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Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design
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John Emerson

Tactical Technology Collective (2008), 43 pp.

"How do you tell your story effectively? How can NGOs make their messages as attractive and compelling as other, competing, information? By using information design. Information design can help tell your story to a variety of constituencies. You can use it as an advocacy tool, for outreach or for ed ... more

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Maps for Advocacy: An Introduction to Geographical Mapping Techniques

Sean O'Connor

Tactical Technology Collective (2008), 39 pp.

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Sin rastro, imágenes para construir memoria

Bogotá: Fundación Dos Mundos;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 125 pp.

"Este libro es una selección de imágenes del Concurso Nacional de Fotografía sobre Desaparición Forzada 'Sin Rastro." (Página 1)

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Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
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Leif Packalén, Sharad Sharma

Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.

"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s ... more

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The PhotoVoice Manual: A Guide to Designing and Running Participatory Photography Projects
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Anna Blackman, Tiffany Fairey

London: PhotoVoice (2007), 128 pp.

"The manual is intended to give an introduction to the power of participatory photography as a tool for social change with marginalised and vulnerable groups. Produced in response to the many enquires requesting advice on how to set up a participatory photography project it offers tips and suggestio ... more

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Training Plan for Running a Wallposter Comics Workshop

Leif Packalén

Vantaa (FI): World Comics (2006), 38 pp.

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Wallposter Comics: A Great Campaign Tool for NGOs

Leif Packalén

Vantaa (FI): World Comics (2005), 24 pp.

"Wallposter comics are inexpensively produced educational stories by local NGOs. These stories, which are pasted up on walls and similar places create a lot of interest in the communities. The wallposters are either silk screen printed or made by photocopying. This booklet is a guide in how to make ... more

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Comics Against Corruption: Report from a Workshop Arranged in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Dar es Salaam: Legal Human Rights Centre (LHRC);World-Comics Finland;Tanzania Popular Media Association (2003), 37 pp.

"The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) in Dar es Salaam and World Comics- Finland arranged a joint comics workshop in April 2003 in Dar es Salaam. The workshop trained 18 cartoonists and comics artists in how to make anti-corruption campaign comics in close collaboration with an organisation. The ... more

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Producing Manuals for Non-Literate Farmers: Handbook for Development Workers

Rose Clarkson, Howard Johnson

University of Edinburgh, Institute of Ecology and Resource Management (2003), 9, 13, 4, 10, 11, 5 pp.

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Move Manual: Moderation and Visualization for Group Events

Manfred Oepen

Berlin: InWEnt;ACT Appropriate Communication in Development (2003), 108 pp.

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Developing Materials on HIV/AIDS/STIs for Low-Literate Audiences

Elisabeth Younger, Carol Hooks, Scott Wittet, Heidi Lasher

Arlington, Va.; Washington, DC: Family Health International (FHI);Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) (2002), 155 pp.

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Picture Supported Communication in Africa: Fundamentals, Examples and Recommendations for Appropriate Communication Processes in Rural Development Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Volker Hoffmann

Weikersheim: Margraf Verlag (2000), 365 pp.

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Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda: Drawings of Child Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

Richard A. Salem (ed.)

New York: Friendship Press;NCC's Church World Service;Conflict Management Initiatives;W.K. Kellogg Foundation (2000), 48 pp.

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Comics with an Attitude... A Guide to the Use of Comics in Development

Leif Packalén, Frank Odoi

Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (1999), 96 pp.

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Die Infografik

Martin Liebig

Konstanz: UVK Medien (1999), 460 pp.

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How to Make and Use Visual Aids

Nicola Harford, Nicola Baird

Oxford et al.; London: Heinemann;Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) (1997), 128 pp.

"School teachers, teacher trainers and development workers know that visual aids help people to learn and remember, but when time is short and resources few, visual aids may seem to be a luxury they cannot afford. This book shows that you can make visual aids quickly and easily, using low-cost mater ... more

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Unsere Optik: Der Mensch

Frankfurt am Main: Katholische Nachrichtenagentur (KNA) (1997), 239 pp.

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Drawing Insight: Communicating Development Through Animation

Joyce Greene, Deborah Reber (eds.)

Penang (MY): Southbound (1996), x, 118 pp.

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Participatory Development Tool Kit: Training Manuals for Agencies and Communities

Deepa Narayan, Lyra Srinivasan

Washington, DC: World Bank (1995), ix, 68 pp.

"Experience gained in many countries shows that the acceptance and use of participatory processes is essential to achieve sustainable development. However, without tools and materials to support participatory approaches, wishes do not translate into reality. This tool kit of visual materials was pre ... pared in response to the repeated demands from people working in the field for materials that can help decision makers, project staff, training institutes, trainers and artists initiate the process of developing their own local materials to address their specific concerns. While the need for greater access to this material is clear, we hesitated for some time in putting out a global tool kit for three main reasons. First, because development is rooted in the social, cultural, economic, and political context of societies and its institutions, visual materials should be a reflection of these realities and hence, of necessity, are location-specific. Can a global tool kit, then, serve a useful purpose? After much field experience, we have concluded that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten years, we have found that participatory training is more likely to take root and spread if local trainers and artists have some visual materials to spark their imaginations and, in some sense, to use as models. Just reading about a "pocket chart" is not sufficient; seeing and handling one makes all the difference in understanding the material, its applications, and possible uses. Second, despite the importance of visual materials, readers should not conclude that community development work requires prepared visuals. Many of the activities described can be conducted without the materials included in this kit. For example, maps can be drawn on the ground, and voting can be done by putting stones in squares scratched in the dirt. Issues surrounding gender analysis can be discussed effectively in a group without any visual aids at all. It is up to practitioners to change, simplify, and adapt the materials to their own needs. At the same time, we have found that visual materials are extremely effective in breaking class, gender, education, literacy, professional training, and status barriers. This is true at both the community and agency levels. At the community level they empower those who are not used to speaking up-such as women and the poor-to express themselves and their ideas through drawing, role plays, songs, stories, puppetry and through manipulating materials that are simple to use." (Preface) more

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How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers
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Sarah Murray Bradley

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (1995), 123 pp.

"Visual literacy is a characteristic all human beings inherently possess. Yet because of our cultural and social differences, we interpret visual symbols and representations, such as drawings, pictures, and artefacts, in different ways. How and why people use visual images to represent complex ideas ... more

Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design Key Guidance

Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool Key Guidance

The PhotoVoice Manual: A Guide to Designing and Running Participatory Photography Projects Key Guidance

Picture Supported Communication in Africa: Fundamentals, Examples and Recommendations for Appropriate Communication Processes in Rural Development Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa Key Guidance

How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers Top Insights

Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design
Key Guidance

Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
Key Guidance

The PhotoVoice Manual: A Guide to Designing and Running Participatory Photography Projects
Key Guidance

Picture Supported Communication in Africa: Fundamentals, Examples and Recommendations for Appropriate Communication Processes in Rural Development Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Key Guidance

How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers
Top Insights