"In a review of the academic and practitioner literature on behaviour change we find that one system offers the best response to the challenges we have identified: The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), developed by Professor Susan Michie and colleagues. It is comprehensive, theory-based, evidence-backed
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and links the problem to intervention design. At the heart of the BCW is the system of behaviour called “COM-B”. This means that for any behaviour change (B) to take place, people need to have Capability, Opportunity and Motivation: 1. Capability involves psychological dimensions (e.g. the knowledge and skill to perform an action) as well as physical dimensions (strength and stamina); 2. Opportunity includes both social (e.g. norms) and physical (e.g. resources) enablers; 3. Motivation includes “reflective” (e.g. conscious decision-making) and “automatic” (e.g. emotion and habit) processes. Beneath these are fourteen sub-dimensions or “domains”, including knowledge, skills, memory, emotion and social influences, among others. The COM-B system is linked to a further layer of nine intervention functions including education, persuasion, training and modelling. Finally, these intervention functions are mapped against policy categories, including communication, marketing and guidelines." (Page 5)
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"With the exception of the introduction of new press passes for the journalists by the Deputy Minister of Information and the harassment that followed its implementation, the media landscape in Liberia in May and June has been open and free. Even though the Ministry of Information reduced the freque
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ncy of updates on social media and stopped the regular press briefings especially in May, information about COVID-19 incidents and prevalence was generally available through the NPHIL website and social media pages. The information from the NPHIL helped the media greatly in producing news stories and articles. However, the recession in business and the continued drop in advertising and sponsorship significantly impacted media operations and viability. Due to the financial constraints, some journalists have been laid off, while some fulltime employees have been made freelancers. The situation has also made it difficult to honour salary obligations in some media houses." (Conclusion, page 7)
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"The media in Ghana have had relatively free space to operate even amidst the COVID-19 restrictions. The traditional legal texts and the new emergency laws adopted by the government to fight the pandemic have not been used to violate press freedom. The media have, therefore, discharged with distinct
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ion their duty of informing and educating the populace on the COVID-19. However, media professionals face a number of challenges in accessing sources of information and in getting timely access to information. Furthermore, there were few instances of abuse which need urgent redress to prevent impunity from setting in. The financial standing of media enterprises has been weakened by the general fall in economic and social activities arising out of the outbreak of the pandemic. Unfortunately, government has provided practically little support, making the media potentially vulnerable to capture by vested interests, especially as Ghana heads towards elections in December 2020." (Conclusion)
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"Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric interventions in development, disrupting
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the assumptions that form the basis of development. This turn to culture offered radical possibilities for decolonizing social change but in response, necolonial development institutions incorporated culture into their strategic framework while simultaneously deploying political and economic power to silence transformative threads. This rise of "culture as development" corresponded with the global rise of neo-liberal governmentality, incorporating culture as a tool for globally reproducing the logic of capital. Using examples of transformative social change interventions, this book emphasizes the role of culture as a site for resisting capitalism and imagining rights-based, sustainable and socialist futures. In particular, it attends to culture as the basis for socialist organizing in activist and party politics. In doing so, Culture, Participation and Social Change offers a framework of inter-linkage between Marxist analyses of capital and cultural analyses of colonialism. It concludes with an anti-colonial framework that re-imagines the academe as a site of activist interventions." (Publisher description)
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"Information and Communication Technology interventions have the potential to improve outcomes in health and other development sectors in low-income settings. Large-scale impact, however, remains the central challenge for the HCI4D community as significant and diverse resources are typically require
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d to scale such interventions beyond the pilot stage. In contrast, voice-based entertainment services accessible over simple phones, designed for similarly low-income, low-literate populations manage to scale ‘virally’ to tens of thousands of users with little to no advertising cost. Our study compares the outcomes of using voice-based entertainment to spread a maternal-health hotline against conventional advertisement channels including paper flyers, posters, radio, TV, social media and robocalls. Through an 11-week deployment in Pakistan where the hotline reached 21,770 users over 32,625 calls, we find that the entertainment service outperformed other channels on all popular user acquisition metrics, with the exception of robocalls, which lead in terms of spread." (Abstract)
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"En América Latina y en Colombia existen colectivos, organizaciones sociales y comunidades que, en muchos casos de manera empírica, han hecho de los lenguajes audiovisuales un recurso clave de acción social, política y cultural. Son procesos expresivos y creativos de largo aliento en los que se
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aprovechan diferentes lenguajes artísticos (trova, teatro, música, danza, etc.) y estrategias comunicativas (cineclubes, festivales o muestras de cine y video, materiales impresos, espacios en internet, etc.) para afirmar las capacidades políticas de los sujetos, vincularlos a acciones colectivamente concertadas, crear o fortalecer la memoria común, visibilizar personas y experiencias significativas, documentar la inventiva cultural, la riqueza y diversidad ambiental, y comunicar públicamente sus problemas y desafíos. A esos procesos los hemos llamado Obras Expresivas Audiovisuales Comunitarias, OEAC. Su creación supone gestionar alianzas locales, nacionales e internacionales para obtener recursos formativos y económicos que permitan producir obras de buena factura técnica, alentar procesos de investigación participativa, proyectar y fortalecer a las comunidades (niños, jóvenes, adultos y adultos mayores). Las OEAC también generan estrategias de difusión y crean condiciones de sostenibilidad a mediano y largo plazo, forjando pautas particulares de administración y organización, haciendo escuela de creadores y propiciando que nuevas generaciones se vinculen a procesos comunitarios. Este libro presenta y analiza algunas experiencias de OEAC y propone algunos principios de realización que se podrían tener en cuenta cuando se trate de vincular los lenguajes audiovisuales a trabajos con comunidades u organizaciones sociales." (Sinopsis)
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"La supervivencia de la especie humana y de incontables especies animales y vegetales depende de transformar el sistema financiero, decenas de prácticas culturales y gran parte de nuestros hábitos. El periodismo ha hecho eco de las alarmas de la ciencia, pero parece no haber logrado transmitir el
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mensaje con suficiente fuerza. Más allá de los vaivenes de la política, las tragedias de la guerra y las fugaces insidias que hacen sus rondas en redes sociales, las historias del medioambiente son sin lugar a dudas las más importantes de nuestros tiempos. No obstante, solo una pequeña parte de la población parece ser consciente de ello. Esta guía busca brindar herramientas a los periodistas para poder contar de manera efectiva estas historias. En esa medida, presenta un compendio de información para reconocer los conflictos socioambientales; comprender cómo el conflicto afectó el medioambiente en el país; entender las implicaciones de la crisis climática en Colombia y el resto del mundo; identificar la importancia de proteger la biodiversidad; y aprender a utilizar técnicas como el periodismo de soluciones para lograr cambios en las audiencias." (Cubierta del libro)
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"The aim of this paper is to analyse participatory video as a participatory action research method through the lenses of the capability approach. In order to do this, we used a participatory video experience that took place in the municipality of Quart de Poblet (Valencia, Spain) from February to Ma
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rch 2014. The participants were 11 young people between 16 and 24 years of age, severely affected by the economic crisis that has hit Spain in recent years. To develop our analysis, we introduced the participatory video as a technique and a process within the participatory action research methods. Then, we analysed the participatory process to verify the extent to which it had contributed to expanding the capabilities and agency of the participants. The evidence revealed a significant expansion of the awareness capability and, in some cases, of the capability for voice. In contrast, the capability to aspire and the agency of the participants were not expanded, due to contextual factors and the limitations of the process itself." (Abstract)
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"Building effective CCE capabilities is particularly important in Vanuatu, a Pacific nation spanning 83 islands, which is vulnerable to natural disasters ranging from tropical cyclones and volcanic eruptions, to disease and agricultural threats. 2020 has been a particularly challenging year for its
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300,000 citizens, with the landfall of Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Harold in April and the concurrent rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last two years, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has sponsored a programme to build sustainable next-generation CCE capability within Vanuatu. This nationally grounded initiative has been led by Vanuatu’s National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) with coordination support from the CDAC Network and Ground Truth Solutions (GTS). CARE provides additional CCE Technical Advisory and Secretariat support." (Page 1)
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"Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband bietet eine gute Grundlage für den Einstieg in die partizipative Forschung allgemein und in die Partizipative Gesundheitsforschung. Es werden Forschungsansätze und Methoden für die Erhebung und Auswertung in partizipativen Forschungsprozessen vorgestellt und anhand
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von Beispielstudien diskutiert. Partizipativ forschen heißt, die Menschen, deren Lebens- und Arbeitsbereiche erforscht werden, über alle Phasen des Forschungsprozesses zu beteiligen. Partizipation dient dem Erkenntnisgewinn, aber auch dem Ziel, die soziale Wirklichkeit der Menschen, ihr Leben und Wohlbefinden zu verbessern." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveragi
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ng these flexible systems to educate, train, and empower populations previously denied access to such opportunities. Featuring contributors leading efforts in rapidly changing nations and regions, this wide-ranging collection grapples with accreditation, credentialing, quality standards, innovative assessment, learner motivation and attrition, and numerous other issues. The provocative narratives curated in this volume demonstrate how MOOCs and OER can be effectively designed and implemented in vastly different ways in particular settings, as detailed by experts from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific/Oceania, and the Caribbean. This comprehensive text is an essential resource for policy makers, instructional designers, practitioners, administrators, and other MOOC and OER community stakeholders." (Publisher description)
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"Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das für die Rechte der Ärmsten, der ursprünglichen (autochthonen) Völker, der Geringsten kämpft, wo ihre Stimme gehört und ihre Würde gefördert wird. Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das seinen charakteristischen kulturellen Reichtum bewahrt, wo auf so unter
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schiedliche Weise die Schönheit der Menschheit erstrahlt. Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das die überwältigende Schönheit der Natur, die sein Schmuck ist, eifersüchtig hütet, das überbordende Leben, das seine Flüsse und Wälder erfüllt. Ich träume von christlichen Gemeinschaften, die in Amazonien sich dermaßen einzusetzen und Fleisch und Blut anzunehmen vermögen, dass sie der Kirche neue Gesichter mit amazonischen Zügen schenken." (Seite 7)
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"A clear-eyed, expert examination of the state of vaccine confidence globally -- and what it means for the future of life on earth. Considers the widening gulf between messages of medical authority and those on everyman platforms of our digital world, especially as it influences individual choice. C
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onsiders the dawning of vaccine resistance's social acceptance and its implications for human health. Authored by leading authority on vaccine confidence and the health anthropology." (Publisher description)
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"Presentamos a ustedes esta versión popular que integra el documento final del Sínodo para la Amazonía (DF) y la exhortación apostólica del Papa Francisco “Querida Amazonía” (QA), como un solo llamado integral. Uno sin el otro no está completo, por ello deben ser trabajados siempre de man
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era conjunta, pues en uno está el programa a seguir para los próximos años (DF), y en el otro (QA) está el llamado firme del Papa a acompañar sus sueños (social, cultural, ecológico y eclesial) que son sus directrices mayores para la Iglesia en la Amazonía y en todo el mundo." (Página 2)
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