"[...] despite the global importance of deforestation in the Amazon— the world’s largest remaining tropical forest—Brazil is taking only initial steps towards REDD [Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation] design, and that these steps are concentrated amongst a few key act
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ors. This analysis suggests that the Brazilian print media has emphasised policymaking concerns and economic issues involving finance and carbon markets at the expense of some of the more specific institutional issues (such as land tenure and carbon rights) related to REDD+ implementation. However, amongst the social actors directly engaged with the issues, the REDD+ debate in Brazil is quite rich and has been progressing for some time, especially in relation to the issues of deforestation, environmental crime and social injustice. However, these themes have not received due media attention in the mainstream press.
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"This publication updates a 2005 review of communication in Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). It includes four country case studies (Ghana, Tanzania, Moldova, and Nepal) and a regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores how the use of strategic communication has expanded beyo
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nd the PRS and is now being integrated into national development planning and implementation. Many of these strategies are shifting their focus from a “dissemination and publicity strategy” to a“communication program” that emphasizes information intervention beyond the traditional campaign, workshop or seminars. Compared with the 2005 review, the main difference is the institutionalization of communication, moving beyond the one-time experience for the first set of PRSs to broader, deeper sustained communication in support of poverty reduction and national development strategies. A second major difference is expanding beyond communication and participation in PRS formulation to PRS implementation, monitoring, and evaluation." (Executive summary)
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"Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comp
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arable sites in Africa." (Publisher description)
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"The analysis deals with the presentation of hunger and related emergencies in the mass media. It focuses on problems and structures of journalistic production processes and symbiotic relationships between the media and the aid industry. Mass media often create the impression that “hunger” occur
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s unexpectedly and abruptly. In this way media and journalists produce their own news value, which they need for selling the topic. Bad weather, climate change and natural disasters fit into the concept of mass media, their news selection processes as well as their production structures much better than the fact that hunger is a political phenomenon mostly, at heart, a major political scandal. Such scandals require profound analysis, investigation and a high level of journalistic independence and know-how." (Abstract)
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"Acting on HIV offers a sustained and relatively systematic inquiry into drama as an approach to discussion of HIV/AIDS and related attitudes and behaviors. A distinctive feature of the research that is presented in Acting on HIV is the emphasis on the potential for and value of using drama to promo
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te vital social change in addition to individual behaviour change. It has a strong theoretical foundation and seeks to interrogate the ethical, theoretical and practical complexities of using drama to address issues HIV & AIDS. The research that is communicated through the book is original and timely and will make a significant, trans-disciplinary contribution to scholarly conversations about the role/s and significance of drama in addressing issues of HIV & AIDS." (Publisher description)
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"Working on Health Communication provides a practical guide to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating campaigns. The book follows the campaign design process step-by-step. It covers every stage from selecting theoretical models and identifying the message and target audience, right th
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rough to running the campaign and evaluating its success. "Real-life examples" of actual campaigns are used throughout to show how theoretical ideas work in practice." (Back cover)
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Offers a policy-focused overview of the state of online political participatory media in Tunisia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda.
"This case study demonstrates Panos’s integrated approach to communication for development: combining first person testimony, relationship-building, inclusive dialogue and working with the mainstream media so that the voices of people most affected by development issues contribute to national-leve
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l understanding and decision-making. It examines the long battle by the fishing and farming communities on the shores of Pakistan’s Manchar Lake to achieve national recognition and action on the pollution caused by a government-led land drainage project that has steadily been destroying their livelihoods and health. Panos London and Panos South Asia, local and national civil society organisations (CSOs), the community of Manchar, and local and national media worked together on a range of communication activities and outputs culminating in a People’s Assembly in 2007. The different activities, and the strength of the media coverage they generated, drew provincial and national government officials into dialogue, resulting in a number of positive outcomes for the people of Manchar Lake." (Introduction)
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"The manual has been designed as a resource for teachers or educators interested in using visual images to promote interactive discussion and critical thinking amongst young people about racism and discrimination. The resource can be used within diverse educational settings and is most appropriate f
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or use with young people above the age of twelve. Each poster is accompanied by key learning points as well as several interesting facts or pieces of information which are intended to be used to provoke further discussion. Related human rights touched upon by each poster are also provided from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wherever possible we have included a short interactive activity that can be carried out with students or a series of suggested questions to ask, in order to introduce the topic of each poster." (Introduction)
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"This research looks at the distribution of balanced and accurate information about one of China's biggest investments in the South Pacific region, the Ramu Nickel Project. Are the local people in the project impact areas of Kurumbukare and Basamuk well informed and do they have a voice that is fair
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ly represented in the media? How does the overall project appear to be represented by the media and received by the people? [...] In this chapter, I focus on the role of the media in this project, including the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), particularly the local NBC radio Madang, FM 100 of Kalang Advertising and the two national newspapers Post Courier and The National. Because of the isolation of the area, the research looked at how the reporters source their information, whether it is first hand or second hand, and the challenges that they face in obtaining information." (Page 125)
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"The Second Edition incorporates developments in marketing practice over the last 10 years and focuses on how to apply the design approach to campaigns to effect behavior change. All organizations can do social marketing, Weinreich insists, if they follow the steps and start to think from a social m
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arketing perspective." (Publisher description)
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"Advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) refers to a set of interventions that supports tuberculosis (TB) control goals and objectives at international, national, and local levels. These include advocating for sufficient resources, promoting healthy behaviors and attitudes, and engag
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ing affected communities in the fight against TB. ACSM activities also can battle stigma, correct misconceptions about TB, and identify new funding mechanisms to support TB control—all of which are essential to sustaining and increasing the gains that we have made in TB control over the past several decades. This curriculum is designed for training TB control professionals and civil society activists at national and local levels who are involved in ACSM efforts. It is designed to provide countrylevel staff with the specific knowledge and skills to plan, implement, and evaluate effective ACSM interventions linked to specific TB control objectives. The curriculum structure and methodologies proposed by PATH were approved by the Stop TB Partnership ACSM Country Level Core Group members for global use. The original version of the curriculum was significantly refined and modified in response to partners’ comments and to meet participants’ needs." (Introduction, page 2)
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