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L’Equipe Côte D’Ivoire: Final Evaluation Report

This evaluation survey was designed to measure the impact of L’Equipe (The Team) on the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of a cross-section of the Ivorian society on the themes presented in the drama related to overcoming ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic divisions. According to the evaluation, the survey results regarding the effectiveness...

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Leveraging Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights to Reduce HIV-related Vulnerabilities in Southern Africa

In this 2-page position paper, SAfAIDS proposes that comprehensive, integrated systems and programmes for both sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV will achieve greater outcomes for both issues. To date, they have remained separate and detached, despite the logical connections between them. Integrated programmes are cost...

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Bana Dukine: Using Technology to Teach Conflict Resolution Skills

This 24-page evaluation report shares finding of an assessment of Bana Dukine, a computer game designed to teach conflict resolution skills and create a space for Rwandan students to practice these skills. The game was designed through a partnership between Serious Games Interactive, Search for Common Ground (SFCG), and the Rwandan Ministry of...

Experiences

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Get Them to 5 Alive!

Launched in September 2012 and running until 2015, the Get Them to 5 Alive! campaign is working to raise awareness of the scale of child mortality and the leading causes of child deaths in Kenya, namely neonatal causes, diarrhoea, pneumonia, and malaria. It also seeks to educate on the basic interventions to help reduce under-five deaths from...

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Voice Africa’s Future

Voice Africa's Future is using mobile technology to facilitate youth participation in the development frameworks that will follow post the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) 2015 deadline. The project is working to hear from at least 150,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 35 years in 10 African countries about how leaders can make a...

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Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA)

Launched in May 2009, the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) is working to address the challenges of maternal mortality in African countries. Led by the African Union Commission, the campaign is anchored on three main priorities - positive messaging, sharing good practices and lessons learned, and...

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Relationships: Intimacy Without Risk

At the beginning of 2009, the Relationships: Intimacy Without Risk project worked with existing community groups in Lesotho to engage adult community members and couples in open dialogue to raise awareness of multiple concurrent partnerships as well as address key factors that perpetuate these relationships, such as alcohol, migration,...

My Gorilla - My Community

The My Gorilla – My Community project is working to develop and implement a comprehensive communications for behaviour change programme to cultivate a community more sympathetic to science-based conservation efforts, and creating a favourable environment for endangered Cross River gorillas in order to avoid extinction. The project is working...

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Botswana Speaks Parliamentary Initiative

Launched in October 2012, the Botswana Speaks Parliamentary Initiative is working to enable citizens, traditional leaders, and local kgotla assemblies to share their views and policy concerns with their elected representatives through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Using mobile technologies, the project links...

Tuamke Sasa Project

Tuamke Sasa Project

Launched in January 2013, the Tuamke Sasa project is working to encourage a human rights approach in the democratisation process in the Morogoro and Dodoma regions in Tanzania. The project is using theatrical performances to reflect key issues in human rights and democratisation in the country, with an on-site legal advisory tent on human...

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Tobacco Kills: Say No and Save Lives

Launched in January 2013, Tobacco Kills: Say No and Save Lives is a nation-wide anti-tobacco public awareness and advocacy campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco and to work towards passing the strongest possible legislation to control the production and consumption of tobacco in Uganda. The goal is to establish a Tobacco...

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Katswe Sistahood

Founded in 2007, Katswe Sistahood (formerly known as Young Women’s Leadership Initiative) is a movement of young women fighting for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for women in Zimbabwe. It is a platform designed to enable young women to mobilise, organise, and articulate their needs and aspirations in respect of SRH education...

Strategic Thinking

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Intimacy Without Risk: Community Dialogues to Reduce Concurrency in Lesotho

This 12-page case study looks at the Intimacy Without Risk project in Lesotho, which used community dialogues and mass media to engage adult community members and couples in dialogue to raise awareness of multiple concurrent partnerships, and address key factors that perpetuate these relationships, such as alcohol, migration, intergenerational...

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Leveraging Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights to Reduce HIV-related Vulnerabilities in Southern Africa

In this 2-page position paper, SAfAIDS proposes that comprehensive, integrated systems and programmes for both sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV will achieve greater outcomes for both issues. To date, they have remained separate and detached, despite the logical connections between them. Integrated programmes are cost...

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ProVIC Champion Communities: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the Democratic Republic of Congo

This 41-page case study discusses the experience of the Integrated HIV/AIDS Project (ProVIC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in using a Champion Community approach to rebuild communities by helping them to reorganise, identify their assets, and capitalise on the population's determination to reduce the incidence of HIV and mitigate...

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Infant and Young Child Feeding Programme Review- Case Study: Uganda

This 47-page case study is part of a review of Infant and Young Child Feeding (ICYF) programme which was conducted as a joint effort between the United Nations Childrens Fund's (UNICEF) Nutrition Section and the Academy for Educational Development (AED), in order to understand the factors that influenced breastfeeding programme outcomes, distil...

This Is Not a Video Camera

In this video presentation, InsightShare's Director Chris Lunch discusses the organisation's work with participatory video over the last 15 years. Recorded at a TEDx event in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2013, he talks about the power of participatory video to shift awareness, galvanise communities, and unleash hidden energy for positive...

Intersexions

Using Social Media for Collective Efficacy-Case Study: Intersexions

This PowerPoint presentation, shared at the Entertainment Education (EE) Conference in India in 2011, shares findings of a study to analyse the use of social media to advance HIV/AIDS awareness in South Africa. The study investigated how the television series Intersexions used its Facebook page to support HIV prevention, care, support, and...

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Mother-Daughter Communication About Sexual and Reproductive Health in Rural Areas of Alexandria, Egypt

This 2-page working paper presents key findings from a study conducted in Egypt in the spring of 2011 on the frequency and quality of communication about sexual reproductive health (SRH) issues between mothers and adolescent daughters. The findings suggest that communication between mothers and daughters and knowledge about these sensitive...

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Rights Not Rescue: A Report on Female, Male, and Trans Sex Workers’ Human Rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa

This 106-page report discusses how the criminalisation of sex work in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa leaves sex workers vulnerable to sexual and physical abuse, as well as extortion, from law enforcement officers such as police and border guards. In addition to documenting widespread human rights abuses against sex workers, the report...

Materials

Media and Social Change: Lecture by John Downing - Video

John Downing, media professor at Southern Illinois University, gave a lecture at MEDEA where he explored the relation between media, communication and social change. His presentation (40 min) is followed by a Q&A with the audience.

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Youth Guide to Action on Maternal Health

Published by Women Deliver, the Youth Guide to Action on Maternal Health is designed to assist young people in their advocacy and awareness-raising efforts. The goal of this guide is to empower and equip young people with the tools, resources, and knowledge to use and develop messages, projects, and campaigns to increase awareness about young...

A Reporter's Guide to Maternal Health

This reporters guide, published by Solutions Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center, introduces journalists to potential solutions-oriented angles to maternal health stories.

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Half the Sky Coalition Social Media Playbook: Using Social Media as Part of a Communication Strategy

This playbook was produced to educate, support, and mobilise organisations to utilise social media and mobile technology as an additional tool to drive up engagement around the Half the Sky movement, which is a multi platform campaign that seeks to...

Change the World with a Click - Four Sessions on How Social Media Can Make a Difference

This is a series of four video sessions on social media. The sessions cover the following topics:

  • What is social media?
  • Key factors for successful advocacy using ICT tools
  • Campaign Work - Do's and don'ts
  • Making the best use of limited resources.
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Facilitator's Manual for Discussions on Gender, Sexuality, and Family Planning in Rural Tanzania

This facilitator’s manual was developed by the C-Change project for discussion sessions with community-based mobilisers with Marie Stopes International in rural communities in Tanzania. It was produced to help facilitators lead a series of discussion exercises with young couples ages 18 to 35 to increase their use of modern contraception,...

Un Guide Sur La Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive en Afrique de l’ouest Francophone à l’attention des Journalistes

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

A Journalist's Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health in East Africa

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

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Making Sex Work Safe

This 92-page book presents some of the knowledge and experience gained by projects run by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects in responding to the health and safety needs of men, women, and transgenders who buy and sell sexual services. The book contains illustrations and examples of successful educational and development programmes in...

Evaluations

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A Sexual and Reproductive Health Success Story Youth Leading Youth

This 40-page case study discusses the experience of the Students And Youth Working on Reproductive Health Action Team (SAYWHAT), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Zimbabwe, which the document says is a role model of an effective youth-led empowerment initiative which demonstrates impressive levels of youth participation. SAYWHAT...

Impact Evaluation of Ruka Juu: An Entertainment Education Initiative in Entrepreneurship and Financial Education in Tanzania

This 41-page report shares finding of an evaluation of Ruka Juu (Jump Up), a television show produced by Femina HIP in Tanzania, which revolves around economic empowerment of youth through entrepreneurship, business skills, and financial literacy. Ruka Juu is a reality-based television entrepreneurship competition, which was broadcast on three...

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L’Equipe Côte D’Ivoire: Final Evaluation Report

This evaluation survey was designed to measure the impact of L’Equipe (The Team) on the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of a cross-section of the Ivorian society on the themes presented in the drama related to overcoming ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic divisions. According to the evaluation, the survey results regarding the effectiveness...

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Bana Dukine: Using Technology to Teach Conflict Resolution Skills

This 24-page evaluation report shares finding of an assessment of Bana Dukine, a computer game designed to teach conflict resolution skills and create a space for Rwandan students to practice these skills. The game was designed through a partnership between Serious Games Interactive, Search for Common Ground (SFCG), and the Rwandan Ministry of...

Reducing Alcohol-Related HIV Risk in Katutura, Namibia: Results from a Multi-Level Intervention

This 141-page paper shares information about a 3-year AIDSTAR-One demonstration project designed to reduce heavy drinking and risky sexual behaviour among bar patrons in a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Namibia's capital, Windhoek. According to the report, a strong body of evidence shows that alcohol consumption is associated with...

Training Guide: Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development

"[H]ow do men and women access information about new practices and technologies that enable them to deal with their changing climate?"

An Early Window of Opportunity for Promoting Girls' Health: Policy Implications of the Girl's Puberty Book Project in Tanzania

"Given the numerous health-related risks faced by adolescent girls and women in low-income countries, such as infection with HIV/AIDS, unsafe abortions, and gender-based violence, attention to policy and programming that aim to ensure that girls transition through puberty with a healthy body and a sense of empowerment over that body is an...

Engaging Boys and Young Men in the Prevention of Sexual Violence

"It is increasingly understood that men's use of violence is generally a learned behavior, rooted in the ways that boys and men are socialized....Adolescence is a time when many boys and young men first explore and experiment with their beliefs about roles in intimate relationships, about dating dynamics and male-female interactions....

Mass Media and Reproductive Behaviour: Serial Narratives, Soap Operas and Telenovelas

"...mass media plays important roles - both explicitly and implicitly - in terms of conveying information, stimulating thought and discussion, and in forming and developing ideational behaviour."

Digital

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Voice Africa’s Future

Voice Africa's Future is using mobile technology to facilitate youth participation in the development frameworks that will follow post the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) 2015 deadline. The project is working to hear from at least 150,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 35 years in 10 African countries about how leaders can make a...

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Half the Sky Coalition Social Media Playbook: Using Social Media as Part of a Communication Strategy

This playbook was produced to educate, support, and mobilise organisations to utilise social media and mobile technology as an additional tool to drive up engagement around the Half the Sky movement, which is a multi platform campaign that seeks to...

Change the World with a Click - Four Sessions on How Social Media Can Make a Difference

This is a series of four video sessions on social media. The sessions cover the following topics:

  • What is social media?
  • Key factors for successful advocacy using ICT tools
  • Campaign Work - Do's and don'ts
  • Making the best use of limited resources.
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Bana Dukine: Using Technology to Teach Conflict Resolution Skills

This 24-page evaluation report shares finding of an assessment of Bana Dukine, a computer game designed to teach conflict resolution skills and create a space for Rwandan students to practice these skills. The game was designed through a partnership between Serious Games Interactive, Search for Common Ground (SFCG), and the Rwandan Ministry of...

Intersexions

Using Social Media for Collective Efficacy-Case Study: Intersexions

This PowerPoint presentation, shared at the Entertainment Education (EE) Conference in India in 2011, shares findings of a study to analyse the use of social media to advance HIV/AIDS awareness in South Africa. The study investigated how the television series Intersexions used its Facebook page to support HIV prevention, care, support, and...

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Botswana Speaks Parliamentary Initiative

Launched in October 2012, the Botswana Speaks Parliamentary Initiative is working to enable citizens, traditional leaders, and local kgotla assemblies to share their views and policy concerns with their elected representatives through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Using mobile technologies, the project links...

Un Guide Sur La Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive en Afrique de l’ouest Francophone à l’attention des Journalistes

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

A Journalist's Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health in East Africa

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

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Tobacco Kills: Say No and Save Lives

Launched in January 2013, Tobacco Kills: Say No and Save Lives is a nation-wide anti-tobacco public awareness and advocacy campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco and to work towards passing the strongest possible legislation to control the production and consumption of tobacco in Uganda. The goal is to establish a Tobacco...

Awards

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African Story Challenge

The Story Challenge is a two-year project by the African Media Initiative (AMI) in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) that seeks to challenge the media to expand coverage of fundamental issues that matter to Africans including good health, quality education, access to clean water, good nutrition, and a reliable...

ACP Media Competition on ICTs for Agriculture

ACP Media Competition on ICTs for Agriculture

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) in collaboration with its national, regional, and international partners has launched the "2013 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Media Competition on Information and Communications Technologies for Agriculture (ICT4ag)."

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival Awards

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival Awards

Youth ages 9 to 25 are invited to submit short videos promoting harmony in diverse societies to the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival Awards  to be held at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, New York, United States (US). PLURAL+ is a video festival for youth-produced media aimed at building a more inclusive, tolerant society. The...

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EIFL Open Access Advocacy Campaigns Grants

The EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) Open Access programme invites new proposals for organising national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. Supported by the Information Programme of the Open Society Foundation, the programme is designed to involve researchers and students, research...

Health Journalism Contest

Journalists working in print, broadcast, or online media (as well as affiliated freelance journalists) have a chance to win a 2-week study tour to the United States (US) and cash prizes as part of 3 regional competitions to recognise the best media coverage of immunisations. Stories published or broadcast in Sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, and...

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3rd Annual Communications Innovations Awards (ACIA)

The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has launched the 3rd Annual Communications Innovations Awards (ACIA). The theme of this year’s awards is "Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Innovation for National Development."

The ACIA has five categories:

  • Young ICT Innovators Award
  • Business Excellence...
Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2013

Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2013

The Africa Business Reporting Awards, now in its tenth year, were initiated by Diageo to recognise journalists and editors who provide high quality coverage of the business environment in Africa. The Awards recognise the fact that better business journalism plays an important role in Africa’s investment flows and generates more business...

eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2013

eLearning Africa is organising its 4th edition of their photo competition under the theme of "Tradition and ICT innovation: a couple with potential." Budding photographers are encouraged to send in their photos depicting how information and communication technology (ICT) is enhancing the way individuals and communities in Africa live, learn,...

2013 Intellectual Property and Human Rights Reporting Fellowships

The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) invites journalists to apply for the 2013 intellectual property (IP) and human rights reporting fellowships. The fellowship is a one-year mentoring and capacity-building programme for Ugandan journalists to report on issues cutting across intellectual property and human rights.

Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life Award

Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life Award

These prizes (US$1,000 each for individuals and US$3,000 for specific African women’s organisations), awarded by the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) - an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) working towards the empowerment of women and children - aim to honour creative and courageous women and women's groups around the world...

Print

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program

This United States (US)-based fellowship programme offers two tracks:

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Youth Guide to Action on Maternal Health

Published by Women Deliver, the Youth Guide to Action on Maternal Health is designed to assist young people in their advocacy and awareness-raising efforts. The goal of this guide is to empower and equip young people with the tools, resources, and knowledge to use and develop messages, projects, and campaigns to increase awareness about young...

A Reporter's Guide to Maternal Health

This reporters guide, published by Solutions Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center, introduces journalists to potential solutions-oriented angles to maternal health stories.

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African Story Challenge

The Story Challenge is a two-year project by the African Media Initiative (AMI) in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) that seeks to challenge the media to expand coverage of fundamental issues that matter to Africans including good health, quality education, access to clean water, good nutrition, and a reliable...

Un Guide Sur La Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive en Afrique de l’ouest Francophone à l’attention des Journalistes

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

A Journalist's Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health in East Africa

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

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Making Sex Work Safe

This 92-page book presents some of the knowledge and experience gained by projects run by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects in responding to the health and safety needs of men, women, and transgenders who buy and sell sexual services. The book contains illustrations and examples of successful educational and development programmes in...

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Universal Access to Reproductive Health: Accelerated Actions to Enhance Progress on Millennium Development Goal 5

This 36-page report contains case studies from seven countries, illustrating the application of a variety of strategies to improve access to sexual and reproductive health, including lessons learnt during implementation and results achieved. The addition of Target 5B – "Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health" – to Millennium...

Pusha Love Health Campaign

Pusha Love Health Campaign

Pusha Love is a campaign that is working to create a movement that celebrates healthy living as a means to achieve individual dreams and is designed to change the way people think about health, relationships, and what it means to love. Through various channels - including a radio magazine, radio drama, community dialogues, and youth clubs - the...

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Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanisation, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa

This 40-page report traces the dramatic spread of mobile telephony in Africa and examines how this is affecting the news media landscape on the continent. It explores the convergence of African urbanisation and technological change, including the rise of digital media. According to the report, African media from Cairo to Cape Town are...

Radio

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Intimacy Without Risk: Community Dialogues to Reduce Concurrency in Lesotho

This 12-page case study looks at the Intimacy Without Risk project in Lesotho, which used community dialogues and mass media to engage adult community members and couples in dialogue to raise awareness of multiple concurrent partnerships, and address key factors that perpetuate these relationships, such as alcohol, migration, intergenerational...

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Relationships: Intimacy Without Risk

At the beginning of 2009, the Relationships: Intimacy Without Risk project worked with existing community groups in Lesotho to engage adult community members and couples in open dialogue to raise awareness of multiple concurrent partnerships as well as address key factors that perpetuate these relationships, such as alcohol, migration,...

A Reporter's Guide to Maternal Health

This reporters guide, published by Solutions Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center, introduces journalists to potential solutions-oriented angles to maternal health stories.

story_challenge.jpg

African Story Challenge

The Story Challenge is a two-year project by the African Media Initiative (AMI) in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) that seeks to challenge the media to expand coverage of fundamental issues that matter to Africans including good health, quality education, access to clean water, good nutrition, and a reliable...

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L’Equipe Côte D’Ivoire: Final Evaluation Report

This evaluation survey was designed to measure the impact of L’Equipe (The Team) on the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of a cross-section of the Ivorian society on the themes presented in the drama related to overcoming ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic divisions. According to the evaluation, the survey results regarding the effectiveness...

My Gorilla - My Community

The My Gorilla – My Community project is working to develop and implement a comprehensive communications for behaviour change programme to cultivate a community more sympathetic to science-based conservation efforts, and creating a favourable environment for endangered Cross River gorillas in order to avoid extinction. The project is working...

Un Guide Sur La Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive en Afrique de l’ouest Francophone à l’attention des Journalistes

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

A Journalist's Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health in East Africa

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

Pusha Love Health Campaign

Pusha Love Health Campaign

Pusha Love is a campaign that is working to create a movement that celebrates healthy living as a means to achieve individual dreams and is designed to change the way people think about health, relationships, and what it means to love. Through various channels - including a radio magazine, radio drama, community dialogues, and youth clubs - the...

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Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanisation, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa

This 40-page report traces the dramatic spread of mobile telephony in Africa and examines how this is affecting the news media landscape on the continent. It explores the convergence of African urbanisation and technological change, including the rise of digital media. According to the report, African media from Cairo to Cape Town are...

Television

A Reporter's Guide to Maternal Health

This reporters guide, published by Solutions Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center, introduces journalists to potential solutions-oriented angles to maternal health stories.

Impact Evaluation of Ruka Juu: An Entertainment Education Initiative in Entrepreneurship and Financial Education in Tanzania

This 41-page report shares finding of an evaluation of Ruka Juu (Jump Up), a television show produced by Femina HIP in Tanzania, which revolves around economic empowerment of youth through entrepreneurship, business skills, and financial literacy. Ruka Juu is a reality-based television entrepreneurship competition, which was broadcast on three...

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African Story Challenge

The Story Challenge is a two-year project by the African Media Initiative (AMI) in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) that seeks to challenge the media to expand coverage of fundamental issues that matter to Africans including good health, quality education, access to clean water, good nutrition, and a reliable...

equip.jpg

L’Equipe Côte D’Ivoire: Final Evaluation Report

This evaluation survey was designed to measure the impact of L’Equipe (The Team) on the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of a cross-section of the Ivorian society on the themes presented in the drama related to overcoming ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic divisions. According to the evaluation, the survey results regarding the effectiveness...

Intersexions

Using Social Media for Collective Efficacy-Case Study: Intersexions

This PowerPoint presentation, shared at the Entertainment Education (EE) Conference in India in 2011, shares findings of a study to analyse the use of social media to advance HIV/AIDS awareness in South Africa. The study investigated how the television series Intersexions used its Facebook page to support HIV prevention, care, support, and...

Un Guide Sur La Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive en Afrique de l’ouest Francophone à l’attention des Journalistes

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

A Journalist's Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health in East Africa

Sexual and reproductive health encompasses health and well-being in matters related to sexual relations, pregnancies, and births. It deals with the most intimate and private aspects of people's lives, which can be difficult to write about and discuss publicly. As a result, the public often misunderstands many sexual and reproductive health...

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Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanisation, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa

This 40-page report traces the dramatic spread of mobile telephony in Africa and examines how this is affecting the news media landscape on the continent. It explores the convergence of African urbanisation and technological change, including the rise of digital media. According to the report, African media from Cairo to Cape Town are...

Timveni Child and Youth Media Organisation Media Programme

The Timveni Child and Youth Media Organisation uses radio and television to give a voice to Malawi's young people, especially girls, on children's rights. The goal of the project is to help young Malawians make a difference in their own lives, create awareness about children’s rights, and build the capacity of children/youth to increase their...

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Covering Development for African Journalists Online Course (May 20 - Jun 28 2013)

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is inviting African Journalists to participate in a six-week online course under the theme "Covering Development in Africa". The course will be led by two media consultants with extensive experience working in Africa.

Among the topics to be covered during the course: