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Background Paper for Communication for Development Roundtable


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Background Paper for Communication for Development Roundtable


Nicaragua, November 2001


Sponsored by UNFPA


In association with the Rockefeller Foundation and UNESCO


Paper prepared by the Panos Institute




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CONTENTS


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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




Source URL:
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/1296