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Communication and Development in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 2, issue 2 (2009), pp. 203-350
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Achieving Polio Eradication: A Review of Health Communication Evidence and Lessons Learned in India and Pakistan

Rafael Obregón, Ketan Chitnis, Chris Morry, Warren Feek, Jeffrey Bates, Michael Galway, Ellyn Ogden
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, issue 87 (2009), pp. 624-630
"This review examines polio communication efforts in India and Pakistan between the years 2000 and 2007. It shows how epidemiological, social and behavioural data guide communication strategies that have contributed to increased levels of polio immunity, particularly among underserved and hard-to-re ... more
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Entertainment-Education Through Digital Games

Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal
In: Serious games: Mechanisms and effects
Ute RItterfield, Michael Cody, Peter Verderer (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2009), pp. 271-292
"In summary, the present chapter analyzed the role of digital games in the growing practice of entertainment-education. We argued that serious games should not be automatically labeled as E-E digital games just because they include some social content. Connections were drawn between the social inter ... more
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Radio Listening Habits Among Rural Audiences: An Ethnographic Study of Kieni West Division in Central Kenya

George W. Gathigi
Ohio University, Doctoral Thesis (2009), xv, 324 pp.
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Communication for Another Development: Listening Before Telling

Wendy Quarry, Ricardo Ramirez
London; New York: Zed Books (2009), viii, 157 pp.
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Transforming Images: Reimagining Women’s Work Through Participatory Video

Usha Sundar Harris
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 538-549
"This ethnographic study of a participatory video workshop conducted with rural women in Fiji observed how communities engage with processes of production for empowerment, and the implications for dialogue, community building, and representation within Fiji’s fragmented multicultural society. The ... more
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Communication for Development: A Glimpse at UNDP's Practice

Elizabeth McCall
Oslo: United Nations; UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2009), 54 pp.
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Report of First Pan African Conference on Curriculum, Literacy and Book Sector Development: Rebuilding Education in Africa. Conference of African Ministers of Education (Comedaf IV). Steering Committee Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 24th–25th September, 2009

Science and Technology African Union. Department of Human Resources
Addis Ababa: African Union (2009), 12 pp.
"Within the framework of the Second Decade for Africa 2006-2015, the First Pan African Conference on Curriculum, Literacy and Book Sector Development: Rebuilding Education in Africa, was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from the 24th to 27th March 2009. The objectives of the conference were to critic ... more
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Healing the Messenger: A Journalist’s Trauma Booklet. Special Edition Kenya

Nairobi; Copenhagen: Kenya Association of Photographers, Illustrators and Designers; Kenya Correspondents Association; Kenya Union of Journalists; International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 38 pp.
"Providing counseling for reporters who have witnessed some of the worst things that can happen to humanity – with no tools to handle the emotional shock – was identified as one of the most imminent and crucial needs for support to Kenyan media practitioners in the aftermath of the disputed Dece ... more
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Un fascinante reto: Educación en la radio
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Liliana Berta, Charo Buendía
Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2009), 63 pp.
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The Media and Development: What's the Story?

Gareth Locksley
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' ... more
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Educación a distancia radiofónica

Santo Domingo (DO): Federación Internacional de Fe y Alegría (2009), 159 pp.
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Discussion Paper on the Monitoring and Evaluation of UN-Assisted Communication for Development Programmes: Recommendations for Best Practice Methodologies and Indicators. 11th UN Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development. Background Paper

Andrew Puddephatt, Rebecca Horsewell, Georgina Menheneott
Washington, DC: UNDP; World Bank (2009), 43 pp.
"United Nations agencies currently do not have commonly agreed tools for assessing the impact of Communication for Development (C4D) programmes. This paper is designed to help them explore the key issues surrounding C4D, consider case studies and best practice methodology and propose a set of draft ... more
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Comunicación y conflictos socioambientales en el Perú: Radios educativas y comunitarias en la encrucijada

Jorge Acevedo Rojas
Diálogos de la Comunicación, issue 78 (2009), 11 pp.
"El artículo presenta un conjunto de reflexiones sobre la actuación de radios educativas y comunitarias en contextos de conflicto social principalmente entre empresas mineras y comunidades en el Perú. Parte de una aproximación a la problemática de los conflictos sociambientales, cuyo número e ... more
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Moved to Act: Communication Supporting HIV Social Movements to Achieve Inclusive Social Change

Robin Vincent, Lucy Stackpool-Moore
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 630-642
"Social movements have generated interest in development circles since the mid-1990s as relatively independent expressions of civil society, mobilising people to set their own development priorities and agendas for issues as diverse as water privatisation, neo-liberal trade policies, the rights of w ... more
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Know Disaster, Tell Disaster Risk Reduction: Training Handbook for Media Professionals

Kobe: SEEDS Asia; United Nations, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2009), 57 pp.
"This handbook will help media practitioners to conceptualize the risks, expand their knowledge on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction in their current programmes, and design and develop appropriate programmes to communicate the risk with their audiences. Efforts were made to ensure that loca ... more
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Communication for Development: Reinventing Theory and Action. Vol.1: Understanding Development Communication

Kiran Prasad
Delhi: B.R. Publishing (2009), xv, 286 pp.
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New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks

Diane Coyle, Patrick Meier
Washington, DC; London: United Nations Foundation; Vodaphone Foundation (2009), 52 pp.
"The report examines how authorities and humanitarian and aid organizations can best balance the opportunities and challenges of exploiting different technologies at the key stages on the timeline of crisis—early warning and preparedness, immediate humanitarian relief, and reconstruction and long- ... more
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Giving Voice: Instigating Debate on Issues of Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability

Samuel Ayedime Kafewo
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 678-687
"While there is a near unanimity on the need for participation, there is as yet no such agreement on the type and degree of participation to be adopted in projects. One thing that has never been doubted is the fact that local people have not been accorded their rightful recognition and respect by mo ... more
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Participatory Content Creation: Voice, Communication, and Development

Jo Tacchi, Jerry Watkins, Kosala Keerthirathne
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 573-584
"This article uses the example of a mobile mixed-media platform – a converted three-wheeled autorickshaw – in Sri Lanka in order to explore whether and how content-creation activities can enable marginalised communities to have a voice. It draws upon research into participatory content-creation ... more