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Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability

Michele McLellan, Mayur Patel

Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 27 pp.

"This report is based on an extensive analysis of several nonprofit news sites conducted by Community Wealth Ventures (CWV), a management consulting firm that focuses on innovative approaches to the growth and sustainability of nonprofit organizations. Knight Foundation commissioned the review as pa ... more

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Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda

Geert Lovink (ed.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2011), 150 pp.

"Conducted in 2009 by a group of five Masters in New Media (humanities) students from the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Geert Lovink the research examines both the role and implementation of ICTs in Uganda, covering a wide range of subcultures and projects, including internet cafe ... more

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Applying Local Solutions to Local Problems: Radio Listeners as Agents of Change. An Evaluation of the Impact on Listeners of Radio Programming in Chad and Niger Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Peace Through Development Project (PDEV)

Karen Greiner

USAID (2010), 45, 7 pp.

"This report documents the results of a two-month field research evaluation in Niger and Chad on the media component of the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program funded by USAID under the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). Equal Access, a non-governmental organization ( ... more

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Strategic Communication for Peacebuilding: A Training Guide

Oscar Bloh

Brussels; Washington, DC: Search for Common Ground (2010), 48 pp.

"This guide is for trainers of media workers and government officials in the strategic communication of major development objectives. It is intended to improve the skills of media practitioners and policy makers by helping them create and disseminate policy information in ways which are accessible t ... o different constituents. It also highlights the importance of giving citizens space to react, comment and interact with policy decisions in real and creative ways. As such the guide is at the centre of a regional project set up by the conflict transformation NGO Search for Common Ground (www.sfcg.org), and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Finnish Government. The project, 'Radio: A Platform for Peacebuilding (RAPP)', which includes the website www.radiopeaceafrica.org, covers seven West and Central African countries. The project's overall objective is, to improve the population's access to information about policies and decisions that affect their lives [...] The RAPP project has undertaken media sector mappings in the seven countries. Media sector mapping (MSM) is a tool that identifies how information is generated and communicated to citizens and how they in turn use this information to participate in the implementation of government policies. The findings of the MSMs suggest that few governments are successfully communicating their major development policies to the citizens. They therefore run the risk that the policies will never take hold, and the essential reforms will not occur, so increasing the risk of conflict. Once citizens are able to become involved in policy decisions and programmes which affect their lives, rather than being viewed and treated as the simple (and grateful) recipients of largesse from above, these policies take on a more meaningful existence - one in which strategies are created, and decisions are made by the people who are most affected by them. In this model strategic communication becomes a key component of the development process, meaning that communication is a dialogue, from the government to the people and from the people to government (vertical communication), as well as allowing for communication across society from one community to another (horizontal communication)." (Introduction) more

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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control: Collection of Country-Level Good Practices

Richard Pinkham, Young-Ae Chu, Elisabetta Minelli, Netty Kamp et al.

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2010), 81 pp.

"The purpose of this document is to highlight cases in which Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) interventions have contributed to a positive outcome of tuberculosis (TB) control activities directed to a range of audiences and settings. It is intended for on-the-ground stakeholder ... more

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The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change

Beth Kanter, Allison H. Fine

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (2010), xix, 201 pp.

"This groundbreaking resource offers a set of guiding principles to help nonprofit leaders navigate the transition from top-down organizations to a networked approach enabled by technology. The book contains specific strategies for implementation and secrets to success from nonprofits who have used ... more

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Telling the right(s) story? Die Arbeit der Nichtregierungsorganisation „Media Monitoring Africa“ in Johannesburg/Südafrika

Susanne Dietmann

Kaiserslautern: Technische Universität, Fernstudium „Nachhaltige Entwicklungszusammenarbeit“, Hausarbeit (2010), 38 pp.

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Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds

Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.

"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... more

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Manual for Work on SOS Hotline for (Potential) Victims of Human Trafficking: NGO ASTRA Experience

Belgrade: ASTRA Anti Trafficking Action;OSCE (2009), 215 pp.

"ASTRA SOS Hotline started its operation in 2002. Since then, almost ten thousand calls have been received. So far it has served as the only SOS hotline intended for (potential) victims of traffi cking in persons in the Republic of Serbia; at the time of its setting up it was one of the rare service ... s of the kind in South-East Europe. During the fi rst eight years of work a methodology has been developed, results achieved, some of the dilemmas have not yet been solved and the new ones have appeared. We would like to share our experiences with the expert public. We also nourish hope that our long-term experience in this fi eld, although we are pretty much self-taught, will be useful for those who are planning to establish a similar hotline. We believe that this Manual will also help the ones who have organized other types of SOS telephones (for fighting family violence, violence against children, etc.), because traffi cking in human beings may be a consequence of some other form of violence or may be hidden behind it. Although the Manual is intended for individuals who already have some experience in the anti-traffi cking fi eld, we nevertheless start with a brief defi nition and description of the problem for the sake of those who might be faced with this form of severe human rights violation for the first time. At the very start, principles and methodology of work that had been developed for ten preceding years in the Belgrade women’s NGOs that were engaged in anti-violence activities, particularly the SOS Hotline and Centre for Girls and the Autonomous Women’s Centre were the basis for our work, and we would like to avail ourselves of this opportunity to thank them. ASTRA SOS Hotline has been developing its activities by directly following fi eld actions and trends related to traffi cking of human beings; we have adapted the accepted principles and work methods according to circumstances in this new and totally diff erent scope. Of utmost importance are our contacts with partner organizations in the region and beyond, i.e. meetings where we have exchanged our experiences. Unfortunately, conferences on the SOS hotlines are very rare. This is the reason why we would like to present in this Manual experiences of other SOS telephones, both in Serbia and in South-Eastern Europe, as well as certain tendencies in the member states of the European Union." (Preface) more

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Faith-Based Organisational Development (OD) with Churches in Malawi

Rick James

International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) (2009), 10 pp.

"Church-based development organisations are distinct from secular NGOs. They have particular organisational features. These are the source of their potential value added, but also their major challenges. Good organisation development (OD) needs to be tailored to these specific contextual characteris ... more

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Violence, Intimidation and Legal Cases Against Journalists and the Media in Armenia 2008-2009

Liana Sayadyan (ed.)

Yerevan: Investigative Journalists NGO (2009), pp. 88-159

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Participatory Theatre for Conflict Transformation: Training Manual
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Lena Slachmuijlder, Don Tshibanda

Washington, DC; Bukavu: Search for Common Ground (2009), 52 pp.

"Participatory theatre is an approach in which the actors interact with the public. Throughout the event, the public participates to adapt, change or correct a situation, an attitude or a behaviour that is developed during the show. The NGO “Sear ... more

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A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide

Linda Melvern

London; New York: Zed Books, new updated ed. (2009), vii, 370 pp.

"In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what really happened, revealing both the scale, speed and intensity of the unfolding genocide, as well as exposing the governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening, if they had chosen ... more

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Participatory Communication: A Practical Guide

Thomas Tufte, Paolo Mefalopulos

Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), v, 50 pp.

"This publication is an easy-to-read introduction to current concepts and practices of development communication. It consists of four parts. The first chapter distinguishes between three main conceptual approaches to development communication: the diffusion model, the life skills model and the parti ... more

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Community Media Sustainability Guide
Key Guidance

Jean Fairbairn (ed.)

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2009), 90 pp.

"Like other publications on "commmunity media sustainability", this guide looks not only at financial, but also institutional sustainability, and social sustainability, i.e. it's rootedness in the community to which it belongs. The first section highlights the centrality of mission for sustainabilit ... more

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Mobiles for Development: How Mobile Technologies Can Enhance Plan and Partners in Africa

Hannah Beardon

Helsinki: Plan Finland (2009), 44 pp.

"This guide provides an overview of relevant and innovative examples of how mobile telephones have been successfully integrated into development projects and processes; and a three stage process to help Plan staff and other development practitioners identify the key social, economic and technical fa ... more

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Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse: Eine Landkarte für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis

DeGEval – Gesellschaft für Evaluation, Arbeitskreis „Evaluation von Entwicklungspolitik“ (2009), 51 pp.

"Die anvisierte Leserschaft dieser Landkarte ist die entwicklungspolitische Fachwelt, die mit der Analyse von tatsächlichen, das heißt empirisch nachprüfbaren (de facto) Wirkungen befasst ist und die einen schnellen, informativen Zugriff auf das Vorhandene benötigt. Dies sind in erster Linie Pro ... more

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Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit

Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Business Books (2009), viii, 327 pp.

"Explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The boo ... more

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Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research

Lawrence R. Frey, Kenneth N. Cissna (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2009), xl, 670 pp.

"The Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research provides a state-of-the-art review of communication scholarship that addresses real-world concerns, issues, and problems. This comprehensive examination of applied communication research, including its foundations, research methods employed, ... more

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Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media

Thomas L. McPhail (ed.)

Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xiii, 239 pp.

Participatory Theatre for Conflict Transformation: Training Manual Key Guidance

Community Media Sustainability Guide Key Guidance

Participatory Theatre for Conflict Transformation: Training Manual
Key Guidance

Community Media Sustainability Guide
Key Guidance