Panos Institute

The November 2001 Communication for Development Roundtable, sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in association with the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was held in Managua Nicaragua from November 26-28, 2001.

This paper was prepared in advance of that meeting by the Panos Institute and distributed to serve as background for participants.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART 1: HIV/AIDS AND UNGASS: A NEW ERA OF COMMITMENT?

Communication approaches and strategies on HIV/AIDS: what's new, what's not?

• UNAIDS New Communication Framework
• The Rockefeller Foundation Communication for Social Change Network: behaviour change depends on social change

So, is this new and does it matter?

• A mosaic of approaches

HIV becomes political again: treatment, stigma, men

The challenge for communicators: immediate action or necessary reflection?

PART 2: SOME OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE COMMUNICATION FIELD

A changing communication environment

Development and Donor Trends: Information and Development = the new new?

• The Knowledge Debate
• ICTs and poverty
• Human Development Report 2001
• The G8 DOTForce
• The UN ICT Task Force
• ICTs leading to a wider analysis of the role of information in development
• A Global Civil Society
• World Summit on the Information Society