The Drum Beat - 27 - Communication and Change News and Issues
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The email and web network from THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE partnership
- The Rockefeller Foundation, UNICEF, USAID [HIV/AIDS, CHANGE], WHO,
BBC World Service, CIDA, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communica-
tion Programs, The European Union, Soul City, The Panos Institute,
UNAIDS. Information, ideas, linkages and dialogue on communication, de-
velopment and change.
Web Site: http://www.comminit.com
Director: Warren Feek
mailto:wfeek@coastnet.com
PROGRAMMES
1. Radio Show for Adolescents - Uganda - launched by Straight Talk
Foundation and broadcast in English on 2 Kampala FM stations, the 22
min. show contains youth interviews, panel discussions, songs, sweep-
ers, advice from experts, a quiz question, interviews with interesting
teens and young adults. Topics include: right age to have sex; girls'
right to say "no"; changing behaviour; conflicts with parents; and
pressures on boys to have sex. Local language shows, to be broadcast
Sept. 1999, will target out-of-school youth who do not speak English
and address issues of HIV prevention.
Contact Cathy Watson
mailto:strtalk@imul.com
2. Community Mobilization Project to Eradicate Female Genital Mutila-
tion - Kenya - PATH and Population Action International (PAI) are work-
ing with Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization (MYWO) to develop commu-
nity-based programmes to reduce the incidence of FGM. District-level
teams are designing and implementing communication programmes to in-
crease awareness of the harmful effects of FGM and to promote alterna-
tive rituals that retain the cultural significance of the practice
while eliminating the physical and emotional trauma.
Contact Elaine Murphy
mailto:emurphy@path-dc.org
http://www.path.org
3. "Rahi Mathwale" - India - a 1 hour radio programme for truck drivers
was broadcast from July 1998 - Jan. 1999 by the All India Radio Bhopal
in association with the Madhya Pradesh AIDS control organisation India.
Broadcast on 19 radio stations, it included Hindi film songs to draw in
the audience, messages on AIDS, live interviews with drivers, inter-
views with the medical community, and interviews with truckers' fami-
lies.
Contact Dr. R. Sreedher
mailto:sreedher@hotmail.com
4. The Foundation for Independent Radio Broadcasting (FNR) - Russia -
was set up by BBC MPM in April 1999. Its weekly "Environmentally
Friendly Magazine" is broadcast on national and regional radio stations
and was originally funded by the TACIS Environmental Awareness Pro-
gramme for CIS. It won the Best Radio Programme nomination at the 3rd
"Ecology Russia - 98" Russian Journalism Competition.
Contact Tim Williams
mailto:tim.williams@bbc.co.uk
http://www.fnr.ru
5. "Youth Whispers" - Egypt - a 20 min. TV programme on youth issues
has been developed by UNICEF and the Egyptian AIDS Society and broad-
cast weekly on Alexandria's Channel 5. Aims to promote young people to
identify and voice views on issues of concern for them and to increase
community awareness of issues of concern for adolescence and youth and
to make sure they are better informed and better equipped. Includes in-
terviews, live tapings of youth and parent focus groups, and quiz ques-
tions promoting change in behaviour which offer a prize for the correct
answer.
Contact Ibrahim El-Kerdany
mailto:iel-kerdany@unicef.org
6. Health Information Waystations - Global - With input from WHO, World
Bank, and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications/ICSU, development has begun on a 5 yr project to upgrade
1,000 existing health information resource centers throughout the de-
veloping world into digitally-enabled Information Waystations (IWs).
Project would supply computer, CD-ROM drive, databases, modem, global
satellite telephone & Internet link, and includes training, mainte-
nance, technical support and development of individual sustainabilility
for each IW.
Contact Chris Zielinski
mailto:dvt@compuserve.com
7. Investments in New Media for Development - USA - The Markle Founda-
tion has given a $50,000 grant for the International Rescue Committee
to develop and implement 1) Child Connect, a software-based programme
to reconnect refugee children with their parents, and 2) Kosovar Family
Finder, using database technology to provide refugees with location in-
formation of displaced persons.
Contact Julia Moffett
mailto:info@markle.org
http://www.markle.org
WEB SITES
8. Voices of Youth has a "Rights Referendum" online at:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/rig/crc.html
They are also initiating a new discussion forum for young people:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/misc/aids.html
where youth can test their knowledge of HIV/AIDS (medical knowledge as
well as the socioeconomic realities of the pandemic) by taking the quiz
on HIV/AIDS. Both sites available in English, Spanish and French.
9. The Panos Institute - Dakar Antenna has added to the Media for a De-
mocratic West Africa site. The photo gallery is online:
http://www.panos.sn/photo/toc.html - English
http://www.panos.sn/photo/tdm.html - French
10. Radio for Development (RfD) is a media consultancy specialising in
the design and implementation of public education campaigns in the de-
veloping world.
http://www.rfd.freeuk.com
11. The Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families is a national
United States resource center for journalists who cover children and
family issues. Mission is to enhance reporting about the issues and in-
stitutions affecting disadvantaged children and their families and to
increase public awareness about the concerns facing at-risk children.
http://casey.umd.edu/home.nsf
12. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) continues
online discussions surrounding the African Development Forum 1999
(ADF'99 - Challenges to Africa of Globalisation and the Information
Age):
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/adf/discuss.htm
Hosted by Bellanet, it began 1 June 1999 and will continue until the
start of ADF'99, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 25-28 Oct. 1999.
Summaries of posted messages are archived to:
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/adf/index.htm
13. Image Database - Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC) photo library
has photos related to reproductive health activities and other subjects
in developing countries. Non-profit organizations working to promote
public health in developing countries are welcome to request free digi-
tal copies.
http://www.jhuccp.org/mmc/photoshare
GATHERINGS
14. South Africa - 2nd National Gender and Media Symposium, focusing on
'Gender Politics and the Media' was held 14 May 1999. Included presen-
tation of a research report on Gender, Elections and the Media, as well
as the official launch of "Redefining Politics", a book which captures
the experiences of a sample of women politicians.
Contact Kubeshni Govender
mailto:Kubeshni@cge.org.za
15. International Executive Media & Television Workshop "How to Empower
Yourself with the Media" will be in Amman Jordan 5-7 Dec. 1999. 2nd in
a series designed to empower spokespersons and officials in both pri-
vate and public sectors. Organized by the Center for Development Commu-
nication, in cooperation with The United Nations Staff College in Tu-
rin, Italy, the focus will be on problem based learning - using exam-
ples from participants' own professional experience.
Contact Moncef M. Bouhafa
mailto:mbouhafa@cendevcom.org
http://www.cendevcom.org
MATERIALS
16. The African Women's Media Center (AWMC) has 2 new guides. The "Re-
source Directory for Women Journalists" lists national, regional and
women's media associations in Africa, along with international press
freedom and media groups. Also has training, fellowship, Internet and
career resources. "Women Meeting the Challenge: A Handbook for Media
Leadership" prepares women journalists to take management and decision-
making roles in the media. Handbook compliments training workshops pro-
vided by the AWMC.
Contact AWMC
mailto:awmc@metissacana.sn
OR
mailto:iwmfafrica@aol.com
http://www.awmc.com
17. "ICTs, Poverty and Development," a report on Development Informat-
ics from the Institute for Development Policy and Management, Univer-
sity of Manchester is available at:
http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm/idpm_dp.htm#devinf_wp
18. "Native Networking: Telecommunications and Information Technology
in Indian Country" a new Benton Foundation report, analyses the tele-
communications and information technology policy issues facing tribes,
focusing on the interaction between Indian sovereignty and federal and
state regulation in a quickly changing policy and practice area.
Contact Rachel Anderson
mailto:rachel@benton.org
http://www.benton.org/Library/Native
19. Call for information - for project to document environment/ sus-
tainable development (including health, women's rights, children's
rights and related issues) films produced in India from Jan. 1994 -
Dec. 1998. Film companies, private filmmakers, etc.
Contact Anjani Khanna
mailto:jasjiv@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in
20. Call for information - for book to be published on successful exam-
ples of agricultural information management in Sub-Saharan Africa, the
Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. Examples of sustainable ways organi-
zations have developed to obtain, manage, store, retrieve and dissemi-
nate agricultural information. Information-management aspect may be
part of a broader initiative. Send brief description including type of
activity, location, organization, and contact address to:
Paul Mundy
mailto:paulmundy@netcologne.de
21. Call for Information - The International Service for National Agri-
cultural Research (ISNAR) is seeking research results, researchers and
projects in: Agricultural research policy supportive to gender issues
and mechanisms to implement the policy; Gender-related issues in organ-
izational structure and development of agricultural research; Empirical
results of gender analysis at any stage of the agricultural research
programming and project cycle.
Contact ISNAR
mailto:isnar@cgiar.org
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