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Information Exchange
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Communication & Conversation Skills
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Marketing & Branding
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Organisational Development & Capacity Building
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People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Political Communication
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Public Spheres
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Magazines
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Project Management
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Decision Making
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Pilot Projects
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Project Impact, Project Effects, Project Effectiveness, Project Efficiency
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Project Implementation
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Small Projects
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Public Media, State Media
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Public Service Broadcasting
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Radio Programming, Programme Structures & Schedules
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Radio Stations
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Bush Radio (Cape Town, South Africa)
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Radio Progress (Wa, Upper West Region, Ghana)
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Regional Radios
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Radio Engineering & Technologies
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Gatekeeping Function of Media
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Media Reception
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Everyday Life
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Attitudes, Attitude Formation & Change
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Hinduism and Communication
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Population Policies
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Social Systems
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Sociology
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Traditional Society
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Alternative Technologies
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Digital Television
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Technology Transfer
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Telefax, Telegrams, Telex, Telegraphy
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Telephone
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Television Programmes & Genres
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Drawing, Drawings
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Youth and Media
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"This module provides key conceptual and theoretical elements for participants to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying processes and methodologies that guide the design, implementation and evaluation of a communication strategy. There are many definitions and approaches that vary depending ... more
"This module provides methodological support for the facilitation of workshops aimed at assisting social, community, state and non-governmental organisations in the formulation of communication strategies for development and social change. Facilitators are advised to use this module to plan and prep ... more
"This guideline has been developed by the authors in a collaborative manner over the period May 2018-May 2019 in consultation with the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community. It is designed to provide guidance for development organizations who are setting up portals –also known as ... more
"The traditional approach of communication for rural development (RD) was greatly influenced by the dominant paradigm of development. The retort against this paradigm gave birth to the participatory approach of communication wherein the common people in rural areas were considered as the ‘subjects ... more
"In this article, we assert and demonstrate a particular and enduring adaptability of radio in tandem with observable temporal shifts in development communication theory and practice in Africa. Specifically, we use the historical research method to explore and explain the ideological discourses, pol ... more

Media and Development

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 300 pp.
"Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – thsi book will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduat ... more
"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are com ... more

Comunicación y desarrollo: Enfoques, prácticas y perspectivas en debate

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú;Calandria (2018), 212 pp.
"Reúne un conjunto de artículos inicialmente como ponencias en el Seminario Diálogo sobre Comunicación para el Desarrollo concebido como un espacio de reflexión, balance crítico e identificación de desafíos sobre el camino recorrido por la Especialidad a lo largo de casi dos décadas en la f ... more
"The model of journalism we practice in Asia is an adversarial one driven by conflict reporting, a model we have borrowed from the West. This book is an outcome of a project implemented by the Faculty of Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University and funded by the International Program for the D ... more

Communication for Development Strategic Framework 2018-2021

Kathmandu: UNICEF Regional Offcie for South Asia (2018), 97 pp.

Celebrating the Past, Innovating the Next ... 50 Years

Manila: Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) (2018), 72 pp.

The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change

In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), 19 pp.
"Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was the father of critical pedagogy, popular education, and participatory action research (PAR), as well as a basic reference of liberation theology and of Latin American critical theory and a precursor of the epistemologies of the south. His main work, Pedagogy of the Op ... more

Philippines: Ignatian Pedagogy and Mindful Communication

In: Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia
Kalinga Seneviratne (ed.)
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2018), pp. 150-160
"This chapter will look into the Ignatian Pedagogy as it is applied in the education and practice of development communication in Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan, in the Mindanao island of the Philippines, I will try to relate how this pedagogy is related to mindful communication in the contex ... more

Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling

New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 212 pp.
"Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies. She argues that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams th ... more
"In June 2017, a group of researchers from Australian universities and practitioners from different not-for-profit organisations came together to share knowledge and experience in the study and practice of Communication for Development (C4D). This Roundtable was organised as a side-event to the RDI ... more

Deutsche Ansätze für Entwicklungskommunikation: Die Konzeption von Medien und Kommunikation für Entwicklung durch die Deutsche Welle Akademie

Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Master Thesis (2017), 180 pp.
"Als Untersuchungsmaterial wurden die organisationseigenen, deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen ausgewählt, die auf der Website der DW Akademie dokumentiert sind [...] Insgesamt gingen 113 einzelne Textdokumente in die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse ein" (Seite 73-74) [...] "Unter der Einschränkung ... more
"This Viewpoint essay is dedicated to communication practitioners across theglobe, and to my former doctoral-student self, who once-upon-a-time sought clear definitions and descriptions of communication for development (C4D), but found clarity only after consulting multiple resources. I never found ... more