Presentation for the BBC World Service Trust/

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Presentation for the BBC World Service
Trust/ Communications Initiative
Conference Democracy, Governance and
Accountability The contribution of media and
communication 16th January 2008
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ABOUT TVE

• Independent non-profit organization, first set up
  in 1984 by the UN Environment Programme, WWF and
  Central Television (now ITV).
• TVEs mission - to raise awareness and trigger
  informed debate about environment, development,
  health and human rights issues worldwide through
  television and other electronic media
• We believe that television and electronic media
  are powerful tools in ensuring the free flow of
  information, communicating ideas and creating
  positive change

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ABOUT TVE

• We commission, produce or co-produce films on
  environment and development issues
• We work with international broadcast platforms
  and with 46 TVE Partners in 49 countries in
  Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America the
  Caribbbean - to ensure global and local reach for
  programmes
• We produce three major series Earth Report,
  Life and Hands On which are broadcast first on
  BBC World, and then distributed via our Partners
  for broadcast and non-broadcast use in their
  countries
• We work with our Partners to ensure that films
  are versioned into local languages to reach even
  remote audiences through open air screenings,
  community hall viewings and via the internet

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TVE AFRICAN PARTNER NETWORK (APN)

• 15 Partners across sub Saharan Africa (Angola,
  Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi,
  Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South
  Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe)
• Regional Coordinator, Africa, based in Nairobi
• In 2005 produced the Africa Calling series
  addressing the G8 leaders meeting in Gleneagles,
  broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK and on TV
  stations across Africa
• In 2006, in partnership with Oxfam International,
  produced and broadcast Trade Talking in local
  languages - on the potential impact of the WTO
  agreement
• In 2007, in partnership with Save the Children
  UK, broadcast Running on Empty - on MDG 1,
  hunger and screened it at panel debates in 12
  countries in Africa.

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TVE APN WORKSHOP AT THE COMMONWEALTH PEOPLES
FORUM

• Showcased media projects on governance, HIV/AIDS,
  reproductive health and post-conflict
  reconstruction from six of the APN Partners
• Presentations from Indian television reporter
  Nupur Basu on media environment in South Asia on
  Ugandan radio project run by World Vision, and on
  the work of Commonwealth Youth group
• Debate on final wording in draft communiqué for
  presentation by CPF rapporteurs to Commonwealth
  Foreign Ministers on 24 November

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• Excerpt from CHOGM Final Communiqué 25.11.07
• Civil Society
• 77. Heads of Government welcomed progress
  involving civil society in all aspects of the
  Commonwealths work. They noted that a number of
  Ministerial meetings now included provision for
  dialogue with civil society and called for this
  to be extended where possible.
• 78. They took note of the outcome of the Peoples
  Forum and agreed with civil society that
  political, economic and human transformation
  should recognise and respect the right to freedom
  of association and assembly, as well as freedom
  of expression and the media, and access to
  information, and requires the active
  participation of all social groups in making
  decisions that shape their destiny in accordance
  with international and domestic law. They noted
  civil society concerns that poverty, climate
  change, HIV and AIDS and rapid urbanisation as
  well as risk of failure to meet the Millennium
  Development Goals by 2015, pose serious threats
  to transformation.

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