"This manual was designed for project managers, and gives emphasis to the planning and production - not on scriptwriting - of radio soap operas for peace building in conflict areas. Its underlying assumption is that radio soap operas can, over a long term period, subtly change attitudes, and contrib
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ute to peace, because they reach people emotionally. The guide gives instructions on several steps of the planning and implementation process, such as conducting a timeline, defining the target audience, and choosing a team, recording a schedule, and planning the budget. It discusses where to record a soap opera (in studio or outside), how long a soap opera should last, and when it should be broadcast. It gives advice on the pre-test phase with focus groups, and provides a checklist with the overarching aims, ie, the intended outcomes and the emotional focus, of the soap. The appendix contains an excerpt from an Indonesian radio drama serial, produced by Common Ground Indonesia." (commbox)
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"This gender resource package offers concrete guidance on how to identify the various gender issues in peacekeeping and how to integrate, or mainstream, gender into all aspects of peacekeeping. This improves the effectiveness with which peacekeeping operations discharge their mandates and is, theref
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ore, integral to their success. The materials presented in this package are intended for use by all peacekeeping personnel - gender specialists and non-specialists alike - and cover all functional areas of peacekeeping." (Foreword)
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"Tools for Development" aims to help you deliver successful development activities and interventions by giving you access to the skills and techniques you will need to do so. The demand for it has come from DFID staff both in the UK and overseas who recognise that development initiatives inside and
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outside DFID need to be designed and managed using people-driven and performancebased management methods. Over the past decade, DFID has worked with others to develop new methodologies and refine earlier ones to support such approaches; the range of techniques from which to choose is still expanding." (Introduction, page 1.1)
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"This reader is envisioned as a resource for policy-makers and project planners, providing an overview of Environmental Communication as a management tool for initiatives geared towards environmental sustainability. The authors hope that their articles will convincingly show why and how Environmenta
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l Communication should become an integral component of policies and projects, and thereby help ensure that adequate human and financial resources are allocated to this end. The idea for this book was born at an international workshop on "Communicating the Environment" organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in Bonn, Germany in late 1996." (Preface, page 5)
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"This paper is an exploration of different approaches to programming for conflict resolution media and its complementary interventions. It presents a new model for media communicators to use in creating programming focused on peacebuilding. It is based on the authors' recent mission to Liberia to as
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sess the work of Talking Drum Studio, a conflict resolution organization of media producers, journalists, and activists [...] The objectives of our research and evaluation mission to Talking Drum Studio in Monrovia, Liberia included an evaluation of the processes they use to develop conflict resolution media. We formally observed what TDS is doing on a day-to-day basis, and worked with them to generate for us and for them a clear understanding of the procedures that they employ. We analyzed the procedures and put them together in a framework that accurately characterized what they do. With the addition of a more formal assessment component, that framework became the “Responsive Programming Model” that we describe in this report. (Introduction)
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