CGCS Research and Publications

Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries: Toward Developing Common Principles and a Community of Practice is the result of an ongoing discussion among media development practitioners, donors and academics about the importance of monitoring and evaluation of media programs, particularly in conflict countries. 

The report emerged from discussions held in December 2010 in Caux, Switzerland, convened by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, CGCS, Fondation Hirondelle, Internews Network, and USIP. The goal was to develop a shared set of approaches and best practices--the "Caux Principles"--for identifying the role that media and information programs can and do play in conflict and post conflict countries. 

The participants hope that the Caux Principles represent just the first step in establishing an open and inclusive community of practice dedicated to improving evaluation in order to better inform future programs and ultimately better serve the vulnerable populations which these programs seek to aid.  

Building New Media Institutions in the MENA Region: A Roadmap towards Media Law and Policy Reform with Internews Network (2011)

Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development (2011)

Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure, with the Center for International Media Assistance (2010)

China in Africa: A new approach to media development? (November 2010)

Media Matters: Perspectives on Advancing Governance & Development from the Global Forum for Media Development (2006)

Mapping Media Assistance (February 2001)

Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries: Toward Developing Common Principles and a Community of Practice with USIP, Fondation Hirondelle, Internews Network, the United States Broadcasting Board of Governors (September, 2011)

Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure with CIMA (July 2010)

Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (Spring 2008)

Building New Media Institutions in the MENA Region: A Summary Report of the June 2011 Workshop (August 2011)

Milton Wolf 2010 Seminar Report (May 2010)

An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan, 2nd edition (May 2011) - English version

An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan, 2nd edition (May 2011) - Arabic version

An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - English version

An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - Arabic version

Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (Spring 2008)

The Speculative Influence of Academic Research on the Making of Communications Policy: Reflections, Recollections and Informal Perspectives (February 2008)

Comparative Analysis of International Co- And Self-Regulation in Communications Markets (2007)

Towards an Understanding of Media Policy in Iraq: A Foreword and Two Reports (May 2007)

Republic of Iraq Communications and Media Commission: Policy Recommendations Concerning Broadcasting in Iraq (December 2006)

Minority-Language Related Broadcasting and Legislation in the OSCE (February 2006)

The Federal Institute for Access to Information in Mexico and a Culture of Transparency

The Enabling Environment for Free and Independent Media: Contribution to Transparent and Accountable Governance (January 2002)

Media, Elections and Political Violence in Eastern Africa: Towards a Comparative Framework (September 2009)

The Role of the Media in the Upcoming Somaliland Elections: Lessons from Kenya (September 2009)

Public Opinion Research in a Conflict Zone: Grassroots Diplomacy in Darfur (Fall 2008)

2007/8 Yearbook of Global Civil Society: Communicative Power and Democracy (2007)

Milton Wolf 2010 Seminar Report (May 2010)

"Public Television and Pluralistic Ideals," (with Ellen Goodman), in The Price of Plurality: Choice, Diversity and Broadcast Institutions in the Digital Age (2008)

Public Service Broadcasting in Transition: A Documentary Reader (November 2001)