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Project: Empowering Rural Communities in Bhutan through Mass Media
Evaluation Date: December 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Both mentors and participants demonstrated that knowledge sharing works vertically and horizontally in- and outside the media organisations, mainly in four ways.
• One, most of the participants shared their knowledge and experience by training the co-workers;
• Two, they shared their knowledge with other media professionals through a variety of interactive as well as informal forums;
• Three, participants took opportunities to share their knowledge with students in media training institutes;
• Four, participants also shared their knowledge and experiences through a variety of media, most commonly by writing blogs, articles for professional journals.

Theme: Interaction with government, Media
Bhutan   capacity, exchange, journalism, knowledge, media, mentor, network, project design, share, sharing, skills, sustainability, sustainable, training
Project: Empowering Rural Communities in Bhutan through Mass Media
Evaluation Date: December 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Mentoring as a model for capacity building has worked. It was found during the interviews that most of the trainees had learned techniques and applied new skills in reporting and engaging with audiences. After the trainings, the Mentors therefore continued to guide and teach the participants on subjects not covered during the trainings like techniques of editing and content packaging, self-censorship and other technical and editorial skills.

Theme: Interaction with government, Media
Bhutan   application, applied skills, apply, audience, capacity, censor, content, editor, journalism, knowledge, media, mentor, project design, radio, skills, sustainability, sustainable, training
Project: Empowering Rural Communities in Bhutan through Mass Media
Evaluation Date: December 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In a country like Bhutan, where culture is overwhelmingly dominant in every aspect of life and policies and seen separately from democracy, implementing a project that promotes democracy through strengthening media is not without challenges. Bhutan is ambitious to make the cultural perspective visible in all development co-operation and projects, which suggests a “mainstreaming” approach. Since culture is a complex concept and naturally varies considerably from country to country, mainstreaming is difficult. But, at the project level, it would be more appropriate to address culture using a rights perspective that focuses on freedom of expression and information. Nevertheless, it would be highly relevant to systematically include the roles of culture in media development and the promotion of democracy and democratic institutions.

Theme: Interaction with government, Media
Bhutan   culture, development, expression, freedom, human rights mainstreaming, information, journalism, media, project design, radio, rights, rural
Project: Advancing Gender Justice with Community Broadcasters in Kyrgyzstan
Evaluation Date: April 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Community media is key in Kyrgyzstan, given the geographic challenges of rural communities in remote and mountainous locations, where regional news do not reach the country as a whole, and vice versa. Alternative channels of access to information complement national and regional information. It is thus key in advancing gender justice through gender-sensitive information and conscious opposition to gender stereotypes.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Media
Kyrgyzstan   Community Radio, gender, Kyrgyzstan, media, rural communities
Project: Advancing Gender Justice with Community Broadcasters in Kyrgyzstan
Evaluation Date: April 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Challenges on gender in Kyrgyzstan still consist of polarized public opinion, declining women’s participation in the political system, radicalization and religious extremism, media messaging on negative stereotypes. There is demand for high-quality media programming that promotes more positive role models for women in Kyrgyz society.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Media
Kyrgyzstan   Community Radio, gender, Kyrgyzstan, media, radicalization, religious extremism
Project: Advancing Gender Justice with Community Broadcasters in Kyrgyzstan
Evaluation Date: April 2022
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Foreign funding is a matter of controversy and concern in Kyrgyzstan, especially as it relates to media engagement. UNDEF’s support proved valuable as a neutral, credible, and legitimate source of funding. It allowed for activists and journalists from very different regions, political views, social backgrounds to meet and work together, without prejudice, and achieve results from productive and meaningful collaborations.

Theme: Women's empowerment, Media
Kyrgyzstan   Community Radio, gender, journalists, Kyrgyzstan, media
Project: Helping Teenagers to Transform their Communities in Ukraine
Evaluation Date: September 2020
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

Plan early to develop and implement a strategic communication campaign to tell a multi-dimensional transmedia narrative story about their project through multiple channels that are most used by direct beneficiaries and target audiences. Consider hiring an experienced media communication specialist to help with regional and national media coverage efforts beyond simple announcements.

Theme: Youth engagement
Ukraine   audience, beneficiaries, campaign, communication, expertise, implement, media, national, plan, project design, regional, specialist, strategy, target
Project: ICT Empowerment of Women’s Voices in Haiti
Evaluation Date: May 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

If a women’s empowerment project engages both women-only organizations and mixed organizations, it should discuss with stakeholders at the beginning of the project how to manage the dual discourse.

Theme: Women's empowerment
Haiti   Haiti, low-income countries, media, rural, technology, women
Project: ICT Empowerment of Women’s Voices in Haiti
Evaluation Date: May 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In low-income countries, women’s empowerment projects should develop collaborations with organizations specialized in literacy to enable rural women to acquire computer skills.

Theme: Media
Haiti   Haiti, low-income countries, media, rural, technology, women
Project: ICT Empowerment of Women’s Voices in Haiti
Evaluation Date: May 2018
Report: [report link]
Lesson Learned:

In Haiti, as in many low-income countries, IT is under-utilized as a tool to empower rural women.  Making it more accessible strengthens the capacity for action and self-esteem of rural women, who are often victims of triple exclusion: as women, rural and poor.

Theme: Media
Haiti   Haiti, low-income countries, media, rural, technology, women
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