"This is intended to be a "practical" book. It is filled with examples and case studies that illustrate ways that carefully planned and implemented communication interventions have produced positive results. It is also filled with ideas from people who have experienced the challenges of communicatin
...
g effectively in development programs. We are indebted to them and I am pleased to provide their ideas - frequentyl in their own words - to th readers of this book, and provide web links to their works. In spinning all of these valuable resources together I have added my own insights based on almost four decades of communication and development experience in countries ranging from Guatemala to Western Samoa, with many other stops in Asia, Africa and Latin America." (Foreword)
more
"Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detache
...
d ‘women’s pages’ slotted into the main newspapers. The supplements are filled with stereotyped roles of domesticity, beauty, and fantasy, thus denying women’s productive role in society. This article analyses the negative and stereotyped portrayal of women in the Kenyan print media, and considers what implications this has for the country’s development." (Abstract)
more
"Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Inte
...
rnet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses technologies, voices, and actions’ to amplify the voices of women worldwide as they recount their experiences and perspectives of armed conflict. In doing so, FIRE helps promote an alternative vision of human existence that is based on social justice and human rights, and which serves to strengthen women’s and other social and political movements that are based on these values." (Abstract)
more
"This book explores the changing and often ambivalent relationship between the three terms women, feminism and media in the light of recent debates. At the same time it places them within the broader discussions within feminist theory - about subjectivity, identity, culture, and narrative - of which
...
they have formed a crucial part. Throughout, the book explores key issues within feminist media studies both through specific examples and via critical engagement with the work of major theoretical writers." (Publisher description)
more
"Editors and journalists who have been trained to understand issues of gender-based violence and human rights can have a positive influence on educating public and political understanding of these issues. This article describes two workshops held recently in Senegal and Albania for male and female e
...
ditors and journalists. The UNFPA workshop for journalists and editors from six African countries in postconflict situations, held in Senegal, was deliberately scheduled to coincide with the Dakar film festival on gender-based violence. The purpose of the UNFPA strategy was to achieve extensive media coverage in these six countries. The Albanian workshop for local and national media took place in Tirana as part of a three-year project against sex-trafficking, conducted by the NGO Albanian Centre for Population and Development in partnership with the Mediterranean Women’s Studies Centre." (Abstract)
more
"The Gender and Media Baseline Study, conducted in southern Africa in 2003, revealed glaring gender disparities in the media and in its editorial content. With its goal to ‘promote gender equality in and through the media’, Gender Links (GL) has worked with a broad range of partners to try to re
...
dress these gaps through research, advocacy, and training, targeting media producers, those who influence news content, and consumers. GL, and the Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) network that it hosts, are also developing a Gender and Media Diversity Centre, to enhance the sharing of knowledge in this important but relatively new area of work." (Abstract)
more
"In dieser Studie werden Möglichkeiten zur Integration von Genderaspekten in die Projektarbeit und insbesondere in die IKT-gestützte berufliche Qualifizierung untersucht. Projekte der beruflichen Qualifizierung nehmen in besonderem Maß Einfluss auf den Sozialisationsprozess von Männern und Fraue
...
n. Technologiebasierte oder vorwiegend technische Projekte sind hierbei keine Ausnahme. Auch sie werden von Menschen geplant und durchgeführt und spiegeln daher bewusst oder unbewusst die Gender-Stereotypen der Beteiligten und der Zielgruppen wider. Projekte, die diese Tatsache ignorieren und Genderaspekte gar nicht oder nur teilweise berücksichtigen, üben einen unkontrollierten Einfluss auf die Geschlechter-Verhältnisse der Zielgruppe aus. Eine systematische Anwendung des Gender-Mainstreaming-Ansatzes (Integration von Genderaspekten während aller Projektphasen und auf allen Organisationsebenen) bietet die Möglichkeit, bestehende Ungleichheiten zu identifizieren, gezielt anzugehen und zu beheben. In diesem Sinne werden in der vorliegenden Publikation verschiedene Aktivitäten identifiziert, die als Instrumente zur Umsetzung von Gender-Mainstreaming angewendet werden können. Aufgrund ihrer Vielseitigkeit können diese Instrumente sowohl bei der Organisationsentwicklung als auch bei der strategischen sektoralen Planung sowie der Projektentwicklung, -durchführung und -auswertung Anwendung finden." (Zusammenfassung, Seite 6)
more
"The guide is divided into 7 sections. Each section explores a different aspect of working with the media on gender and education issues, starting with looking at education campaigning in general before focusing on gender issues in education, and the role of advocacy and the media. You will find pra
...
ctical advice for working with the media on gender and education issues and suggestions of activities to help individuals or groups generate discussion and develop their understanding of the issues addressed in more depth. These activities can be used as the basis for training others. A set of worksheets that correspond to these activities accompanies the guide and can be photocopied and used alongside the guide." (Using this guide, page 4)
more
"This publication features a series of papers that represent an early exploration of the challenges and opportunities for actors committed to gender equality in the information society. It is meant to open up the debates that can pave the way for a sustained engagement of gender activists with one o
...
f the most powerful contemporary social phenomena." (Back cover)
more
"Cette étude ne constitue pas une analyse conforme aux normes académiques, mais s'attache plutôt à mettre en exergue les questions à débattre et des défis à relever. A cet égard, elle passe en revue les recherches récentes, les politiques, les stratégies, et plus particulièrement les bon
...
nes pratiques identifiées au niveau national et régional ainsi que les résultats des conférences, réunions et rapports intergouvernementaux. Dans ce rapport, un intérêt particulier est porté aux recommandations susceptibles d’alimenter les débats de la Conférence ministérielle Euro-Méditerranéenne et des deux conférences préparatoires prévues pour mai et juin 2006. L'étude est présentée en version arabe, anglaise et française - la version originale étant en anglais. Elle est divisée en trois parties : Education, Médias, et Création Culturelle. Chaque partie contient un ensemble de défis, d’objectifs et de recommandations concrètes qui s’accompagnent d’indicateurs pertinents et de résultats escomptées. Une structure interne identique s’applique à toutes les sections afin de mettre en valeur la justification des recommandations centrées sur les problèmes identifiés. Les recommandations sont numérotées pour faciliter leur citation."
more