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"Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development." (Pu ... more

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Playing with Fire: Power, Participation, and Communication for Development

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 453-465

"Communication and its role in development and social change is still poorly understood and supported by large development players, despite decades of innovative practice and positive outcomes. Gaps between discourse and action, outdated evaluation methods, short timeframes, red tape, and power rela ... more

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Development Communication Sourcebook: Broadening the Boundaries of Communication
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Paolo Mefalopulos

Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), xx, 244 pp.

"This book is essential reading for anybody interested in development communication. Mefalopulos, a World Bank development communication officer with wide-ranging experiences in the field, presents four modules. The first module concisely presents the concepts and applications of development communi ... more

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Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2008), 428 pp.

"This book includes 17 articles on the current state of communication for development from renowned communication practitioners and scholars. It covers five areas: an introduction to the relationship between development, participation and communication; the theoretical underpinnings of development c ... more

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Development Through Dialogue: Report of a Research Initiative

Sarah Cummings

Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) (2008), 65 pp.

"This report covers a research study of Dgroups which took place during September 2006-July 2007. Dgroups is a number of things at the same time: (1) it is a web-based technical platform which supports and provides for the creation and use of discrete e-mail based discussion lists and web workspaces ... that are used to support knowledge networking by people and institutions working in development; (2) it is also the plural name for these online networks, individually known as a dgroup; and (3) it is also a partnership of development organizations who share a commitment to collaboration in development and who are developing a common vision of the need for such a platform and such online groups. The Dgroups platform currently supports 2,308 dgroups and 88,700 individual users (15 July, 2007), but there has not yet been an analysis of the development role of dgroups on a global scale. Many partners and members of the Dgroups Partnership continue to support the platform, not only because of the access to online knowledge networks with which it provides them, but also because of an intuitive understanding of the processes supported by dgroups. The study examines whether and how dgroups: • facilitate the spread of information and knowledge among the actors (individual and institutional) working in the thematic areas of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); • facilitate learning processes (individual, social, and organizational learning) in the diverse institutions working in areas related to the MDGs; and • facilitate the bridging of the multitude of ‘knowledge divides’ in development between the North and South, and South-South; between different sorts of institutions (multilateral, bilateral, NGOs, universities, ministries) and professional groups (practitioners, researchers and policymakers); and in terms of language [...] It has been concluded that dgroups facilitate information and knowledge sharing within the subject areas of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and that they also facilitate individual, social and organizational learning within these subject areas. Dgroups also play an important role in bridging the ‘knowledge divides’ between North and South, between different types of institutions, and between different professional groups, as well as crossing the digital divide. An ability to bridge South-South divides and to forge links between different language groups has not been demonstrated. In terms of development impact, Dgroups was found to represent a very cost-effective manner of hosting groups (an average of Euro 60.70 per dgroup per year) and most moderators felt that participation in dgroups was an ‘effective’ use of their time. Dgroups were also found to have had an organizational impact on the way many of the partner and member organizations work. It is argued that Dgroups provides a unique resource: there is nothing comparable within development that facilitates information and knowledge sharing on such a large scale. Finally, some recommendations are made for the future development of Dgroups." (Executive summary) more

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Plaidoyer pour l'appui des radios locales de service aux communautes en Afrique de l'Ouest: Guide a l'intention des ONG et des bailleurs de fonds
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Stéphane Boulc'h (ed.)

Bruxelles; Dakar: COTA;Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2008), 243 pp.

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Communication for Development Programmes in the United Nations System: Report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 50/130, Including the Recommendations of the Tenth United Nations Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development

New York: United Nations (2008), 22 pp.

"The present report has been prepared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and is being submitted to the General Assembly at the sixty-third session pursuant to Assembly resolution 50/130, as well as resolution 51/172 which, inter alia stressed the need to support ... more

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Regional Awareness and Communication Strategy for the SADC Water Sector

Southern African Development Community (SADC) (ed.)

Southern African Development Community (SADC) (2008), 54 pp.

"This Awareness and Communication Strategy fulfils the call for establishing sector specific (Water Sector) strategies and crafting, packaging and dissemination of messages and themes which should be based on but not limited to SADC’s priority intervention areas. It is basically expanding the SADC ... more

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Participatory Development Communication (PDC): Rhetoric or Reality? The Analysis of Community-Based Level Interventions in Latin America and Africa with Dialogue and Empowerment as Intended Outcomes

Soledad Muñiz

Reading, UK: University of Reading, Master Thesis (2008), 170 pp.

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Communication pour l’empowerment à Madagascar: Une évaluation des besoins en communication et média au niveau de la communauté

Xavier Leus

UNDP, UNDEF, CFSC (2008), 60 pp.

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Comunicación y desarrollo: En busca de la coherencia

Pedro Arjona

Madrid: Fundación Carolina;Siglo XXI Editores (2008), xxxiii, 250 pp.

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A Good Place to Start: The IDS Knowledge Services Guide to Finding Development Information Online

Gabrielle Hurst, Cheryl Brown (eds.)

Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS), revised ed. (2008), 85 pp.

"Drawing on the collective expertise of staff at the IDS Knowledge Services, this guide will point you to some good places to start your search on over 30 development themes. You'll find a list of websites on each topic, selected by people who have spent countless hours searching the Internet for th ... more

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Antología de comunicación para el cambio social: Lecturas históricas y contemporáneas
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Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Thomas Tufte (comps.)

South Orange, New Jers.; La Paz: Consorcio de Comunicación para el Cambio Social (CFSC);Plural Editores (2008), 1413 pp.

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Women in Action No.2/2008: People's Communications for Development (PC4D)

Tesa Casal de Vela, Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo (eds.)

Quezon City: Isis International (2008), 94 pp.

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Radio and Development in Africa: A Concept Paper

Mary Myers

Wardour: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), 58 pp.

"Radio seems to have proven itself as a developmental tool, particularly with the rise of community and local radios, which have facilitated a far more participatory and horizontal type of communication than was possible with the older, centralised broadcasting model of the 1960s and 70s. There seem ... more

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Communication, Development and Democracy: Mapping a Discourse

Sujatha Sosale

Cresskill, New Jers.: Hampton Press (2008), xvi, 144 pp.

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Media and Development in Asia: Regional Perspectives

Indrajit Banerjee, Madanmohan Rao (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 348 pp.

"This book brings together some of the most outstanding and novel papers on media and development presented at the AMIC Annual Conferences in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2004. It features over a dozen contributions from around the region, providing a wealth of fresh case studies as well as breaking ne ... more

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The MDGs as a Communication Tool for Development
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Paola Pagliani

Oslo: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2007), 51 pp.

"This paper intends to look at the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a communication tool instead of an object of communication. The MDGs possess the potential to make development more understandable to people at the centre of development policies: the poor, vulnerable and socially excluded. Th ... more

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Mapping Declarations and Statements on Communication for Development

London: Panos London (2007), 50 pp.

Extracted and summarised texts from selected international declarations and statements on the role of media and communication in democratisation and development, from the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) to the 10th UN Inter-agency round table on communication for development.

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Antología de comunicación para el cambio social: Lecturas históricas y contemporáneas
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