"This manual for public officials is designed as a resource for officials who want to adopt administrative practices that conform to the best standards of freedom of information. It should help them to make their work and procedures more professional, which will increase the public’s trust in and
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appreciation of their administration. This manual can be used in three basic ways: used as a teaching guide for trainers running courses for public officials responsible for handling information requests; used as a learning tool by such officials – in other words they can work through the manual on their own; used as a reference tool by officials who have already gone through a training course." (Introduction)
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"This handbook can stand alone as a guide on how to design and construct a results-based M&E system in the public sector. It can also be used in conjunction with a workshop developed at the World Bank entitled “Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A Tool for Pub
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lic Sector Management.” The goal of the handbook is to help prepare you to plan, design, and implement a results-based M&E system within your organization. In addition, the handbook will also demonstrate how an M&E system can be a valuable tool in supporting good public management. The focus of the handbook is on a comprehensive ten-step model that will help guide you through the process of designing and building a results-based M&E system. These steps will begin with a “Readiness Assessment” and will take you through the design, management, and, importantly, the sustainability of your M&E system. The handbook will describe these steps in detail, the tasks needed to complete them, and the tools available to help you along the way." (Preface, page xii)
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"This handbook [...] is a practical, hands-on manual designed to help local journalists in societies undergoing major crisis and change. It outlines the core internationally recognised standards of journalism and provides essential guidance on many of the basic techniques of reporting. The handbook
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reviews reporting on general, political, economic and humanitarian issues. It provides guidance on safety and security and sensitive reporting in conflict areas, as well as libel issues. Developed as part of our practical training programmes, it also reviews particular requirements for reporting for IWPR. Each chapter provides exercises and discussion sections and further references. The handbook is designed to be used in coordination with an international trainer or can be worked through on its own. The text is available in several languages." (Introduction)
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"¿Cuál es su idea del rol que los medios de comunicación comunitarios deben jugar en su comunidad? ¿Qué podrían hacer en su barrio si tuvieran acceso a los medio? Si pudieran hablar y ser oídos por los dueños de los medios, que les dirían? ¿Qué les gustaría mirar, producir y distribuir?
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¿Qué tipo de normas pondrían para asegurar que el medio de comunicación esté al servicio de la gente, toda la gente? Estas grandes interrogantes y la tarea de transformar los medios es una lucha difícil y de largo aliento. Pero hay muchas cosas que pueden hacer para tener un impacto significativo en su comunidad y país. En este manual, ustedes encontrarán información sobre algunas de las muchas campañas organizadas por la justicia en los medios, sus políticas y educación existentes en los Estados Unidos. Esta guía se divide en cuatro capítulos. El Capítulo 1 entrega información sobre cómo funcionan los medios hoy en día, quiénes son los dueños, las normas que los regulan y las organizaciones que están trabajando para cambiar esto. El Capítulo 2 aborda temas más concretos de la organización comunitaria: cómo reclutar a la gente, cómo organizar su grupo, dirigir las reuniones, etc. En el Capítulo 3 hay una guía para investigar sobre sus medios, y en el Capítulo 4 hay varias guías sobre acciones que se pueden tomar." (Página 4)
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"Community radio stations can monitor and evaluate their health and social development programming despite being small, with limited funds. That's the message of an evaluation and monitoring Toolbox created especially for a UNICEF-supported youth radio project in Kyrgyzstan. The 'Healthy Airwaves fo
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r Youth' project (HAFY) is a health communication strategy to minimise risk behaviours amongst Kyrgyz youth aged 10-19 years. HAFY, which was initiated in 2002, aims to increase the level of knowledge and awareness of the dangers of HIV/AIDS/STI, drug use and reproductive health among young people in five rural and remote regions of Kyrgyzstan: Batken, Osh, Naryn, Karabalta and Karakol. The radio stations working within the HAFY network are directly involving young people as message-makers through community-based participatory health-promoting radio programming. The need of a toolbox for monitoring and evaluating the impact of HAFY radio programmes was identified during a 7-day intensive training workshop conducted by Health Communication Resources (HCR) from Australia on 'Radio Programming for Health Promotion'. HAFY partners were involved in further workshops facilitated by HCR in Kyrgyzstan in 2003 where the scope of the Toolbox was framed and HAFY-specific resources were developed. The result is a 106-page Toolbox created by HCR with guidelines, examples and templates that match the reality and cost-effective needs of HAFY's radio stations. HAFY partners do not have a great deal of experience in evaluation, have limited funds and rely on volunteers and the pooled resources of local community organisations. Marianne Ohlers, Programme Officer of UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan said, "The Toolbox is not meant to comprehensively evaluate all activities undertaken by HAFY but it does give guidelines on planning and evaluation, writing objectives, setting indicators for evaluation, sampling procedures, designing evaluation tools, and gathering data, analysing it and reporting it." Ms. Ohlers said, "While the Toolbox is designed for the specific use of the radio stations involved in the HAFY project in Kyrgyzstan I trust that it can guide and inspire other community-based radio stations working to reduce risk behaviours among young people and other vulnerable groups." (Press release)
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"This study, ‘Media Operations during SALW Control Interventions’ attempts to encapsulate best practices for dealing with mass media outlets when implementing SALW [Small arms and light weapons] control projects. It draws on a number of communication and media operation’s studies, but draws it
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s major lessons from case studies of communication during SALW control programmes conducted in South East Europe from 2001 to 2003. The first section of this report sets out the principles for effective media work during SALW control interventions, and offers useful tools for applying them. The case studies from which the principles are derived have been included in Section Two. They summarise the experiences of project staff that have worked with the media during the recent micro-disarmament interventions in the region." (Page 1)
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"Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen: Der erste Teil besteht aus einer theoretischen Einführung in die politische und gesellschaftliche Situation Kambodschas, einer Darstellung des Pressewesens und technischen Entwicklung des asiatischen Königreiches. Er soll dem besseren Verstän
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dnis des zweiten, des empirischen Teils dienen. Dieser besteht aus der Erarbeitung eines Konzepts einer lokalen Zeitung. Ziel des Konzepts ist es, kambodschanische Verleger und Journalisten dabei zu unterstützen, in eigener Verantwortung eine lokale Zeitung aufzubauen; es soll Ideen und Anregungen geben, wie unter der gegenwärtigen politischen und sozialen Lage eine lokale Zeitung bestehen kann." (Einleitung)
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"The Sourcebook highlights the key and fundamental ICT ofr Development (ICT4D) issues by emphasising the importance of ICT4D policies, the development of national ICT agendas, the application of ICTs in specific sectors, and the role of government and members of parliament in the process of implemen
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ting ICT4D in their respective countries. Examples from the Asia-Pacific region are provided to demonstrate how different stakeholders have successfully applied ICTs to bridge the digital divide with concrete socio-economic benefits. The Sourcebook also seeks to provide and equip parliamentarians and other decision-makers in government with key skills required to evaluate and monitor ICT initiatives within their respective nations with emphasis on the importance of analysing the objectives of ICT4D programmes, determining appropriate ICT components, empowering and encouraging stakeholder participation, and evaluating the eventual outcome of ICT4D initiatives." (Back cover)
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"This report provides an overview of immunization communication and describes how to maximize its contribution to immunization programs in developing countries. The discussion and examples focus on communication’s place within immunization planning, activities, and partnerships, based on lessons l
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earned from behavior-centered analyses and programming. A detailed case study of Madagascar’s immunization communication activities is provided as an example of country implementation." (Abstract)
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"Dataradio es un catálogo que reúne 137 producciones radiales realizadas en torno a educación, fortalecimiento institucional, infraestructura y vivienda, mejoramiento del ingreso y salud. Las producciones son realizadas por distintos productores, en diversas regiones del país y van desde la cuñ
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a hasta el documental radiofónico, lo cual hace de Dataradio un catálogo diverso e interesante." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This working paper was conceived to stimulate debate on new trends in the evaluation function within the Post-Paris new Aid architecture and the UN Reform, and to explore the status of the evaluation function in CIS countries. Though this paper is not a technical manual or handbook, the authors mad
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e every effort to offer practical proposals on how to implement a democratic approach to evaluation.
The paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, Segone presents the evolution of the evaluation function in the context of UN Reform and a changing Aid architecture. This part is mainly based on the discussion and outcomes of the IDEAS 1st Biennial Conference held in New Delhi in 2005 and conceptual discussions within the UN. Samuel Bickel presents an assessment of the status of the evaluation status worldwide, based on the address he delivered at the 2005 IPEN Conference held in Kazakhstan. Quesnel introduces how the growing professional evaluation organizations are instrumental to strengthen the evaluation function worldwide. Segone then presents thoughts on the scope of the evaluation function.
In the second part Segone proposes a strategy for improving the evaluation function through strengthening a pro-evaluation culture and a democratic approach to evaluation. Kushner, one of the world’s leading thinkers on Democratic evaluation, presents his thinking on the relationship between Evaluation and Democracy.
In the third part, six members of IPEN, coordinated by Kuzmin, analyse the evaluation function in CIS countries, giving important information on its status and trends. This piece is particularly important as it is one of the few existing documents on the evaluation function in CIS countries. Finally, the annexes give practical information on how to access international evaluation resources via the Internet and present the UN Evaluation Norms and Standards and guidelines on how to develop evaluation ToR." (Introduction, page 8)
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"This guide is intended for people working in research and development. It introduces participatory development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop, and evaluate communication strategies to address the followin
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g questions: How can researchers and practitioners improve communication with local communities and other stakeholders? How can two-way communication enhance community participation in research and development initiatives and improve the capacity of communities to participate in the management of their natural resources? How can researchers, community members, and development practitioners improve their ability to effectively reach policymakers and promote change?" (Publisher description)
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