 Communication and Change News and Issues – The Drum Beat 678 |
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| EXPERIENCES |
| 1. Heartbeat |
| Heartbeat programmes seek to empower Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians by creating opportunities and spaces for young musicians from Israeli and Palestinian high schools to work together, hear each other, and amplify their voices to influence the world around them. According to organisers, by engaging throughout the year, students deepen their mutual understanding, build trust, and spread trust across the wider community through concerts, recordings, and music videos. |
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| 2. Voice and Images from the Mountains: Building Indigenous People’s Capacity to Conduct Community Based Health Impact Assessments of Mining Projects |
| From the Philippines: Health researchers and workers, social researchers, environmentalists, and cultural workers have come together to devise ways to effectively engage indigenous communities with health research in the context of mining and, ultimately, to engage relevant government agencies and the wider public with information about the health impacts of mining. Tools used to hear indigenous people’s reflections, gather evidence, and inspire advocacy include digital technology, film, and community theatre. [Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines (CEC-Phils)] |
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| 3. Medicine Tracking System (mTrac) |
| mTrac is a nationwide (Ugandan) SMS (text message)-based disease surveillance system seeking to address problems of stock-outs of lifesaving malaria medicine, such as artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs). The second component of mTrac is an anonymous SMS Service Delivery Complaints toll-free hotline through which any community member can report health service-related issues, including health centres closed during working hours and stock-outs of essential drugs in hospitals. [Ministry of Health (MoH), United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO)] |
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| 4. Kyrgyzstan WASH Radio Campaign |
| This water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) radio campaign coincided with Global Handwashing Day on October 15 and World Toilet Day on November 19 (2009) with the intention of: providing a countrywide platform to reinforce and accelerate advocacy of WASH; informing the public about the diseases resulting from poor sanitation and hygiene practices; holding debates on WASH issues among stakeholders; and involving journalists, popular singers, high officials, and governors in advocating on the sector’s behalf. [Kyrgyz WASH Coalition and the Central Asian Alliance for Water (CAAW)] |
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| 5. Lifeline Programming: Communication with Crisis-affected People |
| In collaboration with aid responders and local media, Lifeline provides vulnerable communities with information on emergency services and advice on living amidst disaster and working towards recovery. «Information shared by radio, television, or mobile can empower people to help themselves.» It is a 2-way communication programme, also aiming to give affected people «the opportunity to voice their concerns, express their needs, share their stories and hold humanitarian aid providers to account.» Aid providers can help shape the contents of messages and can spread the word about programme availability and run listening groups, as well as obtain recordings to be played to communities with limited access to broadcast media. [BBC Media Action] |
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| STRATEGIC THINKING |
| 6. Edutainment and Mobilization for Social Change: For the Promotion of the Human, Sexual, and Reproductive Rights of Colombia’s Youth and Adolescents |
| This document outlines a Colombian multimedia process aimed at facilitating dialogue and behaviour change about sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) amongst adolescents and youth. The strategy uses edutainment, social mobilisation, strengthening of local capacity, advocacy, interpersonal communication, and monitoring and evaluation to enhance SRR efforts at department and local municipal levels. Informing the process are Fundación Imaginario’s partnerships and experience in training regional public channels and producers in public interest television for children and adolescents. [Nov 2011] |
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| 7. Vision 2025: Media Campaign for Democratic Participation |
| From the Democracy Campaign by the Indian newspaper organisation Patrika, this presentation describes the Vision 2025 campaign in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, India, concerned with monitoring the performance of the project «Public Representatives and People’s Engagement in Democratic Process.» The campaign covers 520 assembly constituencies with 10 separate stakeholders in each constituency and a team of 520 correspondents to engage people in a structured format to have them share their vision about constituency and build it into a public manifesto. [Sept 2013] |
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8. Country Planning for Health Interventions under Development: Lessons from the Malaria Vaccine Decision-Making Framework and Implications for Other New Interventions
by Alan Brooks and Antoinette Ba-Nguz |
| A series of country consultations in Africa led to the development of a guide, building on existing World Health Organization (WHO) guides, to assist countries in preparing their malaria vaccine decision-making frameworks. Reflecting on that process, this paper discusses the opportunities and challenges to early planning for country decision making – from the potential for timely, evidence-informed decisions to the risks of over-promising around an intervention still under development. [Apr 2012] |
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| 9. Mobile Phones: A Tool for Social & Behavioural Change |
| This group of papers on the use of mobile phones in India for social and behaviour change is the product of research and a 2-day multi-stakeholder consultation in May 2013 sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), leading to the formation of the organisation Mobile Social & Behavioural Change (MSBC). The white paper and the working paper present key areas where mobiles are contributing to social and behavioural changes and the limitations, as well as the scope, for expanding the social space for mobiles. [Jun 2013] |
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10. After the Revolution: Libyan and Tunisian Media through the People’s Eyes
by Najla Dowson-Zeidan, Tim Eaton, and Karen Wespieser |
| «This paper draws on audience research in Tunisia and Libya since their respective revolutions to understand people’s perceptions of the media in the post-revolutionary context.» Amongst the findings: «Tunisians, and to a lesser extent Libyans, increasingly look to social media for up-to-date information and more detail on stories that interest them and that are not often found in television broadcasts.» Also: «A common desire among Tunisians and Libyans is for their media to address solutions rather than simply reporting the problems that their countries face.» [Sept 2014] |
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| The CI Partners (a) collectively provide the strategic guidance and direction for The Communication Initiative – ensuring that it meets the overall development priorities and needs of the communication and media community and (b) provide significant resources to support this overall initiative.
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| MATERIALS |
| 11. The Beijing Platform for Action Turns 20: Ending Violence against Women |
| On the occasion of the International Day to End Violence against Women, November 25 2014, this web page from UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, provides information that includes multi-media offerings about the efforts being undertaken around the world since the 189 UN Member States adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in September 1995. |
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12. Social Policy Report: The Biological Embedding of Child Abuse and Neglect Implications for Policy and Practice
by Samuel L. Odom, ed., Iheoma Iruka, Kelly L. Maxwell, and Leslie Fox |
| This report focuses on United States (US)-based research on child well-being and the threat of child abuse and neglect or child maltreatment in the early years of child development. It was gathered based upon the proceedings of an expert panel meeting of US agencies to encourage «the translation of science leading to innovative approaches to addressing the needs of children who experience maltreatment…» with the goal of seeking long-term evidence-based interventions for children exposed to abuse. [Jul 2014] |
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13. Humanitarian Health Ethics Analysis Tool (HHEAT)
by Veronique Fraser, Matthew R. Hunt, Lisa Schwartz, and Sonya de Laat |
| Tested and validated by humanitarian workers and experts from the fields of humanitarian medicine and nursing, as well as applied ethics, this tool provides a step-by-step approach to complex ethical decision-making. The goal is to help structure and support individual and group deliberation by promoting rational discussion and moral justification around health decisions. [Jul 2014] |
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| 14. Bringing Fathers In: Resources for Advocates, Practitioners and Researchers |
| This series on fatherhood is a library of 1-page downloadable, evidence-based PDF format documents intended for an international audience of health, education, and social care professionals, policymakers, programme managers and designers, researchers and evaluators, and mothers and fathers. [Fatherhood Institute with support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation] |
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| 15. Guidance on Couples HIV Testing and Counselling, Including Antiretroviral Therapy for Treatment and Prevention in Serodiscordant Couples |
| These guidelines recommend increasing HIV testing and counselling (HTC) to couples, wherever HTC is available, including in antenatal clinics. For couples where only one partner is HIV positive, the guidelines recommend offering antiretroviral therapy (ART) to the HIV-positive partner, regardless of his/her own immune status (CD4 count), to reduce the likelihood of HIV transmission to the HIV-negative partner. [WHO, Apr 2011] |
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| This issue of The Drum Beat was written by Kier Olsen DeVries. |
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