The Communication Initiative Network

This document reviews the empirical evidence of what works in low- and middle-income countries to prevent violence against women (VAW) by their husbands and other male partners. Its purpose is to help inform the future direction of the United ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

"...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 interview was conducted to mark the anniversary of a polio milestone in India: 2 years without reporting a single case of polio. To learn more about the strategies that led to this accomplishment, including communication strategies, Eric ...

"Internews believes local media is an under-utilized tool in public health strategies. Establishing, supporting, and enhancing local information platforms can contribute significantly to health-seeking behavior and community mobilization around ...

The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), CASBAA, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) seek Asia-Pacific broadcasters and producers to submit entries for the Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award. The Award, launched in 2001, is given each ...

Created as part of World Immunization Week, April 2012, this video shares an example of how one United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) office is engaging in immunisation campaigns and raising awareness about the importance of vaccines to child ...

Journalists working in print, broadcast, or online media (as well as affiliated freelance journalists) have a chance to win a 2-week study tour to the United States (US) and cash prizes as part of 3 regional competitions to recognise the best ...

 

Nalamdana, a communication organisation in rural and urban Tamil Nadu, India, uses participatory behaviour change communication (BCC) to create entertainment education (EE) with the goal of enabling audiences to make better-informed decisions for ...

Where will be the children of Edison Flores, the young man who died ten years ago lying on a steep street of Comuna 8, one of the leaders of the bloc of the AUC Metro [El Bloque Metro - a paramilitary organisation reported to be of the extreme ...

"How often do climate-change communicators take the time to understand what audiences know, think and feel about climate change? Not often enough I fear."

This research on the nutritional needs of women in farming communities of Uttarakhand, India, suggests a need for further educational information and the possibility of providing it through information and communication technology (ICT).

The Center for Media & Health (CMH) is a Dutch organisation specialising in the strategic use of "cross media" formats for social change. The centre develops interventions that contribute to improving the health and quality of life through ...

This 56-page report shares the results of a sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) baseline survey conducted by SAfAIDS (Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service) in five provinces in Zimbabwe, which looked at young ...

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 ...

"Progress towards gender goals requires a long-term commitment to equity, empowerment, continuous monitoring, evaluation and research to inform our understandings of how media development can be best leveraged in pursuit of these goals."

The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is accepting applications for grants to support creative reporting that covers international development issues. Journalists are encouraged to break away from the stereotypes of covering development issues and ...

"...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."

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 video describes the strategic approach of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organisation based in the United States (US) and working in 150 countries around the world to entertain while educating preschool children in the areas of ...

This document offers programme guidance on the issue of cervical cancer to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Offices and programme managers in Ministries of Health and partner agencies. Cervical cancer, caused by sexually-acquired ...

Prepared for the web conference: Mass Media for HIV Prevention Among Young People in November 2010, this outline was created to guide the presentation in the following areas:

Broadcast in the United States (US), Yo Soy Tu Niña is an original telenovela-style miniseries whose storyline focuses on the contentious relationship between a 15-year-old adolescent and her father in order to address the issue of teen pregnancy ...

Through a partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Population Media Center (PMC) has expanded the social efforts of MTV Latin America's telenovela Ultimo Año ("Last Year") with the launch of the SexySex campaign. Ultimo ...

Inversión en la Infancia (Investment in Childhood) is an initiative designed to raise awareness among public and private institutions and citizens about the need to invest in children in early childhood (0-5 years of age) as a key poverty ...

This is a Peruvian internet TV channel dedicated to disseminating projects on childhood and social development. The Bernard van Leer Foundation helped to start the channel. Its central purpose is to publish sectorial dialogues from different ...

This children's television channel, operated by the Ministry of Education of Argentina, focuses on children aged 2 to 11 years in Argentina and Latin America. The experience of producing the children's series of programmes for Canal Encuentro led ...

VACUNATON was a mass vaccination campaign - organised as a televised health festival with television spots preceding it - conducted on April 15 2012 in 48 of 323 municipalities in Bolivia, selected due to their risk for measles and rubella. The ...

This manual seeks to help social communicators and journalists communicate about early childhood and the rights of children adequately, efficiently, and in a timely way. The manual is a part of the 2009 Organization of American State (OAS) ...

"Primeira Infância Melhor (PIM) (Best Early Childhood)" is the public policy of early childhood for Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, organised around three structural axes: the family, the community, and intersectoral cooperation of social services. ...

Chile Grows with You, a comprehensive child protection system, is designed to assist and protect all Chilean children, with the goal of supporting them in their development from birth until they enter the school system as pre-kindergarteners. ...

"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 ...

"The Arab world in revolution(s)" is a resource of ARTE, a European public-service cultural television channel, that intends to capture the change in Arab countries, often called the "Arab Spring", as "a unique moment in history" and give Arab ...

"...as important as it is to prevent, identify, and punish media abuses  -  including its penchant for stimulating consumerism and early sexualization  - this approach is inadequate to address the interrelationship between the ...

There is a problem in reducing the art of communication into a science with preset tools, processes and templates. It manifests itself in the avoidance / incapability of or aversion to examination of cultural, social and economic nuances that ...

  Date: January 16 2013   Cardiff University's Community Journalism Conference will explore the latest thinking, research, and hands-on experience in the rapidly developing field of hyperlocal and community journalism and examine the ...