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Evaluating Health-Promoting Radio Programs: A Toolbox for HAFY Radio Stations in Kyrgyzstan

Ross W. James

Bishkek: UNICEF;Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2004), 96 pp.

"Community radio stations can monitor and evaluate their health and social development programming despite being small, with limited funds. That's the message of an evaluation and monitoring Toolbox created especially for a UNICEF-supported youth radio project in Kyrgyzstan. The 'Healthy Airwaves fo ... r Youth' project (HAFY) is a health communication strategy to minimise risk behaviours amongst Kyrgyz youth aged 10-19 years. HAFY, which was initiated in 2002, aims to increase the level of knowledge and awareness of the dangers of HIV/AIDS/STI, drug use and reproductive health among young people in five rural and remote regions of Kyrgyzstan: Batken, Osh, Naryn, Karabalta and Karakol. The radio stations working within the HAFY network are directly involving young people as message-makers through community-based participatory health-promoting radio programming. The need of a toolbox for monitoring and evaluating the impact of HAFY radio programmes was identified during a 7-day intensive training workshop conducted by Health Communication Resources (HCR) from Australia on 'Radio Programming for Health Promotion'. HAFY partners were involved in further workshops facilitated by HCR in Kyrgyzstan in 2003 where the scope of the Toolbox was framed and HAFY-specific resources were developed. The result is a 106-page Toolbox created by HCR with guidelines, examples and templates that match the reality and cost-effective needs of HAFY's radio stations. HAFY partners do not have a great deal of experience in evaluation, have limited funds and rely on volunteers and the pooled resources of local community organisations. Marianne Ohlers, Programme Officer of UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan said, "The Toolbox is not meant to comprehensively evaluate all activities undertaken by HAFY but it does give guidelines on planning and evaluation, writing objectives, setting indicators for evaluation, sampling procedures, designing evaluation tools, and gathering data, analysing it and reporting it." Ms. Ohlers said, "While the Toolbox is designed for the specific use of the radio stations involved in the HAFY project in Kyrgyzstan I trust that it can guide and inspire other community-based radio stations working to reduce risk behaviours among young people and other vulnerable groups." (Press release) more

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Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Alleviation

Roger W. Harris

Kuala Lumpur: UNDP, Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) (2004), 75 pp.

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Planning and Implementing Open Distance Learning Systems: A Handbook for Decision Makers

Richard Freeman

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2004), 208 pp.

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Strengthening Immunization Programs: The Communication Component

Lora Shimp

Arlington: Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival Project (BASICS II);USAID (2004), vii, 29 pp.

"This report provides an overview of immunization communication and describes how to maximize its contribution to immunization programs in developing countries. The discussion and examples focus on communication’s place within immunization planning, activities, and partnerships, based on lessons l ... more

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Temas sonoros: Una herramienta de educación para poblaciones vulnerables = DataRadio: Catálogo de producciones radiales temáticas

Bogota: Ministerio de Comunicaciones;Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) (2004), 71 pp., 50 pp.

"Dataradio es un catálogo que reúne 137 producciones radiales realizadas en torno a educación, fortalecimiento institucional, infraestructura y vivienda, mejoramiento del ingreso y salud. Las producciones son realizadas por distintos productores, en diversas regiones del país y van desde la cuñ ... more

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Schoolnet Toolkit

Bangkok; Vancouver: UNESCO;Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2004), v, 250 pp.

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Involving the Community: A Guide to Participatory Development Communication

Guy Bessette

Ottawa; Penang: International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Southbound (2004), viii, 154 pp.

"This guide is intended for people working in research and development. It introduces participatory development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop, and evaluate communication strategies to address the followin ... more

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Information Technologies and Education for the Poor in Africa: Recommendations for a Pro-Poor ICT4D Non-Formal Education Policy

Dan Wagner, Bob Day, Joseph S. Sun

International Literacy Institute (ILI) (2004), 80 pp.

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A Rural ICT Toolkit for Africa

Andrew Dymond, Sonja Oestmann

African Connection (AC) (2004), iv, 67 pp. + annexes

"The Rural ICT Toolkit concentrates on the “how to” of implementing rural ICT programs and projects. It is aimed at providing state of the art knowledge and best practice on rural ICT development, basic recommended standards and tools for rural ICT initiatives. Among other things, it summarises ... more

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Participatory Video: Rural People Document Their Knowledge and Innovations

Chris Lunch

Washington, DC: World Bank (2004), 4 pp.

"Indigenous knowledge and local initiatives are usually documented and disseminated by outsiders, who make their own interpretations in the process. Participatory Video (PV) provides an opportunity for rural people to document their own knowledge and experiences and to express their wants and hopes ... more

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Theatre for Life: Health Information, Community Mobilisation and Child Rights. A Qualitative Evaluation

Alex Mavrocordatos

UNICEF Sudan (2004), 80 pp.

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Textbooks for All: PPP – the First Step on a Long Journey. Evaluation of the Pilot Project for Publishing in Tanzania

Leif Grahm, Kajsa Pehrsson

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2004), xvi, 56, 19 pp.

"For a long period, Sida has been the main donor for textbook production and distribution in Tanzania. After several years of stagnation in the sector (despite generous support), the shortage of textbooks in schools had become alarming, and the Government of Tanzania (GoT) and Sida agreed upon a new ... more

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HIV/AIDS: The Creative Challenge. Literature Review: Engaging with Culture in HIV/AIDS Communications

Mary Marsh

Creative Exchange (2004), 26 pp.

"This literature review explores current thinking and analysis of the role of culture in development communications addressing HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care. It takes as its starting point the relationship between culture and the global strategic response to HIV/AIDS, tracing the impli ... more

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The Affordability of School Textbooks in Kenya: Consumer Experiences in the Transformation to a Liberalising Economy

Daniel Chebutuk Rotich

Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2004), pp. 175-187

"The growth of educational publishing in Kenya depends heavily on the disposable income of its customers. This article looks at the incomes of both actual and potential customers, and how they prioritize their spending. The findings are based on extensive research carried out by the author between 1 ... more

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Cyber Communities in Rural Asia: A Study of Seven Asian Countries

Kavita Karan (ed.)

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic;Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2004), vi, 293 pp.

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Social Transformation in an Information Society: Rethinking Access to You and the World

William H. Dutton

Paris: UNESCO (2004), 138 pp.

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Secreto a Voces: Radio, NTICs E Interactividad
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Bruce Girard (ed.)

Rome: FAO;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2004), 250 pp.

"El tema principal de este libro es la combinación de Internet y la radio, que ofrece un rango potencial y nuevo de posibilidades para los proyectos de comunicación para el desarrollo. Sus 17 capítulos examinan algunos proyectos que incorporan radio e Internet y los agrupan en tres amplias catego ... more

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ICT and Literacy: Who Benefits? Experience from Zambia and India

Glen M. Farrell (ed.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2004), xx, 109 pp.

This report records the experience of literacy workers in India and Zambia who, with support and technical assistance from COL, used modern ICTs to design, create, develop and deliver literacy programmes in the rural parts of these two Commonwealth countries over a three-year period.

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Evaluation of the Development Gateway: Final Report

Aditya Jha, Vicky Seymour, Sean Sims

London: Development Studies Institute, School of Economics (2004), 46 pp.

"The Development Gateway is an Internet portal that seeks to promote sustainable development and poverty reduction through knowledge and resource sharing. Initially conceived and designed by the World Bank, it commenced operations as an independent not-for-profit organisation in July 2001. However, ... its launch and operations have been dogged by controversy as civil society organisations have objected to the Gateway’s links with the World Bank and its potential for disseminating the World Bank’s vision of development at the expense of more diverse and pluralistic views. In particular, criticism has centred on the Topics and Country Gateway sections of the web site, as being ill-conceived and biased, leading to the further marginalisation of southern knowledge, and the crowding out of other knowledge aggregators. This study evaluates the Topics and Country Gateway sections of the Development Gateway in light of the stated objectives, the initial criticisms and generally recognised principles for knowledge sharing. It combines an extensive review of documents and detailed analyses of the website to evaluate the governance of the Development Gateway, and the relevance and quality of the Topic and Country Gateway content. The key findings of the study corroborate the civil society criticisms in finding that the Development Gateway remains closely linked to the World Bank at both operational and strategic levels, that the information is predominantly from northern sources, that its operations are not transparent or accountable to civil society, and that it does not have any criteria or systems for measuring the impact of its services. More surprisingly, given the stature of the World Bank and the level of investment, there is no clear identification of who the beneficiaries are and how they may be benefiting. The content is not comprehensive and it has a strong bias towards technological topics at the expense of social and political topics. Also, it is poorly organised and is not cost-effective in comparison with other existing Internet portals. In fact the other development portals, rather than being crowded out, are thriving precisely because the performance of the Gateway is so poor. As an example, the global civil society portal OneWorld has substantially more content, twice as much usage, and eight times as many partnerships as the Development Gateway, all achieved for about a quarter of the spending. The Gateway has consumed more than $30 million of funding since its inception and is seeking another $40 million of public funding. This without having achieved many of the goals it set itself and with major question marks over its ability to deliver, as acknowledged, despite their limited scope, by the two evaluations of the Development Gateway undertaken or commissioned by the World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department." (Executive summary, page 3) more

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Development and Communication in Africa

Charles C. Okigbo, Festus Eribo (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2004), xi, 249 pp.

"This collection of eighteen essays of uneven richness underserved by an overly thin two-page introduction brings together some of the best known names in Development Communication in an attempt to understand African aspirations, experiences, challenges and the place of communication in development. ... more

Secreto a Voces: Radio, NTICs E Interactividad Inspiring Practice

Secreto a Voces: Radio, NTICs E Interactividad
Inspiring Practice