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At the Catholic Media Convention on 3 November 2022 in Bonn, an international panel convened by CAMECO with experts from the Vatican, the Philippines addressed with the German participants what appears to be a global trend...

The BMZ has published a video highlighting the importance of media development cooperation. Entitled "Freedom of Expression, Dialogue, Participation: BMZ Promotes Free Media and Media Literacy Worldwide" it showcases the work of three partner organisations – Deutsche Welle Akademie (DWA), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and CAMECO...

From 5 to 9 December 2022, Mambulu Ekutsu, CAMECO's Francophone Africa Desk Officer, travelled to Marrakech, Morocco to attend the World Summit on Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC). Attending this summit was an opportunity for CAMECO to expand its network and observe the latest trends in social and behaviour change communication...

CAMECO’s new Advisor for Digital Analysis and Strategy, Emy Osorio Matorel, was part of an expert group convened by the Deutsche Welle Academy Lab and the Colmena project in Berlin on 25th November to explore the potential for Open Innovation...

On 16 December, Hans Peter Gohla who steered the fortunes of CAMECO as Executive Director from 1991 to 1999 died at the age of 87 in Aachen. In August 1991, at a time of structural change, he became Executive Director of CAMECO, succeeding Fr Dr Marcel Vanhengel op...

Dissatisfaction regarding general working conditions, the lack of operational budgets, audiovisual working tools and competent staff, and the urgent need for training and capacity building for better organisation, project planning and access to funding: These are...

The Forum Media and Development (fome) held its 2022 symposium from September 13-14 in Hamburg, Germany, on the issue of “Dealing with the Past – Preparing for the Future: Media Assistance in Conflict Mitigation, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding”...

The issue of sustainability is a key factor in media development assistance, which must be substantiated in funding applications and must be considered in evaluations. In a sense, it is the ultimate goal of most of the assistance provided to partners in the Global South and of the support given to their capacity building...

Participants at the German Catholic Convention in Stuttgart and experts from the Global South explored examples of using digital tools for spiritual formation and media education at a joint missio – CAMECO Workshop.

The open data tool developer Code for Africa (CfA) and the Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET) have teamed up with CAMECO to help local communities track public governance decision making and spending in eight counties in Kenya...

The third issue of the Research Reviews for Media Development Practitioners authored by Michel Leroy aims to trace the social construct of sustainability in the context of media development and define what is to be sustained, at the level of intervention (the process of change) or its outcome (the impact on the medium itself).

“Does knowing you mean trusting you?” was the provocative question of a panel, co-organised by CAMECO, Weltfilme and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, challenging the common assumption that local media, especially community media, enjoy the trust of their audiences as a natural consequence of their (geographic) proximity.

A new project aims to empower local communities to develop pathways out of the worsening poverty caused by the Corona pandemic. The project was planned and will be implemented by CAMECO in cooperation with AMARC Asia Pacific...

The Peruvian community radio association CNC and CAMECO launched the manual "Digitalization of Local Radio”.

Peru has been struck particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Adolescents from all over the country shared their personal experience with moving stories.

"Know your Audience - Improve your Radio" combines, in a participatory manner, online and offline training elements in the form of easy-to-use and modifiable learning modules with tools and templates, physical on-site visits by mentors allocated to each station, peer-based learning, etc.

“Be data driven” is one of eight long-term strategic goals of SAT-7, a Christian satellite TV channel in northern Africa and the Middle East. A special method to achieve this goal was in the focus of an online workshop that CAMECO helped organize with support of Kindermissionswerk ‘Die Sternsinger’.

Michaela Pilters, former Head of the Catholic Editorial Office of German public service TV channel elected new President of CAMECO.

Encouraging pilot-phase of BMZ project "Our County - Our Responsibility! Community media mobilising for accountability in Kenya".

Radio Veritas Asia's digital transformation gets a boost in times of lockdown.