PROGRAMMES
1. "Soul Buddies" - South Africa - 1st 8 episodes of the 26-part TV series for children have been produced. Key topics in series are: AIDS & Sexuality, Trauma/Abuse, Disabilities. Accompanying print materials for teachers and children in grade 7 and for parents are currently in development. This is a co-production between Soul City, the Institute for Health and Development Communication, and SABC. Contact Sue Gold suegold@soulcity.org.za
2. Seeds of Peace International Camp - Middle East/USA - this conflict-intervention and community building summer programme for Arab and Israeli youth is located in Maine, USA. In addition to traditional camp activities, youth meet together every day, under the supervision of professional Israeli, Arab and American facilitators, for 2-hour "Coexistence Sessions". They co-operate a camp radio station throughout the summer and learn computer skills in order to be able to communicate via the internet after the summer. http://www.seedsofpeace.org Contact seedspeace@aol.com
3. New Start - Zimbabwe - a Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Network aiming to motivate healthier sexual behaviour and prevent the spread of AIDS through social marketing. New Start has integrated its focus on individual customized risk-reduction strategies into existing health service institutions and has opened sites within these for counseling with trained staff. Marketing is through TV, radio, print mass media advertising and drama groups within each community hosting a New Start center. Contact Christina Eyre CEYRE@psiwash.org
4. Educational TV channel - India - this collaboration of the National Telecaster Doordarshan and Indira Ghandi National Open University will include programmes for schools, teacher enrichment education, open and distance learning, vocational courses, and courses for disadvantaged sections of the society. Subjects include career guidance, computer education, preparation for competitive exams, edutainment, arts, culture, tourism and other developmental themes, and an educational current affairs programme. Will telecast 1 interactive hr daily wherein teachers and experts will clarify for listeners through phone contact. They are seeking free educational software for use in programming. Contact Dr. R. Sreeder sreedher@hotmail.com
5. ChildInfo - Global - Having determined geography is an important contextual attribute for social development information systems, UNICEF is beginning to explore creation of a digital image of the world accessible through the Internet. The GIS-linked database will describe a comprehensive information system which will link information on development outcomes with information on policy, programme inputs, programme outputs on evaluations and reviews, and contextualize these within a geographical location. Contact Roger Pearson rpearson@unicef.org
6. GreenCOM/Mali - Mali - was a project to increase environmental awareness and to mobilize communities around environmental issues. Worked to integrate environmental education (EE) and to introduce participatory teaching methods into school curricula, collaborated with community radios by training local journalists to develop and transmit EE messages into local languages, and joined with local NGOs and community groups on neighborhood cleanup programmes in Bamako. Designed and supported by USAID/Bamako, working with Ministry of Basic Education, Ministry of the Environment, NGOs, media personnel and public and community school systems. Contact Richard Grieser rgrieser@glovisinc.com
7. NetAid - Global - UNDP has become the owner of the domain www.netaid.org. A team led by UNDP's Bureau for Resources and External Affairs, is developing products for the web site, including a Classified Section linking NGO needs to eradicate poverty with those able to donate in-kind goods and services. Strategies have been developed to deal with each of the NetAid registered individuals, NGOs, and corporations. Contact Cassandra Waldon cassandra.waldon@undp.org
STRATEGIC THINKING
8. Reproductive Health Staircase - The concept of Reproductive Health is accepted everywhere, but is not implemented in many countries because many people and organizations are confused about the meaning and content of Reproductive Health. A visual tool can help clarify. The Staircase effectively visualizes and humanizes specific Reproductive Health risks experienced by one female throughout her lifetime. View & Download: at website - click here.
Contact John Davies jdavies@alephx.com
WEB SITES
9. South Centre - an intergovernmental organisation of 46 developing countries of the South. The Centre works to assist in developing points of view of the South on major policy issues, and to generate ideas and action-oriented proposals for consideration by the collectivity of South governments, institutions of South-South co-operation, intergovernmental organizations of the South, and non-governmental organizations and the community at large. Click here for website.
10. Online/More Colour in the Media - offers links related to issues of minority access to the media labour market and minority portrayal in media programming in the European network. It presents employment, education and broadcasting projects and a range of links on minority representation in the media. Click here for website.
11. "From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal" - a monthly electronic technology newsletter for technology leaders, thinkers and teachers. Includes the "Tech Top 10," a list of sites which emphasize using new technologies as tools to support problem-solving and decision-making. Click here for website.
MATERIALS
12. South Pacific Media in Development - Senior journalism students of the University of the South Pacific and associated journalists have compiled a special issue of the newspaper 'Wansolwara' devoted to the problems of the South Pacific media in development. Examines the recently lifted media gag in the Solomon Islands, ethics and training in the region, profiles some of the leading editors, and looks at press freedom. Click here for website.
Print copies: Journalism Coordinator, University of the South Pacific, PO Box 1168, Suva, Fiji Islands.
13. Film for NGO's fighting FGM - MediaHouse in Cairo, with support from Unicef and the Ford Foundation, has finished a short film for the usage of NGOs fighting Female Genital Mutilation. Film examines why FGM is practiced, the reactions to it and its significance - structured as a dialogue from women's perspectives and in women's voices. For review of film: Click here for website.
Contact Jos M. Strengholt Strengholt@MediaHouse.org
14. Participatory Approaches and Communication for Water and Sanitation Programming - A resource package on approaches and tools which aims to serve planners, implementors and field workers who are dealing with advocacy, social mobilization and programme communication for change in water and environmental sanitation programming are accessible at: Click here for website.
15. Call for materials and ideas - for a Workshop on Communication for Health Promotion in Adolescent Health to be held by The Caribbean Medical Association (AMECA) at its V Congress on Workers' Health in Havana, Cuba 17-21 Apr. 2000. Contributions to be published in the Proceedings of the Congress. Contact delaosa@ceniai.inf.cu
GATHERINGS
16. An Electronic Communications (EC) Training Workshop for women from gender oriented organisations in Ghana was held by ABANTU for Development on 20-24 Sep. 1999. ABANTU is committed to "enhancing the capacity of African people, in particular women, to participate in development and to increase the participation of women in the political and economic structures". Workshop provided an understanding of the historical, cultural, legal and gender implications of EC policies, along with skills in the use of e-mail and the Internet for research, networking and advocacy. Click here for website. Contact Rose Mensah-Kutin abantu@africaonline.com.gh
17. "Communication Capacity Building for NGOs" was the theme of training supported by UNICEF-Armenia in 1999. 4 local NGOs promoting children's rights to health, education and protection participated in the training conducted by the Center for Policy Analysis of the American University of Armenia. Outcome of the project was development, implementation and evaluation of communication campaigns in a variety of mass media by the 4 NGOs in the areas of breast-feeding promotion, HIV/AIDS prevention and childhood disability. Contact Gohar Khojayan gkhojayan@unicef.org
18. ICRC sponsored a workshop, "Reporting War and Conflict" at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug. 10-13. It sought to develop strategies and guidelines for African journalists involved in reporting local and international conflicts. Attended by journalists from Nigeria, Tanzania, Swaziland, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia. Article with guidelines for discussion: Click here.
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