Brussels Rural Development Briefings
A series of meetings on ACP-EU development issues
Briefing session n° 14
ACP Rural Development: why media matters?
Brussels, 12
thOctober 2009
Resources available online (English and French)
En italique les documents disponibles en français
CTA, Media and agriculture. Linking towns and villages, Spore n. 140, April 2009
http://spore.cta.int/images/stories/pdf/SE140-web.pdf
CTA, Médias et agriculture. Rapprocher la ville du village, Spore n. 140, avril 2009
http://spore.cta.int/images/stories/pdf/SF140-web.pdf
International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), A Study of Media Coverage of Agriculture and Women in the Agricultural Sector in Three African Countries: Mali, Uganda and Zambia, 2009
http://www.iwmf.org/docs/SowingTheSeeds_final.pdf
European Commission, African Union Commission, Forum « Media and Development ». Proceedings, 11-13 September 2008, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
http://www.media-dev.eu/download/Forum-MEDIA-DEV_Rapport_final_Proceedings_DEF.pdf
Joint roadmap for the action of the African Union Commission and the European Commission
http://www.media-dev.eu/download/Media-dev.eu-FeuilleDeRoute-en.pdf
Commission européenne, Commission de l’Union Africaine, Forum «MEDIA & Développement». Rapport final, 11-13 septembre 2008, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
http://www.media-dev.eu/download/Forum-MEDIA-DEV_Rapport_final_Proceedings_DEF.pdf
Feuille de route conjointe pour l'action de la Commission de l'Union Africaine et de la Commission européenne
http://www.media-dev.eu/download/Media-dev.eu-FeuilleDeRoute-fr.pdf
Commission européenne, Commission de l’Union Africaine, L'action de la Commission européenne dans le domaine « Media et Développement », 2008
http://www.media-dev.eu/download/media-dev.eu-Action-UE-MEDIA.pdf
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), Media matters. Perspectives on Advancing Governance & development from the Global Forum for media development, 2008
http://www.internews.org/pubs/gfmd/mediamatters.pdf
Executive Summary
http://www.internews.fr/IMG/pdf/Summary_Mediamatters.pdf
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie - Action en faveur des radios locales en Afrique, 2008
IFPRI, Global media and the development story: an introduction, 2007
http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/publications/oc55.pdf
World Bank, Communicating the Impact of Communication for Development. Recent Trends in Empirical Research, World Bank Working Paper n. 120, 2007
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2007/08/10/00031060 7_20070810123306/Rendered/PDF/405430Communic18082137167101PUBLIC1.pdf
FAO and World Bank, World Congress of Communication for Development. Lessons, challenges and the Way Forward, 2007
http://go.worldbank.org/HZ9K9XO7L0
G. Berger, Media Legislation in Africa.A Comparative Legal Survey, UNESCO, 2007
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/25479/11915762761medialegislationinafrica_web.pdf/ medialegislationinafrica_web.pdf
BBC World Service Trust, African Media Development Initiative, Research Summary report, 2006
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/pdf/AMDI/AMDI_summary_Report.pdf
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners, A comparative overview of media laws and practice in Lesotho, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2006
http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_5977-544-2-30.pdf
UNESCO, Media Development and Poverty eradication, 2006
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001486/148691e.pdf
Gillwald (ed.), Towards an African e-index: Household and individual ICT access and usage across 10 African countries., LINK Centre, Wits University, 2005
http://link.wits.ac.za/papers/gillwald-etal-2005-final-e-index.pdf
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), The Economic Impact of Telecommunications on Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction: A study of rural communities in India (Gujarat), Mozambique and Tanzania, 2005
http://www.cto.int/Portals/0/docs/annual%20report.pdf
United Nations Commission for Africa, Our Common Interest: Report of the Commission for Africa, 2005
http://www.commissionforafrica.org/english/report/thereport/english/11-03-05_cr_report.pdf
Feustel, Germain, Matus, Reuchlin and Ridley, Free Press and Good Governance in Southern Africa: Media Assistance and Free Press Advocacy in Member States of the Southern African Development Community, 2005
http://www.stanhopecentre.org/research/mdps_southafrica.pdf
CTA, FAO, SADC, Report of the sensitization workshop on rural radio for policy and decision makers in East and South Africa, 26 – 29 April, 2005, Lilongwe, Malawi
Foreign Policy Centre, An African Al-Jazeera? Mass Media and the African Renaissance, 2005
http://fpc.org.uk/fsblob/481.pdf
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners.” Volume 3, 2005
http://www.kasmedia.org/pdf/medialaw3.pdf
Panos, Telephones and livelihoods – How telephones improve life for rural people in developing countries, Panos Brief, 2005
http://www.panos.org.uk/download.php?id=120
Sanef/ETC, The 2005 South African national journalism skills audit – phase 2, 2005
http://www.sanef.org.za/download_files/skills_audit/skills2_final.doc
Panos, Information and communication technologies and large-scale poverty reduction; lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
http://www.sdc.admin.ch/ressources/resource_en_25250.pdf
Panos, Situation des medias en République Démocratique du Congo, 2004
http://www.panosparis.org/fr/doc/Situation.pdf
Journaliste en Danger, Rapport 2004: L’état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale
http://www.jed-afrique.org/_fichiers/documents_url_3.pdf
FAO, Agricultural Extension, Rural Development and the Food Security Challenge, 2003
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/006/y5061e/y5061e00.pdf
Afrobarometer, Freedom of Speech, Media Exposure, and the Defense of a Free Press in Africa – Afrobarometer Briefing Paper, No. 7, 2003
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADA831.pdf
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Gender and Media Baseline Study: Monitoring the Media in Southern Africa, 2002
http://waccglobal.org/en/resources/media-and-gender-monitor/97-issue-13/1011-Gender-and-Media-Baseline-Study-Monitoring-the-Media-in-Southern-Africa.html
FES, GRET, Media status report: Kenya, 2001
http://www.gret.org/parma/uk2/ressource/edm/pdf/kenya.pdf
FAO, Information and Communication Technologies for rural development and food security: Lessons from field experiences in developing countries, 2000
http://www.fao.org/SD/CDdirect/CDre0055b.htm
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department - University of Reading, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Sustainable Livelihoods: Preliminary Study, 1999
FAO, Knowledge and information for food security in Africa: From traditional media to the Internet, 1998
http://www.fao.org/sd/Cddirect/Cdan0017.htm
Mbayo, The beleaguered press of Sierra Leone, 1997