The Drum Beat -11 - Communication and Change News and Issues
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January 18, 1999
The email and web network from THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE partnership
- The Rockefeller Foundation, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, BBC World Service,
CIDA, Johns Hopkins University 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: Warren Feek
mailto:wfeek@coastnet.com
PROGRAMMES
1. Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) - Romania - provides tech-
nical assistance to the Romanian Public Health and Health Management
Association (RPHHMA) to enhance capacity and to implement activities
which impact upon Romanian national health policies and programs. They
are interested in information on experiences with Public Service An-
nouncements, "best practices" on PSAs, and further communications
strategies.
Contact: James Chauvin
mailto:jchauvin@cpha.ca
2. End Violence Against Women - Global - Mar. 8, 1999, the United Na-
tions Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) will host a global multimedia
event: "A World Free of Violence Against Women". Live, 2-way video will
link human rights activists in India, Kenya, and Mexico with UN deci-
sion-makers and government, academic, and media representatives in dis-
cussions on critical policy directions and successful actions. Join as
an observer via two options: video conferencing or the World Wide Web.
Contact: Lea Browning
mailto:lbrowning@igc.apc.org
3. Media House - Egypt - produces professional videos for development.
Using a community based approach, they are developing 10 programmes of
25 minutes each for parents of children who are mentally challenged and
several videos against female genital mutilation.
Contact: Jos M. Strengholt
mailto:J.Strengholt@MediaHouse.org
4. "Knowledge and Information for Development" - Global - The E.D.I. of
the World Bank and the Panos Institute invite you to join an electronic
debate on this theme commencing Feb 1st for 6 weeks. The debate re-
sponds to the growing consensus that the future prosperity and progress
of all countries will depend on how people and governments access, in-
terpret, use and create knowledge and information and how best to seize
the opportunities presented by the information age. This initiative is
designed to foster a frank, focused and productive discussion. If you
would like to participate, please send an e-mail to:
<majordomo@jazz.worldbank.org>
Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message, type:
subscribe ikd@jazz.worldbank.org
If you do not subscribe, you will still be able to read the messages at
the Development Forum web site (http://www.worldbank.org/devforum)
Contacts: Kerry McNamara
mailto:Kmcnamara1@worldbank.org
and James Deane
mailto:jamesd@panoslondon.org.uk
5. Television Violence and Its Impact on Children - India - was the
theme of a UNESCO-UNICEF public hearing on Dec. 5 in New Delhi. Based
on a study conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Advocacy and Re-
search which found that psychopathic behaviour constitutes 26%-50% of
programming on a given day on single channels, with over 50% of the
violence graphic in nature, this was the first time members of the Mum-
bai-based film and television industry were sensitised to impacts of
their programming.
Contac: Latika Padgaonkar
mailto:L.padgaonkar@unesco.org
6. Africa Alive! - 8 African countries - an initiative to improve re-
productive health and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst youth
through synergistic partnerships. 48 representatives from Ghana, Kenya,
Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe met in
Harare, Zimbabwe (November 16-19, 1998) for the first Stakeholders'
Meeting to endorse and plan the initiative.
Contact: Anne Akia Fiedler
mailto:strtalk@imul.com
mailto:strtalk@swiftuganda.com
7. ID21 (Information for Development in the 21st Century) - Global - an
Internet-based system which links development research and researchers
directly to policymakers and development practitioners world-wide. Key
feature is an online collection of short digests of the latest social
and economic research studies. Newsletter is also available at:
http://www.id21.org
Contact Geoff Barnard, Programme Manager
mailto:id21@ids.ac.uk
8. SCARCNet (Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center) - USA - a net-
work for public health, policy, and communications specialists engaged
in tobacco control advocacy. SCARCNet provides advocacy resources, in-
cluding facilitated discussions and content dissemination of news sum-
maries, research publications, and media advocacy tools:
http://www.scarcnet.org
FEATURED ON THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE WEB SITE
http://www.comminit.com
9. Change Theories
Social Cognitive Theory
http://www.comminit.com/power_point/change_theories/sld005.htm
Social Expectation Models
http://www.comminit.com/power_point/change_theories/sld008.htm
10. Planning Models
CDC's Health Communication Wheel:
http://www.comminit.com/power_point/planning_strategy/sld021.htm
Generalisations about Organisational Factors that Affect Campaigns:
http://www.comminit.com/power_point/planning_strategy/sld023.htm
Capacity and Environment Window:
http://www.comminit.com/power_point/planning_strategy/sld025.htm
11. News Articles:
http://www.comminit.com/news.html
Funding for Communication and Reproductive Health - Zambia - Dec. 31st
Neonatal Health Communication Service - Malaysia - Jan. 7th
Television Venture - Kenya - Jan. 8th
Media Ownership - India - Jan. 6th
WEB SITES
12. Radio Netherlands: "Community Radio" - articles on and links to in-
formation about community radio initiatives:
http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/community/index.html
"Clandestine Radio" - launched with an article relating the history of
Radio Venceremos and Radio Farabundo Marti:
http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/clandestine/index.html
Contact Francois Laureys
mailto:francois.laureys@rnw.nl
13. The Unit for Media & Communications (Tata Institute of Social Sci-
ences) in Bombay, India is a resource programme engaged in media pro-
duction, teaching, and cultural studies research and dissemination:
http://members.tripod.com/~kpjayasankar/Home.htm
14. Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is an NGO "striving to
advance and inform movements for peace, economic and social justice,
human rights and environmental sustainability around the world by pro-
moting...use of...computer networking technology." Programmes include:
PeaceNet, WomensNet, EcoNet and ConflictNet:
http://www.igc.org
GATHERINGS
15. The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is organising
"Reporting on Women's Health Care," a three-day conference in Con-
stanta, Romania in June 1999. 50 women journalists from Romania,
Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Macedonia will be invited as
delegates. Now seeking nominations for other delegates and speakers.
Contact: Amy Johnson, Program Director
mailto:asjIWMF@aol.com
16. VISIONS-AFR is a new space for people and organisations within and
outside of West Africa to come together, discuss, and work on issues of
gender, reproductive health and rights. This bi-lingual forum (French
and English) also serves as a bulletin board to post conferences, work-
shops, rallies. To subscribe contact:
<majordomo@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
in body of email write:
subscribe visions-afr
leave subject header blank.
17. Hurricane Mitch Postponement - UNAIDS' regional workshop on the de-
velopment of a framework for communications programming for HIV/AIDS in
Latin America and Caribbean, which was to be in Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
on Nov. 4-6, 1998 will now be held in Santo Domingo, capitol of Domini-
can Republic, Jan. 20-22, 1999.
Contact: Collins Airhihenbuwa
mailto:aou@psu.edu
MATERIALS
18. Communications-related Headlines is a free daily online news serv-
ice provided by the Benton Foundation. Includes important USA communi-
cation industry developments, policy issues, and other pertinent commu-
nications-related news events:
http://www.benton.org
19. "Communicating Health: An action guide to health education and
health promotion" by John Hubley, explores the role of communication in
improving people's health and discusses strategies for health educa-
tion, health promotion and empowerment of families and communities.
Published by Macmillan, 1993.
20. "A Tool Box for Building Health Communication Capacity" is a col-
lection of practical, field-tested tools to be used by practitioners of
modern health and social communications throughout the developing
world. Materials include models, concepts, and strategies dealing with
logistical barriers, cultural contexts and personality differences.
Published by USAID, Health Com, & BASICS Apr. 1995 - reprint May 1996.
PEOPLE
21. New members of the "Journal of Health Communication" Editorial
Board include: Tom Eng - Interactive Health Communication; Warren Feek
- The Communication Initiative; Gary Filerman - George Washington Univ.
School of Public Health & Health Services; and Ilona Kickbusch - Yale
University School of Medicine:
http://www.aed.org/JhealthCom
Contact: Scott Ratzan
mailto:sratzan@smtp.aed.org
22. After 7 years, Gabriel Urgoiti will soon be leaving his position as
Director of the Media Training Center at the Progressive Primary Health
Care Network in Cape Town, South Africa. He will continue to work as a
consultant in the areas of Health Promotion Communication and Develop-
ment.
23. AMARC (Association Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires),
the Canada-based World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, is
offering an internship/p-time job as Asst. to the Training Project Man-
ager - Deadline 20 Jan. 1999. Send letter of motivation (max. 2 pps.)
to :
Secretariat International
3575, boul. Saint-Laurent, bureau 611
Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T7, CANADA
Fax: +1-514-849-7129
Contact Sophie K. Ly
mailto:secgen@amarc.org
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