"El manual describe las formas más conocidas del tratamiento de la comunicación intercultural; postula criterios básicos para su desarrollo y ofrece lineamientos generales para su aplicación. El manual inicia con la definición de conceptos fundamentales sobre interculturalidad y comunicación i
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ntercultural; para posteriormente relacionarlo con aspectos fundamentales que se deben tomar a consideración para el periodismo ambiental y la gestión eficiente y efectiva de la comunicación en el contexto del cambio climático. Finalmente, proponemos postulados y acciones concretas para lograr la práctica de la comunicación intercultural. Estas son: comprender la complejidad de la interrelación entre comunidad y medio ambiente; comunicar desde el conocimiento tradicional; gestionar la comunicación desde el diálogo intercultural; y, construir narrativas diferentes tomando a consideración las técnicas de la comunicación comunitaria." (Presentación, página 5)
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"This screening guide has been written to provide ideas and inspiration for anyone organising community screenings as part of a participatory video process. It includes advice on planning and delivering an effective screening, practical suggestions for logistics and technical considerations, facilit
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ator tips, checklists, and a range of short case studies facilitator tips, checklists, and a range of short case studies from a variety of past projects." (Introduction)
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"Section 2 introduces some behavioral theories and models of behavior change. Section 3 describes the process of designing an intervention using behavior change communication strategies: (1) identifying the specific behavioral objectives and conducting the formative research to understand barriers a
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nd facilitators to behavior adoption, (2) designing the strategy, (3) testing the strategy, (4) implementing and monitoring and (5) evaluating the intervention." (Section 1, introduction)
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"Consultancy costs can be a large budget item for many NGOs and so getting the best out of it is essential. This guide provides tips that will help you learn from good practices and avoid common mistakes. It is for staff involved in commissioning and managing consultants, particularly in programmes,
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grant management and monitoring, evaluation and learning. In this guide, the person or the organisation who is hiring a consultant is called ‘the client’. This guide is a summarised and updated version of a longer publication produced by Oxfam. It follows a sequence of steps in managing a consultancy, but each can be read as a stand-alone section." (Introduction, page 3)
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"A obra apresenta um conjunto de ferramentas de investigação de dados na internet. Ao dominar os caminhos para processar digitalmente informações públicas é necessário compreender os contextos em que elas se inserem. Por isso a classificação e o cruzamento de dados têm se tornado cada vez
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mais complexos, exigindo outros tipos de competências dos jornalistas." (Apresentação)
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"This practical guide for media practitioners is aimed at providing basic knowledge, guidelines and tips that are useful for effective and respectful coverage of Indigenous peoples issues in Asia. Greater efforts are needed to improve media reporting on indigenous concerns so that Indigenous peoples
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may be portrayed in a manner that truly and sensitively reflects their situation and cultural diversity. There are no firm rules that can be applied to all Indigenous peoples or situations. However, this guide provides some guidelines and principles to help a journalist find the best way to do research, conduct interviews, write and publish articles dealing with matters of particular concern to Indigenous people." (Page 6)
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"This handbook is designed to serve the needs of anyone who conducts, plans, or implements clinical trials—especially trials that evaluate new drugs or interventions in a community setting. We want to make your job easier, whether you are a researcher, a study coordinator, or a communications prof
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essional. Objectives: provide practical guidance to clinical trial staff and research partners on how to anticipate and respond to the special communications challenges posed by the conduct of clinical research in resource-limited settings; share lessons learned from case studies of actual experiences running trials in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe; supply hard copy and electronic versions of diagnostic tools, sample templates, and model examples of communications plans and materials that sites can adapt for use in their communications planning and implementation." (Page 2)
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"Covers the four key phases of public relations campaigns (research, strategy, tactics and evaluation), the history and evolution of public realtions and basic concepts of the profession, including ethics, professionalism and the theoretical underpinnings." (Publisher description)
"The YouTube platform is an excellent tool for journalists. This guide explained the audience opportunities available to journalists using the YouTube platform. It also delineated the first steps to building a successful YouTube channel. We covered the following material: YouTube basics; the compone
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nts of a successful YouTube channel; audience development; implementation; measuring success and impact; analytics overview; successful YouTube channels. This guide will be helpful as you build your organization’s YouTube channel. The best way to truly master the platform and harness its potential is to dive in. Publish YouTube videos on a consistent schedule and iterate from there. Evolution is not only the story of all YouTube channels, but also the story of the platform itself." (Summary, page 19)
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"Why is advertising crucial for sustainability of independent media, and does it influence content? What makes advertisers choose certain media? Who within a company decides on advertising? How influential are media agencies? And how can media organisations conduct or commission audience research? T
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his publication gives straightforward answers to such fundamental questions. Advertising experts and journalists share their knowledge, based on their experiences in the Middle East and in Germany, in easy-to-understand, non-technical language, and even describe concrete steps towards clinching an advertising deal or organising an audience survey. This publication is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in familiarising themselves with the basics of advertising media planning and its relevance for sustainable media markets." (CAMECO Update 1-2015)
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"This guide is intended for use by international NGOs who want to use social media with children and the youth that they work with. This may include developing children’s skills and capacity, using social media as a development tool for a community project, providing access to technology, or offer
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ing social media as a communication tool between communities or between sponsors and sponsored children. The information here is particularly relevant to NGOs working with children and youth in developing countries with increasing use of social media and a need for organisations working with children to protect them in the online world. This guide reviews some of the main risks and presents a range of tools for combating them. Due to the multifaceted nature of some of these risks, this guide makes no claim to address all of them exhaustively." (Resourcecentre.savethechildren.net)
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"This guide gives practical guidance to building organizational capacity in ICT4D. Drawing from the experience of the international development community, this guide connects established principles with processes for implementing new technology. 1. Why should I be interested in ICT4D and what does i
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t mean for my organization? 2. How do I build ICT4D capacity within my organization? 3. What are the practical approaches and best practices I can implement to improve success?" (Executive summary)
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"ESOMAR and WAPOR recognise there are particular issues in the collection and reporting of opinion poll and survey information and have therefore issued this Guideline as part of the self-regulatory framework that applies to international research. It highlights the responsibilities of researchers t
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o conduct opinion polls in a professional and ethical way, and report them with sufficient transparency so that the public can judge the quality of results. Both will help ensure public confidence in opinion polls and published surveys. This Guideline: sets out the ethical rules that opinion researchers must follow; underlines the rights and safeguards to which participants are entitled; highlights the key information to be made available to maintain transparency when results are published; specifies standards to guide the agreements to be in place with those who commission polls to ensure published survey results are presented in an unbiased way; highlights the core methodological principles that apply in the design and conduct of such research; underlines some of the additional issues that arise with specific forms of opinion polls." (Introduction, page 4)
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"In a rapidly changing civil-political and socio-economic environment, the internet has emerged as one of the primary mechanisms that influence and continue to redefine the practice of democracy. Internet freedom is therefore an increasingly important safeguard towards advancing not only freedom of
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expression but the broader issues concerning access to information but also its associated rights. This module highlights the evolving exercise of free of expression in a digital world and how this has an influence on open, accountable and sustainable democracy in South Africa." (Preface)
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"Welcome to the guide! The guide has been written to tell children and young people about sexual exploitation online. We hope you will find it interesting and useful." (Page 2)
"Policy influence and advocacy are increasingly regarded as a means of creating sustainable policy change in international development. It is often also seen as a difficult area to monitor and evaluate. Yet there is an increasingly rich strand of innovation in options to monitor, evaluate and learn
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from both the successes and failures of policy influence and advocacy interventions. This paper explores current trends in monitoring and evaluating policy influence and advocacy; discusses different theories of how policy influence happens; and presents a number of options to monitor and evaluate different aspects of advocacy interventions. Case studies describe how some organisations have used these options in practice to understand their impact and improve their advocacy strategies." (Abstract)
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"Open justice is a core principle in law, and the fair and accurate reporting of legal proceedings protects and promotes this principle. However, there are circumstances in which the reporting of proceedings or specific information must be restricted in order to protect the integrity of proceedings
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and ensure that trials are fair. This guide provides a summary of the most common restrictions. It is not intended to be an exhaustive guide to the law. Rather, it is intended to alert journalists to key legal provisions that they should always consider when reporting on criminal proceedings." (Introduction, page 2)
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"Data quality is a cornerstone of accountability in program reporting. In the international development sector, although we are often focused on reporting, ensuring the quality of the data that we report is critical for our partners, our donors, and our beneficiaries. In addition, Data Quality Manag
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ement Plans and Routine Data Quality Assessments are both important elements of Pact’s Results and Measurement Standards. The intent of this manual is to provide guidance on how to ensure excellent data quality in all our programming. A slide set accompanying the module provides an opportunity to engage in practical exercises to test the skills outlined in this text." (Foreword)
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