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Results-Based Report on Projects Approved by the 64th Meeting of the IPDC Bureau (June 2020) and Implemented in 2020-2021. Part II

UNESCO (2022), 278 pp.

"This document reports on the implementation of projects approved by the 64th meeting of the IPDC Bureau (June 2020) and implemented in 2020-2021, and on projects approved as part of IPDC’s rapid response mechanism in January 2021. It also includes the implementation reports of several projects th ... more

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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from ... Africa” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) more

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Using Media and Communication to Respond to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Ebola

Sophia Wilkinson

London: BBC Media Action (2016), 30 pp.

"This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a particular fo ... more

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Information and Communication Management Strategy Development: A Toolkit for Agricultural and Rural Development Organisations. Facilitator's Guide

Peter Walton, Gashaw Kebede

Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2012), ix, 147 pp.

"This publication responds to the increasing need for organisations to think and plan strategically about managing and using their information and knowledge resources in an efficient and effective manner. Lack of strategy for information and knowle ... more

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I Am a Child, But I Have my Rights Too! Radio Campaign on the Rights of the Child. Radio Hosts' Guide: Cameroon

Plan West Africa

Yaounde: Plan Cameroon (2006), 192 pp.

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Radio Campaign in West Africa: I Am a Child But I Have my Rights Too! Final Evaluation Report

Rosita Ericsson

Dakar: Plan International West Africa Regional Office (2005), 80, 18 pp.

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Communicating Rights for Children: A Study of Children's Participation in a Radio Campaign in West Africa

Rosita Ericsson

Malmö University, Master Thesis (2002), 71 pp.

"The radio campaign ”I’m a child but I have my rights too!” is run by the organization Plan in Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, Senegal och Guinea. The campaign contains of five-minute-long reports, taking place in an environment that children is we ... more

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Radio Campaign "I Am a Child But I Have my Rights Too!" Communicating Rights for Children: A Study on Children's Participation in a West African Radio Campaign

Rosita Ericsson

Dakar: Plan (2002), 81 pp.

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The African Church in the Communications Era: A Handbook of Source Texts for Christian Communicators in Africa

Michel Philippart (ed.)

Nairobi: St Paul Publications Africa (1992), 160 pp.

"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 ... more

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La mission de la F.I.J. en Afrique occidentale

Informations F.I.J. (Bruxelles), volume 11, issue 4 (1962), pp. 57-58

"La F.I.J. et ses possibilités en Afrique: aide sur le plan professionnel et matériel. Voir le même article en allemand: pp. 58-59." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, ... more

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