The Drum Beat – Issue 594 – Communication and Change News and Issues
August 29 2011
This issue includes:
* EVALUATIONS: Guiding midwives, connecting to work, evaluating advocacy, radio.
* MATERIALS: User-generated content: classroom, contraceptives, literacy.
* Many thanks to our renewing CI ASSOCIATES.
* EXPERIENCES: Youth exchanges, harnessing tech, fighting trafficking.
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From The Communication Initiative Network – where communication and media are central to social and economic development.
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EVALUATIONS
http://www.comminit.com/global/search/apachesolr_search/evaluations?filters=tid:36
1. Evaluating Social Justice Advocacy: A Values Based Approach
by Barbara Klugman
From the Center for Evaluation Innovation, this brief from August 2010 offers ideas on how to incorporate the concept of social justice and its underlying values into advocacy evaluation. It points to ways in which social justice values should influence what evaluators examine in terms of advocacy goals, theories of change, outcomes, and strategies. It also considers how the evaluation process itself can promote social justice values.
http://www.comminit.com/democracy-governance/node/327762
2. Instruction for Midwives Lowers Death Rate for Newborns in Zambia
This April 2011 article describes a study on the effects of an instructional programme to teach routine newborn care skills to midwives in Zambia. Midwives in first-level delivery facilities received instruction based on the World Health Organization (WHO)’s «Essential Newborn Care Course,» which was then passed on from the students to other groups of midwives within their own facilities, who in turn taught what they had learned to the new mothers in their delivery facilities. Conducted by researchers in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health (NICHD) and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this study involved statistical analysis of infant mortality before and after the training period – indicating a significant decrease in death rate during the first 7 days of life.
http://www.comminit.com/children/node/9282518
3. Connecting to Work: Non-agricultural Livelihood Opportunities for
Rural Labour: Sri Lanka (Wage Labour)
by Amila Balasuriya and Nilakshi De Silva
This October 2010 paper sets out an evaluation methodology to understand and assess the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on rural livelihoods – specifically, of wage workers in Sri Lanka. The ICT intervention involved using (mobile) telephony services to obtain information about available labour as well as available demand. The research findings suggest that the previously limited sources and modes of obtaining information which were available to the intended population have widened over the project period. The paper is the result of ICT for rural livelihoods research that the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) supported under its collaboration with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – Knowledge Networking for Rural Development in Asia-Pacific (ENRAP).
http://www.comminit.com/ict-4-development/node/329996
4. Regional Initiative for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and CS in LAC: Regional Monitoring Strategy
by Mónica Alonso González
This January 2010 document from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provides strategies and tools to support the Regional Initiative for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (MTCT) and Congenital Syphilis in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. The document provides a structured description for generation and interpretation of each of the essential regional indicators at the national level. Each indicator is accompanied by an indicator reference sheet that provides detailed information on measurement, data sources, frequency, and rationale.
http://www.comminit.com/hiv-aids/node/327490
5. Radio: Connecting Papua
by Eriyanto and Esti Wahyuni
This December 2009 report is the result of an independent survey commissioned by Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) to look at the impact of a radio station that MDLF helped to build in the Central Highlands of Papua in cooperation with Indonesian radio news agency KBR68H and the non profit Indonesian Association for Media Development (PPMN). «The research reveals…[that] in Kurima, Radio Pikon Ane is not just a medium of information and entertainment; it is also a community mobiliser….The most obvious impact of Radio Pikon Ane is that it offers access to and a media for information, never before available in such a geographically isolated area with such poor communication infrastructure….»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/318385
6. Review of 16 Reflect Evaluations
by Maura Duffy, Jude Fransman, and Emma Pearce
This December 2008 paper, published by ActionAid, consolidates evidence, learning, and evaluation methodologies from 16 evaluations of the «Reflect» process, a participatory approach to adult learning and social change fusing theories of Paulo Freire with participatory rural appraisal methodologies. Section one of the report examines evidence linking Reflect to literacy and other development outcomes. Section Two of the report focuses on analysis of the evaluation process. The section concludes that while many innovations are taking place, particularly in terms of the design of evaluation tools, the evaluations are by and large unclear on issues such as conceptualisation of literacy and the literacy environment, as well as purpose and ownership of the evaluation.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/300567
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MATERIALS
http://www.comminit.com/global/search/apachesolr_search/?filters=tid%3A36%20language%3Aen%20tid%3A30
7. Forty-Three Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the
Classroom
*and Tips
by Tom Barrett
This slide format guide assembles 43 illustrated suggestions from various educators for the use of pocket video technology to connect students to learning. For example, slide #43 is «Translate» – Students make foreign language (in this case, English) road descriptions. Students are given a destination and a camera. They then make a road description in the form of a VoiceThread, a media aggregator that allows people to post media artefacts – which might be a document, a slide presentation, a video, or a collection of photos.
http://www.comminit.com/children/node/327953
8. Empty Handed: Responding to the Demand for Contraceptives
Produced by Population Action International in March 2010, Empty Handed is an eight-and-a-half- minute short film accompanied by an advocacy guide that tells the story of women’s lack of access to reproductive health supplies in sub-Saharan Africa, and its impact on their lives. The film and guide were produced to provoke discussion and mobilise support for reproductive health supplies.
http://www.comminit.com/hiv-aids/node/321950
9. Guidelines for Broadcasters on Promoting User-Generated Content and
Media and Information Literacy
by Martin Scott
This January 2009 guide was produced in response to broadcasting organisations wanting guidelines to help them promote user-generated content (UGC) and media and information literacy (MIL). It includes outlining a typology of UGC, a discussion of who contributes UGC, and guidance on promoting MIL and UGC in formal and non-formal education and in communities. It was supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in partnership with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA).
http://www.comminit.com/media-development/node/328586
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Our thanks to 2 RENEWING CI ASSOCIATES!
The following organisations have graciously once again agreed to support The CI Network through their RENEWED CI Associates contributions:
* Coady International Institute
http://www.comminit.com/node/313546
* International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
http://www.comminit.com/node/275829
For a full list of current CI Associates, please see http://www.comminit.com/ci_associates/members
The voluntary support of these organisations goes directly to the services we provide to The CI Network through The CI website, The Drum Beat, and all of our interactive platforms. Please consider joining them and other CI Associates. Many levels of participation are open!
For details and to sign up, please see http://www.comminit.com/en/ci_associates/ or contact Warren Feek atwfeek@comminit.com
Thank you.
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EXPERIENCES
http://www.comminit.com/global/search/apachesolr_search/?filters=tid%3A36%20language%3Aen%20tid%3A10
10. YouthXChange
A worldwide United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)/United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiative that addresses production and consumption patterns, Youth X Change – currently available in English, French, and Korean – is designed to connect youth around the world who are interested in sustainable development via an interactive website. It aims to provide facts, explore the world of sustainable products, and unearth stories of people who are actively engaged in making this world more sustainable.
http://www.comminit.com/natural-resource/node/323092
11. Jokko Initiative
The Jokko Initiative, implemented in Senegal by Tostan and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), forms part of Tostan’s existing Community Empowerment Programme (CEP), which aims to provide African communities with skills and knowledge to improve their living conditions in a sustainable way. The Jokko Initiative seeks to empower people to harness accessible mobile technology to improve their lives by providing training to rural communities on the practical uses of standard cellphone capabilities and SMS (short message service) texting.
http://www.comminit.com/ict-4-development/node/312209
12. «Woman to Go» Anti Sex-Trafficking Campaign
In 2010, with the backing of a member of Jerusalem’s municipal council, Israel’s non-profit Task Force on Human Trafficking launched an advocacy campaign that involved a group of young women (live models) standing in a Tel Aviv mall storefront with price tags detailing their age, weight, height, dimensions, and country of origin. Organisers say the campaign, which also involves a website, is designed to raise awareness about the trafficking of women. It aims to collect enough signatures to pressure the Israeli justice ministry to back legislation that makes it a crime for men to go to prostitutes.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/329589
13. At First Sight
At First Sight’s education for international understanding goal is pursued through giving members of Saphan Phut, an economically poor community in Bangkok, Thailand, opportunities to get in touch with similar community photography for development projects worldwide through an online social network. The formal output of the project is a 92-page e-book containing pictures taken and commentaries given by the youth of Saphan Phut about their identity, values, and challenges. In the second phase of At First Sight, through a participatory approach, environmental protection priorities of the Saphan Phut community were identified through discussion groups and a photography report.
http://www.comminit.com/children/node/311062
14. Haiti Food Security Emergency Tool
In the aftermath of the January 12 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed a web-based information tool to aggregate and disseminate food security information. The information and communication technology (ICT)-centred effort is designed to guide international agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working to address extreme food price volatility and food shortages in Haiti, post-disaster.
http://www.comminit.com/ict-4-development/node/310780
15. ActionAid Election Project in Nigeria
In advance of the 2007 elections in Nigeria, ActionAid Nigeria, together with partners at the national, community, and state levels, implemented a project to provide platforms for people to engage with the issues and processes leading to free and fair elections. This included building the capacity of civil society and communities to protect their mandate during and after elections and to carry out election observation and reporting. Organisers also worked to encourage partnerships with relevant stakeholders towards the conduct of a free and fair election.
http://www.comminit.com/fragile-contexts/node/282005
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