The first Global Media Monitoring Project was an imitative of the 1994 Women and Media Conference in Bangkok which was undertaken by Mediawatch Canada and executed in 1995 with the participation of seventy-one countries.
The second Global Media Monitoring Project was proposed at the 1997 Women and Communication Policy Forum in Manila and the National Women's Media Centre was to co-ordinate the project in partnership with Deakin University and Mediawatch Canada.