Category Development & Communication

"Le 23 mars 2014, l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé publie sur son site web l'apparition de la maladie à virus Ébola en Guinée. Du fait de la proximité du Sénégal avec la Guinée, la commission Média et Communication, dispositif multisectoriel et centre nerveux de la communication impulse ... more

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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Nigeria

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 8 pp.

"Generally, the relevant authorities in Nigeria have, to a large extent, been proactive with press briefings and national addresses since the outbreak of the pandemic. However, reporters have realised that they are often unable to access information beyond what is said in the briefings. Officials so... more

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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Sierra Leone

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 8 pp.

"Sierra Leone continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through the dissemination of information across various platforms. The media have generally been supportive in providing the public with information and education about COVID-19. However, media owners and managers continue to raise concerns... more

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Media innovation and social change

Journal of media innovations, volume 6, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-108

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"Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a research agenda to further develop this emerging field. Our motivation arises f... more

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Digital contact tracing for pandemic response: ethics and governance guidance

Jeffrey Kahn (ed.)

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (2020), xiv, 139 pp., bibliogr. p.103-126

ISBN 978-1-4214-4061-3 (pbk); 978-1-4214-4063-7 (ebook) CC BY-NC-ND

"There is no “one size fits all” approach to digital contact tracing technologies (DCTT). Technology design should not be static, but it should be capable of evolving depending upon local conditions, new evidence, and changing preferences and priorities. Technology companies alone should not con... more

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Behavioral science tips for COVID-19 communications

Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU); Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics University of Pennsylvania; Ideas42.org (2020), 2 pp.

"Human behavior plays a central role in reducing the spread of coronavirus. Communication by government entities and other trusted sources about desirable or mandated behaviors during the pandemic is critical. As policymakers, funders, and program staff, it is our responsibility to ensure that commu... more

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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Liberia

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 7 pp.

"With the exception of the introduction of new press passes for the journalists by the Deputy Minister of Information and the harassment that followed its implementation, the media landscape in Liberia in May and June has been open and free. Even though the Ministry of Information reduced the freque... more

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Managing misinformation in a humanitarian context: Internews rumour tracking methodology. Part I: Context, part II: case study

Internews (2019), 56 pp.

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"Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology consists of four key functions: 1. A mechanism to determine and document which rumours are circulating; 2. An effective strategy to fact-check information and rumours; 3. A variety of accessible and inclusive mechanisms to share accurate responses to rumours; 4... more

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Checklist for the development of portals for international development

Sarah Cummings; Nancy White; Michiel Schoenmakers; Victor van Reijswoud; Martine Koopman; Chris Zielinski; Cavin Mugarura; Ramin Assaand; Srividya Harish

Knowledge management for development journal, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 83-94

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"This guideline has been developed by the authors in a collaborative manner over the period May 2018-May 2019 in consultation with the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community. It is designed to provide guidance for development organizations who are setting up portals –also known as... more

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Global humanitarianism and media culture

Michael Lawrence; Rachel Tavernor (eds.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019), x, 288 pp., illustrations, figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-1-5261-1730-4 (pdf); 978-1-5261-1729-8 (hbk) CC BY-NC-ND

"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary ... more

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Creating evidence-based youth mental health policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: a description of the integrated approach to addressing the issue of youth depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Stanley Kutcher; Kevin Perkins; Heather Gilberds; Michael Udedi; Omary Ubuguyu; Tasiana Njau; Rex Chapota; Mina Hashish

frontiers in psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.

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"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ...care for depression, soon to be the largest single contributor to the global burden of disease. We here describe an innovative approach that addresses these issues simultaneously while concurrently strengthening key mental health components in existing education and health-care systems as successfully applied in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania. Improving the pathway to care for young people with depression requires the following: improving mental health literacy (MHL) of communities, youth, and teachers; enhancing case identification and linking schools to community health clinics; improving the capacity of community health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat depression in youth. Funded by Grand Challenges Canada, we developed and applied a program called “An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Challenge of Depression Among the Youth in Malawi and Tanzania” (IACD). This was an example of, a horizontally integrated pathway to care model designed to be applied in low-resource settings. The model is designed to 1) improve awareness/knowledge of mental health and mental disorders (especially depression) in communities; 2) enhance mental health literacy among youth and teachers within schools; 3) enhance capacity for teachers to identify students with possible depression; 4) create linkages between schools and community health clinics for improved access to mental health care for youth identified with possible depression; and 5) enhance the capacity of community-based health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat youth with depression. With the use of interactive, youth-informed weekly radio programs, mental health curriculum training for teachers and peer educators in secondary schools, and a clinical competency training program for community-based health workers, the innovation created a “hub and spoke” model for improving mental health care for young people. Positive results obtained in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania suggest that this approach may provide an effective and potentially sustainable framework for enhancing youth mental health care, thus providing a policy ready framework that can be considered for application in sub-Saharan Africa." (Abstract) more

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A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: working towards inclusive research

Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas; Debbie Laliberte Rudman; Jeshuran Gunaseelan; Vinod Joseph Abraham; Debra Cameron; Colleen McGrath; Samuel Prasanna Vinoth Kumar

Methodological innovations, volume , issue September-Dezember (2019), pp. 1-19

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"Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affec... more

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The role of community radios in information dissemination to rural women in South Africa

Madeleine C. Fombad; Glenrose Veli Jiyane

Journal of librarianship and information science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58

"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w... more

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Wörterbuch Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte

Jan Brunner; Anna Dobelmann; Sarah Kirst; Louisa Prause (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2019), 323 pp.

ISBN 978-3-8394-4433-7 (pdf); 978-3-8376-4433-3 (print)

Other Editions: Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), 2021

"Globale Transformationsprozesse wie steigende Rohstoff- und Nahrungsmittelpreise, die Finanzkrise und der Klimawandel haben seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Landnutzung und den Landbesitzverhältnissen beigetragen. Konflikte um Land und Rohstoffe stehen seit ... more

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These photos were my life: understanding the impact of participatory photography projects

Tiffany Fairey

Community development journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2018), pp. 618-636

"This article presents research on Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS), a pioneering Peruvian community photography project, that demonstrates the enduring long-term impact that community-led participatory photography projects can have on the critical consciousness of participants. Participato... more

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Communication in international development: doing good or looking good?

Florencia Enghel; Jessica Noske-Turner (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp., index

ISBN 9781138569928 (pbk); 9781138569911 (hbk); 9780203703977 (online)

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Landscaping the digital humanitarian ecosystem

London: GSMA (2018), 52 pp.

"As the number of people affected by humanitarian crises continues to rise and as crises become more prolonged, humanitarian stakeholders (including humanitarian agencies, NGOs, and others) are responding in different ways, by partnering with the private sector, integrating innovative approaches and... more

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Communication for development: case study compendium 2013-2017

New Delhi: UNICEF (2018), 205 pp., many illustr.

"This compendium of 15 SBCC cases presents results and learning from the Communication for Development (C4D) cross-sectoral interventions from 15 states of India – all implemented during the country programme 2013- 2017. Additionally, a national level C4D Results Report ‘Resonating Change’ has... more

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Toolkit for mainstreaming communication with communities in emergency response

Shongjog; Action Against Hunger (2018), 24 pp.

Other Editions: also published in Bengali

"In the context of humanitarian action, Communication with Communities (CwC) refers to activities where the exchange of information is used to save lives and mitigate risks of the disaster affected community. It also enables greater accountability in humanitarian organizations and facilitates the de... more