"This short book describes an Oxfam video team's experience of using video as a participatory development tool in a rural community in Vietnam. The author describes the process in detail, including the day-to-day details of the team's stay in Ky Nam village, with team members, villagers and the comm
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une and district authorities' reactions. This is a critical reflection on the issues raised, how villagers' expectations were heigthened by the work but not always fulfilled, and how the nature of 'participation' is more complex than first appears. The book makes a powerful claim for the usefulness of this medium. It will be interesting reading not only for development workers with an interest in video work, but for anyone committed to participatory approaches to development." (Media development, nr. 2/1999 pages 79-80)
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"Der Autor legt die erste eingehende textwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur indonesischen Presse am Beispiel der essayistischen Kommentarkolumne "Catatan Pinggir" (Randnotizen) vor. Diese wurde in "Tempo", dem führenden Nachrichtenmagazin Indonesiens, seit 1977 bis zu ihrem Verbot 1994 von Goenawan
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Mohamad, dem Tempo-Herausgeber, Journalisten und Lyriker nahezu wöchentlich veröffentlicht." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Participatory Impact Monitoring is a concept for guiding self-help projects in development co-operation. The actors involved carry out the monitoring themselves. Because PIM assumes that these actors are autonomous, it has several strands or "strings" - the monitoring systems of the self-help group
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s and the organisations are separate. The strings are periodically compared: the actors reflect on their observations and assessments, adapt their planning accordingly and deepen their dialogue with one another." (Gate 4/98)
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"The findings indicate that production of educational books is the mainstay of Malaysian book publishing and these books are the main source of income for most houses. Government policies especially in the educational system have become the major instrument in encouraging the growth of indigenous bo
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ok publishing during the post-Independencey ears. The governmenti s thus found to be rather influential on trends developing in the trade. Its actions lay emphasis on locally written and published books and have minimised dependenceo n imported publications. The other results of this study also show that in terms of usage of marketing research, Malaysian houses generally have a high awareness of marketing and marketing communications.T his awarenessis generally applied advantageously by most houses. With regard to the study of marketing practices, the approach includes the analysis of the 4Ps of the marketing-mix. When these practices are examined, it is concluded that the houses regard sales promotion, advertising, personal selling and direct mail as important tools and they are utilised continuously. It is concluded that publishing houses, especially among the larger and well-organised establishments, have a high level of awareness and knowledge of marketing communications and have applied this capability to their advantage." (Abstract)
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"Prepared by a group of experts within the CROP network, this book was a state-of-the-art report on poverty and poverty research in different regions in 1996. As such, it was unique and the first volume ever to cover poverty studies worldwide, and to present the rich variety of concepts, hypotheses
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and data used in different disciplines in different cultural settings. The book contains a great number of ideas and reflections on poverty manifestations, poverty research and poverty strategies, of great value for researchers and policy-makers alike. As such, it is a baseline for ongoing and future research, and a major contribution to setting up the agenda for poverty research in the new millennium." (https://www.crop.org/Publications)
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