper is more expensive than a loaf of bread; more than two thirds of households do not have a functioning television set, whilst 85 percent of households do not have a computer, and 93 percent do not have access...
Advocating for the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics: Country-level Toolkit
Africa, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Country-level Advocacy Toolkit aims to help NSS managers and statisticians in developing countries start their own advocacy work and to demonstrate the advantages of planning advocacy systematically. It gathers, in a single package, advocacy methodology, tools, tips and messages. The Toolkit deals with statistical advocacy at country-level. It focuses on statistical advocacy as a means to...
Social Accountability in Africa
Africa, Book, Civil Society, Conflict, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Local Governance and Decentralization, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe publication is intended to serve as a knowledge resource to support policy-makers, public policy practitioners, law-makers, public institutions, public managers, the research and academic community, civil society, donor organisations, international and multilateral development agencies and all those actively involved and concerned with the subject of the ‘governance-accountability...
Reducing Risks of Reporting Corruption: Lessons from an Online Reporting System in Kenya
Africa, Civil Society, Conflict, Corruption, E-Governance, Human Rights, Media, Public Administration, Report, Academic/Think TankThis Practice Insight (2010:4) from the U4 Anti Corruption Resource Centre notes that Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission has adapted an online tool to improve the quality and quantity of reports it receives about corruption, providing anonymous communication with the informants. While clearly an important channel for leads on grand corruption cases especially, the implementation...