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Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Communications Practices for Governance and Sustainabilty Improvement
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xiv, 40 pp.
"The multipurpose Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is designed to transfer water from the water-abundant highlands of Lesotho to the Gauteng region of South Africa (its industrial heartland) and provide hydropower to Lesotho through a series of dams, weirs, delivery tunnels, and associated inf
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The Media and Development: What's the Story?
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), 29 pp.
"Here the media's development impact is presented using five closely intermingled influences: plurality and transparency - the contributions that a plural media environment makes to good governance, transparency, and the functioning of markets (economic and political) which can be seen as the media'
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Participatory Communication: A Practical Guide
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
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Options to Increase Access to Telecommunications Services in Rural and Low-Income Areas
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), viii, 44 pp.
"Increasing overall service coverage and promoting access to telecommunications services is economically beneficial. However, universal access policies for rural and low-income areas have not sufficiently evolved with the latest technolo gy and market trends. This study reviews and evaluates the wid
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Strategic Communication for Privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, and Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), vii, 43 pp.
Textbooks and School Library Provision in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Washington, DC: Africa Region Human Development Department Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA) World Bank (2008), xxxii, 98 pp.
"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the
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Communicating the Impact of Communication for Development: Recent Trends in Empirical Research
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2007), 51 pp.
"This paper is a peer review of journals addressing the issue of the impact of development communication in a number of development projects and programs. It provides an overview of this discipline and then discusses the evidence about the impact of development communication according to a typology
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Communication-Based Assessment for Bank Operations
Washington, DC: World Bank (2007), 47 pp.
Setting Standards for Communication and Governance: The Example of Infrastructure Projects
Washington, DC: World Bank (2007), 47 pp.
The Role of Communication in Large Infrastructure: The Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
Washington, DC: World Bank (2006), 42 pp.
Counting on Communication: The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project
Washington, DC: World Bank (2005), vii, 41 pp.
"The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project was one of DevComm’s first projects to demonstrate the value-added of strategic communication. The strategic communication component developed for this project included the use of formative research about values and attitudes with respe
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Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa: A World Bank Group Strategy for Information and Communication Technology Sector Development
Washington, DC: World Bank (2005), xiv, 45 pp.
"This study outlines a strategy for information and communication technology (ICT) development in Sub-Saharan Africa that will further the reform agenda to facilitate deployment of ICT infrastructure, and encourage the development community to support African governments in this regard. With a revit
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Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to Growth
Washington, DC: World Bank (2004), ix, 28 pp.
"ICT has been widely used to positively affect economic development. Its applications provide access to worldwide information and allow for collaboration between people on different continents. Greater access to information and opportunities for collaboration can create job opportunities, 28 transfe
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Broadcasting and Development: Options for the World Bank
Washington, DC: World Bank (2003), 24 pp.
"The World Bank should take a more active role in policy and regulatory activities targeting the broadcasting sector because: broadcasting can have a significant part to play in the fight to reduce global poverty; convergence of information and communications technologies (ICT) is allowing broadcast
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Information and Communication Technologies and Broad-Based Development: A Partial Review of the Evidence
Washington, DC: World Bank (2003), 53 pp.
"Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as integral to the development process. This paper reviews some of the evidence for the link between telecommunications and the Internet and economic growth, the likely impact of the new ICTs on income inequality and anecdotal
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