The Drum Beat 555 – Communication and Change News and Issues
COMMUNICATION AND CHANGE NEWS AND ISSUES
- Selected diverse programming EXPERIENCES from The CI Network.
- POLIO COMMUNICATION articles.
- Please VOTE in our poll on the key element of effective representation.
- A variety of strategic THINKING pieces from The CI Network.
- A note of THANKS to a renewing CI Associate.
- Share your OPPORTUNITIES: Development Classifieds.
A regional project working to increase the visibility of women with disabilities (WWD) in the disability movement and to ensure that their voices are heard through interpersonal communication that supports WWD to be leaders and advocate for their rights…
2. My Island-My Community – Caribbean
A 3-part communications initiative – regional radio soap opera, national radio magazine call-in shows, and national Community Action Campaigns – addressing climate change in the Eastern Caribbean…
A non-governmental organisation (NGO) using interpersonal communication and information and communication technology (ICT) to address gender issues and to empower women to assume a leading role in society through active participation in civic and political life…
4. Likusasa Ngelami (The Future is Mine) – Swaziland
Used posters, radio, print, public service announcements (PSAs) on television, and text messaging to encourage delayed sexual debut, keeping to one partner, and faithfulness within marriage…
5. Healthy Kitchen/Healthy Stove – Peru
A 21-month project designed to reduce indoor air pollution (IAP) among 33 economically poor indigenous communities in a rural district of Inkawasi, Peru. Local buy-in, knowledge, and communications capabilities were central to achieving the project mission…
6. Warrior Writers – United States
A community-based art as activism project working to provide the tools and space for community-building, healing, and redefinition for United States (US) veterans of the war in Iraq…
7. Forest Region Sustainable Community-Based Reproductive and Sexual Health Project – Guinea
This community-based effort to reduce pregnancy among schoolgirls drew on interpersonal communication and printed materials to increase young women’s reproductive health knowledge and their use of family planning, and to address the knowledge and behaviour of teachers, parents, and other adult community members…
HEALTH COMMUNICATION: POLIO LESSONS
As part of its polio programme funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), The CI has recently coordinated the publication of a supplement in the Journal of Health Communication (JOHC) which focuses on health communication lessons from the polio experience. The articles within this JOHC supplement are available free of charge for the next until November 7 2010. After that time, they will only be available for purchase.
The papers include:
- A Drop of Tension
- Communication for Polio Eradication: Improving the Quality of Communication Programming Through Real-Time Monitoring and Evaluation
- The Complexity of Social Mobilization in Health Communication: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Experiences in Polio Eradication
- Using Data to Guide Action in Polio Health Communications: Experience from the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI)
- Polio Eradication Is Just Over the Horizon: The Challenges of Global Resource Mobilization
- Health Communication: Polio Lessons
VOTE IN OUR POLL ON EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION
Which of the following is most important for effective representation of the interests of marginalised groups?
- media representation and coverage to create public awareness.
- group organisation for self-advocacy.
- representation and advocacy support through NGOs.
- government representation through assigned intermediaries.
Results as of August 12:
- 40%: group organisation for self-advocacy.
- 38%: media representation and coverage to create public awareness.
- 13%: representation and advocacy support through NGOs.
- 9%: government representation through assigned intermediaries.
8. Bye-bye, Billboards: Facebook Campaign against Racy Ads Gets Quick Results
by Beth Hawkins
Examines a protest campaign that residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota (in the United States) waged in May 2010 on the social networking site Facebook in order to call for what they deemed sexist billboards to be removed…
9. Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa: Impacts, Experiences and Future Directions
by Dilys Roe, ed., Fred Nelson, ed., and Chris Sandbrook, ed.
Analyses 20 years of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in different parts of Africa as a strategy for rural development, local empowerment, and conservation. It is a pan-African review of the impacts, challenges, and future directions of CBNRM…
by Philip Lee
Makes the case that communication rights and a well-designed communication strategy are essential in meeting targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)…
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by Muhammad Shafique, Monique Sternin, and Arvind Singhal
Explores the use of the Positive Deviance (PD) approach to strive for better maternal and newborn health outcomes in 8 villages of Haripur District in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). PD is based on the observation that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviours and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers…
by Harry Jones
Describes a multi-layered analysis of the science-policy interface in developing countries – «combining theoretical and empirical strands, comparing Northern and Southern contexts and drawing out theoretical insights as well as providing practical recommendations for action…»
13. A Field Report: Media Justice Through the Eyes of Local Organizers
by Dharma Dailey
Discusses results from interviews and workshops conducted by the Media Justice Fund on: (i) how grassroots social justice organisers across the country define media justice; (ii) what telecommunications and media policy issues are of concern to them; (iii) how they see the media justice movement intersecting with their communities; and (iv) what their outstanding communication needs are…
by Rachel Jewkes, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Robert Morrell, and Kristin Dunkle
Suggests that pervasive negative constructions of masculinity continue to fuel rape, intimate partner violence, and the spread of HIV in South Africa…
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