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Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and its Outcomes
Key Guidance

Marina Elena Figueroa, D. Lawrence Kincaid, Manju Rani, Gary Lewis

New York: Rockefeller Foundation;Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2002), iv, 42 pp.

"For social change, a model of communication is required that is cyclical, relational and leads to an outcome of mutual change rather than one-sided, individual change. In Section 1 of this report we provide a description of such a model. The model describes a dynamic, iterative process that starts ... more

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Communicating for Development: Experience from the Urban Environment

Catalina Gandelsonas (ed.)

London: ITDG (2002), 278 pp.

"Much research on urban development is supply-led - generated by the interests of donors and researchers in the North rather than the needs of poor households in the growing cities of the South, Communicating for Development focuses attention on the most fundamental of questions about development: h ... more

The Design and Implementation of National Information and Communication Policies for Sustainable Development in Africa: Issues and Approaches

Rome: FAO (2002), ix, 19 pp.

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Comunicación para el desarrollo sostenible

Teresa Flores Bedregal

La Paz: Plural Editores;LIDEMA (2002), 84 pp.

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Sorprendiendo el futuro: Comunicación para el desarrollo e información audiovisual

Manuel Chaparro Escudero

Barcelona: Los Libros de la Frontera (2002), 213 pp.

Soul City 4: Evaluation Results. Integrated Summary Report

Esca Scheepers (ed.)

Soul City, Institute for Health and Development Communication (2001), 101, ix, xix pp.

DTR Radio Listening Clubs, Zambia: Impact Evaluation Report

Kitty Warnock

Panos Southern Africa (2001), 17 pp.

"The project ran from November 98 to May 2001, involving 13 rural women’s clubs in the Mpika district of Zambia, 600 km north of Lusaka. The clubs recorded their discussions of development issues or requests for development support; the tapes were sent to a radio producer in Lusaka, who recorded a ... response from a relevant service-provider or politician. The discussion and response were edited into one programme and broadcast as a regular weekly programme by the national broadcaster, ZNBC. The clubs listened to the programmes and discussed them at their weekly meetings. This evaluation assessed the development impact of the project, principally by talking to members of the clubs and others in their communities. An audience survey was also carried out, in three different areas. The main findings of the evaluation were: The project has brought substantial material benefits and new information to the communities. To some extent the clubs and communities have been empowered to access development inputs themselves, though the mediation of the radio programme producer has also been an important factor; The success in achieving material benefits for the communities was probably a strong force in building community support for the clubs in the early months of the project, but now their role in providing information and stimulating discussion is equally appreciated; The Clubs have not achieved material benefits specifically for their own incomegenerating activities, which was the original aim of the project, and which they see (on a video) happening in Zimbabwe. Income-generating is still the clubs’ main purpose, so the project should seek to help them strengthen their income-generating activities; The project has stimulated intense discussions, in the clubs and the communities, about social issues. The clubs’ ability to discuss and present issues clearly is greatly appreciated by men and young people in the communities; There is an emerging perception of a role for the clubs as educators for their communities. They are confidently passing on their own experience, and information from outside sources, as well as “hosting” outside experts in their radio programmes; The programmes are widely listened to and appreciated all over Zambia." (Summary) more

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What Works? A Blast from the Past: Project Profiles from the 60s and 70s... Social Marketing, Community Media, Mass Campaigns, Interactive Radio, Gender Equity, Participation, the Media and More
Inspiring Practice

Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development (AED) (2001), 283 pp.

"The Academy for Educational Development (AED) has been in the social marketing, communication, and participation business for some 40 years. This book profiles 82 projects carried out in the 1960s and 1970s in countries around the world. These projects were researched and documented by AED under it ... more

Information Revolutions: How Information and Communication Management is Changing the Lives of Rural People

Paul Mundy, Jacques Sultan

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2001), vii, 234 pp.

"Documentation of best practices on how certain individuals or organizations are changing the way communication works, how they are making a difference to the lives and livelihoods of rural people. About 40 organizations - government, non-government or academic - in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pac ... more

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"We Are All Natives Now": An Overview of International and Development Communication Research

Sandra Bramann, Hemant Shah, Jo Ellen Fair

Communication Yearbook, volume 24 (2001), pp. 159-186

"This chapter reviews the historical and conceptual parameters of the international communication research area, followed by a focus on communication and development. Both parts of the chapter define the scope of the areas discussed, summarize the main theoretical approaches, and present major trend ... more

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Reshaping Development Communication: Developing Communication and Communicating Development

Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Bella Mody

Communication Theory, volume 11, issue 4 (2001), pp. 385-396

Critical Issues in Communication: Looking Inward for Answers. Essays in Honour of K. E. Eapen

Srinivas R. Melkote, Sandhya Rao (eds.)

K. E. Eapen Honoured person)

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2001), 491 pp.

"This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics." (Publisher description)

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Neue Medien und Öffentlichkeiten: Politik und Tele-Kommunikation in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Bd.2

Stefan Brüne (ed.)

Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2000), 434 pp.

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Development Communication in Action: Building Understanding and Creating Participation

Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.)

Oxford: University Press of America (2000), 325 pp.

"Addressing the use of communication (interpersonal, folk, traditional, group, organizational, and mass media) in the development process, this book discusses some of the conceptual and theoretical basis for integrating communication effectively into development plans and execution. It also examines ... more