"This evaluation of Andrew Lees Trust’s Projet Radio (ALT/PR) in Southern Madagascar examines the impact of radio broadcasts on audience knowledge and attitudes relating to certain MDGs. It finds that the project is achieving some notable success in changing and enhancing knowledge and attitudes o
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n topics including HIV/AIDS, family planning, mother and child health, environmental issues, social and administrative issues and gender inequality. Radio is also having a positive impact on uptake of health services, enrolment in literacy classes, construction of environmentally-friendly woodstoves, tree-planting, agricultural yields, and awareness of strategies for poverty reduction through incomegeneration and community associations. This evaluation looks at ALT/PR’s methods and organisation and finds many advantages to its particular three-way process of working. This involves radio stations, communities and local service-providers in a mutually advantageous partnership for the production, distribution and broadcasting of radio programmes. The provision of radio-sets to listening groups appears to be a very successful strategy, and our surveys show a high level of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of listeners, especially women. The ability of radio to scale-up and extend the on-the-ground work of local service-providers emerges quite clearly. Our study also looks at challenges that ALT/PR has tackled and, in some cases, is still facing. These are challenges involving management and networking in what is a particularly poor and disadvantaged area. The project still faces issues relating to ensuring its radio programmes are consistently and truly participative. Demand for its services is high and there is a risk of staff becoming over-stretched, particularly for senior management. ALT/PR is demonstrably cost effective and has a good local reputation, but fundraising continues to be a time-consuming preoccupation. ALT/PR is already tackling the major long-term challenge of sustaining the networking mechanism it has set up, and we highlight some encouraging signs of sustainability." (Abstract)
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"The Rio Tinto ilmenite mine in the Fort Dauphin area of southern Madagascar is the first of a number of mining projects planned for Madagascar with the support of the World Bank. The effects of this mine are widespread, not only on the people and economy of the region but also on its unique environ
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ment. 'A Mine of Information?' examines the debates, grievances, consultations and negotiations that have taken place between the mining company and the many different stakeholders affected by the project, not least members of the local community. The report reveals the gaps in consultation and communication and assesses the consequences. It raises questions to be considered by all stakeholders, making recommendations for essential improvements in communication." (Back cover)
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"The study revealed important coverage by Project ‘Radio SIDA’ of the targeted populations. 89% of the population that was studied declared having heard about AIDS on the radio. Radio is clearly the most important source of information for both urban and rural populations. Given that 68% of the
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population also knew that the broadcasts were produced by ALT, it can be concluded that a large part of their knowledge about HIV originated from Project ‘Radio SIDA’. Knowledge about AIDS was impressive, and 75% of the population could quote blood and sexual relations as ways of transmitting HIV/AIDS, and 77% could quote both fidelity and condoms as means of prevention. More fundamentally, the Focus Group Discussions revealed that the broadcasts seem to have had considerable impact on the population’s belief in the existence of HIV/AIDS, given the characteristics of the region this is really quite a success. Project ‘Radio SIDA’ can congratulate itself for having considerably increased AIDS knowledge in the urban and rural populations of the Anosy and Androy regions after undertaking only two sub-projects that each lasted 7 months and only cost $25,000." (Executive summary)
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"The article examines the distinctive characteristics of radio broadcasting in Madagascar, a country with 200 private local stations and more than 15 regional stations of Malagasy National Radio (RNM). It takes note of the complete freedom of tone among news broadcasters, of the massive presence in
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the schedules of spoken news and of magazine programmes dealing with political affairs, and of the fact that Malagasy, the national language, is heard on air throughout almost the whole country. An outline of RNM's service and a review of the different categories of private stations illustrate the problems facing the medium. Even if RNM experiences excessive control by the State and retains a monopoly of national transmission across the country, radio is a real means of social intervention and of propaganda for the younger generation of politicians, whilst religious organizations are making a substantial contribution to the sector. All this is not without effect on the practice of local radio and could threaten all the advances made by Madagascar in freedom of expression and free choice of listening." (Abstract)
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"L'enquête sur l'audience 2003 – 2004 fait suite aux précédentes enquêtes, menées en 1997 et en 1998 dans le cadre du programme de coopération Madagascar– UNICEF. Elle consiste à mettre à jour les données issues des précédentes enquêtes, mais également à identifier les canaux de co
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mmunication les plus efficaces pour transmettre les messages. Sans prétendre à la perfection, la présente étude permet ainsi d'ouvrir de nouvelles pistes de recherche pour la communication à Madagascar et de connaître la perception par la population de ses différents canaux (audio-visuel, presse écrite, etc)." (Preface)
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"This report provides an overview of immunization communication and describes how to maximize its contribution to immunization programs in developing countries. The discussion and examples focus on communication’s place within immunization planning, activities, and partnerships, based on lessons l
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earned from behavior-centered analyses and programming. A detailed case study of Madagascar’s immunization communication activities is provided as an example of country implementation." (Abstract)
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"Oft setzen wichtige Veränderungen in so genannten Randbereichen, also außerhalb der Mainstream-Medien, ein und werden schon deshalb nicht genügend wahrgenommen. Eine Schlussfolgerung, die ich aus meiner Arbeit ziehe, ist, dass der von ›Rändern‹ ausgehenden Dynamik, gerade auch in der Entwic
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klung multilingualer Formate, erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit gebührt. Solche Dyna miken sind nicht zuletzt außerhalb der westlichen Welt zu beobachten, die in Theoriebildung und Methoden der Kommunikationsforschung noch zu oft als verbindlicher Maßstab herangezogen wird. Aus Sicht der Zentren kann beispielsweise, was auf dem informellen Sektor passiert, ebenso unterschätzt werden wie der (sprachenpolitische) Impakt, den internationale Dienste wie BBC, Voice of America oder Radio France Internationale in verschiedenen ›lokalen‹ Kontexten rund um die Welt besitzen. Meine Arbeit versteht sich als Aufforderung, sich gerade solcher blinder Flecken vermehrt wissenschaftlich anzunehmen. Aus den in diesem Buch bearbeiteten Beispielen wird erkennbar, dass eine gewisse Tendenz zu einer größeren Sichtbarkeit gesellschaftlicher Mehrsprachigkeit in Medien besteht. Die Entwicklung multilingualer Formate ist zwar für den Moment v. a. in solchen Situationen zu beobachten, wo bewusste Sprachenpolitik im Medienbereich betrieben wird. Sie kommt aber auch in wenig reglementierten Medienbereichen zum Vorschein und kann von dort langsam in den Mainstream vordringen." (Schlussfolgerungen und Ausblick, Seite 279-280)
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"With the increasing use of PRA methods and practices by NGOs, governments and multinational agencies, the potential impact for poor people is phenomenal. The book demonstrates the far-reaching implications of such approaches for the development sector. It is presented in an easily readable three pa
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rt structure. Part 1 explores case studies in which participatory methods and approaches have been used to influence policy, Part 2 concentrates on PPA (Participatory Poverty Analysis), an innovative approach designed to bring local poverty and policy analysis into the policy process, and Part 3 discusses key issues arising during the Institute of Development Studies workshop, and includes chapters by several participants." (Catalogue Intermediate Technology Publications 2000)
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"The five case studies on the cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in national and local African languages, published in this volume, were commissioned in 1996 on behalf of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) by its Working Group on Books and Learning
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Materials. The UK’s Overseas Development Agency (ODA), which is the lead agency of the ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials, organized two workshops on the topic of publishing books and other educational materials in African national languages, and commissioned these five case studies of the costs and benefits of educational materials in African languages." (Introduction, page 1)
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"Annotated listings of over 4,600 libraries, publishers, booksellers, magazines and periodicals, and major newspapers throughout Africa." (commbox)