The Communication Initiative Network

The Media Studies and Journalism Department of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) believes in an educational approach that is personalized, technologically updated and centered on active learning. It upholds a curriculum that is ...

Reporters Without Borders, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has compiled and updated this book for journalists going to dangerous parts of the world, listing international norms for protecting ...

"In the face of increased human rights surveillance of ever-growing online traffic and the multiplication of commercial interest in user data, APC’s Connect Your Rights! campaign is ...putting out tips and tricks for human rights defenders to ...

This paper shares findings of a study to evaluate associations between online social networking and sexual health behaviours among homeless youth in Los Angeles, California, United States (US). According to the paper, HIV and other sexually ...

"For me, COPING has meant getting through a tough time in life...from the moment my father was sentenced, as I have continually adapted to changes in my life." This European Union (EU) conference outcome report from the end-of-project conference ...

This is a video about the tool of participatory video, used by the organisation InsightShare. This introductory video features examples from InsightShare projects in Nigeria, Peru, Malawi, India, Rwanda, United Kingdom, Uganda, China, South ...

"Borrowing a [message] from the rally organized by the polio victims, all Nigerians should complement the government efforts in 'kicking' polio out of the country." This paper discusses the "good", "the bad", and "the ugly" aspects of polio ...

"This study investigated multiple aspects of vulnerability to HIV in out-of-school adolescents and youth in Yunnan Province, a high HIV risk region in China."

In this position paper, the authors maintain that due to the rate of HIV/AIDS infections in the United States (US), 13% of which occur annually among young people aged 13 to 24 years and an increasing number of perinatally infected youth, there ...

From Manuel Manrique Castro: No one in this day and age can deny the vital role that education plays in the development of our nations. Everyone, no matter what their political inclinations might be, agrees that without quality education for ...

In 2012, Ewen Callaway travelled to Northern Nigeria, one of the three last remaining polio-endemic countries, to learn more about the global polio eradication effort. This article describes his search to find out about one of the virus' last ...

This 19-page journal article shares findings of a study to explore the degree to which transactional sex is sometimes motivated by youth’s interest in modern goods, rather than basic survival. The study examined this association in two regions ...

"Using social media for research may allow researchers to readily access and engage network members; and requires utilization of rapidly evolving technical mechanisms to ensure confidentiality. It also requires utilization of new strategies to ...

"'A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.' Mark Twain's quote is more relevant than ever in times of online communication, where information or misinformation, bundled in bits and bytes, streams around ...

"Today, little data exist on the effectiveness of mobile games as channels for social and behavior change communication - and in particular on their effectiveness in addressing health issues in developing countries."

  My main concern with an increasing reliance on big data is that the space for possibility and the need for control or certainty too often operate in an inverse relationship. In international aid and philanthropy, our work is often focused ...

This PowerPoint presentation, shared at the Entertainment Education (EE) Conference in India in 2011, shares findings of a study to analyse the use of social media to advance HIV/AIDS awareness in South Africa. The study investigated how the ...

This research compares factors associated with low HIV/AIDS knowledge among internet-using men who have sex with men (MSM) in South Africa and the United States (US). [Footnotes are removed throughout by the editor.]

"Outreach and strategic communications are linked to a film's ability to raise awareness about the issues, and a well crafted audience engagement plan moves the public to increased engagement, strengthened social movements and ultimately leads to ...

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 article from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, describes a study done in Mexico City on the feasibility of reducing HIV risk behaviours using a conditional cash transfer programme that encourages HIV prevention ...

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’ ...

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 ...

As part of Foundation Puntos de Encuentro's strategy against commercial sexual exploitation of adolescents (CSEA) (2011-2013), Alerta y Pilas Puestas ("Alert and Be Ready") was launched in 2012 in an effort to build the capacity of adolescents as ...

From Adnan R. Amin:

From a meeting for journalists to assess the importance of media in shaping and influencing public perceptions of migration, this document contains recommendations for reporting, involving migrants, media actions, and governmental and ...

"The worldwide trend toward smaller families - average family size has declined by half since 1950 - is linked to advances in education and health care and increased opportunities for women. This great global success story can continue only if ...

"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 ...

This 58-page report outlines research exploring sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV needs in migrant, mobile, and border populations in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), highlighting implications for HIV prevention ...

"One of the most exciting findings of the South African Network Society Survey is that the profile of Internet users has changed....In spite of the poor fixed-line infrastructure in South Africa, people are managing to connect using their mobile ...

This global campaign to change the culture of food waste was launched on January 22 2013 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and partner Messe Düsseldorf.

iheed develops animated films for the training of health workers in developing countries across the globe, using its online crowd-sourcing platform, iheedCrowd. This platform is established for the digital design community to address global ...

Research4Life announces a competition to recognize the role of librarians and library staff in building the capacities of Research4Life users and in impacting the overall work of their institutions.  This competition is open to all ...

The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is an international competition for youth-led projects that encourage the active participation of young people under 30 years of age in the emerging information society. It is intended to be a global 'youth for ...

"When adolescent girls win, everyone wins. The primary motivation to improve the health of and health care for adolescent girls must always be the wellbeing of girls themselves. But girls are also agents of positive change for their future ...

"The younger generation is most active on social media, and will help in creating the right buzz to stop violence against women." - Asian Age, March 8 2013 This report illustrates some data from the March 8 2013 global launch of Ring the Bell ...

This PowerPoint presentation describes the methodology of the organisation Breakthrough in selecting a communication route to establish a women's human rights campaign against sex selective elimination (SSE) of female gender foetuses before ...

This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) distance post-literacy project in Pakistan is based on mobile technology. Women are able to reinforce their newly gained literacy by accessing and sending mobile phone ...

"...Arab women remain bound by the societal customs with little space to challenge them directly and limited public venues for an open dialogue that positively involves all components of the society."

This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) document examines information and communication technology (ICT) use in educational assessment. It asks:

"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 ...

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) in collaboration with its national, regional, and international partners has launched the "2013 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Media Competition on Information and ...

To provide an opportunity for sharing menstrual hygiene management (MHM) research

The Rajasthan Patrika Group (Rajasthan, India) of newspapers launched a campaign, Bhatti mein Shahar, in 3 states against illegal installations, lack of licensing norms, and excessive levels of radiation of mobile cell towers.

"Shared, or social learning uses the knowledge and experience of each participant in the learning process - it is a looped (or iterative) process of sharing information, knowledge and experience and then applying that to an action. This in turn ...

Date: April 16, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm ET Location: FHI 360 Conference Center, 1825 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009, United States The Global Health Knowledge Management (KM) Share Fair is a one-day symposium for global health and ...