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Assessment of media development in Malawi: based on UNESCO's media development indicators

Francis Chikunkhuzeni; Peter Mhagama; Jacob Jimu; Paul Kingstone Mphepo et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 157 pp.

ISBN 978-92-3-100566-4 CC BY-SA

"Malawi has seen an exponential growth of its media, both in quality and quantity. For example, there were only two broadcasting stations at the start of the 1990s, while Malawi has increased this over the years to 57 radio stations and 14 television broadcasters. Although the plurality of Malawi’... more

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Media, development and democracy

Heloisa Pait; Juliana Laet (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xviii, 141 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-80043-492-9; 978-1-80043-494-3 (e-book); 978-1-80043-493-6 (print)

" ... this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct val... more

The state of press freedom in Southern Africa 2019-2020

Catherine Anite; Nashilongo Gervasius-Nakale; Izak Minnaar (eds.)

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2021), 79 pp.

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Manufacturing the liberal media model through developmentality in Malawi

Suzanne Temwa Harris

In: Media, development and democracy

Heloisa Pait; Juliana Laet (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), pp. 23-44

"When questioning the relationship between media, development, and democracy, especially in the ill-defined “Global South,” it’s important to go beyond the commonly held meta-narratives that frame these concepts as common sense. In a quest to investigate alternative characterizations of these ... more

Afrika

Marco Moerschbacher (ed.)

Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2021), x, 615 pp.

ISBN 978-3-506-77701-0 (hbk); 9783657777013 (online)

"Das Werk bietet, nach Ländern bzw. Regionen aufgeschlüsselt, einen kompakten und aktuellen Überblick über geschichtliche Herkunft, weitere Entwicklungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen der afrikanischen Kirche aus katholischer Sicht. Dabei liegt ein Akzent auf den Beziehungen der Ortskirche zu a... more

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Communication for development: an evaluation framework in action

Jessica Noske-Turner (ed.)

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-85339-997-8 (pbk); 978-1-78044-996-8 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op... more

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Digital inequalities in the Global South

Massimo Ragnedda; Anna Gladkova (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp., 20 illustr., index

ISBN 978-3-030-32706-4 (pdf); 978-3-030-32705-7 (print)

"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, ... 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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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)

Community radio as a tool for development: a case study of community radio stations in Malawi

Peter Matthews Mhagama

Leicester: Doctoral Thesis University of Leicester (2015), xv, 342 pp., 7 tables, 7 figures, bibliogr. p.296-320

"The thesis investigates community radio as a tool for development drawing on case studies of Nkhotakota and Mzimba community radio stations in Malawi. The thesis employs communication for development and ‘another’ development theories to help understand the role of community radio in developmen... more

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Starving the messenger: a study of journalists’ conditions of service in Malawi

Levi Zeleza Manda; Noel Drake Kufaine

Journal of development and communication studies, volume 2, issue 44987 (2013), pp. 301-311

ISSN 2305-7432

"This study used in-depth interviews to investigate the conditions of service and welfare of journalists in Malawi. It found that while the Media Council of Malawi code of professional ethics and standards and in-house policies expected the best out the journalists, the majority of the journalists, ... more

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The new age of radio: how ICTs are changing rural radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp., abbrev. p.4

CC BY-NC-ND

"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to... more

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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., 12 tables, abbrev. p.xi-xv, bibliogr. p.97-98

ISBN 978-0-8213-7344-6 (print); 978-0-8213-7345-3 (ebook) CC BY

"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 ... more

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People, land and water: participatory development communication for natural resource management

Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.286-303, index

ISBN 1-84407343-2

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N... more