"This Guide complements the Practical Guidance Note on Right to Information, which provided guidance on approaches for designing and implementing programmes in this area. It builds on this knowledge, and focuses on the monitoring and evaluation of those programmes, paying particular attention to the
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use of appropriate indicators, including gender and pro-poor indicators. It outlines the basic principles of programme evaluation, but concentrates on assessing outcomes. It outlines four broad areas of right to information that must be considered in any context for a thorough evaluation. These are: (1) the legal regime for the right to information; (2) the implementation of right to information legislation by government; (3) the use of right to information by the general public and civil society; and (4) the use of right to information by marginalised group. It then suggests questions for each area, and derives from these typical baseline assessment features, outputs and outcomes." (Abstract)
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"Communities of practice (CoPs) provide people with a desire to address, discuss, and share their knowledge on a particular topic or issue with the means to do so. The USAID Knowledge for Development Strategy identifies such communities as vital to allowing USAID to reach its full knowledge-sharing
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capacity and improve its business process. We recognize that creating and maintaining a community requires dedication and direction. USAID’s 'Communities@USAID Technical Guidance' was developed to assist in this process. Designed to be an easy “how to” manual for those launching and sustaining a community, the guidance steps you through the process from beginning to end." (Preface)
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"This is a short, practically oriented and easy to understand guide through the different methods of audience research. It explains how and why audience research can contribute to the programming of local radio stations, and introduces the basics of quantitative research (ie, sampling, writing a que
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stionnaire, etc.) and qualitative research (ie, in-depth interviews, consensus groups and others) with a focus on practical implementation for local radio stations in developing countries. Furthermore, it contains several check lists for those who want to examine their audiences, but are unsure which method is most suitable, or if they are able to carry out the research themselves or should commission an external researcher. On a whole, this is a good manual for beginners to learn more about the use, need, methods and impact that audience research can offer." (commbox)
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"This volume grew out of a seminar on scholarly publishing held in Arusha, Tanzania in 2002. It was originally announced for publication as The African Scholarly Writers and Publishers Handbook, as a sequel to the much acclaimed African Writers’ Handbook published by African Books Collective in 19
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99, but was subsequently recast primarily as a collection of essays by book practitioners and a number of African academics. The preface to the volume offers no explanation why the original handbook concept was abandoned, although the essay collection does contain a few more practical papers such as Alois Mlambo’s “Choosing a Publisher”, Mary Jay’s “The Book Publishing Process”, and Charles Bewlay’s “A Publisher’s Expectations of Academic Authors”. Also useful, published as an appendix in the book, is a reprint of CODESRIA’s Guide for Authors, a small booklet published by them in 2003 that contains a great deal of helpful guidance as well as a glossary. The collection takes stock of the current status of academic publishing on the continent. and contains a total of 25 papers, together with an index. Following two introductory essays, papers are grouped under a number of headings and sub-headings: Part 1, Perspectives: Scholars and Publishers, African-Language Publishing, Librarianship; and Part 2, Writing and Publishing; New Technologies. This essay collection offers a rich resource on many aspects of African scholarly publishing today." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2312)
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"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
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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)
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"This manual offers a basic description of a new method of developing journalistic skills to cover elections, and provides some essential information about elections and reporting responsibilities and techniques. Although it can be used in a wide range of elections, referenda and other votes around
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the world, it is specifically designed as a tool for coaching journalists in countries marked by conflict, or countries in the midst of a transition to democracy. The manual, as you will see, is foremost intended for those persons – we call them coaches – who are assisting in skills development. It is a handbook for those who are doing the coaching, or providing the training. But the information about elections and reporting is also meant to be passed on to reporters, editors and managers who are developing their skills. So the information here is to be shared, copied and used as journalists’ guidelines, as much as possible.
This manual stems from a Réseau Liberté journalism development programme funded by CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency). This programme to support Haitian media involves two main partners: CBC/Radio-Canada’s Institute for Training in Public Broadcasting and the Montreal-based NGO, Alternatives. After conducting several traditional training seminars to help journalists prepare to cover the 2005 - 2006 elections in Haiti, Réseau Liberté wanted to try another approach. This consisted of working with the journalists and the media outlets in their daily tasks, rather than inviting them to seminars outside their workplace. This new approach was examined and developed into a structured new methodology of media development which we call “coaching.” The methodology was supported by a handbook or manual for the coaches, covering Haiti-specific issues and election reporting generally." (Introduction)
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"Bua Fela is a tool for broadcasters who create radio for children and with children. According to the authors, Bua Fela offers the following: techniques for involving children in media production; sound advice for starting youth programmes at a community radio station; tips on how to get children t
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alking; skills to give children in your community a voice of their own, to enable them to create their own media and develop their own stories; ways of reporting on, and ethically representing, children in the media; guidance for children to work with other children as a broadcasting team; case studies from the 'Speak Free' project as practical examples." (commbox)
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"This book is a real novelty: it is not – like many other publications – about radio production or radio management, but about the requirements for building of a radio station. The author has been involved in establishing many radio stations, both big and small ones, for 16 years, and he summari
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ses his knowledge in quite a clear and didactical fashion. He explains the pros and cons of different types of building and location and provides guidelines for calculating the space required for both technical and office areas. Then he gets more technical, discussing acoustic problems and providing practical methods of providing studio isolation. Detailed sections on electrical supplies and technical studio installations follow, and there is useful advice on studio layout as well as on the “central technical area”, i.e. the engine room of any modern radio station. Although aimed at engineers, this book is very accessible for non-technicians too and therefore helpful for anyone involved in the commissioning or building of radio studios." (CAMECO Update 1-2010)
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"This guide is one in a series of excellent resources published by the Community Publishing Project of the Centre of the Book in Cape Town. The project provides funding and technical support for small publishers, individual writers, and writers’ groups in South Africa and helps them to develop pub
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lishing skills. The guide offers practical advice on the main stages of the publishing process, from manuscript preparation, editing, design, printing, through to marketing and distribution, and is intended for both published writers and those who are hoping to break into print. In particular it is aimed to assist individuals and community based organizations, whose books are unlikely to be published by commercial publishers and who wish to pursue the self-publishing route. In addition to guidelines and recommendations for good practice the guide includes stories about publishing “from those who have a great deal of experience and from those who have just begun to learn about it”, among them some of the Community Publishing Project grantees." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2509)
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