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Soap Operas and Pro-Savings Attitudes in Poor Rural Areas of Peru

Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia

Atlanta: International Center for Public Policy (2023), 17 pp.

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Strengthening Rural Women's Climate Resilience: Opportunities for Financial and Agricultural Service Providers

Jamie Anderson, Victoria Clause, Max Mattern, Kassim Zani

Washington, DC: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) (2023), 22 pp.

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Edutainment, Savings, and Generational Differences in Rural Areas of Peru

Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia

Atlanta: International Center for Public Policy (2023), 27 pp.

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‘I didn’t read many books’: Chinese rural women’s reception of ‘born-digital’ social media and community engagement

Yini Wang, Judith Sandner

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2019), pp. 343-365

"Currently, research on older Chinese rural women’s reading activities through social media is scarce. This paper, based on a 2015 ethnographic study in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha, responds to this disparity. It highlights some of the reading choices and sources shared by a group o ... more

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Her Farm Radio: Building Knowledge and Developing the Capacity of Malawi’s Female Farmers on Forest Landscape Restoration

Augustine Mulomole, Catherine Mloza Banda, Rex Chapota

IUCN (2018), 12 pp.

"As farmers, foresters and providers, women have a unique understanding of the ecosystems they live alongside. A pioneering radio programme in Malawi is tapping into this immense body of knowledge by creating a platform for women to engage in landscape restoration." (Page 1)

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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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Sirpa Tenhunen

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.

"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the ... more

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Use of Mobile Phones by the Rural Poor: Gender Perspectives from Selected Asian Countries

Gerard Sylvester (ed.)

Bangkok: FAO; LIRNEasia; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), xii, 51 pp.

"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that ... more

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Listeners' Clubs: New Partnerships

Dimitra Newsletter, issue 23 (2013), pp. 3-7

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"SMART" Photovoice Agricultural Consultation: Increasing Rwandan Women Farmers' Active Participation in Development

Myriam Gervais, Lysanne Rivard

Development in Practice, volume 23, issue 4 (2013), pp. 496-510

"Through two case studies, this paper evaluates the value of the feminist visual methodology Photovoice as an interactive consultation tool with rural Rwandan women working in agriculture. This exploratory study suggests that it is possible, through an adapted Photovoice process, to engage and empow ... more

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Communiquer le genre pour le développement rural: Intégrer le genre dans la communication pour le développement

Bruxelles: FAO Dimitra (2011), 76 pp.

"L’atteinte des objectifs de sécurité alimentaire, de nutrition et d’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes passe par l’application d’approches de développement visant à donner aux communautés rurales l’occasion de participer et de prendre en main leur futur. Parmi les nombreuses ap ... more

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GenARDIS 2002 - 2010: Small Grants That Made Big Changes for Women in Agriculture

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2010), 45 pp.

"The Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund was initiated in 2002 to support work on gender-related issues in information and communications technologies for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. GenARDIS recognises the constraints and ... more

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The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India

Robert Jensen

Chicago: University of Chicago; NBER; Watson Institute for International Studies Brown University (2008), 41 pp.

"Cable and satellite television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world. These media sources expose viewers to new information about the outside world and other ways of life, which may a ect attitudes and behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television o ... more

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DTR Radio Listening Clubs, Zambia: Impact Evaluation Report

Kitty Warnock

Panos Southern Africa (2001), 17 pp.

"The project ran from November 98 to May 2001, involving 13 rural women’s clubs in the Mpika district of Zambia, 600 km north of Lusaka. The clubs recorded their discussions of development issues or requests for development support; the tapes were sent to a radio producer in Lusaka, who recorded a ... response from a relevant service-provider or politician. The discussion and response were edited into one programme and broadcast as a regular weekly programme by the national broadcaster, ZNBC. The clubs listened to the programmes and discussed them at their weekly meetings. This evaluation assessed the development impact of the project, principally by talking to members of the clubs and others in their communities. An audience survey was also carried out, in three different areas. The main findings of the evaluation were: The project has brought substantial material benefits and new information to the communities. To some extent the clubs and communities have been empowered to access development inputs themselves, though the mediation of the radio programme producer has also been an important factor; The success in achieving material benefits for the communities was probably a strong force in building community support for the clubs in the early months of the project, but now their role in providing information and stimulating discussion is equally appreciated; The Clubs have not achieved material benefits specifically for their own incomegenerating activities, which was the original aim of the project, and which they see (on a video) happening in Zimbabwe. Income-generating is still the clubs’ main purpose, so the project should seek to help them strengthen their income-generating activities; The project has stimulated intense discussions, in the clubs and the communities, about social issues. The clubs’ ability to discuss and present issues clearly is greatly appreciated by men and young people in the communities; There is an emerging perception of a role for the clubs as educators for their communities. They are confidently passing on their own experience, and information from outside sources, as well as “hosting” outside experts in their radio programmes; The programmes are widely listened to and appreciated all over Zambia." (Summary) more

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Voces para el cambio: La comunicación y la mujer rural

Silvia Balit (ed.)

Rome: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) (1999), 37 pp.

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Women's Experiences in Community Media

Women in Action (Isis International, Quezon City), issue 4 (1993), 41 pp.

"In December 1991, upon the initiative of the London-based World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) in collaboration with Isis International in Manila and the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) based in New York, the concept of the Women Empowering Communication global conferenc ... e was crystallized. Now, over two years later, and after several planning meetings and preparatory work, the global conference. Women Empowering Communication in Thailand is a reality. Isis International, in addition to its principal role as a co-organizer, wanted to make a tangible contribution to the conference. Thus we bring to you this issue of Women in Action, a collection of articles on women's experiences in community media from the regions of Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific. The conference participants constitute representatives of women's networks, alternative media, grassroots groups, the academe and other disciplines. It seems only fitting that we share with them how individual women and women's groups have creatively expressed themselves in various media forms in the community setting. In fact, we have featured some of the participating groups in the conference such as Video SEWA, Sistren Theatre Collective, and Cine Mujer. These women have set inspiring examples of how we can utilize varying media expressions not only to attain, self-empowerment but also to improve the portrayal of women in media. They have shown us the similarities in the lives and struggles of women all over the globe, despite cultural and geographical boundaries. What is even more encouraging is that these women's voices come from the community. They have successfully explored in very creative ways the use of low cost media such as song, dance, street theater, drawings, posters, puppetry and flipcharts. There are many other women's groups who have done some very good work in community media such ; as FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour), a feminist radio program in Costa Rica and the East Sepik Documentation Project in the Pacific. We also acknowledge the value of traditional forms of expression such as arpilleras and tapestries, woven stories on cloth by women in Chile, Peru and the Philippines and the khanga, a piece of cloth used as a communication tool by women in Africa.. What we have presented here is but a microviewing of women's experiences in community -media. In bringing this to the Women Empowering Communication conference, we join in the gathering of women i communicators who will enrich us with the breadth and depth of their experiences in media." (Editorial) more

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