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Public Communication Programmes for Privatization Projects: A Toolkit for World Bank Task Team Leaders and Clients

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), 74 pp.

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Communication for Development Roundtable Report: Focus on HIV/AIDS Communication and Evaluation

New York: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2002), 88 pp.

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Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and its Outcomes
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Marina Elena Figueroa, D. Lawrence Kincaid, Manju Rani, Gary Lewis

New York: Rockefeller Foundation;Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2002), iv, 42 pp.

"For social change, a model of communication is required that is cyclical, relational and leads to an outcome of mutual change rather than one-sided, individual change. In Section 1 of this report we provide a description of such a model. The model describes a dynamic, iterative process that starts ... more

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Mit Fernsehserien nachhaltig wirken: Ein praktisches Handbuch für Drehbuchautoren

Turan Ali

Hannover; Berlin: Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung;Berlin-Institut für Weltbevölkerung und globale Entwicklung (2002), 55 pp.

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The Significance of Information and Communication Technologies for Reducing Poverty

Phil Marker, Kerry McNamara, Lindsay Wallace

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2002), 64 pp.

"This study sets out, for DFID staff, the fundamental principles underlying a proposed approach to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and development, and draws from those principles a set of recommendations for DFID's priorities in this area. For the purposes of this study, ICTs are ... more

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Making Health Communication Programmes Work

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (2002), 262 pp.

"This book is a revision of the original Making Health Communication Programs Work, first printed in 1989, which the Office of Cancer Communications (OCC, now the Office of Communications) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) developed to guide communication program planning. During the 25 years t ... more

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Information and Communication: Evaluation of IT Humanitarian Platforms and Their Possible Utilisation as Coordination Instruments

Marcel Hummelink

Amsterdam: European Commission (2002), 45 pp.

"Although it relies heavily on reliable information and long distance communication, the humanitarian community has never taken the lead in developing technologies that are particularly suited to its needs. Over the last decades it has greatly profited, however, from technological innovations in tel ... more

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Evaluation of the Radio Soap Opera Produced by the Centre for Common Ground

Luanda: National Institute for Statistics (Angola) (2002), 21 pp.

"As part of its strategy to build the capacity of Angolans in conflict prevention and resolution, the Centre for Common Ground in Angola (CCG) contracted the services of a team of experts, most of who were officers from Instituto Nacional de Estatística (National Institute of Statistics) to carry o ... more

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Kommunikationsstrategien zur Raucherentwöhnung: Ein Überblick über die Wissenschaftliche Literatur zu diesem Thema

Christoph Kröger, Kathrin Heppekausen, Karin Ebenhoch

Köln: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) (2002), 124 pp.

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La radio rurale en tant qu'outil d'enquête sociale: Étude de cas des émissions sur la santé de la reproduction produites au Cameroun (Lolodorf)

Rome: FAO (2002), viii, 119 pp.

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Guide d'elaboration d'outils de communication forestière: Conçu par le projet d'appui à la gestion de l'environnement et son programme de subventions

Holisoa Rasamoelina, Ahmad Abdillah

Washington, DC: Environment Policy and Institutional Strengthening Quantity Contact (EPIQ) (2002), 46 pp.

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World Bank Support for Provision of Textbooks in Sub-Saharan Africa - 1985-2000
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Ian Montagnes

Sakhevar Diop (supervision)

Washington, DC: World Bank, Human Development Sector, Africa Regions (2002), 103 pp.

"To help countries establish systems that can ensure reliable provision of textbooks has been an important element of the World Bank's support for education development in Africa over the last two decades. Other development agencies, and African governments, have made similar investments. However, d ... more

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Educational Publishing in African Languages, with a Focus on Swahili in Kenya

Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Emily Bosire-Ogechi

Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2002), pp. 167-184

"This paper argues the case for more educational publications in Swahili as a good medium educational and national development. It acknowledges that education is not only a capital investment in the development of human resources but it also immensely contributes to the development of a nation. Howe ... more

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The Design and Implementation of National Information and Communication Policies for Sustainable Development in Africa: Issues and Approaches

Rome: FAO (2002), ix, 19 pp.

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Closing the Gap in Access to Rural Communications: Chile 1995-2002

Bjorn Wellenius

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 52 pp.

"In 1994 the government established a Telecommunications Development Fund, financed by the national budget, to catalyze additional private investment in payphone service in rural and urban areas with low income and low telephone density. The Fund has been very successful. Between 1995 and 2000 it su ... pported the provision of payphone service to more than 6,000 rural localities with about 2.2 million inhabitants, thereby reducing the proportion of Chile's population living in places without access to basic voice communication from 15 percent in 1994 to 1 percent in 2002. In addition, some 25,000 individual rural telephone lines are being provided. The subsidies awarded cost the government less than 0.3 percent of total telecommunications sector revenue during the funding period, and Fund administration cost about 3 percent of the monies granted. The Fund's success was due largely to extensive reliance on market forces to determine and allocate subsidies, minimal regulatory intervention, simple and relatively expeditious processing, and effective government leadership. Competition among existing and new operators for the rural market and subsidies led to substantial reductions in cost to the government compared to earlier public sector investments in similar facilities. Commercial success has hinged on operators using the subsidized payphone infrastructures to also provide individual business and residential telephone lines and, subsequently, add value through new services (including voice mail and internet access in some areas) over this network. Interconnection was the single most important regulatory factor of commercial viability, with access charges in some cases surpassing 40 percent of rural operating revenues. The design of the Fund proved robust, and remains the leading example of a costeffective slution to reduce access gaps in basic communication in emerging economies. Some questions remain, however, about whether the services can be sustained in the long term, what to do with the small residual rural population still excluded, and whether anything needs to be done in urban areas. These questions-in addition to limited design improvements suggested by the Fund's experience, as well as work still in progress on quality standards and monitoring-are relevant to the Fund's proposed extension into more advanced modes of communication and access to information, as well as to other countries learning from the Chilean experience." (Executive summary) more