The Drum Beat 658 - Communication and Change News and Issues

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The Drum Beat - 658 - Communication and Change News and Issues

THIS ISSUE INCLUDES:
MATERIALS:	GBV Interview Film Guide, Radio Handbook
EDUCATE!	MS in Globalisation and Development Communication
EXPERIENCES:	Musical Refugees, CrowdOutAIDS, ECOCINEMA
APPLICATIONS WELCOME:	Virtual Leadership Development for SBCC Health Teams
STRATEGIC THINKING:	Empowering HIV+ Men, Free Flowing Pacific Info
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MATERIALS
1. Conducting Safe, Effective and Ethical Interviews with Survivors of Sexual and Gender-based Violence
This guide is for human rights activists, advocates, citizen journalists, citizen filmmakers, professional journalists, and others who are filming and conducting interviews with survivors of gender-based violence for human rights documentation and advocacy. [Witness, Aug 2013]

2. Children of Seasonal Migrant Workers
"This issue of Early Childhood Matters focuses on an almost invisible population - people who migrate seasonally in search of work, and their children. Often they live in poor quality temporary accommodation close to the work site, where children are exposed to risks of accidents and illness, and below the radar of local authorities meaning they can't access services such as preschool, school and healthcare. Articles explore the living conditions of seasonal migrant workers' children, and experiences with programmes designed to improve those conditions. Contributions come from the United States, India, Turkey, Mexico, Nicaragua and Africa." [Bernard van Leer Foundation, Nov 2013]

3. Handbook on Community Radio in Bangladesh: Voices for the Voiceless of Rural People [2nd Edition]
This handbook is a compilation of chapters and key aspects of community radio operation mechanisms. With the help of this handbook, community radio stakeholders will have access to knowledge of technical and management skills on the function, management, procedure, prospect, sustainability, working environment, culture, socio-economic status, challenges, and difficulties of running community radio. [Bangladesh Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), Nov 2013]

4. Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health Information and Services Advocacy (YPISA) Resource Kit
This resource kit consists of a training manual for training young people, caregivers, and service providers, as well as a flipchart for use by sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) champions to train their peers. [SAfAIDS, Jan 2013]

5. Online Conferencing Tools for Development Practitioners: Finding Your Path to the Right Conferencing Solution by Karel Novotný and Cheekay Cinco
This is a guide for development practitioners who are making decisions about selecting appropriate online conferencing tools (OCT). Rather than giving suggestions for specific applications and services, it is meant to help readers ask questions that will help them navigate the various OCTs that are available so they can choose the best tool to fit their needs. [Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Sep 2011]

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Master of Science in Globalization and Development Communication - August 2014-July 2015 - Temple University - Philadelphia, PA, United States

Temple University's School of Media and Communication is launching a new Master of Science degree in Globalization and Development Communication (GDC). GDC immerses students in 30 hours of coursework on communication theory and research methods, with specialisation in an area such as post-conflict challenges, peace and human rights, community development, media development and advocacy, public health, planning and governance, and sustainability and the environment.

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EXPERIENCES
6. Studio Live: Promoting Saharawi Voices through Music
Launched in October 2010 by Sandblast, Studio Live is a 3-year project to facilitate the flourishing of a local music industry for artists in the Saharawi refugee camps in the Algerian Sahara. The project aims to create a means for the community to develop and gain a voice through music, as well as to preserve cultural traditions. The project activities focus on working with emerging musical talent and encouraging the participation of women and youth.

7. CrowdOutAIDS
This is a collaborative online project to develop a new way for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to work with young people (aged 15-29) around the world in developing the Secretariat's new strategy on youth and HIV. It uses crowdsourcing to enable young people to shape the new strategy from conceptualisation to final drafting via a wiki-platform. Then, the UNAIDS Secretariat will put the crowd sourced youth strategy into action. The youth strategy may also become an advocacy platform in UNAIDS' work with partners.

8. ECOCINEMA
ECOCINEMA is a platform of itinerant and free cinema designed to raise awareness amongst people, especially children and youth, of the importance of increasing sustainable access to energy, energy efficiency, and the search for new sources of renewable energy. The mobile cinema is equipped with solar panels that capture the energy that is later used in the evening screening of short films related to the theme: a practical and efficient example of the use of renewable energies. [Medio&Medio Films and Solar World Cinema]

9. Uerê Project
The paedagogy of this project, designed to help small children recover from trauma resulting from public violence in Río de Janeiro, Brazil, emphasises fun games that are designed to stimulate memory and the expression of emotions through conversation. The traumatised children present a "block" in certain areas of the brain. This affects the formation of cognitive association, perception, verbal and visual memory, and comprehension of symbolism. As such, the teachers use their daily contact with the child to rebuild associative mechanisms and strengthen brain connections. [Yvonne Becerra de Mello]

10. PSI/Kenya Malaria Communication Campaigns
The Population Services International (PSI) malaria programme in Kenya works to support the government to achieve universal coverage of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs). Along with mass net distribution every 3 to 4 years, PSI has used communication campaigns to drive net ownership and use. These campaigns have included Ghost Children, Sweet Dreams, Malaria Ishindwe (defeat Malaria), and Mbu Nje, Sisi Ndani (Mosquitoes Out, All of Us In). The latter campaign adopted an integrated approach with radio as the major source of information, complemented by interpersonal communications through community-based organisations and other contracted agencies.

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Virtual Leadership Development Program (VLDP) for Health Teams Working in SBCC

The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) project is accepting applications for the Virtual Leadership Development Program (VLDP), which is focused on strengthening the leadership and management skills of teams working in social and behaviour change communication (SBCC). A highly interactive learning programme, the internet-based VLDP consists of 7 learning modules and virtual facilitation from leadership, SBCC, and organisational development specialists. It will launch on April 7 2014 and conclude on July 4 2014. The deadline for applications is February 28 2014. Click here for all the details.

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STRATEGIC THINKING
11. The Value of Positive Deviations by Arvind Singhal
In this paper, Arvind Singhal draws on the positive deviance (PD) approach to social, organisational, and individual behaviour change. This approach is premised on the belief that, in every community, there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviours and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources and often facing more daunting challenges. As Singhal explains, over the past two decades, the PD approach has been employed in over 40 countries to address a wide variety of complex social problems, including solving endemic malnutrition in Vietnam - an example that Singhal explores in detail. "Through this lateral expansion, the PD intervention became a nationwide program in Vietnam, helping over 2.2 million people improve their nutritional status, including over 500,000 children." [Jun 2013]

12. Keeping Them in "STYLE": Finding, Linking, and Retaining Young HIV-Positive Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men in Care by Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, Justin C. Smith, Erik Valera, Derrick D. Matthews, and Patrick Lyons
This research evaluates the effectiveness of a programme created for HIV-infected African-American and Latino young men who have sex with men (YMSM), located in North Carolina, United States, called STYLE (Strength Through Youth Livin' Empowered). The programme was created to engage and retain this population in HIV primary care services. Services included: a peer outreach worker, a case manager, and members of the research staff that formed a medical-social support network for the youth; the creation of weekly support group meetings; and availability of members of the research staff by text and/or phone to assist with appointment scheduling or to answer medical questions. [Jan 2011]

13. Use of Mobile Phones for Social and Behaviour Change by Osama Manza
"This consultation paper presents the key areas of emphasis in the growing mobile for development space in India. The purpose is to understand the scope and magnitude of the expanding mobile domain as it is lately linked essentially to advance development and governance objectives and seen as the most democratic technology medium to offer scope to deliver service needs anytime, anywhere." Pilots have shown that mobile projects can be effective in information dissemination, training of frontline workers, and supporting interpersonal communication practices, as well as creating multi-stakeholder partnerships. [Digital Empowerment Foundation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), May 2013]

14. Freedom of Information for Pacific Policy Makers
This is a report of a workshop on Freedom of Information for Pacific Policy Makers, Solomon Islands, at which representatives from 10 Forum Island Countries (FICs) discussed freedom of information (FOI) legislation. Participants were encouraged to think of good FOI law as providing a human right. "Everyone is entitled to information held by government....In countries where it may be difficult to enact legislation, as a first step, governments should be encouraged to develop information disclosure policies...." Amongst good practices for legislative inclusion is monitoring and promoting open government - including training public officials and educating the public. [Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pacific Centre, Nov 2008]

15. Why Radio Matters: Making the Case for Radio as a Medium for Development by Mary Myers
This document provides information supporting the use of radio as an important tool for development. By providing examples and statistics on the use of radio and comparisons to other media outlets including television, internet, and mobile technologies, the author argues that "radio, on its own or in partnership with new information and communication technologies (ICTs), is as vibrant and dynamic as ever." Streaming internet broadcasts, reporting via mobile technologies, and podcast programme production are examples of ways in which radio dovetails with other ICTs. Likewise, listeners are able to access radio via mobile devices or provide information to radio stations for broadcasting via text messaging in the event of an emergency. [Developing Radio Partners, Jun 2010]

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This issue of The Drum Beat was written by Kier Olsen DeVries.

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