"The summary of findings for this study is drawn from extensive research conducted in the form of questionnaires and focus groups. The aim of the study was to assess the level at which community radio stations in Africa are involved in programming of content on sustainable development themes/ topics
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. Investigations conducted through the study indicate that in general, community radio stations are still struggling with producing content on sustainable development. One of the reasons is the lack of understanding and distinction of what sustainable content is especially in the specific context of the different communities. Findings however also indicate that despite challenges faced by the sector, community radio stations are making some efforts to produce programmes on sustainable content although they are also faced with challenges on identifying and working with relevant stakeholders for content development. This report makes specific recommendation on how community radio stations can improve on sustainable programming." (Executive summary of findings, page 5-6)
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"The specific objectives of the study were to: find out the source, means and condition of information; obtain some information on the condition of education; find out condition and practices related to caste and ethnicity; obtain some information on people's belief in tradition and superstition; ob
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tain information on economic aspects of household; find out pattern of use of technology in everyday life; obtain information on community activities and affair; find out the existing situation, attitude and practice in relation to gender; obtain information on situation of health; and find out the mode of people's participation in politics. [...] All data on the basis of which analyses have been made are primary which have been obtained from the field. The people inhabiting the areas that are covered by Radio Palung constituted the sole source of data required to meet the research objectives laid above. The villages covered were Palung, Daman, Chitlang and Bajrabarahi from Makawanpur district. In this research, population of active age and households in the above mentioned four villages constitutes the universe. Five hundred households, which is approximately 20% of the total households, were taken as samples. From each household, one person was chosen as respondents and interviewed. It is to be noted that only the owner of households were chosen as samples, and domestic servants, hired laborers, married daughters and people living in rent were excluded." (Introduction, page 2-3, method of study, page 6)
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"This study examines the empowerment effects of film and video among participants of various nonformal education programmes. It provides recommendations for changes in the legal system as well as in the use of video in development co-operation." (Cat. IKO 2004)
"Aspiramos con esta iniciativa a que las organizaciones no gubernamentales puedan incorporar a sus proyectos herramientas de la comunicación y el periodismo, para que puedan convertir sus programas en actividades noticiables y a la información que generen, en fuente de los medios de comunicación.
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De esta manera, estaremos cumpliendo con el segundo objetivo de Infocívica; el primero consiste en procesar la información que generan las organizaciones no gubernamentales y convertirlas en noticia para que, por un lado, la tarea de los periodistas de producir notas y editar artículos se vea aliviada y por el otro lado, consolidar a la sociedad civil como una usina de noticias de alto interés público y sumo valor social." (Introducción, páginas 8-9)
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"Estimates of the impact of libraries on reading in eight villages in Burkina Faso and costs of running libraries enable us to suggest that the cost of getting an extra book read a year varies from $.74 to $1.30, according to the size of the school in the village, and the cost of an extra school yea
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r equivalent likewise varies from $43.42 to $75.98 per year. These costs are comparable to the costs of increasing schooling, and suggest the desirability of more careful assessment of the choice between schooling and book availability." (Abstract)
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"How can research results about water and sanitation be usefully communicated to different user groups? This article describes guidelines for helping researchers determine who their work can benefit and how they can best get their message across." (Page 1)
"The concept of a Regional BCC Network for HIV/AIDS for East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) grew out of a common interest and understanding among a number of BCC practitioners dealing with HIV/AIDS in the region that something needed to be done to help address common challenges and needs, impro
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ve strategies, and build capacity in the area of BCC. In October 2001, they formed a BCC Task Force to recommend specific activities for addressing key areas of interest in BCC and for coordinating BCC efforts in the region, including organising a wider regional meeting for initiating a formal regional BCC Network [...] The objectives of the meeting were to: share lessons learned and interventions in BCC in the ECSA region; discuss key current issues and BCC tools for HIV/AIDS; discuss the expansion and operationalisation of the BCC Network for HIV/AIDS; foster linkages among BCC practitioners and those in allied professions in ECSA. The main themes of the meeting agenda highlighted the emerging issues in planning and programming for BCC; developing BCC for care and treatment; addressing stigma; reaching youth; and strengthening research, monitoring, and evaluation of BCC interventions [...] This report is an overview of the proceedings of the meeting and is intended to serve as a resource and learning document for meeting participants as well as for other BCC practitioners in the region. The structure of the report follows that of the meeting agenda and includes a summary of all plenary and concurrent session presentations and all group work discussions." (Executive summary)
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"This paper provides an overview of the role radio broadcasting can play in promoting better health for poor people. It has been conceptualised within the context of global efforts to reduce the burden of disease and ill health on poor people and advocates a people-centred and rights-based approach
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to health communications that emphasises: working with poor communities to gain an understanding of the full range of epidemiological, behavioural and risk taking factors that drive disease and ill health; designing communication initiatives that build on such interactions and which integrate social assessment data into communication outputs at all levels; multi-method approaches, i.e. a mix of interpersonal (peer education, counselling, etc.) and advocacy-based approaches combined with mass and community-based media interventions; community driven and led interventions that help the ‘vulnerable’ and ‘at risk’ to access useful and useable health information and build knowledge for social and behavioural change; poor people’s rights to information, freedom of expression and access to health services and education." (Executive summay)
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"In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force with
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in storytelling and creative drama during the K-12 years. For the past four years, Jack Zipes has worked with the Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, taking his storytelling techniques into inner-city schools. Speaking Out is in part a record of the transformations storytelling can work on the minds and lives of young people. But it is also a vivid and exhilarating demonstration of a different kind of education - one built from deep inside each child." (Publisher description)
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"This synthesis presents learning, based on experience in Africa, around the production, distribution and use of HIV/AIDS information and communication materials. It explores what different users want, need and find useful (or less useful) from these materials. The purpose is to guide and inform peo
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ple working on, or thinking about undertaking, communications work in the field of HIV/AIDS." (Page 2)
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"INASP-Health is a UK-based programme that promotes international networking amongst all those involved in the provision and use of health information including librarians, publishers, biomedical researchers, funding agencies, development professionals, frontline healthcare providers, public health
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specialists, social scientists and others, in order to improve access to relevant and reliable information for health professionals in developing and transitional countries. It was launched in 1996 as a programme of the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP). It has one full-time staff member, with some support for administration and finance from INASP. Since its inception, its activities have grown to include an Advisory and Liaison Service, bi-monthly Health Information Forum (HIF) meetings, the HIF-net at WHO email discussion list, the INASP Health Links Internet gateway, the Health Library Partnerships Database, and the INASP-Health Directory. INASP-Health's success has been to develop a set of real resources with expectations around their potential for further development. In the period reviewed for this evaluation, the work of INASP-Health has contributed to the improvement of access to reliable, relevant information for health professionals in developing countries. But demands on its services are growing and INASP-Health has now reached a stage where some fundamental decisions need to be made on its future development." (Executive summary)
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