The Drum Beat 751 - Seeking Your Support; Thanking Those Supporting

• 1. Communication and Development Studies, Ohio UniversityOffered in the United States (US), this Master's degree programme "emphasizes the use of communication to promote positive social change....The 'Comm Dev' curriculum encompasses core courses that emphasize topics and proficiencies in areas that include Communication and Social Change; Development Theory; Communication Theory; Participatory Research Methods; and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)....[S]tudents have specialized in areas that include, among others, health communication, participatory video, the digital divide, gender and development, conflict resolution, and the political economy of media. The program encourages original research..."
  
  • * This CI summary, UNICEF/Ohio University C4D Face-to-Face Workshop: A Behavior & Social Change Theory Toolbox for C4D, provides a quick snapshot of behaviour and social change theory in C4D. To access all summaries on communication theories on The CI website, click here.
  • * The CI has many resources on the topical foci of Communication and Development Studies, Ohio University, such as participatory video, gender, and the digital divide. Please head to our home page and search or browse around.
  • * Our ICT for Development area may also be useful.
  
  
• 2. Equal Access InternationalEqual Access [EA] is an international non-profit organisation working to create positive social change for underserved people across Africa and Asia through media programming, interactive technologies, and direct community engagement. Thematic areas include: peacebuilding, ending violence against women and girls, women's and youth empowerment, civic engagement, migration, economic development, and early childhood education.
  
  • * EA's Cameroon Peace Promotion Project (CP3) used radio programming and community engagement to improve access to factual information, reinforce community values of peace and tolerance, support moderate voices to mitigate extremist rhetoric, and promote dialogue in vulnerable communities on themes that can lead to conflict. Click here to learn more about it.
  • * See also The CI's summary of "Assessing Conflict Drivers and Re-Framing Radicalization in Northern Nigeria: Formative Research Report for the Farar Tattabara ("White Dove") Radio Project", which explores EA's strategy to prioritise youth civic engagement by using strategic communication to counter violent narratives in northern Nigeria through the Hausa language Farar Tattabara ("White Dove") radio platform.
  • * The CI's Early Childhood Development theme site may be of interest to you. We also offer a Communication: Achieving Results for our Children theme site and a bi-monthly e-magazine featuring our latest postings on issues related to children and development. To subscribe, send a message to: children@comminit.com
  • * You may also wish to visit our Adolescent Development and Participation theme site.
  
  
• 3. Globalization and Development Communication, MS / Temple University's School of Media and CommunicationTemple University's Master of Science in Globalization and Development Communication (GDC) covers the goals, issues, and practices of development communication. While the GDC programme includes training in research skills and theory, it emphasises effective action and involves a practicum capstone experience. Offered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, the programme prepares students with the knowledge and skills required to address challenges in areas such as public health, environmental sustainability, and human rights.
  
  • * Graduating students - or anyone looking to work in the fields of communication and media - may find information of interest to them in the Vacancies section on our Classifieds site. We welcome submissions as well! If you would like to list your vacancies, please contact Victoria Martin - vmartin@comminit.com
  
  
• 4. Health Communication Resources (HCR)HCR is an international not-for-profit "specialising in training grass roots community practitioners to utilise the power of community radio for positive social change. HCR's mission is to 'equip communities and partners with the skills and resources to support community transformation and well-being through community-centred radio programming'." HCR has recently carried out projects in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and remote Australia working with Indigenous communities.
  
  • * The CI has a Health Communication theme site , with an Africa-focused Health Communication theme site here.
  • * To subscribe to our bi-monthly mailing covering our most recent health communication postings, send an email with "subscribe" in the subject line to: health@comminit.com
  • * You may be interested in Soul Beat Africa's HIV/AIDS theme site and/or The CI's HIV/AIDS theme site.
  • * The CI offers a bi-monthly e-magazine complementing The Drum Beat and The Soul Beat through a specific focus on the role of communication in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. To subscribe, send a message to: aids@comminit.com
  • * If you would like to explore some of The CI's community radio summaries, click here.
  
  

• 5. iMedia AssociatesUnited Kingdom (UK)-based international media development and communications company iMedia works with "rapidly converging media to tackle communications challenges presented by conflict, fragile governance, and poverty." iMedia works with donors, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), researchers, broadcasters, and beneficiary communities, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. iMedia is currently advising on the media engagement strategy for a Department for International Development (DFID)-funded public sector reform programme in Nigeria and conducting a review of Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)'s media assistance programmes worldwide.
  
  • * You may find our Democracy and Governance theme site useful for your work.
  • * Please see also our Fragile Contexts - State Building Network.
  • * To subscribe to our niche e-magazine sharing the latest CI postings on media development, send an email to: mediadev@comminit.com
  
  
• 6. International Development Research Centre (IDRC)"A key part of Canada's foreign policy efforts, IDRC supports research in developing countries to promote growth and development."
  
  • * Click here to view the January 2018 Drum Beat 750 - Empowering People through Research-Based Communication, which explores IDRC's use of strategic research and communication to enable people to protect their rights, improve their livelihoods, and empower them to enact positive change.
  • * Click here to access CI content reflecting use of the communication strategy of research.
  
  
• 7. InternewsHaving worked in over 90 countries since its formation in 1982, Internews "is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard....Internews trains both media professionals and citizen journalists, introduces innovative media solutions, increases coverage of vital issues and helps establish policies needed for open access to information."
  
  • * Click here to filter through the hundreds of postings on The CI site related to Internews' work. See, for example, a January 2018 summary of "Social Media in Afghanistan: Users and Engagement", available here.
  • * Please see The CI's Media Development theme site for more.
  
  

Please consider attending the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit (featuring Entertainment-Education) - April 16 to 20 2018, Nusa Dua, Indonesia.

Registration is now open for anyone with an interest in learning about and furthering the science and art of SBCC. Click here for more information.Click here for details.

• 8.Population Media CenterDrawing on the entertainment-education approach in its work in more than 50 countries, Population Media Center is dedicated to women's rights and empowerment, population stabilisation, and the environment. Its drama-based strategy "addresses multiple, deeply-entrenched beliefs and the scale of impact creates the conditions for long-term individual behavior change and new societal norms."
  
  • * Click here to view (and search/filter) CI offerings from/by/about the Population Media Center.
  • * The CI's Entertainment-Education theme site shares resources that draw on popular culture for a purpose.
  
  
• 9. The Manoff GroupThe mission of The Manoff Group (TMG) is to "help families improve their wellbeing by using their own resources to practice healthy behaviors....TMG's systemic, behavior-centered approach focuses programmers (not just communicators) on achieving behavioral outcomes as proximal indicators to improved health."
  
  • * TMG focuses on evidence-driven social and behaviour change (SBC) programming to promote healthy populations. This technical brief from TMG aims to clearly define social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) and to clarify key health communication terms.
  • * Another summary that may be of interest is "Paving the Way for a Healthy Life: The Wheel of Practices for Better Living: A Strategy and Tool for Promoting Maternal Health and Preventing Chronic Under-nutrition", which focuses on the Nutri-Salud (2012-2017) project's Wheel of Practices, an SBCC strategy to address some of the multiple causes of chronic malnutrition in Guatemala.
  
  
• 10. The Media Studies and Journalism Department of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)Located in Dhaka City, ULAB "aims to continuously produce graduates who are globally competitive, critical in thinking, problem solvers, excellent communicators and professional through a curriculum that is liberal arts-based and devoted to communication, journalism and media studies."
  • * The Training, Conferences, and Meetings section on our Classifieds site offers a number of upcoming events that may be of interest to those studying the media and journalism. (If you would like to submit information about a training programme or C4D gathering, please contact Victoria Martin - vmartin@comminit.com )
  
  
• 11. University of GuelphOntario, Canada's University of Guelph provides "learning for local and international development education and research....At the Masters and PhD level, graduate courses and student research projects typically address communication, learning and community engagement processes as they relate to the areas of environment, agriculture, food, and rural communities, in Canada and around the world....Networking our teaching and research work in communication for social and environmental change globally is the motivation for our recent involvement in the Glocal Classroom where four universities on four continents collaborate to teach and learn using the WWW."
  • * To access our Natural Resource Management theme site, click here.
  • * University of Guelph is part of the Global Research Initiative for Rural Communication (GRI-RC). This paper - Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Building Evidence, Informing Policy - is one product to emerge from GRI-RC.
  • * Click here to read a summary of a thesis presented to The University of Guelph called "Campus/Community Radio in Canada: Linking Listener to Broadcaster with Web 2.0 Technologies."
  
  

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