"The overall aim of the assessment was to gauge the impact of projects supported under the Critical Situations Fund (CSF) in Haiti. The following questions provided a framework for the assessors: How does the project promote popular
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communication, and contribute to the strengthening of civil society through the encouragement of democratic processes and practices in the community and by addressing the issues that give rise to conflicts in the community? Have the original aims and objectives of the projects been met? What difficulties and problems were encountered in the process of implementing the project? With the benefit of hindsight, what aspects of the project would be changed and what would remain? Projects Assessed: CRAD network of Community Radio Stations, Radio Sel (Gonaives), Radio Flambeau (Gross Morne), Radio Inite (St Michel de l'Attalaye), Radio Lakay, Corail Henri (part of the SAKS Radio Network), Haitian Information Bureau (Port-au-Prince), Libète, Newspaper (Port-au-Prince)." (Page 19)
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"On January 18, 1995, groups of people in 71 countries met to monitor the news of the day as reported on radio and television and in newspapers. They focused their attention on stories about women and by women. The results of that world-wide study
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have now been released in a report co-ordinated by MediaWatch Canada called 'The Global Media Monitoring Project: Women's Participation in the News." This is a study guide to that report. It is designed so that it can be used by groups or individuals who do not have the full report." (Back cover)
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"In December 1991, upon the initiative of the London-based World Association for Christian
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Communication (WACC) in collaboration with Isis International in Manila and the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) based in New York, the concept of the Women Empowering Communication global conference was crystallized. Now, over two years later, and after several planning meetings and preparatory work, the global conference. Women Empowering Communication in Thailand is a reality. Isis International, in addition to its principal role as a co-organizer, wanted to make a tangible contribution to the conference. Thus we bring to you this issue of Women in Action, a collection of articles on women's experiences in community media from the regions of Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific. The conference participants constitute representatives of women's networks, alternative media, grassroots groups, the academe and other disciplines. It seems only fitting that we share with them how individual women and women's groups have creatively expressed themselves in various media forms in the community setting. In fact, we have featured some of the participating groups in the conference such as Video SEWA, Sistren Theatre Collective, and Cine Mujer. These women have set inspiring examples of how we can utilize varying media expressions not only to attain, self-empowerment but also to improve the portrayal of women in media. They have shown us the similarities in the lives and struggles of women all over the globe, despite cultural and geographical boundaries. What is even more encouraging is that these women's voices come from the community. They have successfully explored in very creative ways the use of low cost media such as song, dance, street theater, drawings, posters, puppetry and flipcharts. There are many other women's groups who have done some very good work in community media such ; as FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour), a feminist radio program in Costa Rica and the East Sepik Documentation Project in the Pacific. We also acknowledge the value of traditional forms of expression such as arpilleras and tapestries, woven stories on cloth by women in Chile, Peru and the Philippines and the khanga, a piece of cloth used as a communication tool by women in Africa.. What we have presented here is but a microviewing of women's experiences in community -media. In bringing this to the Women Empowering Communication conference, we join in the gathering of women i communicators who will enrich us with the breadth and depth of their experiences in media." (Editorial)
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"This handbook of source texts for Christian communicators in Africa contains a rich variety of nearly twenty documents from official meetings throughout Africa from 1970 to 1991. The first Pan-Af
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rican Meeting of the Episcopal Conferences on Social Communications (Ibadan, 1973) and the SECAM Plenary Assembly on the theme "Evangelization in Africa through the Communications Media" (Lome, 1990) receive special attention. Other seminal meetings were the Conference on Effective Communication in Development (Lusaka, 1971), the WACC Pan-African Symposium on Christian Communication (Harare, 1987) and the AMECEA_Sonolux Grassroots Communication Symposium (Lusaka, 1988)." (Back cover)
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