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  Media development indicators: a framework for assessing media development

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2008

  The promotion of freedom of speech, the development of community radio, and human resource development are regarded by the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) as essential to the development of media.
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  Corruption in emergencies: what role for media?

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2006

  This document brings together the deliberations of a meeting of donors, NGOs and journalists from Sri Lanka, Liberia and Nepal on the role of the media in tackling corruption in humanitarian aid programmes. It draws on various case studies and suggests ways in which humanitarian agencies and the media can mutually support responsible coverage of corruption in emergency aid.
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  Everyone’s guide to bypassing censorship for citizens worldwide

  The Citizen Lab, 2007

  More than 25 countries currently engage in internet censorship practices such as blocking access to human rights organisations, news, blogs and web services that are seen to challenge the status quo or are deemed to be threatening or undesirable.
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  The enabling environment for social accountability in Mongolia

  World Bank Publications, 2007

  Governmental accountability has become an increasing focus of attention by international donors in their development policies, strategies, and programmes. This study focuses on social accountability in Mongolia and the conditions influencing its success and failure, including legislation, the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) and the media.
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  Communication for empowerment: developing media strategies in support of vulnerable groups

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2006

  This guidance note focuses on the role of information and communication in empowering vulnerable groups, and particularly centres on strategies that can strengthen the media to play this role.The authors take account of the UN Millennium Summit outcome, the Paris Declaration and other recent global meetings on development.
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  2006 annual report of press freedom

  Reporters Without Borders [Reporters Sans Frontières], 2006

  This report considers press freedom across the world in 2006. It examines the state of national media in each continent of the world and details the numbers of journalists killed or detained in various countries.The document reviews threats to the press in 2005 and highlights various governments and global crises which have affected the freedom of the media to report.
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  Keeping an eye on the campaign: monitoring media coverage of the 16 days of activism: no violence against women and children campaign

  Media Monitoring Project, South Africa, 2005

  This report is an analysis of media coverage of the 2004 "16 days of Activism: No Violence Against Women" campaign in South Africa. The study also compares media coverage of gender-based violence and woman and child abuse over the last seven years. The authors also present MMP’s strategies for the campaign including their process for selecting companies as partners.
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  Regional media in conflict: case studies in local war reporting

  Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 2000

  This book explores the ways in which media promote and reflect conflict.
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  Freedom and responsibility: representative on freedom of the media

  Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2005

  This document outlines the global position of the media in 2004. Arguing that media is the very essence of the contemporary connotations of knowledge, the report outlines how the role of the media reflects democracy and freedom within society.The reports focuses on the growth of the internet which has increased the availability and volume of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ content.
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  Informal regulation of pollution in a developing country: empirical evidence from Gujarat, India

  Madras School of Economics, India, 2003

  The design of policy instruments for pollution control in India is complicated by the presence of large numbers of small-scale and unorganised sector pollution sources that lack the knowledge, funds, technology and skills to treat effluent. Limited resources available for regulation, political interference, and information asymmetries also make formal regulation difficult.

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