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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

Project: Am I Equal in Kosovo Society?
Evaluation Date: July 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

When attempting to introduce or change perceptions of previously controversial and/or ‘taboo’ topics, organizations should highly consider the use of radio and TV in order to remove these concepts from social marginalization/isolation and encourage public debate on these topics.

Theme: Media

Kosovo communication, media, radio, TV

Project: Creative Communication of the Nigerian Budget
Evaluation Date: July 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Involving the media in monitoring public works worked well. Using the media helped empower communities with simplified budget information which they used to demand accountability from their parliamentarians. The media was viewed as a key contributor of information in real time and an avenue through which budget information could be disseminated widely to a large audience.

Theme: Media

Nigeria Accountability, budget, media

Project: Advancing Pedestrian Rights in Georgia
Evaluation Date: January 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

There is value in courting controversy: Strategies seen as controversial can generate more media buzz and can capture public attention.

Theme: Community activism

Georgia advocacy, media

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