"La finalidad de este material es orientar a las y los líderes sociales para que aumente y se califique su participación en los espacios de debate y toma de decisiones de su distrito. Así mismo, queremos que las organizaciones de mujeres y jóvenes aporten con agendas propias a los procesos de de
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sarrollo. De tal forma, que los gobiernos locales promuevan políticas y programas favorables a la equidad de género y el desarrollo juvenil." (Presentación)
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"This guide has been compiled from a number of sources, including industry experts on blogging, with a particular focus on civic leadership weblogging. Many of the examples are based on the experiences of a government-backed pilot into blogging in the public sector. The International Centre of Excel
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lence for Local eDemocracy (ICELE) provides resources for local authorities concerning good practice in eDemocracy, and is a continuation of the Local eDemocracy National Project funded by the UK Government. This guide provides advice for civic leaders and councils regarding good practice in relation to the subject matter." (About this guidebook)
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"La Caravana Ciudadana es una propuesta metodológica de comunicación que busca incentivar el aprendizaje y la experiencia de participación de la ciudadanía. Es un espectáculo de participación itinerante que aprovecha los espacios de encuentro y comunicación como plazas, calles, mercados, pati
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os de escuelas, para organizar un conjunto de actividades interactivas e innovadoras que los transformen en espacios de acceso a información de calidad, de promoción de la expresión y el debate públicos, de fortalecimiento de la autoestima; con la perspectiva de desarrollar opiniones y propuestas ciudadanas que se transformen en insumos para la incidencia sobre las autoridades de la localidad. La Caravana Ciudadana puede ser un recurso útil para que docentes y estudiantes movilicen la opinión de la comunidad educativa en torno a temas que consideran claves y para ello pueden usar los escenarios del interior de la escuela o tomar los espacios públicos de su localidad." (Página 1)
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"This guide is meant to introduce non-technical users to Internet censorship circumvention technologies, and help them choose which of them best suits their circumstances and needs." (Page 5)
"The toolkit is meant to serve both as a resource for the regional training workshops for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP) coordinators as well as a resource base for them for national focal points (NFPs) when they are back in their work place and are dealing with Communicat
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ion, education and public awareness (CEPA) issues as part of their daily responsibilities. The toolkit provides guidance on where, when and how to use a wide range of education and communication interventions. The toolkit consists of 4 sections that contain guidance and tools for CEPA interventions by NBSAP coordinators: What is CEPA and how to get started; How to network and raise awareness; How to engage stakeholders and mainstream biodiversity; How to plan communication strategically The sections and the issues in each section are based on the surveys exploring the questions end users have. Most of the content is organized on the basis of the question ‘how to’. As NBSAP coordinators are busy people and have little time to read, the content of each HOW TO aspect of CEPA in all sections is presented in three different ways: Fact sheets; Examples; Checklists. The toolkit in this way offers an opportunity for readers to flip through and zap from one page that attracts their attention to another that could be of immediate use to them. The toolkit is not meant to read as a text book or manual on communication from A–Z." (Preface)
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"The first part sets out the four key concepts of literacy (as skills, tasks, social practices, and critical reflection), and describes associated approaches used throughout the world. The second half covers preparation and planning, offering practical guides for each key element of literacy-program
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me development. Using case studies from literacy programmes in many countries including Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mali, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Uganda, the authors demonstrate the importance of literacy and its power to improve lives. They also show that the role literacy plays in social and economic development is not a simple one, and literacy is never a quick-fix solution." (Oxfam website)
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"Partnerships between the public sector, the private sector and particularly civil society in promoting information and communication technology (ICT) policy are a relatively new venture. The mechanisms, management and governance of such partnerships, from loose arrangements to more formal mechanism
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s, are still relatively new and not always fully understood. This guide is an attempt to add to the growing body of knowledge and experience on multi-stakeholder processes and partnerships, based on the practical experiences encountered during the three-year CATIA programme on ICT policy advocacy. It presents guidelines that may assist national ICT policy facilitators in coming to grips with the complexities of multi-stakeholder relationships and the attainment of common goals and objectives. It considers practical issues for the establishment of a multi-stakeholder process for ICT policy and looks at how multi-stakeholder partnerships work, what has been successful and what has not, and offers some practical suggestions on how to make them more effective. Practical experiences from two African countries – the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Kenya – are used to illustrate two possible approaches." (About this guide, page 4)
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"Isis International-Manila welcomed the suggestion of Min-WoW to collaborate on a project on engendered peace journalism and community radio. Thus, the project, “Women Making Airwaves for Peace,” was conceptualized based on the media experiences of Min-WoW and Isis’ experience on community rad
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io in Asia Pacific. Canada Fund for Local Initiatives provided the necessary financial support to implement the project. This primer “Engendering Peace Journalism: Keeping Communities Whole” combines the two organizations’ expertise in monitoring and analyzing media from a Southern feminist perspective together with experiences of the women from the three training activities conducted in North-Western Mindanao, Philippines in 2006-2007. Practitioners from both mainstream and community and independent media, women’s and peace NGOs and grassroots organizations attended the training." (Preface)
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