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"Providing an international overview of the latest work and thinking in Drama and Education, and featuring interviews with a worldwide variety of leading practitioners and theorists, this book explores how Educational Theatre, Applied Theatre and Drama Therapy facilitate change within schools, commu ... more

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Changes in Patterns of Contemporary China’s Radio: Programs - Helping Each Other in Beijing: A Case Study

Lu Cao, Wei Meng

In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings

Madalena Oliveira; Pedro Portela; Luís António Santos (eds.)

Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 229-238

"Great changes have been taken place in the patterns of China’s radio programs since 1980s. Its role has changed from the government’s “propaganda tool” to meet the multiple needs of the radio listeners; its profit mode somehow has varied from full national funding to making profit independe ... more

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Do You Hear Me? Understanding Information Needs for Disaster, Preparedness and Compensation

Institute for Development and Humanitarian Advancement

Islamabad: International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2012), v, 70 pp.

"This report documents the findings, analysis and recommendations regarding key aspects of humanitarian communications gleaned from an assessment conducted in the aftermath of the 2010 and 2011 monsoon floods in Pakistan. The aim of the assessment was to assess communities' access to information aft ... more

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REDD+ Politics in the Media: A Case Study from Nepal

Dil Bahadur Khatri, Ramesh Prasad Bhushal, Naya Naya Sharma Paudel, Niru Gurung

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2012), 20 pp.

"Results show that, overall, REDD+ has received limited attention in the Nepali media. Within the overall climate change discourse in Nepal, the melting of the Himalayan ice-caps and glaciers has dominated all other discourses, including that on REDD+. Nepali journalists have found the science behin ... more

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Communication for Water Sector Reform: Obstacles and Opportunities

Karla Chaman, Tracey Miller, Paul Mitchell

Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), vi, 16 pp.

"This Learning Note is published by the Operational Communications Division in the World Bank’s External Affairs Vice Presidency. It aims to help task managers communicate with service providers as they prepare for an urban water supply reform project. The focus is on how strategic public communic ... more

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Creating Killer Facts and Graphics

Oxfam (2012), 4 pp.

"‘Killer facts’ are those punchy, memorable, headline-grabbing statistics that make reports special. They cut through the technicalities to fire people up about changing the world. They are picked up and repeated endlessly by the media and politicians. They are known as ‘killer’ facts becaus ... more

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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: Key Messages

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2012), 64 pp.

"DRR (Disaster risk reduction) advocates are increasingly asked by government and local partners what the exact scope and content of their subject is, and to explain, beyond generalities, the ‘actionable risk reduction messages.’ Key messages comprise the core, common and comprehensive informati ... more

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Technologies éducatives et développement : Une brève histoire de la télévision scolaire au Niger

Gado Alzouma

Tic & Société, volume 5, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 163-188

"The history of development in Africa is littered with all sorts of experiments and projects centred on new technologies often presented as a panacea to the problems of health, education, or agricultural production. The failure of some of those projects shows the limits of the technocentrist approac ... more

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Building Support for International Development: Results and Recommendations from a Multi-Country Study Aimed at Understanding and Communicating with Key Policy Constituencies

Klara Debeljak

Washington, DC et al.: Intermedia;Gates Foundation (2012), 49 pp.

"The study focused on the following themes: how and under what conditions are priority target groups for engagement with development policy issues in China, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States most likely to engage; what factors influence and motivate both engagement and policy dec ... more

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Quality Assurance Toolkit for Open and Distance Non-Formal Education

Colin Latchem

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), ix, 99 pp.

"Quality assurance (QA) systems applied in educational contexts are generally concerned with inputs — how much money is spent, what staffing, resources and support are provided, what kinds of teaching and learning are involved, and so on. There is an assumption — not always fulfilled — that th ... more

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The Message Matrix: A Participatory Programme Design Tool

Charles Simbi

In: Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America

Ian Pringle; Ekta Mittal; Mónica Valdés (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), pp. 99-111

"The message matrix facilitates local stakeholder groups and community members to take an active, empowered role in content development for an educational communication programme. The method enables active participation of target audiences and stakeholder groups in the identification, analysis and r ... more

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Environmental Journalism in Asia-Pacific

Alastair Carthew, Paul Linnarz (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2012), 75 pp.

"This publication sets out to achieve a number of objectives of importance to environmental journalism in the Asia-Pacific region. The objectives are: to identify the key environmental issues facing the Asia-Pacific region; to identify and assess journalism organizations, NGOs and others involved in ... more

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Behaviour Change Communication Interventions for HIV/AIDS

Stefan Weinmann, Ruta Yemane

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2012), 6 pp.

"Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) interventions have variable effects on knowledge, attitudes and behaviour with regard to HIV/AIDS. Studies show that peer education is successful at increasing knowledge, increasing condom use, and providing youth with information and condoms; however, effects o ... more

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Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile

Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.

"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo ... more

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Seventy-Five Ways to Fix Your Farmer Program

Doug Ward, Marvin Hanke

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2012), 16 pp.

"In 2010, Farm Radio International gathered information about farmer radio programs from radio stations in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. We visited twenty stations and two production houses and listened to their farmer programs. We posed hundreds of questions to the people making the ... more

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Climate Asia: A New Approach to Research on Public Understanding of Climate Change

Tan Copsey, Sonia Whitehead

London: BBC Media Action (2012), 32 pp.

"Climate Asia will be the largest ever research study into public understanding of climate change in Asia with more than 33,000 interviews conducted across seven countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam. This working paper explains the distinctive research approach ... more

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Information Technology and Farm Households in Niger

Jenny C. Aker, Christopher Ksoll

UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa (2012), 17 pp.

"This technical report seeks to understand the impact of improved access to information technology on farmers’ agricultural production and marketing practices in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Niger. Related research suggests in that access to mobile telephony can reduce communicatio ... more

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Participatory Video with Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Program Report

Sara Asadullah

Oxford: InsightShare (2012), 57 pp.

"In 2011 five UK-based development agencies were given a unique opportunity to pilot the use of participatory video with farmers in six sub-Saharan countries, through small supplementary grants awarded by Comic Relief. The UK-based funder Comic Relief recognises that the impacts of climate change th ... more

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Reality Television for Community Development: The Kwanda Initiative in South Africa

Lebo Ramafoko, Gavin Andersson, Renay Weiner

Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special issue (2012), pp. 149-162

"Kwanda was an innovative community development initiative of the Soul City Institute and partners. Five deprived communities were challenged to make their areas 'look better, feel better and work better’ by addressing health and development issues. Responses to this challenge were documented in a ... more