Edited/Distributed by HURINet - The Human Rights Information Network --------------------------------------------------------------------- ## author : wfeek@COASTNET.COM ## date : 06.11.98 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Drum Beat - 6 - Communication and Change News and Issues November 8th, 1998 The email and web network from THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE partnership - The Rockefeller Foundation, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, BBC World Service, CIDA, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Soul City, The Panos Institute, UNFPA. Information, ideas, linkages and dialogue on communication, development and change. Web Site: http://www.comminit.com Contact: wfeek@coastnet.com PROGRAMMES 1. MANENO MENGI ["lots of words" in Swahili] - Zanzibar and Tanzania - This new organisation develops low-cost digital video for community development. It currently works with an emerging organisation for coastal people in South Tanzania; a community TV initiative in Zanzibar that promotes dialogue between residents and authorities on the threatened stone town; and the Tanzanian national land forum for promoting debate on land rights. Training in participatory video is planned for early next year t ogether with Zanzibar NGO resource centre and Zanzibar International Film Festival. Contact: Farida Nyamachumbe, Verena Knippel, Lars Johansson maneno@africaonline.co.com 2. Point of View - India - a Bombay-based non-profit organization that aims to promote the point of view of women through creative use of media. This year they organised a travelling photographic exhibition called 'In Black and White' which critically explored the reality of 50 years of India's independence from the point of view of women. Contact Madhuri Dass pov@bom3.vsnl/net.in 3. Community Media Programme [CMP] - Kenya - a programme of Econews, promotes the development of community-based media in Kenya and East and Southern African. Premise: media owned, controlled and produced by, for and about communities can serve as vital fora for debate on development, governance and human rights at local level as well as the preservation and promotion of local culture(s) and indigenous knowledge. Such media provide critical two-way conduits for the flow of information between the local, national and international perspectives. Two activities include support to advocacy and training activities of the Kenyan Community Media Network; and support for an East African pilot project to establish three community radio stations in Kenya, Tanzania; and Uganda. Contact Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki wanyeki@iconnect.co.ke 4. Panos - WEst Africa - Equipment grants to new independent radio stations. As part of its Media for a democratic West Africa programme, the Institut Panos Paris will be awarding three grants for radio equipment, with a maximum value of 7.5 million F Cfa each, to independent radio stations in the following countries: Cap Vert, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Togo, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone. Contact Panos@malinet.ml or BDP.Panos@malinet.ml 5. The HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care [HAPAC] - Kenya - supports community based organisations [CBOs]. 60 percent of the AIDS/HIV activities are undertaken by CBOs. The pilot phase increased the number of stakeholders providing support to CBOs. Key communication issues being addressed include volunteer commitment, information flow on HIV/AIDS issues and accountability. The programme will expand to 7 provinces. This is a Ministry of Health/Futures Group/DFID initiative. Contact Richard Odindo richard@futures.co.ke 6. Benton Foundation - USA - "Communications Policy and Practice" programme tracks and reports on U.S. communications policy and how nongovernmental organization are using communications technology. While the focus is on the U.S., it is also applicable to practitioners and policymakers throughout the world. One specific activity is "Communications-Related Headlines" This free service sends out daily (Monday through Friday) summaries of mainstream U.S. press coverage of communications policy and practice related news stories. See a sample at: http://www.benton.org/Lists/bento n-compolicy.txt Subscribing info is at: http://www.benton.org/Lists/. Contact Jillaine Smith jillaine@benton.org 7. Voice of America - USA - Child health, more than 12 million children die from diseases we know how to prevent, is an increasing priority for the VOA under the new leadership of Evelyn Lieberman. Building on the international "Broadcasting for Child Survival Conference" they hosted with USAID, VOA is now producing public service announcements in all it's language services [these are available to all broadcasters], has commenced a web site intended to be a library of child survival programming and is supporting the development of the Association of Broadcasters for Child Survival [ABCs]. Web site is www.voa.gov Contact Mary Ellen Glynn meglynn@usia.gov FEATURED - Communication Initiative Web Site - http://www.comminit.com 8. South Africa - Communication developments and Soul City - an INTERVIEW with Shereen Usdin from Soul City. Shereen comments on the changing communication scene in South Africa and future plans for Soul City. http://www.comminit.com/interview.html 9. India - communication changes in India and their implications for the strategies of development organisations - a FOR REVIEW piece by Nuirupama Sarma. http://www.comminit.com/peerrev.html 10. Information in support of your work - The Communication Initiaitve web site has brief descriptions of over 200 communication and change programmes, 90 pieces of impact data and 60 communication country profiles. The search page facilitates you looking for the specific information you need. http://www.comminit..com/search.html WEB SITES 11. The Thomson Foundation provides media training worldwide for press, radio and television and all aspects of journalism and broadcasting. Their web site includes information on the press and broadcasting, training courses, scholarship and funding details and SCOPE, their magasine. Web site www.cardiff.ac.uk/thomfound/ Contact Val Williams williamsval@cardiff.ac.uk PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS 12. Bill Ryerson is now President of Population Media Center, an NGO recently established to work worldwide in bringing about stabilization of human population numbers at a level that can be supported sustainably by the world's natural resources and lessen the harmful impact of humanity on the Earth's environment. Work will concentrate on entertaiment broadcasting designed to encourage decisions favoring replacement (or lower) level fertility. Bill was previously at PCI. Contact Billl Ryerson pmc@populationmedia.org 13. Pact, the non-profit, international development organization based in Washington, DC, have just formed a Strategic Communications Services unit. It provides training and technical assistance to client organizations to build capacity to develop and maintain effective communication and information management strategies.Web site http://www.pactworld.org Contact Jeff Kwaterski jkwaterski@pacthq.org 14. Kristin Kalla will be the new Technical Advisor for the Rwanda Center for Health Communications with PSI under the USAID AIDSMARK grant. The focus will be support to a local non-profit NGO providing information, education, and communication (IEC) on HIV/AIDS/STIs interventions. Contact Kristin Kalla psikalla@rwandatel1.rwanda1.com IDEAS AND INFORMATION REQUIRED 15. Carel Tenhaeff from the Netherlands Institute on Care and Welfare is seeking information on job creation programmes for women that include a built-in health promotion component and have been properly evaluated. The information is required to support initiatives the Institute is taking on this theme and for a written publication. Web site www.nizw.nl Contact Carel Tenhaeff C.Tenhaeff@NIZW.NL MATERIALS 16. P. Sainath's book "Everybody Loves a Good Drought - stories from Indias's poorest districts " published in India in 1996 [where it topped the best seller lists] has now been published in the U.K. It contains perspectives which many consider important to communication strategies. Ordering information from http://www.amazon.co.uk. Contact Sainath Palagummi psainath@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu 17. The DFID magasine "Developments" had an article by leading British television journalist Jon Snow. He argues that poverty can not be eradicated without getting the media involved. Reflecting on his time living in Uganda and other experiences in Africa, Snow's comments include "There will never be much progress in eradicating poverty if 'the people' have little idea of what world poverty involves and what eradicating it would entail". Contact The Editor n-tancock@dfid.gtnet.gov.uk 18. "Social Uses and Radio Practices - The Use of Participatory Radio by Ethnic Minorities in Mexico", a book by Lucila Vargas that examines the social value of particpatory radio and it's potential for improving the living conditions and self-esteem of the poor in Mexico. The publishers have provided 50 copies for free distribution to communication and social change practitioners. For a copy, contact Lucila Vargas lcvargas@imap.unc.edu For those in a position to purchase the publisher is Westview Press. 19. "Assessing Aid" is a new study from The World Bank. In advance material the Bank describes the study as "What Works, What Doesn't and Why". Release date is 11 November; available on http://www.worldbank.org/research/aid/ ---------------------------------- Send mail for the 'huridocs-tech' list to 'huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. Mail administrative request to 'majordomo@hrea.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: 'owner-huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. 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