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Reporting REDD+: A Journalist’s Guide to the Role of Forests in Combating Global Climate Change

Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP); Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) (2009), 14 pp.
"For journalists, REDD+ is a tricky story to cover for a number of reasons. 1. Forest statistics are often unreliable or out of date. Figures need to be carefully checked, compared to other statistics and analysed for their real significance. Sources also need to be assessed. 2. REDD+’s final shap ... more
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Periodismo público en la gestión del riesgo

Ana María Miralles
Lima: Comunidad Andina; Proyecto Apoyo a la Prevención de Desastres en la Comunidad Andina (PREDECAN) (2009), 116 pp.
"El texto resalta la necesidad de dejar de culparle a la naturaleza como la responsable de los desastres, y asumir que los riesgos son procesos construidos socialmente. Es decir, que para que el riesgo exista se necesitan fenómenos peligrosos y condiciones de vulnerabilidad que son generadas por lo ... 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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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
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Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.
"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more
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Development Journalism

Xu Xiaoge
In: The Handbook of Journalism Studies
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2009), pp. 357-370
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Panos Southern Africa’s Communicating HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa Project, 2005–2008

Jolly Kamwanga, Richard Mutemwa
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2009), 29 pp.
"The PANOS radio listening clubs have proved to be an effective means of communicating not only HIV and AIDS issues but other development issues within communities. The female radio clubs proved more effective than the male radio clubs. Interviews revealed that communities with the radio listening c ... more
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Incentives and participation in development communication: Evidence from 63 recent reports

Emile G. McAnany
Glocal Times, issue 13 (2009), 14 pp.
"Economic incentives and the participation of communities can both be powerful drivers of successful innovation and expansion. This article explores a sample of “best cases” applying innovative technologies to solve urgent problems and looks into how the communication of innovative ideas for dev ... more
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The Voice of the Visual: Visual Learning Strategies for Problem Analysis, Social Dialogue and Mediated Participation

Loes Witteveen
Wageningen: Wageningen University, Doctoral Thesis (2009), xi, 183 pp.
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Video in Development
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Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler
Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); FAO (2009), 60 pp.
"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... more
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Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication

Paul Frosh, Amit Pinchevski (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), 242 pp.
"From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader impl ... 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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A 10-Year Systematic Review of HIV/AIDS Mass Communication Campaigns: Have We Made Progress?
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Seth M. Noar, Philip Palmgreen, Melissa Chabot, Nicole Dobransky, Rick S. Zimmerman
Journal of Health Communication, volume 14 (2009), pp. 15-42
"The purpose of the current study was to conduct a 10-year systematic review of HIV/AIDS mass communication campaigns focused on sexual behavior, HIV testing, or both (1998-2007) and to compare the results with the last comprehensive review of such campaigns, conducted by Myhre and Flora (2000). A c ... more
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Overview of Drylands Development Communication Initiatives in Africa

Anna K. Lindqvist, Terra Verba
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2009), 22 pp.
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Participatory Communication: A Practical Guide

Thomas Tufte, Paolo Mefalopulos
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), v, 50 pp.
"This publication is an easy-to-read introduction to current concepts and practices of development communication. It consists of four parts. The first chapter distinguishes between three main conceptual approaches to development communication: the diffusion model, the life skills model and the parti ... more
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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services
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Wageningen; The Hague; Amsterdam: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); Royal Tropical Institute (KIT); International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2009), xi, 321 pp.
"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri ... 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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Nuevas miradas en la práctica periodística: Pobreza, exclusión e integración social

Santiago de Chile: Universidad Diego Portales, Escuela de Periodismo; Fundación Superación de la Pobreza; Hogar de Cristo; Fundación Avina (2009), 91 pp.
"Cuando el 2004 iniciamos el Programa de Comunicación y Pobreza la apuesta fue trabajar mancomunadamente para generar un espacio de reflexión, propuestas y formación en torno al desafío de contribuir a la superación de la pobreza y la integración social desde la comunicación y el periodismo. ... more
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Theatre for Development: Experiences from an International Theatre Project in Asia “Children’s Voice”

Christina Nygren (ed.)
Sida (2009), 186 pp.
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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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Untold: Stories in a Time of HIV & AIDS. Audience Reception and Capacity Building Report

Soul City (2009), 24 pp.
"The Untold films bear testimony to the success of the skills development element of this Regional Programme initiative. The fact that these television dramas were developed, written, directed and produced in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabw ... more