Drawing your Own Conclusions: Communication & Natural Resource Management - Experience/Theory
Summary
Communication and Natural Resource Management: Experience/Theory
Drawing Your Own Conclusions
Theme: Planning for Action
Learning Objective: To prioritise the lessons of the previous 8 experiences and reflect on how they will impact your future communication for development and NRM work.
Below is a chart on which you can write the key lessons or important points you were asked to note down at the end of each experience.
Experience 1
Community Based Natural Resource Management – Namibia
Theme: Principles and Action
Learning Objective: To improve participants' understanding of the relationship between differing communication principles for effective change, and the planning and organisation of their actions.
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Experience 2
Pastoralist Communication – Kenya
Theme: Voices and Action
Learning Objective: To advance participants' understanding of effective communication strategies, where substantive action is sourced in the voice and perspective of the people most affected.
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Experience 3
Indigenous Forest Management – Cambodia
Theme: Issue Analysis for Action
Learning Objective: To expand participants' skills at analyzing the issues to be addressed by the communication initiative.
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Experience 4
Recovering from Conflict – Viet Nam
Theme: Contextual Analysis for Action
Learning Objective: To improve participants' skills at analyzing the contexts for change.
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Experience 5
Internet Radio - Sri Lanka
Theme: Culture and Action
Learning Objective: To expand participants' awareness of the relationship between culture, context and strategy, in developing effective communication initiatives.
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Experience 6
Regional Networking – Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Theme: Behavioural or Social Action
Learning Objective: To develop participants' ability to understand the relation between individual behaviour change and structural/social obstacles or supports to that change.
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Experience 7
Creating Local Organic Markets – Turkey
Theme: Education or Dialogue for Action
Learning Objective: To improve participant's ability to understand key differences between approaches emphasising education or dialogue and the programmatic implications of those emphases.
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Experience 8
Environmental Education and Communication Project: El Salvador, The Gambia, and Jordan
Theme: Innovation and Action
Learning Objective: To heighten participants' critical skills at matching the requirements for action with the context for that action.
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Consider the list you've made above and ask yourself whether these lessons will cause you to change the way you approach your work in the future. If the answer is yes make a few notes below about how your work will change.
Now consider the list again in terms of what you think are the most important lessons to keep in mind in your future work. List them below in order of priority:
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Placed on the Communication Initiative site July 31 2003
Last Updated July 31 2003
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