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The Statistical Commission Speaks: First Indicat...
Next week, from March 23rd through the 27th, the UN General Assembly will for the first time directly discuss the specifics of the 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 associated ‘targets’ – and the multiple yet-to-be-assigned factual ‘indicators’ by which the... |
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Will Statisticians Get the Last Word on the UN...
There are three things you need to know about the negotiations over the United Nations’ next set of global development goals, which will be adopted by world leaders at the General Assembly this September and remain in effect for the next 15 years: Almost everybody agrees that the proposed 17 Susta... |
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The Great Debate: Freedom of Information and Med...
UN Representative, Global Forum for Media Development This Monday, the UN General Assembly began its final phase of negotiations over the UN’s next set of global development goals, which will succeed the expiring Millennium Development Goals and guide international development priorities and aid f... |
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UN Secretary General Calls for Media in Post-201...
The campaign for media and access to information’s inclusion in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals gained a new advocate last week in UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who reaffirmed their importance in a synthesis report for the SDGs. The report, noting the evolving information needs of ... |
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Post-2015 Goals Should Include Independent Media...
Access to information, transparency, independent media, accountability and citizen participation are not being adequately addressed by the global effort to set a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a diverse group of global development specialists. Drawn from an informal su... |
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Africa Summit 2014: Recommendations for the Medi...
Yesterday, we offered a behind-the-scenes look at what representatives of the media sector in Africa saw as the greatest challenges facing the region’s media development. Today, that group met in Washington to make recommendations on how to combat these challenges. The panel’s spokespers... |
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Participate in our Do-Over Webinar!
Join CIMA for an interactive online discussion on June 26 at 10:00 a.m. Back in May, CIMA hosted a webinar that didn’t work due to connectivity issues. We took some time to learn from our mistakes and will be back in action on Thursday, June 26 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Eastern time! It has been an [&... |
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Yes, media freedoms can be measured
The real question is who holds the yardstick If you hang around the halls of United Nations and World Bank long enough, you’re sure to encounter the old saw that goes something like this: “We have nothing against setting targets, but things like governance and press freedom just can’t be measu... |
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Post-2015 and Media Development: An Online Discu...
CIMA held an online event on May 21, 2014 featuring Article 19 on the role of media in strengthening accountability. The goal was to bring a new audience to the discussion of the media sector’s role in development, and how media would fit into the post-2015 agenda. Below is a collection of res... |
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Media’s Role in Strengthening Accountabili...
Join CIMA for an interactive online discussion on May 21 at 9:00 a.m. In recent months, CIMA has written extensively on raising the profile of the media sector . CIMA senior director Mark Nelson attended a high level meeting in Mexico regarding this topic, and we are continuing to seek out ways to... |