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Traffic Crashes: Reporting on Road Safety as a Global Health Crisis

Washington, DC: Internews (2013), 8 pp.
"Road traffic is often covered in the media as an event – not as an enormous drain on a country’s health resources or a leading killer of its citizens. By framing traffic safety as a health story, journalists have the opportunity to impact the way these stories are told, and potentially help shi ... more
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Chad and the Darfur Refugee Crisis: Internews Humanitarian Information Service's Program in Chad 2005-2012

Celeste Hicks, Meredith Kohut
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 56 pp.
"Starting in 2005, Internews built three humanitarian radio stations in Eastern Chad to help those fleeing the violence in Darfur to receive the critical news and information they needed to survive. Seven years after the first station went on air, Internews has left eastern Chad as funding to intern ... more
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Dialogue Through Film: A Handbook

London: Conciliation Resources (2012), 58 pp.
"Dialogue Through Film is a unique initiative bringing together young Armenians from Nagorny Karabakh and Azerbaijanis to make short films about the conflict that divides them. Over 30 young film-makers have taken part, and thousands of Armenians and Azeris have watched their films. This handbook of ... more
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Still Left in the Dark? How People in Emergencies Use Communication to Survive – and How Humanitarian Agencies Can Help

Imogen Wall, Lisa Robinson
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 15 pp.
"In 2008, a BBC World Service Trust policy briefing argued that people affected by earthquakes, floods or other emergencies often lacked the information they needed to survive and that this only added to their stress and anxiety. Left in the Dark: the unmet need for information in humanitarian emerg ... more
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Final Reflections: Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.
Internews' project Integrating Local Media and Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic (CAR) was an project aimed at improving emergency response, community participation and community resilience. This report presents the final refl ... more
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#ICT4HR: Information and Communication Technologies for Human Rights

Molly Land, Patrick Meier, Mark Belinski, Emily Jacobi
World Bank Institute; Open Development Technology Alliance; ICT4Gov (2012), 45 pp.
"Considerable attention has been focused on the opportunities presented by new information and communication technologies for development (“ICT4D”) and for government (“ICT4GOV”). The purpose of this report is to analyze their impact on human rights (“ICT4HR”). As Philip Alston, the form ... more
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Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Key Guides

Josh Woodard
USAID; FHI 360 (2012), xiii, 195 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to help USAID projects and other implementing organizations use interactive radio to augment the traditional agricultural extension services they are providing. In addition, it aims to provide practitioners with a foundational understanding of what is needed to create compe ... more
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State of the Development Communication Field

Srinivas R. Melkote, Pradeep Krishnatray
In: Asian Communication Handbook
Sundeep R. Muppidi (eds.)
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC); Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2012), pp. 57-66
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Do You Hear Me? Understanding Information Needs for Disaster, Preparedness and Compensation

Institute for Development and Humanitarian Advancement
Islamabad: International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2012), v, 70 pp.
"This report documents the findings, analysis and recommendations regarding key aspects of humanitarian communications gleaned from an assessment conducted in the aftermath of the 2010 and 2011 monsoon floods in Pakistan. The aim of the assessment was to assess communities' access to information aft ... more
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Creative Struggles: Analysing the Potential and Problematics of Re-Radicalised Participatory Development Through Theatre for Development

Bobby Smith
University of Leeds, MA Theatre and Global Development (2012), 60 pp.
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A Pragmatic Trial in the Rio De Janeiro Subway to Capture Smokers for a Quitline: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

Adré Salem Szklo et al.
Journal of Health Communication, volume 17, issue 8 (2012), pp. 899-914
"To encourage smoking cessation, persuasive messages can be used to raise smokers' risk perception. This article discusses challenges and solutions in designing a study to evaluate the effect of two different communication strategies ("gains from quitting" vs. "losses from continuing smoking") in en ... more
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MTV Exit Asia: An Innovative Multimedia Program to Increase Awareness and Prevention of Trafficking in Persons

London: MTV EXIT Foundation (2012), 133 pp.
"MTV EXIT ASIA is a large-scale multi-media program designed to raise awareness of trafficking in persons (TIP) in the Asia-Pacific Region with the objective of promoting behaviour change and driving social action. It reflects an innovative co-donor partnership between USAID and AusAID that aims to ... more
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Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists & Engineers

Felice Frankel, Angela H. DePace
New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press (2012), 53 pp.
"Any scientist or engineer who communicates research results will immediately recognize this practical handbook as an indispensable tool. The guide sets out clear strategies and offers abundant examples to assist researchers-even those with no previous design training-with creating effective visual ... more
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Media, Communication and Development: Three Approaches
Deep Insights

Linje Manyozo
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xix, 258 pp.
"Media, Communication and Development: Three Approaches critically investigates the three approaches that have characterised most debates in the field of Media, Communications and Development since its emergence in the 1950s, namely, media development, media for development and stakeholder and commu ... more
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REDD+ Politics in the Media: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea

Andrea Babon, Daniel McIntyre, Ronald Sofe
Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2012), vi, 28 pp.
"The study found that the media often framed REDD+ in political and economic terms, at the expense of, for example, ecological concerns or discussions of the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. Issues associated with carbon trading were a frequent topic of media articles, with many stor ... more
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The Use of Radio in Disasters: 2008 Flood Response, North India. Case Study of First Response India

Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2012), 3 pp.
"Since the Bihar flooding, First Response India has gone on to train other teams in disaster radio response. Its aim is to equip other teams across India with the skills needed to improve collaboration and communication with people affected by crisis. Radio can also play a key role in other phases o ... more
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The Role of Participation in Community Theatre for Development Interventions: A Case Study of the Wadzanayi Farm Project in Lalapanzi, Zimbabwe

Julia Yule
University of Witwatersrand (2012), vii, 79 pp.
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Landraub: Reisen ins Reich des neuen Kolonialismus

Stefano Liberti
Alexander Knaak (transl.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 254 pp.
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Mapping with Mobiles: Lessons Learnt from the Use of Smartphones for Fast Humanitarian Surveys in Zimbabwe

Harare; Copenhagen: Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 10 pp.
"SMS services have become a very efficient tool to warn people of health threats such as epidemics or water pollution, but smartphones can also be utilised to stream information in the opposite direction when they are used as tools for snap surveys. In both emergency settings and well-planned nation ... more
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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)

Emma Durden, Eliza Govender (eds.)
Auckland Park: Jacana Media; University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.
"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu ... more