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The Impact of Media Interventions: Factors and Evidence

T. Grout-Smith, L. Poberezhska
Reading: Gamos (2007), 27 pp.
"In this paper we will be looking at the evidence of impact from interventions in the so-called ‘traditional’ media – TV, radio and, to a much lesser extent, print – and factors contributing to that impact. By ‘media interventions’ we mean using mass-media in support of development objec ... more
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Evaluating Heartlines 2006: A Platform for Change. A Summary Report of the Research

Health and Development Africa
Houghton: Heartlines (2007), 32 pp.
"HEARTLINES is an innovative programme developed by The Mass Media Project in South Africa. The intervention’s purpose is to address South Africa’s social issues, such as HIV and AIDS, crime, violence and the breakdown of family and social structures. HEARTLINES is unique in its approach in that ... more
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Information and Communication Technologies for Economic and Regional Developments

Hakikur Rahman (ed.)
Hershey; London: Idea Group (2007), xviii, 351 pp.
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Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage

Laura Edmondson
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2007), x, 175 pp.
"Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to produce lively commentaries on what it means to be Tanzanian. These dynamic shows inv ... more
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Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources

Paris: OECD (2007), 147 pp.
"Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet, openly and for free, as Open Educational Resources (OER). This study, buildi ... more
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Medios de comunicación y organizaciones humanitarias en la respuesta a las crisis

Instituto de Estudios sobre Conflictos yAcción Humanitaria; la Casa Encendida (2007), 110 pp.
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The MDGs as a Communication Tool for Development
Deep Insights

Paola Pagliani
Oslo: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2007), 51 pp.
"This paper intends to look at the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a communication tool instead of an object of communication. The MDGs possess the potential to make development more understandable to people at the centre of development policies: the poor, vulnerable and socially excluded. Th ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2007: Focus on Participation

Karen Banks, Roberto Bissio, Willie Currie, Anriette Esterhuysen, Chat Garcia Ramilo (eds.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2007), 215 pp.
"The experience of citizen involvement in public policy advocacy around the world has shown that the status quo tends to prevail unless political will to implement change is strengthened by active citizen participation. A “Global Information Society Watch” is needed to make governments and inter ... more
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Sustainability Communications: A Toolkit for Marketing and Advertising Courses

Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Division for Technology, Industry and Economics (2007), 90 pp.
"This CD-ROM deals with sustainability communications and is meant as a tool for teachers and students in higher education, particularly in the fields of marketing, advertising and communication, but also in other disciplines such as corporate communication or management sciences. The contents of th ... more
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Evaluating Mass Media Health Communication: The Use of Evaluation Data to Improve Theory

Joel Lehmann
Freiburg (CH): Universität Freiburg (2007), 127 pp.
"This paper discussed the possibility to improve public communication campaign theory, by making use of data obtained through mass media health communication campaign evaluations. The idea of an ‘engineering’ approach to campaign design, where theory and scientific findings are systematically us ... more
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What the Papers Aren't Saying: How Can We Enhance Media Coverage of TB?

Lucy Stackpool-Moore, Anushree Mishra, Ronald Kayanja
Lusaka: Panos Global AIDS Programme (2007), 15 pp.
"This paper is a briefing for health practitioners, TB programmers, policymakers, media professionals and people affected by TB. Based on an analysis of media coverage of TB, it argues that health professionals and TB specialists should be supported to engage more effectively with the media so that ... more
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ICT in Teacher Education: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region

Ellie Meleisea (ed.)
Bangkok: UNESCO (2007), 130 pp.
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ICT for Disaster Management

Chanuka Wattegama
Incheon; Bangkog: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP); UNDP, Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) (2007), 47 pp.
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Survey of the Needs for Training of Trainers in Rural Radio

Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2007), 124 pp.
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Community Emergency Radio Networks

Hugh C. Maddocks
[author] (2007), vii, 106 pp.
"[This book] gives you ideas for building an emergency radio network (ERN) for your community. An ERN uses small Family Radio Service (FRS) radios or combined FRS/General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) radios for members of the community. The community relay station can be (1) a basic or "fancy" ham st ... more
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Guía de planificación participativa de estrategias de comunicación en salud

Juan Díaz Bordenave
Asunción: UNICEF, Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Agencia Canadiense de Desarrolo Internacional (2007), 63 pp.
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Images and icons: Harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

Yvonne MacPherson
Gender & Development, volume 15, issue 3 (2007), pp. 413-423
"Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how ... more
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Developing Adult Literacy: Approaches to Planning, Implementing, and Delivering Literacy Initiatives

Juliet McCaffery, Juliet Merrifield, Juliet Millican
Oxford: Oxfam (2007), xii, 289 pp.
"The first part sets out the four key concepts of literacy (as skills, tasks, social practices, and critical reflection), and describes associated approaches used throughout the world. The second half covers preparation and planning, offering practical guides for each key element of literacy-program ... more
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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide

Oxford: Oxfam (2007), 74 pp.
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Engaging Development: Environment and Content of Radio Broadcasting in Nigeria

Ayobami Ojebode, Tunde Adegbola
Lagos; Dakar: Institute for Media and Society (IMS); Panos West Africa (2007), vi, 72 pp.
"Given the prevailing environment, radio cannot better engage development, and this is in spite of the qualities of radio that endear it to development agencies and governments elsewhere. As Ojebode (forthcoming b) suggests, for radio to realise its potentials as a development medium in Nigeria, som ... more