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News Media and Humanitarian Aid 23Rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Madrid 4Th June 2008 News Media and Humanitarian Aid 23rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Wednesday 4th June 2008, Hosted by DARA at Real Fábrica de Tapices, Fuenterrabía 2, 28014 Madrid (Metro: Menéndez Pelayo) Chaired by Kate Adie, OBE Meeting Booklet Contents Agenda..............................................................2 Key note abstracts...........................................5 Workshop outlines.......................................... 6 Key participants.............................................11 Participants ....................................................19 ALNAP ............................................................23 News Media and Humanitarian Aid 23rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Madrid 4th June 2008 MORNING AGENDA - WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE 09.00-09.45 ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION For security reasons it is required that participants register by 09.45 10.00-10.10 OPENING REMARKS Kate Adie OBE, Meeting Chair 10.10-10.20 WELCOME ADDRESS Leire Pajín, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Spain 10.20-10.25 WELCOME REMARKS Her Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano 10.25-10.45 KEY NOTE PRESENTATION 1 From Biafra to cyclone Nargis Dr Jonathan Benthall Department of Anthropology, University College London 10.45-11.15 BREAK 11.15-11.40 KEY NOTE PRESENTATION 2 After the wave: reporting disasters since the tsunami Glenda Cooper Guardian Research Fellow, Nuffield College 11.40-12.00 OPEN DISCUSSION ON KEYNOTES 12.00-13.30 THE DEBATE Can media and humanitarian agencies collaborate better to improve humanitarian outcomes? Debaters Sally Begbie, Chief Executive, Global Hand Karen Marón, Journalist, BBC and Radio France Intl Rafael Vilasanjuán, Journalist, Former Head of MSF Sp. William Dowell, Independent Journalist 13.30-14.45 LUNCH Optional Guided Tour of Real Fábrica de Tapices 2 News Media and Humanitarian Aid 23rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Madrid 4th June 2008 AFTERNOON WORSKHOPS - WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE 14.45-16.15 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Workshop one: the relationship between international media and international humanitarian actors in crises William Dowell, Independent Journalist Tim Singelton, Head of Foreign News, ITN Catherine Russ, Learning and Development Director, RedR (Chair) Workshop two: the role of media representation in creating crises and enabling response David Pratt, the Sunday Herald Manuel Sánchez-Montero, Director of Humanitarian Action and Development, FRIDE Silvia Hidalgo, Director, DARA (Chair) Workshop three: the role of formal humanitarian information networks Ben Parker, Editor-in-Chief, IRIN Martyn Broughton, Director AlertNet Reuters Foundation Eleanor Monbiot, Global KM Director, World Vision, (Chair) Workshop four: the relationship between international agencies and local and national media in affected states Melanie Brooks, CARE International Mario Murillo, Founder of Colombia Media Project Ivan Scott, Programme Learning Support Team Leader, OXFAM GB (Chair) Workshop five: the role of media in engaging with affected populations Daniel Wermus, Director, InfoSud/Media21 Network Lisa Robinson, Project Manager, BBC World Service Trust Mihir Bhatt, Honorary Director, AIDMI (Chair) 16.15-16.45 BREAK 3 News Media and Humanitarian Aid 23rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Madrid 4th June 2008 FINAL PLENARY AND EVENING - WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE 16.45-17.45 FINAL PLENARY Where to next? a future agenda for the media-humanitarian relationship? Niels Dabelstein, Danish Institute for Intl Studies James Deane, BBC World Service Trust Brendan Gormley, Disaster Emergency Committee Jemilah Mahmood, MERCY Malaysia José María Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica and Advisor to DARA (Plenary Chair) 17.45-18.00 WRAP-UP AND CLOSE Kate Adie OBE NB: The agenda may change during the event, in response to the needs and wishes of the participants. * * * The ALNAP Dinner will be held at the Club Financiero Génova, Marqués de la Ensenada 14, 14th floor (Metro Station: Colón) at 20.30. Transport will be arranged from near the meeting venue (pick-up point will be announced on the day) departing at 20.00. After Dinner Speech by Professor Peter Arnett Dress Code: Jacket and Tie * * * Over the course of day one and two, members of the Secretariat staff will be conducting a survey of ALNAP Full Member representatives to gather views on future activities. * * * Two side meetings will be held at Real Fábrica de Tapices, unless otherwise announced; RTE group meeting; Developing the RTE guide - 4th June, 18.30-20.00 LRRD 2; Meeting for those interested in TEC follow-up study - 5th June, 8.00-9.00 4 News Media and Humanitarian Aid 23rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Madrid 4th June 2008 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS FIRST KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - FROM BIAFRA TO CYCLONE NARGIS Dr Jonathan Benthall Department of Anthropology, University College London ‘From Biafra to Cyclone Nargis’ considers the history of the relationship between the news media and humanitarian aid, including the ‘New World Information Order’ debate, before reviewing what changed since the 1990s. Despite some changes – such as better research, the Islamic resurgence, the new technologies- there are little change in the fundamental relationships. Just as it is normal for hospital services to be dispassionately analysed without calling into question the integrity of medics, analysis of the political economy of the disaster-media-relief nexus is needed to examine how the flows of information and aid are controlled by intermediaries and subject to the caprice of donors. SECOND KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - AFTER THE WAVE: REPORTING DISASTERS SINCE THE TSUNAMI Glenda Cooper Guardian Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford The tsunami on 26 Dec 2004 was a turning point in how disasters are reported because of citizen journalism, also known as ‘user generated content’ (UGC). Its use has accelerated ever since and let more diverse voices be heard. But what are the challenges now journalists and aid agencies can no longer ‘control’ the story? Aid agencies are using UGC devices (eg the British Red Cross HIV campaign run on Bebo) and are reporting from disaster zones like journalists. There is also a potential blurring of lines between the media and the agencies and concern that UGC accentuates the spectacular catastrophe at the expense of the long term chronic emergency. 5 News Media and Humanitarian Aid 23rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Madrid 4th June 2008 WORKSHOP OUTLINES WORKSHOP ONE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN ACTORS IN CRISES OBJECTIVE To better understand the different aspects of the relationship, identify what gaps there are in our knowledge, how these can be addressed and clarify the scope to improve the relationship in a way that leads to better humanitarian outcomes. CONTEXT Media and humanitarian organisations both play crucial roles during humanitarian crises. Limits to financial resources, infrastructure facilities, human resource capacities and vital information in disaster settings have long required them to rely on each other to achieve their immediate goals, while simultaneously pursing their separate agendas. In recent years, changes such as the increasing politicisation of relief and increasingly globalised and competitive media markets have highlighted the complex and ambiguous nature of the relationship between these two actors during a humanitarian response. Media personnel may not have the means to access key crisis affected areas and therefore seek inputs from humanitarian actors. In some instances they may use the facilities of aid workers in the field, for lodging, security, transportation etc to carry out their work. Humanitarian actors, on the other hand have found media to be an exceptionally good agent to increase their profile and thereby lobby for more funds for operational responses as well as create and sustain awareness among both international and local actors about the crisis. While the interaction between media and relief agencies mutually benefit both parties, this relationship can also result in misunderstandings which can hamper humanitarian responses. Good media practice in crisis should provide impartial facts about relief operations, including highlighting the shortcoming of agencies that provided them assistance to gain the information in the first place. Given the importance of positive media coverage, humanitarian agencies are careful to release messages which cater to their interest. This can result in journalists being sceptical about the information provided. To avoid these misconceptions and act in ways that contribute to improve humanitarian performance, a better understanding of the working relationship between the two actors is essential. GUIDING QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION • What are the multiple ways in which the relationship between international media and international humanitarian agencies plays out? What factors shape these different relationships? Are any of the relationships dominant? • How do these multiple relationships affect (a) media work (b) humanitarian work? What are the positive aspects? What are the negative aspects? • What gaps are there in our understanding, and how could these be addressed? What role can evaluation and research play in addressing these gaps? • How might the positive aspects of these multiple relationships be increased, and negatives be reduced? Can guidelines or a MoU be developed to help manage the relationship between media and humanitarian actors during a crisis? What might such a framework look like? • What impact will new media technology and User Generated
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