The Communication Initiative Network

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multimedia library on the issue of the commercial sexual exploitation of adolescents as an internationally recognised act of violence. "It affects the integral development of children and teens, ...

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multimedia library on the issue of reproductive rights. The multimedia library is a compilation of 78 documents in audio, video and text including theoretical analysis, investigations, tools and ...

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexuality, HIV, and violence because "sexuality is an essential part of one’s wellbeing and development..., yet in the 21st Century violence against women, ...

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual and reproductive rights because of an increase in adolescent pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and ...

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual abuse because "sexual abuse is one of the worst human rights violations committed against women and children, a type of aggression against the integrity ...

"At a time when media landscapes are rapidly changing, journalism today needs to clearly show its added value for public interest."

"Polio eradication can be our generation's legacy to all future generations. Only working together can we make history and end polio." - Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication

"There is a lot of conflicting information out there, we want to present the facts in a simple way allowing people to make their own decision" - Dr. Mike Evans This animated talk (8:47 minutes in length) by Dr. Evans, illustrated by Liisa Sorsa, ...

"Deployment of the most appropriate insecticide based vector control interventions including nets and IRS [indoor residual spraying] needs to be informed by up-to-date data on insecticide resistance in the malaria vector species...." - Dr. Nabie ...

Launched on the occasion of the Third African Vaccination Week (AVW) in April 2013, this website from the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) Programme in Chad features up-to-date information and data on the situation of polio in Chad, while ...

"As digital technology advances and digital products become cheaper, it will not be possible for governments to exercise control on the flow of information."

"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 ...

 

"Community radio stations express their solidarity and denounce all forms of sexual or gender violence, from domestic violence to armed conflict. We ask states and governments for the recognition of the UN Convention for the elimination of all ...

This policy research report from the World Bank analyses participation in development projects. "It briefly reviews the history of participatory development and argues that its two modalities, community-based development and local ...

"At the heart of every social cause is the need to connect with people; to inspire, convince, and prompt them to take action or change behaviors. It is a tall order. Words, even carefully chosen words, are almost never enough. Time and time again ...

PATH's Vaccine Resource Library (VRL) gathers immunisation resources in a single website. The resources found on the VRL are collected from a variety of sources, such as scientific journals, websites, news media, and public health practitioners, ...

Laura Walker Hudson of FrontlineSMS explores the challenges of applying information and communication technology (ICT) to international development (ICT4D).

Laura Walker Hudson of the Kiwanja Foundation and FrontlineSMS speaks in this video, illustrated by cartooning, on the power of SMS or text messaging in areas where the internet is not easily accessible and where immediate attention to text-based ...

This International HIV/AIDS Alliance guide provides tips on how to do outreach work among communities of people who use drugs, in particular among injecting drug users (IDU). It includes suggestions on how to optimise the number of clients ...

Compiled from submissions to the 'Call for innovative health technologies for low-resource settings', the compendium series of medical devices and eHealth solutions has been created by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a neutral platform for ...

 

This World Bank video on solid waste disposal in Ghana explains the root causes of solid waste contamination in urban Ghana resulting from rapid economic development. It explains the link between diseases like cholera and malaria that result from ...

Journeys of Belonging is a multimedia project that takes an in-depth look at the personal narratives of 17 women and men of chosen for diversity. The project collected stories from people of diverse faiths, cultures, ages, gender identities, and ...

"With some six billion mobile subscriptions now in use worldwide, about three-quarters of humanity has access to a mobile phone. Mobiles are arguably the most ubiquitous modern technology - in some developing countries, more people have access to ...

This online resource includes polio communication resources developed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and CORE, who started working together in India in 2003 as the Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) to provide concentrated ...

"Transparency and trust are parameters to work with - before and while undertaking any communication activities - to ensure that information on immunisation is acknowledged by the public and advice is followed."

This guide offering tips on corporate governance is designed for reporters and editors who already have some experience covering business and finance. The goal is to help journalists develop stories that examine how a company is governed and spot ...

Produced as part of the Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health Information and Services Advocacy (YPISA) programme, this resource kit consists of a training manual for training young people, caregivers, and service providers, as well as a ...

This online learning course, "Climate Change for the Secondary Teachers on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (CCESD)" from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a training kit designed ...

Innovations, India, teaming with the Indian Institute of Young Inspirers, offers the sale of communication materials for use in health and development work, including training materials, entertainment-education (EE) materials, teaching learning ...

"Multiple sexual partnerships are a major driver of the HIV epidemic, and yet this topic is inadequately covered in HIV prevention curricula for young people."

This dictionary for people with hearing impairments includes HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) related sign language. It includes an illustrated guide to signing and signing for individual letters, along with ...

The Center for Media & Health (CMH), located in The Netherlands, provides Tips voor Scripts (Tips for Scripts), an online service platform available to social change organisations to make available content information (tip sheets) to inspire ...

Developed by Isis International as part of an endeavour by to explore innovative and strategic ways to communicate gender justice and climate justice issues, especially from Southern feminist perspectives, this toolkit presents communication ...

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

This booklet, published by Water Supply's Sanitation Collaborative Council in March 2011, was developed to help school girls manage the critical period when they enter adolescence between the ages of 10 and 14 and commence menstruation. The ...

his tool kit draws on years of experience of tuberculosis (TB) advocacy in the United Kingdom and abroad, and includes lessons learned in the field by the Advocacy Partnership, as well as desk-review. The purpose of the tool kit is to complement ...

"Information Literacy (IL) plays a fundamental role in building inclusive, pluralistic, equitable and participatory societies [b]y enabling people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information, as well as to become producers ...

This resource book was produced by the Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS), a member of the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance. The purpose of this resource tool is to summarise and analyse the ...

"Young people between the ages of 15 and 25 constitute a fifth of the world’s population. While they are often involved in informal, politically relevant processes, such as activism or civic engagement, they are not formally represented in ...

This toolkit aims to help communication for development (C4D) organisations demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of their initiatives, listen to the people they are seeking to reach, continuously learn, and feed this learning back into their ...

This factsheet, published by Desert Soul Health and Development Communication, offers information on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Namibia. As stated in the fact sheet "Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) can be ...

This guide is designed to support the media in their role of social mobilisation, policy advocacy, awareness creation, and community engagement for tuberculosis (TB) management and control. It provides information on key and current TB research ...

"Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism."

This cartoon, which is produced by children and for children, continues the story of Tounga, a young boy who leaves his village for the big city in search of a better future and then returns. After the first film Tounga, It can happen to you ...

Young Lives is an international research project studying the causes and consequences of children’s poverty through collecting survey data about children's lives, their families, their communities and their schools. In this book, the project ...