![The Drum Beat]() The Drum Beat – 640 – Communication and Change News and Issues |
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1. New Roles for Communication in Development?
by Tessa Lewin, ed., Blane Harvey, ed., and Susie Page, ed. |
| «In a frequently changing information environment, where bloggers and journalists are often viewed as more credible, useful or accessible sources than researchers, what does validity mean?» With that question in mind, this resource explores the shift in the development communication landscape for researchers and research communicators: away from a top-down dissemination model to a more nuanced understanding of how research can influence and support international development. [Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sep 2012] |
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| 2. IGWG Gender and Health Toolkit |
| «The tools offered here [by the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG)] are instruments or methodologies that help users to collect and analyze information on gender roles, identities and relations and apply this information to make programs and health systems more equitable and effective. These tools are designed to move health practitioners, program managers and policy makers from awareness and commitment to direct application and practice [and include k]ey documents…[that] can also be used as tools for advocacy.» [Nov 2012] |
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3. Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook
by Steve Buckley, ed. |
| This handbook offers a collection of case studies of good practice in community media, primarily drawn from developing countries. It intends to provide inspiration and support for those engaged in community media advocacy and to raise awareness and understanding of community media among policymakers and other stakeholders. Global in spread, the collection is focused on electronic media, including radio, television, the internet, and mobile devices. [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Dec 2011] |
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| 4. GETH2O: Serious Games |
| This online flash, mobile phone, and board game deals with the themes of poverty, corruption, water scarcity, crime, and community developmen – the goal being to foster awareness of how to peacefully handle community problems; options are flagged for common action and possible long-term results. «As such, the game provides an engaging, self-reinforcing context in which to motivate and educate players.» [Butterfly Works, Jan 2010] |
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5. ICT in Conflict and Disaster Response and Peacebuilding
by Christine Broenner and Laura Morris |
| This service allows organisations working in the field of information and communciations technology (ICT) in conflict and disaster response and peacebuilding to be represented on a map offering a resource of who is doing what, worldwide, by submitting a report to the project describing the activities in which they participate and their respective geographies. Reporting is done via the project website or via email. [Nov 2011] |
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| 6. Reaching Out to Teen Mothers Initiative |
| Save the Children (SC)’s adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) Malawi programming worked with young people, their families, and communities to educate youth about SRH, to build the teens’ skills in decision-making and life choices, and to provide the means to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV. For example, SC set up Teen Mothers Clubs (TMCs) to provide young mothers with a venue in which to discuss their common concerns – openly and without stigma. |
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| 7. Farm Radio Weekly [FRW] |
| Through a newsletter and a website, FRW strives to provide rural radio organisations in sub-Saharan Africa with news and resources that help them meet the information needs of small-scale farmers and farming families. According to the organisers, FRW is designed to serve the needs of rural broadcasters and their listeners and invites contributions: articles for «News in Review», news about organisations, upcoming events and/or conferences, or any other content of interest to farming communities. |
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| 8. Men Care: A Global Fatherhood Campaign |
| Men Care is a global campaign to promote men’s involvement as equitable, responsive, and non-violent fathers and caregivers. In addition to conducting research, the campaign provides community and mass media messages, technical assistance and training, policy and programme recommendations, and evidence to support local non-governmental organisations (NGOs), women’s rights organisations, governments, and United Nations partners in their efforts to engage men and boys in caregiving. [Promundo, Sonke Gender Justice Network, The MenEngage Alliance, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Women, Vital Voices Global Partnership, GBCHealth] |
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| 9. Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) |
| As part of ACRN, an effort to build a global knowledge community and information service for corruption research, network members – policymakers, practitioners, and journalists – connect through an online platform that is designed to serve as a meeting point for a research community that spans a wide range of disciplines and institutions. Goals include fostering access to relevant academic research and helping the anti-corruption research community forge stronger networks across disciplines and with policymakers. [Transparency International] |
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| 10. Samastha |
| Implemented through a consortium of international and Indian partner NGOs, Samastha sought to provide comprehensive HIV services in 12 high-prevalence rural districts and 3 urban centres in Karnataka, India, as well as 5 coastal districts in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. It created linkages between workers and other outreach workers: Link workers, who were people living with HIV (PLHIV), used communication to work on prevention, stigma reduction, and support for PLHIV that included adherence support to both treatment and care. [Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT) and EngenderHealth, with funding from the United States (US) President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)] |
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| STRATEGIC THINKING |
11. Communicating For Change: Media and Agency in the Networked Public Sphere
by Charlie Beckett |
| From the Preface: «This paper is aimed at anyone who is interested in the role of media as an influence on power and policy. It is especially about the role of news journalism, NGOs and other activists who use communication for change. It looks at the context for those actors and their actions. It asks how much the Internet and social networks are changing advocacy…» [Nov 2012] |
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| 12. The Impact of Television and Radio on Reproductive Behaviour and on HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Behaviour |
| This report shares findings of a study by MEASURE DHS to examine the association of radio and television exposure with different aspects of reproductive behaviour and HIV/AIDS. The general conclusion is that greater media exposure is associated with a desire for fewer children, higher rates of contraceptive use, and fewer births. Greater media exposure also is associated with more knowledge about causes and prevention of HIV/AIDS, as well as with supportive attitudes toward people who are HIV-positive. [Dec 2011] |
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13. Small Islands, Big Impact [Video]
by Nalaka Gunawardene |
| In this video, President Nasheed [who resigned on February 7 2012] explains the peril of rising sea levels resulting from climate change and the effects on the 200 islands of the Maldives. He describes physical adaptation efforts – embankments, breakwaters, etc. – but emphasises that «the most important adaptation issue is good governance and, therefore, consolidating democracy is very important for adaptation. When climate changes, and when you start feeling the actual impacts of it, you will be wasting all the resources without a proper governance system.» [Oct 2009] |
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14. Linking Policy with Technology: Role of Mobile Communications Technology in Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria
by Anthony Adoghe |
| This literature review examines the factors that influence the polio eradication initiative (PEI) in northern Nigeria and ongoing communication interventions in this polio-endemic country. It points to the need to strengthen current communication strategies – including approaches that make use of mobile phones – at the community and individual levels in order to sustain demand for the oral polio vaccine (OPV) in underserved communities. [Aug 2011] |
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15. Paix sans Frontières: Building Peace across Borders
by Alexander Ramsbotham, ed. and I. William Zartman, ed. |
| This publication on cross-border peacebuilding includes 20 case studies from Asia, Europe, the Caucasus, East, Central and West Africa, Central America, and the Middle East. Articles explore cross-border peacebuilding from global, systems analysis, and legal perspectives, and focus on themes ranging from politics, governance and security, social and community relations, and trade and natural resources. Drawing on these case studies, the publication considers how peacebuilding strategies can think outside the state through regional engagement and through the development of community trade and networks. [Conciliation Resources, Jan 2011] |
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| This issue of The Drum Beat was written by Kier Olsen DeVries. |
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