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Digital Security

"In the face of increased human rights surveillance of ever-growing online traffic and the multiplication of commercial interest in user data, APC’s Connect Your Rights! campaign is ...putting out tips and tricks for human rights defenders to circumvent threats to their privacy and their information."

Revelados: desde todas las posiciones

"Revealed: Seen from Every Angle" is an educational package made up of paedagogical materials designed to support educational processes about sexuality both in and out of the classroom.

Local Radio

This newsletter on publicity for community radio poses the question: "Do you have an audience?  Is anybody listening?" It describes a number of ways to increase radio audience numbers and how to measure the audience and programme impacts.

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Experiences

Broadcast in the Dioula language, this Burkina Faso radio drama focuses on education of girls, fistula, domestic violence, and gender equality. In April 2012, Population Media Center (PMC), with funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), started production on the 156-episode HƐrƐ S'ra ("The Road to Happiness"), which is designed...

To respond to the problem of violence against women in Latin America, in 2011, PCI Media Impact, together with Swedish partner Diakonia, began overseeing production of 3 radio dramas addressing crucial human rights issues for women: Cusco, Peru's "T'ikarinaykipaq Warmi" ("Women Awakens"); Choco, Colombia's "Juntadó, Historias de Río" ("Juntadó...

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Running from December 2011 to May 2012 and designed primarily for youth aged 15 to 24, the Wize Up Youth Radio Talk Show programmes in Namibia were designed to raise awareness and discussion on youth sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The radio programmes used interactive interviews with topic experts, youth discussions, and feedback...

Emerging from Egypt's January 2013 revolution, this radical street art collective seeks to spark awareness of the struggles that Egypt's female population endures regularly. Women on Walls (WOW), or Sit El 7eta (in Arabic), was launched by activists Mia Gröndahl (Swedish journalist) and Angie Bagela (local cultural manager), who hope to...

As part of Foundation Puntos de Encuentro's strategy against commercial sexual exploitation of adolescents (CSEA) (2011-2013), Alerta y Pilas Puestas ("Alert and Be Ready") was launched in 2012 in an effort to build the capacity of adolescents as well as actors in their direct surroundings to contribute to the reduction of the stigma and...

Think.Eat.Save: Reduce Your Foodprint

This global campaign to change the culture of food waste was launched on January 22 2013 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and partner Messe Düsseldorf.

Pacific Islands Community Radio Roundtable

This radio roundtable highlighted the need to place communication rights at the centre of media democratisation and co-related findings to the Pacific Islands Forum’s Digital Strategy in the context of needs and realities of different Pacific Island countries. It was convened jointly in February 2013 in Suva, Fiji Islands, by the World...

iheedCrowd

iheed develops animated films for the training of health workers in developing countries across the globe, using its online crowd-sourcing platform, iheedCrowd. This platform is established for the digital design community to address global health education and training challenges. Using a competition-based format with awards and prizes,...

Mobile Learning: Literacy for Rural Women in Pakistan

This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) distance post-literacy project in Pakistan is based on mobile technology. Women are able to reinforce their newly gained literacy by accessing and sending mobile phone text messages.

Strategic Thinking

Local Radio

This newsletter on publicity for community radio poses the question: "Do you have an audience?  Is anybody listening?" It describes a number of ways to increase radio audience numbers and how to measure the audience and programme impacts.

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Young Men Who Have Sex with Men

"In every world region, men who have sex with men (MSM) face significantly higher rates of HIV than the general population."

This policy brief examines HIV risk factors and access to services among young MSM (YMSM), using data from the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF)’s 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights survey (2012 GMHR). The...

The FreeChild Project

"This paper examines a specific aspect of participatory action research [PAR] with youth, namely, the perceptions of the marginalized and at-risk youth participants who were reached through being involved in a youth-led project."

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This paper shares findings of a study to evaluate associations between online social networking and sexual health behaviours among homeless youth in Los Angeles, California, United States (US). According to the paper, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) disproportionately affect homeless youth. Estimates of HIV in homeless...

Revelados: Valores en Línea (Revealed: Values On Line) is an educational-entertainment television project directed to young people. The programme seeks to explore moral values by exhibiting a series of initiatives and actions that have taken place all over Colombia. This evaluation analyses all 21 episodes of the 3rd year of the series that...

"For me, COPING has meant getting through a tough time in life...from the moment my father was sentenced, as I have continually adapted to changes in my life."

This European Union (EU) conference outcome report from the end-of-project conference on The COPING (Children of Prisoners: Interventions and Mitigations to Strengthen Mental...

InsightShare

This is a video about the tool of participatory video, used by the organisation InsightShare. This introductory video features examples from InsightShare projects in Nigeria, Peru, Malawi, India, Rwanda, United Kingdom,...

According to this news article, tribal elders mobilised several hundred residents from villages in Lakki Marwat district in a northwestern Pakistani region - turning away polio eradication teams as part of a protest on June 10 2013. Their boycott was an effort to bring electricity to their area; the message was that as long as they have no...

"Borrowing a [message] from the rally organized by the polio victims, all Nigerians should complement the government efforts in 'kicking' polio out of the country."

This paper discusses the "good", "the bad", and "the ugly" aspects of polio vaccination in Nigeria - one of 3 remaining polio-endemic countries.

by Evaluation and Research

"...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."

"Program planning and implementation must include all stakeholders while simultaneously improving clinical services, and generating greater and better-informed demand for appropriate support and quality services."

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This slide presentation, with accompanying PDF document, provides a project description of the Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescent (ELA) programme of BRAC, a non-governmental organisation serving Bangladesh and 10 other countries around the world. It evaluates the impact of the microfinance/livelihoods aspect of the projects in Uganda...

"Not all of these results were anticipated in Battlestorm's initial design, but they do demonstrate a pivotal role for youth as initiators of talk about hurricanes and hurricane prep. The significance of conversations prompted by the game cannot be overestimated. Our research shows that, once the impetus to communicate is established, and...

"School programs can be effective in modifying knowledge, attitudes, and habits relevant to long-term risk of chronic diseases associated with sedentary lifestyles."

COMBI Showing Results - Ebola

This publication summarises results of Communication-for-Behavioural-Impact (COMBI)'s applications in various circumstances, according to the expected behavioural results specified from the outset of each intervention. According to this document, having clear behavioural outcomes as programme goals is an essential prerequisite for measuring...

The Media Development Impact Dashboard 2012 is an annual assessment of the impact the work of the Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) on the financial sustainability of news businesses. It is compiled by analysing sales, reach, risk indicators, the number of people they employ, and other performance data gathered over the length of MDLF's...

The Impact of a Caribbean Home-Visiting Child Development Program on Cognitive S

This is a study of the impact of the Roving Care Givers programme of St. Lucia, a home visiting programme for vulnerable families of very young children.

mHealth Interventions

"This article aims to describe the steps and themes in the mHealth development process, using the examples of a mobile phone video messaging smoking cessation intervention and a mobile phone multimedia messaging depression prevention intervention, to stimulate discussion on these and other potential methods."

Digital

Handbook for Journalists

Reporters Without Borders, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has compiled and updated this book for journalists going to dangerous parts of the world, listing international norms for protecting themselves and containing advice on how to stay alive and safe.

Topical questions include: What...

Digital Security

"In the face of increased human rights surveillance of ever-growing online traffic and the multiplication of commercial interest in user data, APC’s Connect Your Rights! campaign is ...putting out tips and tricks for human rights defenders to circumvent threats to their privacy and their information."

homeless.jpg

This paper shares findings of a study to evaluate associations between online social networking and sexual health behaviours among homeless youth in Los Angeles, California, United States (US). According to the paper, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) disproportionately affect homeless youth. Estimates of HIV in homeless...

"For me, COPING has meant getting through a tough time in life...from the moment my father was sentenced, as I have continually adapted to changes in my life."

This European Union (EU) conference outcome report from the end-of-project conference on The COPING (Children of Prisoners: Interventions and Mitigations to Strengthen Mental...

InsightShare

This is a video about the tool of participatory video, used by the organisation InsightShare. This introductory video features examples from InsightShare projects in Nigeria, Peru, Malawi, India, Rwanda, United Kingdom,...

"Borrowing a [message] from the rally organized by the polio victims, all Nigerians should complement the government efforts in 'kicking' polio out of the country."

This paper discusses the "good", "the bad", and "the ugly" aspects of polio vaccination in Nigeria - one of 3 remaining polio-endemic countries.

Out-of-School Adolescents and Youth in Yunnan, China

"This study investigated multiple aspects of vulnerability to HIV in out-of-school adolescents and youth in Yunnan Province, a high HIV risk region in China."

In this position paper, the authors maintain that due to the rate of HIV/AIDS infections in the United States (US), 13% of which occur annually among young people aged 13 to 24 years and an increasing number of perinatally infected youth, there is a need to develop transitional programmes for adolescents with chronic disease to address the many...

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From Manuel Manrique Castro: No one in this day and age can deny the vital role that education plays in the development of our nations. Everyone, no matter what their political inclinations might be, agrees that without quality education for all, the outlook for our collective future is uncertain.

Film and Video

The Programme Summary of the educational package "Revealed: Seen from Every Angle" has a detailed description of each episode of the television programmes, section by section.

Sponsored by the Women's Fund for Peace and Human Rights, the Yayori Journalist Award focuses on women journalists and artists (individuals or groups) who vividly describe and transmit the situation of women in the world with a gender perspective. Any genres of expression, such as films, writings, or printed material, will be considered,...

"Today, little data exist on the effectiveness of mobile games as channels for social and behavior change communication - and in particular on their effectiveness in addressing health issues in developing countries."

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...

"Outreach and strategic communications are linked to a film's ability to raise awareness about the issues, and a well crafted audience engagement plan moves the public to increased engagement, strengthened social movements and ultimately leads to social change."

Opening with an example documentary film inspiring social change...

Necesitamos poder hablar

This episode of Sexto Sentido, a Nicaraguan TV programme produced by Puntos de Encuentro , entitled Hablar cambia todo (Talking Changes Everything), deals with a young girl who is sexually abused by her grandfather, unbeknownst to her mother and father. The abuse continues until one day...

I Want to Fly: Dating Without Violence

This educational package includes an 18-minute special episode of Sexto Sentido, a Nicaraguan TV programme produced by Puntos de Encuentro that provides sexual and reproductive health education in the accessible format of a soap opera. This episode...

"...this is where Cinema Corner has a part to play by creating a forum for the often-unheard voices of women and girls whose lives are being devastated by sexual violence or illegal abortion or human trafficking."

The COMMUNICATIONS X-CHANGE is an online library of materials contributed by organisations and individuals around the world who are working to end violence against women and children. Contents of the searchable database highlight the effectiveness of using communication to stimulate change in attitudes and beliefs, influence social norms, and...

Radio

Handbook for Journalists

Reporters Without Borders, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has compiled and updated this book for journalists going to dangerous parts of the world, listing international norms for protecting themselves and containing advice on how to stay alive and safe.

Topical questions include: What...

Local Radio

This newsletter on publicity for community radio poses the question: "Do you have an audience?  Is anybody listening?" It describes a number of ways to increase radio audience numbers and how to measure the audience and programme impacts.

Promoting the station:

This paper explores the representations of "positive" cross-gender relations, as well as associated constructs, in the Soul Buddyz edutainment initiative, which is primarily geared towards 8-12 year-olds, and intended to provide "positive" role models for girls and boys.

Out-of-School Adolescents and Youth in Yunnan, China

"This study investigated multiple aspects of vulnerability to HIV in out-of-school adolescents and youth in Yunnan Province, a high HIV risk region in China."

Sponsored by the Women's Fund for Peace and Human Rights, the Yayori Journalist Award focuses on women journalists and artists (individuals or groups) who vividly describe and transmit the situation of women in the world with a gender perspective. Any genres of expression, such as films, writings, or printed material, will be considered,...

The Women's Human Rights Activities Award or Yayori Award comes from the estate of Yayori Matsui, who was a journalist and activist with global perspectives and who consistently spoke up for women and marginalised people. This award, given by the Women's Fund for Peace and Human Rights, has been created for grassroots women activists,...

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This 5-page journal article shares findings of a study to assess in-school adolescents' knowledge of HIV/AIDS in eastern Ethiopia. The study found that only about a quarter of in-school adolescents had comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and that this was associated with gender, family wealth index, and attendance at classes on HIV/AIDS and sexual...

This document reviews the empirical evidence of what works in low- and middle-income countries to prevent violence against women (VAW) by their husbands and other male partners. Its purpose is to help inform the future direction of the United Kingdom (UK)'s Department for International Development (DFID) programming on VAW, with an eye towards...

This paper investigates whether exposure to "edutainment" (education/entertainment) radio leads to improved women's status and primary school participation. Specifically, the author examines a popular radio station focusing on gender issues in Cambodia, the Women's Station FM 102. The author notes that "[m]ost of the literature on edutainment...

Television

Handbook for Journalists

Reporters Without Borders, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has compiled and updated this book for journalists going to dangerous parts of the world, listing international norms for protecting themselves and containing advice on how to stay alive and safe.

Topical questions include: What...

This Spanish language Video Blog 4: ¿Qué opinan del titular "Sé buena con tu macho en la cama?" is coupled with segments of a discussion on the media presentation of sexuality and gender embodied in the question in this title.

Revelados: Valores en Línea (Revealed: Values On Line) is an educational-entertainment television project directed to young people. The programme seeks to explore moral values by exhibiting a series of initiatives and actions that have taken place all over Colombia. This evaluation analyses all 21 episodes of the 3rd year of the series that...

The Programme Summary of the educational package "Revealed: Seen from Every Angle" has a detailed description of each episode of the television programmes, section by section.

This paper explores the representations of "positive" cross-gender relations, as well as associated constructs, in the Soul Buddyz edutainment initiative, which is primarily geared towards 8-12 year-olds, and intended to provide "positive" role models for girls and boys.

Out-of-School Adolescents and Youth in Yunnan, China

"This study investigated multiple aspects of vulnerability to HIV in out-of-school adolescents and youth in Yunnan Province, a high HIV risk region in China."

The Women's Human Rights Activities Award or Yayori Award comes from the estate of Yayori Matsui, who was a journalist and activist with global perspectives and who consistently spoke up for women and marginalised people. This award, given by the Women's Fund for Peace and Human Rights, has been created for grassroots women activists,...

ethiopia.jpg

This 5-page journal article shares findings of a study to assess in-school adolescents' knowledge of HIV/AIDS in eastern Ethiopia. The study found that only about a quarter of in-school adolescents had comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and that this was associated with gender, family wealth index, and attendance at classes on HIV/AIDS and sexual...

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...

This document reviews the empirical evidence of what works in low- and middle-income countries to prevent violence against women (VAW) by their husbands and other male partners. Its purpose is to help inform the future direction of the United Kingdom (UK)'s Department for International Development (DFID) programming on VAW, with an eye towards...

Community Participation

Local Radio

This newsletter on publicity for community radio poses the question: "Do you have an audience?  Is anybody listening?" It describes a number of ways to increase radio audience numbers and how to measure the audience and programme impacts.

Promoting the station:

The FreeChild Project

"This paper examines a specific aspect of participatory action research [PAR] with youth, namely, the perceptions of the marginalized and at-risk youth participants who were reached through being involved in a youth-led project."

InsightShare

This is a video about the tool of participatory video, used by the organisation InsightShare. This introductory video features examples from InsightShare projects in Nigeria, Peru, Malawi, India, Rwanda, United Kingdom,...

"Borrowing a [message] from the rally organized by the polio victims, all Nigerians should complement the government efforts in 'kicking' polio out of the country."

This paper discusses the "good", "the bad", and "the ugly" aspects of polio vaccination in Nigeria - one of 3 remaining polio-endemic countries.

"Behavioural HIV prevention interventions have had weak outcomes and a new generation of structural interventions have emerged seeking to challenge the wider drivers of the HIV epidemic, including gender inequalities and livelihood insecurities."

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From Manuel Manrique Castro: No one in this day and age can deny the vital role that education plays in the development of our nations. Everyone, no matter what their political inclinations might be, agrees that without quality education for all, the outlook for our collective future is uncertain.

"Structural interventions have the capacity to improve the outcomes of HIV/AIDS interventions by changing the social, economic, political or environmental factors that determine risk and vulnerability."

This report presents findings from a mapping initiative by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that aimed to capture how faith-based organisations (FBOs) respond to violence against women (VAW) and girls in the Asia-Pacific region. As a collaborative initiative between UNFPA and the Asia-Pacific Women Faith and Development Alliance (AP-...

This news piece features conversations with residents, imams, and health workers in Kano State, Nigeria, about the roots of ongoing suspicion of and resistance toward polio vaccination within conservative Islamic communities in northern Nigeria. As of this writing, Nigeria is one of only three countries where polio is still endemic; in 2012, it...

Materials

Handbook for Journalists

Reporters Without Borders, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has compiled and updated this book for journalists going to dangerous parts of the world, listing international norms for protecting themselves and containing advice on how to stay alive and safe.

Topical questions include: What...

Digital Security

"In the face of increased human rights surveillance of ever-growing online traffic and the multiplication of commercial interest in user data, APC’s Connect Your Rights! campaign is ...putting out tips and tricks for human rights defenders to circumvent threats to their privacy and their information."

Fundación Imaginario

In this Spanish discussion video, young women and men from Ciudad Bolívar, a neighbourhood in Bogota, Colombia, join video host Diana Ángel who reminds the group that violence exists in more forms than just physical violence. They speak about day-to-day occurrences where gender violence, domestic violence, and verbal and psychological violence...

This Spanish language Video Blog 4: ¿Qué opinan del titular "Sé buena con tu macho en la cama?" is coupled with segments of a discussion on the media presentation of sexuality and gender embodied in the question in this title.

Revelados: desde todas las posiciones

"Revealed: Seen from Every Angle" is an educational package made up of paedagogical materials designed to support educational processes about sexuality both in and out of the classroom.

The World's Youth: 2013 Data Sheet

From the Population Reference Bureau, this data sheet gives statistics on youth by country and in a variety of development-related categories, some of which are indicators applicable to communication for development.

Examples include:

The Programme Summary of the educational package "Revealed: Seen from Every Angle" has a detailed description of each episode of the television programmes, section by section.

This documentary focuses on the ongoing efforts to eradicate polio in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, so as to eliminate it globally once and for all. Taking viewers into India's impoverished neighbourhoods, The Final Inch, which aired on United States (US) television but is now available on DVD to anyone anywhere, tells the story of...

"With a unique target group of young girls and links to both sexual activity and cancer, HPV vaccination calls for multifaceted communications strategies."

From the World Health Organization (WHO), this website is meant to be a one-stop shop to find WHO and partner publications, tools, and resources on the human...