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At the Confluence of Digital Rights and Climate & Environmental Justice: A Landscape Review

Backy Kazansky, Madhury Karak, Teresa Perosa, Quito Tsui, Sara Baker

Engine Room;Ford Foundation;Ariadne European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights;Mozilla Foundation (2022), 90 pp.

"The aim of this report is to provide a landscape scan of how an extremely diverse set of communities and movements are working at intersections of technology, digital rights, environmental justice and climate justice. The report’s primary audiences are grantmakers and practitioners working in or ... more

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Annual Report: Interactive Radio for Ecologically Sustainable Agricultural Practices (IRESAP) Among Small Scale Farmers in Northern and Central Tanzania. Reporting Period: January 2021 to December 2022

Kumlachew Garamew

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2022), 37 pp.

"This is the annual report for the Interactive Radio for Ecologically Sustainable Agricultural Practises (IRESAP) among small scale farmers in Northern and Central Tanzania. The reporting period was from January 2021 to December 2022." (commbox)

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How Do Young Indonesians Engage with Environmental Issues?

London: BBC Media Action (2022), 7 pp.

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How Can Media and Communication Support Somalis Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Hoden Ahmed, Hodan Ibrahim, Kaushiki Ghose

London: BBC Media Action (2022), 15 pp.

"Our work in 2020 and 2021 focused on different aspects of COVID-19 to provide audiences with accurate information and appropriate strategies to deal with the pandemic. This media content contributed to increased knowledge, changed attitudes and positive behaviour change to counter the damaging effe ... more

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Uso de las TIC en la educación remota de emergencia en Colombia a partir de la contingenica del COVID-19

Alexander Vargas Vargas, Ana María Zapata Ospina et al.

Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) (2022), 168 pp.

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At the Interstice of Digital Rights and Environmental Justice: Four Issue Briefs to Inform Funding

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 56 pp.

"[This is] a series of short issue briefs for funders on potential priority areas for funding activities or initiatives that would bring the work of digital rights organisations and environmental justice actors closer together. Each brief states the key problem from the perspective of the APC networ ... more

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The Digitalisation of Armed Conflicts: Three Humanitarian Priorities

Peter Maurer

Brussels: Brussels School of Governance, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (2022), 5 pp.

"States should interpret – and apply – existing rules in a manner that ensures adequate and sufficient protection for civilians and civilian infrastructure, information and communication technology (ICT) systems and data in our ever-increasingly digitalised societies. Academia, tech companies, s ... more

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Year I Progress Report April 2021-March 2022: Global Waters Communication and Knowledge Management (CKM) II

EnCompass LLC

Washington, DC: USAID (2022), 28 pp.

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Lessons on Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability for the Pakistan Floods Response

London: CDAC Network (2022), 6 pp.

"1. Pakistan has experienced and responded to floods for decades: support and build on existing systems, networks and experiences that are widely trusted [...] 2. People need information now, to make critical decisions for themselves and their families and to protect what they still have [...] 3. Ca ... more

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Capacity Decision Framework for CCE/AAP (Communication and Community Engagement/Accountability to Affected People)

London: CDAC Network (2022), 36 pp.

"The capacity decision framework is designed to inform communication and community engagement/accountability to affected people (CCE/AAP) surge capacity requests at a country level to address inter-agency response-wide CCE/AAP gaps. It considers capacity requirements to deliver CCE/AAP across a huma ... more

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Lugara #2: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 1-30, 2022

Internews (2022), 8 pp.

"The Lugara Humanitarian Bulletin is an output of Internews in South Sudan. Under the global Rooted in Trust project, Internews in South Sudan aims to address concerns of diverse communities, including IDPs, refugees, cattle communities, youth, through online and face to face social listening." (Pag ... more

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Rooted in Trust: The Humanitarian Bulletin. Zimbabwe, June, 2022

Internews (2022), 6 pp.

"Internews in Zimbabwe collected 276 rumors on-line and 36 offline in the communities of Masvingo, Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Midlands. The most trending rumors include that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe for children (35%), COVID-19 vaccines cause death (31%), COVID-19 vacc ... more

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Fallstudie: Rassismus, Armut und "Entwicklung" in Schulbüchern

Aram Ziai, Elina Marmer

In: Handbuch Entwicklungsforschung

Karin Fischer; Gerhard Hauck; Manuela Boatca (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2022), 6 pp.

"Der Beitrag untersucht die Darstellung des globalen Südens anhand der Themen Armut, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Kolonialismus in Hamburger Schulbüchern der Mittel- und Oberstufe. Er kommt zu dem Schluss, dass sich oftmals rassistische Elemente in dieser Darstellung aufzeigen lassen: in der Geg ... more

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Pulse Check on Digital Learning

New York: UNICEF (2022), 38 pp.

"This report defines and takes the pulse of five vital elements of digital learning. It contributes to the ongoing yet urgent aim of transforming education, and offers steps to recovery through child-centered, equity-driven, and innovative solutions. The five vital elements covered are ICT in educat ... more

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Communicating the Effectiveness of Hand Washing, Face Masking, Social Distancing and Lockdown in Forestalling the Spread of COVID-19 Infection Across the Globe

Elizabeth Titilayo Aduloju, Jovzy Pius Egunjobi

SAU Journal of Management and Social Sciences, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), 16 pp.

"The main objective of this study was to explore the effectiveness of handwashing, face masking and social distancing in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Mixed-method research design was adopted, while questionnaire was shared on Facebook and WhatsApp to collect quantitative data. The daily cases ... more

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Breaking Cultures of Silence: Learnings from a Participatory Community-Centred Approach to Leveraging and Researching Documentaries for Social Change

David Conrad-Pérez, Caty Borum, Jacqueline Olive, Lisa Flick Wilson, Vanessa Jackson, Shakita Brooks Jones

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-22

"This article offers new learnings and recommended practices for documentary-centred grassroots engagement and social change research. These learnings were developed through a community engagement effort in 2020 that centred around a documentary film about racial violence and injustice, 'Always in S ... more

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Bridging Journalism’s Data Viz Accessibility Gap

Johny Cassidy

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 28 pp.

"Making a visual format accessible for people who can’t see is challenging, but there’s a huge community already invested in working out viable solutions. The tension that remains for them is in receiving a clear mandate for this work from senior leaders within organisations. Accessibility champ ... more

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Use of Digital Media for Family Planning Information by Women and Their Social Networks in Kenya: A Qualitative Study in Peri-Urban Nairobi

Anja Zinke-Allmang, Rahma Hassan, Amiya Bhatia, Krittika Gorur, Shipow Amy

Frontiers in Sociology, volume 7 (2022), 10 pp.

"Access to information about family planning (FP) continues to have financial, physical and social barriers among young women living in Kenya. This paper draws on social norms theory to explore how young women and their social networks access FP information on digital media (e.g., WhatsApp, websites ... more

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Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change

Alankar Kaushik, Abir Suchiang (eds.)

Singapore: Springer (2022), xxi, 318 pp.

"This volume focuses on indigenous knowledge in analyzing the traditions and communication processes within various communities of Northeast India. It deals with the historical and theoretical trajectory of communication for social change as a discipline, bringing together a series of interesting ca ... more

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Social and Behaviour Change (SBC): An Intro Guide

UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (2022), 31 pp.