The Communication Initiative Network

This research evaluates the effectiveness of a programme created for HIV-infected African-American and Latino young men who have sex with men (YMSM), located in North Carolina, United States, called STYLE (Strength Through Youth Livin’ ...

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 ...

Below is some of the evidence on the use of communication strategies to tackle violence against women from Puntos de Encuentro, a Nicaraguan feminist organisation that works with young and adult women in developing their capacities to exercise ...

This impact evaluation in Spanish of the violence against women (VAW) campaign “A Disaster that We Men Can Avoid” from Puntos de Encuentro, Nicaragua, is directed to the men and women of nearly 250 organisations, women's groups, youth groups, ...

This International HIV/AIDS Alliance (The Alliance) report summarises the results of site assessments on HIV and drug use in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and Malaysia. The assessments were conducted by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and ...

"The objective of this article is to describe a program of research involving Familias Unidas, a Hispanic-specific, parent-centered intervention, aimed at reducing substance use and HIV health disparities among Hispanic youth."

"We undertook a systematic review, and a meta-analysis when appropriate, to assess effectiveness of interventions to reduce sexual risk behaviours, and consequent HIV infection, among young people (10-25 years) in sub-Saharan Africa." This study ...

"In countries where HIV prevalence has declined at population level, sexual behaviour change among young people has been cited as an important contributing factor. Yet, questions remain regarding how to achieve - and maintain - the ...

"In order to provide an enabling environment for preventing HIV and drug abuse, it is important to have an educated population, one that does not hold misconceptions or is discriminatory towards PLHIV [people living with HIV] and key affected ...

"I have become convinced that the sustainability of forests depends fundamentally on better treatment of the people living in and around them. Half of those are women." - Carol J. Pierce Colfer

"The year 2011 was the International Year of the Forest, which witnessed growing interest globally in the links between people and forests. Some of that attention has been directed at women’s roles as well..."

"Building on current arguments within the fields of C4D and development, the authors reinforce the case for effective communication being a central and vital component of participatory forms of development, something that needs to be appreciated ...

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"...Sesame Street is an enduring example of a scalable and effective early childhood educational intervention. The significant, positive effects on cognitive, learning, and socio-emotional outcomes observed in the current meta-analysis represent ...

This research report examines a sport-for-development programme, Football United, involving refugee, immigrant, and disadvantaged youth and children in Australia.

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

"The network's practice has shown that a participatory experience is the best way to teach children about social and financial education. Structured participation in the classroom allows children to be more active and as a result they have more ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

"We have to create the space for adolescent participation and adapt for the situation. The youth are demanding it. We just need to create the platforms for it....Youth has significant contributions to make." - UNICEF Egypt team

"...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."

"The main task in promoting optimal breastfeeding practices is to provide women with the right information at the right time, matched to their own perspectives and situation."

"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."

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 ...

"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 ...

"The way we engage in meaningful social change is being fundamentally altered by technology....Two key processes lead to tremendous success for nonprofits: becoming networked and using measurement."

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

"This study offers solid findings that exposure to a four-month Jalan Sesama intervention can benefit Indonesian preschool aged children....[This work shows that differential levels of exposure to the Jalan Sesama project affects and improves a ...

"There is growing interest in the integration of new technology and community development, particularly on the value that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can add to community voices in setting development agendas. In the digital age, youth ...

"Beyond financial constraints, one of the primary reasons disaster risk reduction in education is overlooked is the limited knowledge about the significance of the problem."

This presentation from the Programming for Adolescents and Youth in the Arab States/Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region conference in Istanbul, Turkey (December 3-7 2012) looks at the importance of the participation of children and youth ...

Commissioned by the Save the Children Albania Country Office a for a project ending June 2012, this evaluation sought to find out whether the project reached its goal: 'to achieve significant reduction of adult-to-children violence in the ...

This article from the journal Caribbean Quarterly (Special Issue on Communication in Action) reviews a condom distribution project in Jamaica through the Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI) lens. This framework is used to understand the ...

Abdullah, A. S., Y. W. Mak, et al. (2005) Smoking cessation intervention in parents of young children: a randomised controlled trial. Addiction (Abingdon, England) 1731-1740 DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01231.x  

 

  Aashima, G. and K. Sushma (2006). "Effect of counseling on nutritional status during pregnancy." Indian Journal of Pediatrics 73(8): 687-692.

"Working with representatives from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and other international partners, HELP has developed an Indicators Framework for monitoring rights in early childhood. This Framework is intended to assist the 193 signatory ...

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, ...

Entrants to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative(EITI) video contest will submit a short video in any style - dramatisation, documentary, animated or mixed format. The video will serve as a tool to engage, raise awareness, and ...

"At a time of growing emphasis on both the use of research and accountability, it is important for research funders, researchers and other stakeholders to monitor and evaluate the extent to which research contributes to better action for health, ...

After a decade of investment in capacity development of Southern PhD students whose interest is in research for sustainable development, the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South wanted to find out what had become of ...

This document describes and evaluates a South African project that demonstrated the use of culturally expressive forms - in this case, a locally developed musical style - as a vehicle for promoting dialogue between medical researchers and the ...

Big Bird Looks at the World (BBLW), the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street, launched in December 2010. Focusing on the theme of science and discovery, the 52 episode, 11-minute television series aims to use science as a vehicle to promote ...

Jalan Sesama is the Indonesian version of Sesame Street. Produced in partnership with Jakarta-based Creative Indigo Productions, it debuted on Indonesian television in mid-February 2008. Jalan Sesama means "street for all" in Indonesian, and is ...

Following an expert consultation, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Communication Indicators were established to help key stakeholders assess and monitor progress towards milestones outlined in the 2010-2012 Strategic Plan. They ...

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, ...

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.

The Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) was formed in Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2003 to support polio eradication efforts through improved planning, implementation, and monitoring of social mobilisation activities in areas at high risk of polio ...

"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 ...

"Impact Evaluation (IE) aims to demonstrate that development programmes lead to development results, that the intervention as cause has an effect."