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Information Revolutions: How Information and Communication Management is Changing the Lives of Rural People

Paul Mundy, Jacques Sultan

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2001), vii, 234 pp.

"Documentation of best practices on how certain individuals or organizations are changing the way communication works, how they are making a difference to the lives and livelihoods of rural people. About 40 organizations - government, non-government or academic - in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pac ... more

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Training Needs and Organizational Constraints Assessment: Linking Agricultural Research and Rural Radio

International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) (2001), xxvi, 246 pp.

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"We Are All Natives Now": An Overview of International and Development Communication Research

Sandra Bramann, Hemant Shah, Jo Ellen Fair

Communication Yearbook, volume 24 (2001), pp. 159-186

"This chapter reviews the historical and conceptual parameters of the international communication research area, followed by a focus on communication and development. Both parts of the chapter define the scope of the areas discussed, summarize the main theoretical approaches, and present major trend ... more

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Knowing Where You're Going: Information Systems for Agricultural Research Management

Richard Vernon

The Hague: International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) (2001), xxxi, 345 pp.

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Reporting Health Research: Connecting Journalists and TB Researchers in Zambia

Ingrid Yngstrom

London: Panos London (2001), 16 pp.

"This case study shares recommendations and details the lessons learned during a communications project to improve media reporting on tuberculosis (TB) in Zambia. Project partners Relay and the health research consortium TARGETS, brought together journalists and TB researchers in Zambia to explore s ... more

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Making waves: Stories of participatory communication for social change [in Arabic]

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

New York: Rockefeller Foundation (2001), vi, 356 pp.

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The GreenCOM Project: Final Report. September 29, 1993 - March 27, 2001

Academy for Educational Development (AED);Chemonics International;Global Vision;North American Association for Environmental Education (2001), 115 pp.

"This report summarizes the work conducted for the USAID Environmental Education and Communication contract under the leadership of the Academy for Educational Development. That contract, better known as GreenCOM, provided a wide variety of services to USAID. In seven and one-half years, GreenCOM em ... more

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A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development
Key Guidance

Anthony Youdeowei

Maritza Hee Huong; Paul Neate; Paul Stapleton (contrib.)

Oxford; Wageningen: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP);Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2001), xiv, 99 pp.

"One in a series of guidebooks and training manuals for journal editors in developing countries that are active in the field of agriculture and rural development. They aim to assist editors to improve their publishing operations, and provide more effective communication of the scholarship and the re ... more

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Information and Communication Technology, Poverty, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Miria Pigato

Washington, DC: World Bank (2001), 67 pp.

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Technical Consultation on Assessing the Performance and Impact of Agricultural Information Products and Services

Karen Batjes-Sinclair (ed.)

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2001), 169 pp.

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Rural Radio in Action: A CTA Experience

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2001), 10 pp.

"This paper reviews the rural radio environment in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It outlines CTA products and services that are geared towards strengthening CTA rural radio activities in these countries. The paper comprises of sections on Rural Radio Resource Packs (RRRP), and Trai ... more

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A Media Handbook for HIV Vaccine Trials for Africa

Yinka Adeyemi

Geneva: UNAIDS (2001), 45 pp.

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Evaluation of the Population Communication Services (PCS) Project

Gerard Bowers, Rafael Obregón, Audrey Sullivan, Audrey Sullivan, Thomas Tufte, Shereen Usdin

Washington, DC: Population Technical Assistance Project;USAID (2001), 67 pp.

"The Johns Hopkins University Population Communication Services (JHU/PCS) project has been the Office of Population’s leading project for communication and behavior change since 1982. Now working under its fourth cooperative agreement* with USAID, JHU/PCS and its subcontractors provide technical a ... nd financial support for communication projects in all stages of design, implementation, and assessment, including audience identification, message design, determination of appropriate media mix, materials development, and program evaluation. Previous versions of the PCS project (i.e., those carried out under the first three PCS projects) emphasized production of and training for the development of posters, brochures, flip charts, and other materials for providers and facilities materials which were largely lacking at that time. The earlier projects also pioneered the use of mass media, music, and drama for family planning and health promotion. The design of the current PCS project recognizes the importance of community mobilization and interpersonal communication and counseling (IPC/C), and incorporates all three elements in a three-pronged strategy wherever possible. In addition to these planned additional areas of responsibility, PCS IV has become increasingly involved in functional areas that were not anticipated when it was awarded in 1995. These include child survival (including polio eradication), prevention of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), environmental health, and—representing the most obvious departure from the project’s traditional orientation—democracy and governance. PCS has assumed responsibility for virtually all of these unanticipated new tasks in response to field support–funded requests from USAID Missions. Indeed, the field support–driven nature of the PCS project is one of its central characteristics. At present, approximately 80 percent of PCS funds are derived from Mission field support funds—a substantial portion of which (approximately 30 percent) has been provided to address communication needs in the areas beyond family planning/reproductive health noted above. The evaluation presented herein was designed to assess JHU/PCS performance in meeting the objectives set forth in the current cooperative agreement, as well as to examine the project’s effectiveness in responding to these new and unforeseen challenges. The evaluation team was asked to review the tools and methodology that JHU/PCS and its partners apply to these tasks, as well as the communication science that underlies PCS’s strategic approach." (Executive summary) more

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Open and Distance Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Literature Survey on Policy and Practice

Joe Komane, Tony Mays

Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA);South Africa Institute for Distance Educaction (SAIDE) (2001), 126 pp.

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Environmental Education and Communication (EE&C) for Behavior Change: Its Role in Forest, Water, and Biodiversity Resource Management for Sustained Economic Growth in Bolivia

Washington, DC: GreenCOM;Academy for Educational Development (AED) (2001), vii, 95 pp.

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Afrika in deutschen Medien und Schulbüchern

Anke Poenicke

Sankt Augustin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2001), 59 pp.

"Im Auftrag der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung fasst der Bericht den Forschungsstand zur Afrika-Darstellung in deutschen (Massen-)Medien und Schulbüchern zusammen. Es geht um die Betrachtung möglichst zeitnaher Darstellungsstrukturen, also vor allem um die neunziger Jahre. "Afrika" wird hier ohne Mittel ... more

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Upgrading Book Distribution in Africa

Tony Read, Carmelle Denning, Vincent Bontoux

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2001), xx, 252 pp.

"This study is currently the most comprehensive survey of textbook distribution in sub-Saharan Africa. If offers a detailed survey and analysis of the key policy issues affecting book distribution in Africa today. The study was organized and co-ordinated by International Book Development Ltd. in Lon ... don, and Danaé-Sciences, a Paris-based consultancy company specialising in editorial support, training and written communication. It draws on a series of major case studies carried out in Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda, together with mini case studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Togo, undertaken by book practitioners in these countries, most from the private sector. All of the case studies cover some common elements, including, for example, information on the national education system (including basic education statistics), and a discussion of the main players and mechanisms in the book distribution chain; they also review regional trade in books, and most case studies comment upon the impact of funding, agency investment, and government policies affecting national book development. In addition to the case studies, a useful feature is the inclusion of a fold-out chart “Critical issues on upgrading book distribution in Africa – A decision tree for policy-makers”, which shows the key options that policy makers need to consider in developing a national framework for textbook delivery. An extensive glossary of common terms and acronyms used in education, development and the book trade, completes the volume. The survey concludes “there is already a policy change underway among a number of governments and funding agencies in their approaches toward national textbook distribution. This change is more apparent in Anglophone than in Francophone countries and is by no means universal even in Anglophone countries. But the reaction against the inefficiencies, the lack of a service culture and the typically high cost operations of state centralist policies is now almost ten years old.” It also notes that times are changing, and that senior government officials in many countries now openly acknowledge and welcome the increasing involvement of the private sector in educational book provision activity." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1515) more

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Haciendo olas: Historias de comunicación participativa para el cambio social
Inspiring Practice

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

New York: Rockefeller Foundation (2001), 356 pp.

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What Works? A Blast from the Past: Project Profiles from the 60s and 70s... Social Marketing, Community Media, Mass Campaigns, Interactive Radio, Gender Equity, Participation, the Media and More
Inspiring Practice

Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development (AED) (2001), 283 pp.

"The Academy for Educational Development (AED) has been in the social marketing, communication, and participation business for some 40 years. This book profiles 82 projects carried out in the 1960s and 1970s in countries around the world. These projects were researched and documented by AED under it ... more

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Tele Vision 21: XVI. Fernsehworkshop Entwicklungspolitik

Frankfurt am Main: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fernsehworkshop Entwicklungspolitik (2001), 80 pp.

A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development Key Guidance

Haciendo olas: Historias de comunicación participativa para el cambio social Inspiring Practice

What Works? A Blast from the Past: Project Profiles from the 60s and 70s... Social Marketing, Community Media, Mass Campaigns, Interactive Radio, Gender Equity, Participation, the Media and More Inspiring Practice

A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development
Key Guidance

Haciendo olas: Historias de comunicación participativa para el cambio social
Inspiring Practice

What Works? A Blast from the Past: Project Profiles from the 60s and 70s... Social Marketing, Community Media, Mass Campaigns, Interactive Radio, Gender Equity, Participation, the Media and More
Inspiring Practice