Media Dissemination of Road Sector Reforms
Over the past five years, the 'second liberalization' of Africa has liberalized the local media in turn. The explosion of media outlets and the diversity of their outreach provide excellent opportunities for the dissemination to, and owne...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/12/12893577/media-dissemination-road-sector-reforms http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9878 |
| Summary: | Over the past five years, the
'second liberalization' of Africa has liberalized
the local media in turn. The explosion of media outlets and
the diversity of their outreach provide excellent
opportunities for the dissemination to, and ownership of
development policies, programs, and projects by the
stakeholders and beneficiaries. While the practice of
participatory development in Africa is relatively new, the
practice of using the media as a development tool,
especially as a means of facilitating discussion, is even
newer. Policymakers view exposing development programs and
projects in the public domain via the media with some
trepidation. This fear arises, not so much from a fear of
public debate, as from the view that 'experts'
already know all the answers, in the form of feasibility
studies, technical and analytical reports, and participatory
rural appraisals. |
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