"The Pacific Media and Climate Change Project provided face-to-face training for 60 Pacific climate change practitioners on communicating climate science and adaptation knowledge and supported nearly 100 media people in reporting climate change issues. This hands-on training will be supported by thi
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s toolkit, which includes a Media and Climate Change Activities Manual and factsheets. The manual includes activities to improve journalists’ climate change reporting and interview techniques, while a series of factsheets contain concise, accurate and accessible information on issues such as climate mitigation, adaptation, ocean acidification and sea level rise. The material will support journalists’ ability to effectively communicate stories linking climate change to broader environmental issues." (Foreword)
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"This guide is made for civil society activists who plan to run wallposter comics workshops within their own organisations or groups. All steps needed to run a workshop are fully explained in the guide and it should be used together with our manual “How to make wallposter comics”, which should b
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e given as a handout to the participants. To arrange a wallposter comics workshop you need two trainers, a hall, pens, papers, and access to a copying machine. Your participants (about 15-20) should be motivated people, e.g. community activists, who wish to have their voices heard about issues they want to raise." (Page 3)
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"Esta guía te ayudará a tener más conocimientos sobre la comunicación popular y la radio comunitaria, para que cada vez se escuchen y difundan más nuestras voces. Aquí encontrarás ejercicios y actividades para que conozcas y practiques con las herramientas básicas de la radio, partiendo de u
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n análisis de la realidad con perspectiva de género. Si usas la guía de principio a fin cumpliendo con todos los ejercicios, tendrás una vasta colección de producción radiofónica, y tu siguiente tarea será buscar dónde transmitirla. Porque no se trata de producir y dejarlo todo guardado en las grabadoras, las computadoras o en un cajón. Acerquémonos a la radio de nuestra comunidad o de la comunidad vecina y ¡animémonos a participar en ella! En esta guía no trataremos el aspecto técnico de cómo funciona o se equipa una radio, que aunque vemos importante y necesario conocer, y sobre todo que más mujeres participen en estos trabajos creemos que un primer buen paso es enfocarse en la producción para tener una base firme, establecer un grupo de trabajo y una rutina de producción, y así en muy poquito tiempo y con recursos mínimos comenzar a sacar sus voces al aire." (Introducción)
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"This training module is a compilation of material initially gathered to help partners prepare and develop their pilot projects. As such it can be of use for anyone who wants to use storytelling or storytelling methods as tool to build cooperation and/or to support learning. After a theoretical intr
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oduction to storytelling and its benefits, these guidelines focus on the potentials and applications of storytelling for networking as well as on the practical implementation. In the second part a number of exercises for different target groups and contexts are presented, followed by some practical tips. Finally these guidelines provide some suggestions for further reading and online resources. In the project StoryRegions we have agreed that the most important “storytelling methodology” to support and improve social inclusion and community building is bringing people together – people from organisations, associations, education, libraries etc – and then, when a network with stakeholders and target groups has been created, to implement storytelling as a tool within this network. At this stage a wide range of storytelling approaches and techniques can be used." (Introduction)
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"Este documento contiene las memorias de los talleres de entrenamiento del Primer Ciclo de formación sobre datos, técnicas de investigación y narrativas de conflicto y paz orientado por la organización Consejo de Redacción –CdR– y su iniciativa www.plataformadeperiodismo.com. En primer luga
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r hay un acercamiento al significado de periodismo y paz, un gran reto de los reporteros de Colombia en tiempos donde se avizora un acuerdo de paz entre el Gobierno Nacional y las guerrillas FARC y el ELN. Como insumo valioso se entrega una guía para reportear y escribir una historia, las herramientas del narrador y técnicas de investigación periodística. De igual manera se pueden consultar recomendaciones para la cobertura responsable en zonas de conflicto, y grandes reflexiones de maestros del periodismo que aportan a la construcción de buenas historias. Finalmente se comparten 10 bases de datos públicas como herramientas de consulta para hacerle seguimiento al conflicto y posconflicto en el país." (Presentación)
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"The Freedom of Expression Toolkit is UNESCO’s contribution to freedom of expression and it is written with upper high school students in mind. The Toolkit covers the major concepts and issues and it is written in an easy to understand, conversational manner [...] Overall, the Toolkit consists of
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four major elements: Understanding freedom of expression; Identifying threats to freedom of expression; Identifying conditions favourable to freedom of expression; Doing one’s part in promoting and defending freedom of expression through practical activities." (Introduction, page 9-10)
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"This Course Handbook has been produced to accompany the USAID/NDI/IWPR Course in Election Reporting, which is being run for Malawian journalists in the run-up to the 2014 Elections. The Handbook, which follows the day-by-day course programme, contains copies of the slides used during the course plu
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s a great deal more supporting material. In particular, given that the majority of the participants in the course come from radio stations, we have included detailed advice about radio journalism. However, it is important to note that the material presented in text boxes throughout the text represents PowerPoint presentations and can be best understood in the context of the course itself." (Introduction)
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"Este documento tiene el objetivo de ser una guía metodológica para promover y fortalecer el trabajo de las mujeres radialistas dentro de las radios comunitarias, desde una perspectiva de género, y con ello avanzar en la construcción de condiciones de equidad, igualdad y justicia de género." (P
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resentación, página 3)
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"This guide is designed to help facilitators and educators to engage with audiences. The aim is to deepen the understanding of the underlying causes of poverty and inequality as explored in the Why Poverty? films. Why Poverty? uses documentary film to get people talking about poverty. The collection
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is made up of eight long films and thirty-four shorts by award-winning filmmakers, as well as new and emerging talents. The stories, originating from twenty-eight countries, are moving and thought-provoking as they tackle big issues and pose challenging questions. In November 2012, these films were screened worldwide on more than seventy national television networks and are now available online and on DVD. It has been said that, in this century, we have the tools and potential to overcome extreme poverty. But poverty persists, and the gap between the poor and the wealthy continues to widen. The demographics of poverty are also changing, with new poverty emerging in the North and new wealth emerging in the previously poorer South. Poverty and inequality is global, and the causes for its continued existence are largely structural. The long films explore these structural causes, whether they are tax evasion by multinational companies, lack of land rights for the poor, unequal access to health care, or gender imbalance. The short films provide glimpses into people’s lives as they try to deal with poverty and inequality. All the films can be watched as separate and complete stories. But as a collection, they provide a great platform from which to delve into questions about why poverty still exists in a world of plenty." (Introduction)
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"This course aims to analyse the context in which journalists and communicators are working at local, national, regional and international level, and to help them to identify potential risks, to learn safe protocols and to know about those institutions and procedures that can help them." (Abstract)
"This publication responds to the increasing need for organisations to think and plan strategically about managing and using their information and knowledge resources in an efficient and effective manner. Lack of strategy for information and knowledge management was identified as a major gap when CT
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A conducted a series of needs assessment studies across the ACP regions to gain an insight into the needs and capacities of various actors in the agricultural and rural development sector. Further gaps were observed due to lack of information sharing and dissemination approaches within institutions, making it difficult for organisations to learn lessons from past practices and effectively plan, monitor, and evaluate their activities. The studies covered hundreds of agricultural and rural development (ARD) institutions and consultations were held with senior policy-makers and planners from a wide crosssection of institutions. The need to help organisations develop and implement an information and communication management (ICM) strategy emerged as the top priority, which bodes well with CTA’s current emphasis on integrating knowledge management (KM) with ICM, as reflected in its new strategic plan. Based on a thorough review of what had been done in this area, CTA embarked on the development of two publications – a Facilitator’s guide and a User’s manual – in collaboration with ICM and KM practitioners. The exercise involved writing, organising regional methodology validation and training of trainers workshops in the Caribbean, Pacific, Southern, West and Eastern Africa. The manuals are the output of a highly collaborative and consultative process aimed at filling a clearly identified need. The manuals stress the importance of teamwork, consultation and getting the buy-in of all stakeholders who will be affected by and involved in the actual crafting of the ICKM strategy. They examine implementation, monitoring and evaluation issues with useful tips and tricks." (Foreword, page vii)
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"The main objective of the media component of the Environmental Planning and Disaster Risk Management (EPDRM) programme of GIZ in India is to enable journalists to better and more efficiently perform their roles, functions and tasks in the context of disaster risk management, i.e. information to the
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public, awareness building with regard to disaster risks and preparedness, warning in case of disasters, information on response, relief and reconstruction. In order to achieve this objective, the project has been planned under different components, viz., orientation workshops for the practicing journalists in different high-on-disaster-risk states; facilitating a virtual platform for information exchange and knowledge sharing among participants from the orientation workshops as well as other experts; and developing curriculum on reporting disaster for the journalism students of various Indian journalism institutes. Orientation workshops were conducted in seven states (Tamilnadu, Odisha, Gujarat, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Assam and Punjab) during 2010-2011. A Facebook community and a web portal have been established to facilitate the virtual exchange among the journalists and thematic experts. In order to extend awareness and capacity building activities related to disasters to journalists, the project also facilitated development of a curriculum on reporting disaster to be used in journalism departments of universities and media training institutes. A core-group of experts and trainers from media training institutes, as well as from other relevant organizations was formed, which deliberated upon the overall structure and outline of the DRR curriculum required to be introduced to the students of journalism. A team of authors and editors had then put together the contents of the curriculum along with guidance on how to use the contents, which is being produced in the form of this handbook. This curriculum was piloted in September this year, with journalism students in the North Eastern Region of India, and inputs on the training methods used were also received from faculty members during a ToT of this curriculum. This Training Handbook on "Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness" provides basic concepts, case studies, and examples that can be customized as a module in a course or an entire course as part of the overall curriculum of a journalism course in Indian universities and institutes." (Preface)
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"Through the design, development and delivery of curricula and the training program in Afghanistan on the subject of media law, the hope is to empower Afghan lawyers to serve as a critical resource to journalists, media managers, and local government officials. Through the trainings, participants ch
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osen from various parts of Afghanistan will work with best practices and national and international media standards and principles. An Afghan-centric approach—necessary for strengthening national media and legal capacity—will be employed in addition to a comparative international approach. Topics included are Afghanistan’s media law; freedom of information; slander; defamation; libel; invasion of privacy; blasphemy; the interplay between Islam/religion and media law; and the interplay between Afghanistan’s constitutional law, criminal law and media law. Another element of the enabling environment is good management. Our hope is that this manual and the training program will contribute to improved media management by covering such subjects as transparency; improving legal protection for journalists; anti-trust rules; copyright law; contract law; licensing; trademarks; advertising; and intellectual property issues. In the area of telecommunications law, the project addresses topics such as the current state of Afghanistan’s telecom law; communication regulation and legislation; regulatory structures and regulatory models for communication; network interconnection and access; licensing; spectrum management; interconnection; access to networks, particularly in rural and underserved areas; improved business-friendly government regulation of the airwaves and licensing procedures; the regulatory regime for content delivered via SMS/IVR; the legal-regulatory framework for the Internet sector and for social media; electronic commerce; data protection and cyber-crime." (Foreward, pages ii-iii)
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"This reference manual guides the staff of development or other organisations to encourage individuals (either colleagues or community members) to share their personal stories and include their voices as part of a broader good practice documentation process. While SAfAIDS and Women’sNet focus on u
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sing the techniques to highlight interventions that advocate for HIV and AIDS, women’s rights, gender equality and sexual diversity programmes, the techniques discussed can be readily adapted for use in a variety of development issues." (Page 2)
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"This guide is designed to document the process and good practice in developing training material, piloting and testing it. The guide is aimed to help you (the course organiser) to plan and conduct the course. The guide includes information on the main steps and stages in sequence of designing a tra
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ining course all the way to evaluation for feedback into further development. It is worth mentioning here that the design and development process of training material is anything but linear. It’s very iterative but it’s a challenge and a difficulty to capture this in a document such as this guide. Throughout the process it’s important to remember that stage evaluation is paramount and going back for modification maintains the integrity and relevance of the material. Design processes are always divided into steps and phases in order to make sure that checks and tests are carried out at the appropriate time to avoid any lengthy and costly time consuming modifications at the end." (Preface and purpose of this guide, page 7)
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