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Battle Star Development: Prescriptions vs. Platforms

Posted by Warren Feek on Sat, 2009-06-27 10:18
 

Within international development circles we often hear and read of Policy Platforms. The problem is that, though they are policies, they rarely have platforms at the centre of their proposed action. Too often they are prescriptions for how to approach an issue or problem.    What is the difference? A platform establishes a foundation through which the people most involved or affected by a development issue can debate, organise, and review to address that issue. A...[Read More]

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Trading Rights

Posted by Warren Feek on Tue, 2009-06-23 10:11
 

Trading Rights   What connections are there between the internet and gold prospecting? Of course, the obvious one is that most digital technology processes seem to emerge from Northern California and that was also the scene of the great 1849 Gold Rush. But the possible connection that I am thinking of is that, like gold prospectors, we can all spend so much time on the internet dredging through useless sludge before we find a little nugget!...[Read More]

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Another Development

Posted by Ricardo Ramirez on Mon, 2009-06-22 11:37
 

[This piece is co-authored by Wendy Quarry.] For a long time those of us who belong to the cult of communication practitioners have believed that good communication makes good development. In broad terms, when we say "good communication" we are talking about participatory communication. Participatory communication emphasizes "listening", while mainstream communication focuses on "telling". We think of participatory communication as one that shapes the very nature of development. We think of conventional communication as the one...[Read More]

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Scaling Steep Slopes - The Public Policies Helping to Transform Medellin

Posted by Warren Feek on Mon, 2009-06-22 11:36
 

Can there be any argument with a policy that drives strategies and programmes that reduces homicides from 184 to 26 per 100,000 adults over a 5 year period [2003 to 2007]; significantly raises a city's Human Development Index score [74.35 in 2001 to 80.4 in 2006]; sees the Quality of Life Index zoom upwards [68.09 in 2001 to 83.77 in 2006]; and makes considerable economic gains for that city? Not to mention puts more smiles...[Read More]

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Accountability, media and the development system: a complicated romance

Posted by James Deane on Mon, 2009-06-22 11:35
 

Achieving development results - and openly accounting for them - must be at the heart of all we do.- Accra Agenda for Action on Development Effectiveness September 2008  The development system knows that it will fail unless it makes dramatic advances in accountability. Making developing country governments more accountable to their citizens, making international aid providers more accountable to those meant to benefit from it - these are central components of current attempts to make aid...[Read More]

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People, Ideas and Things

Posted by Warren Feek on Fri, 2009-06-05 16:04
 

 One sure-fire way to start an argument in any development policy meeting that includes a cross-section of the international development disciplines is to contribute, as softly and gently as possible of course, a comment along the lines of it being time for the economists to move over and let those who see effective development from the perspective of people, not data, begin to run things. This is even more fun if you are in The...[Read More]

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Donors, Governance and Media Aid: Some Thoughts from Sierra Leone

Posted by Bill Orme on Fri, 2009-06-05 16:03
 

It's a fine sunny Sunday in Man o' War Bay in Freetown, with fishing boats heading out into the balmy Atlantic as I sit here reading about media development, a sure indication of unhealthy obsession. But I'm finding the BBC-World Service Trust (WST)'s "Governance and the Media" survey of media-development-policy types to be one of the most useful fresh contributions I've seen to this field, adding to other impressively thoughtful pieces put out by...[Read More]

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ChangeNet: The Lessons from Obama's campaign for International Development Democracy and Governance Policy and Action

Posted by Warren Feek on Fri, 2009-06-05 15:59
 

 President-elect Obama and his team have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to foment and support change. Much of that change relates to the practice of democracy and governance which is also such an important global development priority. Of course the major change challenges of a global economic melt-down, climate change, poverty, global security, relations between peoples of different faiths, and other vital issues now await an Obama Administration. But we should all reflect on what we...[Read More]

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Another Development 
 
Scaling Steep Slopes - The Public Policies Helping to Transform Medellin 
 
Accountability, media and the development system: a complicated romance 
 
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Donors, Governance and Media Aid: Some Thoughts from Sierra Leone  
 
ChangeNet: The Lessons from Obama's campaign for International Development Democracy and Governance Policy and Action 
 
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Battle Star Development: Prescriptions vs. Platforms 
Trading Rights 
Another Development 
Scaling Steep Slopes - The Public Policies Helping to Transform Medellin 
Accountability, media and the development system: a complicated romance 
People, Ideas and Things 
Donors, Governance and Media Aid: Some Thoughts from Sierra Leone  
ChangeNet: The Lessons from Obama's campaign for International Development Democracy and Governance Policy and Action 
Cable News 
Democratic Adjustment? 
Should international development NGOs play a major role in media for development? 
A Robust Research Agenda on Media and Democracy in Fragile States: Getting a More Serious Conversation Going 
Governance and the Media: the engagement gap 
A "democratic recession" presents challenges - and opportunities 
The commonalities lens sees AIDS better 
The TransAtlantic Taskforce on Development: great report, but where is the development and democracy debate headed? 
Development Street - no Wall? 
Media and democracy in fragile states: the promises and problems of policy relevant research  
Deportation of Rex Gardner is a Weak Attempt to Intimidate Fiji Media 
The media debate in the UK is unique - but the challenge of subsidising independent public interest media has urgent implications for democracy everywhere 
The Athenian Way!...or should that be "Why?" 
Winds of Change - Media Development Trends and Questions 
The Fairness Doctrine: is this the first big media debate under Obama and what does it mean for media development? 
Disaster-affected communities are and should be the architects of their own recovery, not merely passive recipients of international goodwill 
OBAMA, DEVELOPMENT, AID, and GRANDMOTHERS! 
Is a free and plural media more important than elections in securing democratic development? 
Media Development or Media for Development?: wrong question - but what’s the right one?  
A Rose by Any Other Name is Still a...the basis for one coherent Communication and Media Development field of work  
Accra: The big tent approach to development ends in agreement – and information is one of the big winners 
Where the European Union meets the African Union on media development 
Community Radio Initiators Ready to Run the Stations Soon in Bangladesh 
Re-vamping UNICEF’s Africa Communication for Development Strategy 
Accra Aid Effectiveness conference: can there be real “country ownership” without public debate? 
Big Investors - The Vacant Low Level Seat at the Accra High Level Development Effectiveness Summit 
Kenya Political Violence - Were Media Responsible? 
Tides of Hope? 
Miming Development: The Shortest Distance and International Development 
Over the Edge! 
Power of Movement 
Science Envy?: A Communication Perspective on the Core Principles that Guide International Development Interventions 
Talk with the People! 
AIDS Lines 
I Blame Smallpox 
I Had [I Think] A Dream 
Little Big Communication 

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