# CAMECO - Catholic Media Council

> CAMECO is a small nonprofit consultancy in Aachen that helps donors, civil-society groups, faith-based organizations, and community media plan, screen, evaluate, and strengthen media projects across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific. Its advantage is not scale but accumulated judgment: more than five decades spent translating local media ambitions into credible plans, useful research, stronger organizations, and fundable proposals.

- **Founded:** 1969
- **Headquarters:** Aachen, Germany
- **Founders:** Dr. Otto Kaspar (Originator of the founding concept), Fr. Franz-Josef Eilers SVD (Founding participant and later executive director), Karl Höller (First executive secretary)
- **Products:** Strategic planning, Evaluation, Project screening, Capacity building, Networking
- **Notable:** Founded on 16 June 1969 and operating from Aachen since January 1970., By July 1970, the young office was already handling 22 mass-media projects from multiple continents., The Cardinal Foley Scholarship Fund has granted around 100 scholarships since 2012.

## Products & services

- **Strategic planning** — Facilitated planning and change processes for media and communication organizations, including project design, implementation strategy, and organizational sustainability.
- **Evaluation** — Participatory and mixed-method evaluations covering relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, monitoring, and follow-on change processes.
- **Project screening** — Independent assessment of media-project applications for donor decisions, paired with advice to partners preparing proposals.
- **Capacity building** — Training, mentoring, workshops, and practical tools for managers, journalists, communicators, and networks.
- **Networking** — Support for national and international media-development networks, peer learning, joint products, and advocacy.
- **Commbox Media Development Library** — A curated database of more than 30,000 media-and-communication publications, including roughly 17,000 freely available items and specialist toolboxes.
- **Digital capacities** — Commissioned AI fluency, digital safety, AI-assisted communications, and responsible-governance training for donors, NGOs, civil society, and faith-based media.
- **Scholarship administration** — Administration of the Cardinal Foley Scholarship Fund and a communication scholarship programme for religious sisters from the Global South.

## Achievements

- Founded on 16 June 1969 and operating from Aachen since January 1970.
- By July 1970, the young office was already handling 22 mass-media projects from multiple continents.
- The Cardinal Foley Scholarship Fund has granted around 100 scholarships since 2012.
- The 2023-2024 Cumare project trained 40 local reporters across twelve radio stations and produced 40 collaborative radio programmes.
- The Commbox library launched online in June 2026 with more than 30,000 publications and roughly 17,000 open-access items.
- A current communication scholarship programme for religious sisters is endowed with USD 100,000 for its funding cycle.
- CAMECO helped eleven community radio stations in Kenya and Uganda complete a two-year audience-research capacity programme in 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — CAMECO participated in the SIGNIS World Conference in Kigali and joined its call for more ethical AI use.
- **2026-06** — The Commbox open-access media-development library officially launched with more than 30,000 indexed publications.
- **2026-04** — CAMECO and AGIAMONDO launched a Civil Peace Service project on media, colonial legacies, reconciliation, and dialogue in Africa's Great Lakes region.
- **2026-03** — A BMZ-funded media-and-information-literacy project began with Mtaani Community Radio in Kenya to counter disinformation.
- **2026-02** — BMZ approved a CAMECO, Erich Brost Institute, and Media Challenge Initiative project on AI and disinformation in journalism education in Uganda and Kenya.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cameco.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cameco

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