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  • Gauging the impact of your journalism
  • Mapping evidence gaps on human rights, civil society, and independent media (July 2021)
  • LearnAdapt: a synthesis of our work on adaptive programming with DFID/FCDO 2017–2020 (2021)
  • “Big changes start small”: stories of people making a difference. An impact report (2020)
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  • End of Project Evaluation of the BBC Media Action Radio Waves and Tikambe Projects in Zambia (2020)
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  • Media Development: An Evaluation of Five Capacity-Strengthening Projects (2016)
  • Midterm Performance Evaluation of the Regional Investigative Journalism Network (2015)
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  1. RESOURCES

Evaluation & impact reports

Evaluation and impact reports from a selection of media development and journalism support programmes.

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WAN-IFRA - RITA KAPUR

Newsrooms are inundated with metrics of impact … today, there exist just too many data points for online activity.

Is it really the role of a journalist to always have an impact? Should stories be chosen only if they target impact? When there is an impact – how can we assume journalism was the sole catalyst – when often it is a factor along with governmental or larger societal forces at play?

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation - KATHERINE GARICA, MIRIAM BERRETTA, TOMASZ KOZAKIEWICZ

Overseas Development Institute - ED LAWS, JAMIE PETT, EMMA PROUD & ALINA ROCHA MENOCAL

This briefing note summarises key messages from the United Kingdom’s LearnAdapt programme – a three-year collaboration between Better Delivery and Emerging Policy, Innovation, Capability Departments of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), ODI, Brink, Feedback Labs and the Centre for Public Impact.

The programme, which ran from April 2017 to November 2020, worked closely with FCDO (formerly the Department for International Development) to create systems and processes and nurture an environment that enabled adaptive programming for greater development effectiveness.

DW Akademie, 2020, 97 p.

"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, impactoriented monitoring performed with local partners in the course 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 regularly 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. In the following chapters, you will get to know Thu Thu from Myanmar who turns on her microphone in the afternoon and supplies the surrounding communities with reliable regional news and information from the country’s first community radio station.

Let free media thrive: stories of impact of the MultiDonor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (2020)

UNESCO 19 p.

"2019 has seen major achievements resulting from needs-based, and specifically-tailored support through the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP). Actions building on ongoing work and others opening new avenues, have initiated substantial changes in favour of freedom of expression and media development.

DW Akademie - STEFAN SILVESTRINI & FURAHA HAKIZIMANA

The report outlines the factors that led to the "overall unsatisfactory assessment of the project".

BBC Media Action

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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Nigeria - Final Evaluation (2017)

BBC Media Action

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BBC Media Action

A useful summary is available here:

This report focuses on answering five questions:

  1. What have been the main obstacles to implementing RIJN/OCCRP and how has the project addressed them?

  2. To what extent has RIJN/OCCRP contributed to institutionalizing professional practices and improved skills of journalists associated with the project?

  3. To what extent has RIJN/OCCRP contributed to building and strengthening sustainable linkages between journalists

  4. Is there a correlation or relationship between RIJN/OCCRP reporting and public policy actions?

  5. How can the effects of investigative journalism best be measured and tracked?

Related resources:

WHAT IS MISSING?

“To better inform decision-making in these areas, 3ie is developing (EGMs) on each of these three topics.”

You will learn how media workers in Burkina Faso are trying to halt the increasing violence in their region through their reporting. You will also meet César who once didn’t believe he had what it takes to be accepted into a journalism training course and is now a respected reporter and a sought-after online journalism trainer." ()

The stories presented here are some examples of how the MDP works to provide countries and their populations with the necessary tools to nurture a free and independent media. This includes promoting the adoption of policies and standards on freedom of expression and safety of journalists, and fostering diversity, gender equality and media and information literacy through and with the media. Hence the name given to this series of articles: Let Free Media Thrive." ()

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This resource page is a work in progress. Please get in touch to let us know what is missing .

Mapping evidence gaps on human rights, civil society, and independent media (July 2021)
Evidence Gap Maps
LearnAdapt: a synthesis of our work on adaptive programming with DFID/FCDO 2017–2020 (2021)
“Big changes start small”: stories of people making a difference. An impact report (2020)
introduction
https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/mdp_let_free_media_thrive_story_magazine_web.pdf
editorial, p.2
Central project evaluation: further education and training for media professionals in Africa (2020)
Download the full evaluation here.
on page 45 for details.
End of Project Evaluation of the BBC Media Action Radio Waves and Tikambe Projects in Zambia (2020)
Download the full PDF here.
Media Development: An Evaluation of Five Capacity-Strengthening Projects (2016)
Midterm Performance Evaluation of the Regional Investigative Journalism Network (2015)
OCCRP - Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
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Gauging the impact of your journalism
LogoGauging the impact of your journalism - WAN-IFRAWAN-IFRA
LogoMapping evidence gaps on human rights, civil society, and independent media3ienews
LogoLearnAdapt: a synthesis of our work on adaptive programming with DFID/FCDO (2017–2020)ODI: Think change
LogoBig changes start smallDW.COM
LogoEnd of Project Evaluation of the BBC Media Action Radio Waves and Tikambe Projects in ZambiaThe Communication Initiative Network
LogoStrengthening Accountability Through Media in Nigeria - Final EvaluationThe Communication Initiative Network
LogoMedia Development: An Evaluation of Five Capacity-Strengthening ProjectsThe Communication Initiative Network
https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00KM3J.pdf