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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xv, 239 pp.
"This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical finding
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ICTS and Human Rights Practice: A Report Prepared for the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
Cambridge: University of Cambridge; Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) (2015), 50 pp.
"This report provides a crucial and in depth look at ICT initiatives and trends across the key human rights practices of prevention, fact-finding, and advocacy, identifying both risks and opportunities. In prevention, ICTs can be harnessed to protect human rights defenders, to prevent violations in
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The Advocacy Strategy Framework: A Tool for Articulating an Advocacy Theory of Change
Center for Evaluation Innovation (2015), 14 pp.
"This brief offers a simple one-page tool for thinking about the theories of change that underlie public policy advocacy strategies. It first presents the tool and then offers six questions that advocates, and funders working with advocates, can work through to better articulate their theories of ch
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Advocacy Communication
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 57-71
"This chapter provides an overview of development and social change by talking about advocacy approaches to social justice. Advocacy communication offers a critical approach within the field of development, working toward social justice. Recognizing conditions of globalization contributes toward an
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Celebrity Advocacy and International Development
London: Routledge (2014), xxiv, 210 pp.
"[This book] examines the work of celebrity advocacy and lobbying in international development. Its purpose is to understand the alliances resulting, their history, consequences, wider contexts and implications. It argues that celebrity advocacy signals a new aspect of elite rule. For populist celeb
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Pathways for Change: 10 Theories to Inform Advocacy and Policy Change Efforts
Center for Evaluation Innovation (2013), 30 pp.
"This brief lays out 10 theories grounded in diverse disciplines and worldviews that have relevance to the world of advocacy and policy change. These theories can help to untangle beliefs and assumptions about the inner workings of the policy making process and identify causal connections supported
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"The Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) together with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) organised a two and a half day training workshop from 20th to 22nd February 2013, for the Uganda-Poverty and Conservation Learning Group members (U-PCLG)
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"The Handbook on Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for RNTCP aims to provide momentum and build ACSM capacity by clearly describing the processes involved in planning and implementation of ACSM activities in support of TB control and prevention. It seeks to help the reader bett
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100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons: The Role of Civil Society
Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University, Protection Project (2012), 122 pp.
"The Protection Project encourages the dissemination of information about the best ways to combat trafficking in persons by recommending five main components of civil society: (a) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), (b) corporations, (c) academia, (d) media, and (e) faith-based organizations. The
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Advocacy Communication for Peacebuilding
Development in Practice, volume 22, issue 2 (2012), pp. 229-243
"Advocacy communication is now a key action term in development discourse. Advocates are usually issue- or programme-oriented and do not often think in terms of an ongoing process of social change in general, or peacebuilding in particular. The resolution of an issue or the initiation of a programme
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Overcoming Barriers to TB Control: The Role of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM). Training Curriculum
USAID (2011), 98, 25, 40, 22 pp.
"Advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) refers to a set of interventions that supports tuberculosis (TB) control goals and objectives at international, national, and local levels. These include advocating for sufficient resources, promoting healthy behaviors and attitudes, and engag
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Voice and Accountability Tool: Engagement Framework
CAFOD (2010), 3 pp.
"This tool can be used in different places and for different types of advocacy, and helps CAFOD and our partners to think about the wider context of their work as well as their achievements. The levels are cumulative, and require partner organisations to think through the reasons why they might be c
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Advocacy Toolkit: A Guide to Influencing Decisions That Improve Children's Lives
New York: UNICEF (2010), iv, 116 pp.
"The Advocacy Toolkit provides a broadly accepted definition of advocacy and underscores UNICEF’s unique position and experience in advocacy. The heart of the Toolkit provides detailed steps, guidance and tools for developing and implementing an advocacy strategy. The Toolkit also outlines eight f
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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control: Collection of Country-Level Good Practices
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2010), 81 pp.
"The purpose of this document is to highlight cases in which Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) interventions have contributed to a positive outcome of tuberculosis (TB) control activities directed to a range of audiences and settings. It is intended for on-the-ground stakeholder
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Moved to Act: Communication Supporting HIV Social Movements to Achieve Inclusive Social Change
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
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The Applied Theatre Reader
New York: Routledge (2009), xvi, 380 pp.
The Handbook of Journalism Studies
Deep Insights
New York: Routledge (2009), xx, 446 pp.
"This Handbook charts the growing area of journalism studies, exploring the current state of theory and setting an agenda for future research in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches, and covers scholarship on news production and organizations
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Una aproximación a formas de comunicación alternativa. Radios comunitarias y empoderamiento social de los vecinos: Tres estudios de caso
Santiago de Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto de SociologÃa; Observatorio de Medios Fucatel (2009), 55 pp.
"En esta investigación, se busca conocer bajo qué formas, Radio Placeres de ValparaÃso, Radio Tierra de Recoleta y Radio 1º de Mayo de La victoria, contribuyen en el empoderamiento tanto individual como comunitario de sus comunidades. Este objetivo se llevará a cabo, mediante la comparación en
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