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Communication for Development: An Evaluation Framework in Action
Top Insights
Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp.
"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op
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Technical Guidance for Communication for Development Programmes Addressing Violence Against Children
Key Guidance
New York: UNICEF (2019), 104 pp.
"This publication presents the basics of researching, planning, monitoring and evaluating Communication for Development (C4D) interventions, and offers guidance on how such interventions can be used to address violence against children (VAC). It covers the stages of the C4D programme cycle, emphasiz
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Evaluations and Impact Assessments in Communication for Development
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2019), 17 pp.
"Within the development field, project evaluations and impact assessments are essential. Donors are increasingly requiring rigorous evaluations in order to (1) ensure that aid dollars are spent on projects that are having positive impacts and not being wasted on projects that are ineffective and (2)
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Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp.
"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
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Evaluating C4D Resource Hub
RMIT University;University of Hyderabad;UNICEF Communication for Development (C4D) (2018)
"The Evaluating C4D Resource Hub houses a growing collection of the best available guides, toolkits, tools and methods to use for research monitoring and evaluation (R,M&E) of Communication for Development (C4D) initiatives. The Hub is structured around two combined frameworks: C4D Evaluation Framew
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Evaluating the Use of Communication for Development in Conflict Interventions: Measuring Peace in Participatory Communication
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 96-112
"The application of Communication for Development (C4D) in conflict prevention, conflict reduction and post-conflict reconstruction interventions is a relatively new field. International organisations that have begun to adopt new communication & media designs in their peace work are progressively of
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La evaluación de la comunicación para la transformación de conflictos
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 81-94
"La comunicación para la transformación de conflictos es un área relativamente nueva dentro del vasto campo de prevención de conflictos y construcción de paz y por tanto ha sido sometida a escasos procesos evaluativos. Con el fin de comenzar a crear un modelo evaluativo que posibilite un análi
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Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Building Evidence, Informing Policy
Top Insights
Rome: FAO;University of Queensland (2017), viii, 90 pp.
"This publication is the first scoping study aimed at compiling existing evaluation cases in the field of Communication for Development as applied to agricultural and rural development initiatives. It draws on a literature review and 19 cases across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribb
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Evaluating Behavior Change in International Development Operations: A New Framework
Washington, DC: World Bank (2016), ix, 78 pp.
"This paper on behavior change constitutes one of two methodology papers (the other being on service delivery) that establish a new lens through which to understand the World Bank’s portfolio in IEG (Independent Evaluation Group) evaluations. The paper outlines the economic and psychosocial theori
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Tensions, Challenges and Issues in Evaluating Communication for Development: Findings from Recent Research and Strategies for Sustainable Outcomes
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 25-39
"The complexity of development and social change and growing tensions between dominant results-based and emerging learning and improvement-based approaches to evaluating development interventions have created major challenges for the evaluation of communication for development (C4D). Drawing on our
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Communication for Development in Peacebuilding: Directions on Research and Evaluation for an Emerging Field
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 6 (2015), pp. 801-817
"This article highlights the key areas in which Communication for Development (C4D) can play a role in the aftermath of conflict, with a focus both at the community and at the national level. It provides an overview of the literature that has begun to discuss C4D in the light of peace creation. It i
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A Participatory Framework for Researching and Evaluating Communication for Development and Social Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Thomas Tufte; Rafael Obregón (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 298-320
"This chapter first discusses evaluation of communication for development in relation to ideas around participation and social change, before presenting the framework for evaluating communication for development and social change, and the key principles that underpin it. It then describes some of th
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Communication for Rural Development Sourcebook
Key Guidance
Rome: FAO (2014), xiii, 321 pp.
"This sourcebook is meant to equip development and communication professionals with a useful set of guidelines, reference materials and learning resources to apply communication in rural development initiatives. The main goal is to enable readers to design and implement rural communication strategie
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Evaluating Communication for Development: A Framework for Social Change
Top Insights
New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 189 pp.
"Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and eva
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CModules: A Learning Package for Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC)
Key Guidance
Washington, DC: C-Change;FHI 360;USAID (2012), 248 pp.
"C-Change has created this learning package for facilitated, face-to-face workshops on social and behavior change communication (SBCC). The package includes a series of six modules. The Introduction Module outlines all five steps of C-Planning (see graphic to the right). It also provides an overview
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People's Radio: Communicating Change Across Africa
Top Insights
Penang (MY): Southbound (2012), xxi, 351 pp.
"The author discusses the challenges of using radio as a tool for community engagement in development. It examines specific case studies from the African continent. The book also considers the different ways governments, organizations, broadcasters and communities can use radio networks as instrumen
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Researching, Monitoring and Evaluating Communication for Development: Trends, Challenges and Approaches
United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Communication for Development (2011), xvii, 136 pp.
"Elaborated on the basis of a literature review and consultations with 11 C4D focal points or monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialists from 7 UN agencies and a 15-member expert panel. Based on this research, the report details a number of principles for effective, appropriate, and sustainable res
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Meta-Evaluation of Extension Evaluation: Case Studies
Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS);Natural Resources Institute (2011), 51 pp.
Discussion Paper on the Monitoring and Evaluation of UN-Assisted Communication for Development Programmes: Recommendations for Best Practice Methodologies and Indicators. 11th UN Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development. Background Paper
Washington, DC: UNDP;World Bank (2009), 43 pp.
"United Nations agencies currently do not have commonly agreed tools for assessing the impact of Communication for Development (C4D) programmes. This paper is designed to help them explore the key issues surrounding C4D, consider case studies and best practice methodology and propose a set of draft
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Development Communication Sourcebook: Broadening the Boundaries of Communication
Key Guidance
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), xx, 244 pp.
"This book is essential reading for anybody interested in development communication. Mefalopulos, a World Bank development communication officer with wide-ranging experiences in the field, presents four modules. The first module concisely presents the concepts and applications of development communi
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