Coalition-building as an approach to media development

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the last two decades of international development, it’s that politics matter, yet this lesson has not been fully assimilated into the media assistance sector. In governance, health, education, and nearly every other area, there is a growing recognition that durable solutions to the world’s problems need to get the politics right. The Open Government Partnership, Global Fund, Global Campaign for Education, and the Sustainable Development Goals are among the many initiatives that seek to coordinate action from the local to the global with common objectives and strategies, but also to give civil society actors the access and moral authority they need to sustain political will, the collapse of which has doomed so many development efforts in the past. Read More