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New  Antología de comunicación para el cambio social: lecturas históricas y contemporáneas

Esta es la primera y única compilación de textos sobre comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social, un libro de referencia esencial en las universidades y centros de enseñanza especializados en el tema, así como para estudios de antropología, sociología o relaciones internacionales. El libro, de 1500 páginas, contiene 200 textos de 150 autores de todas las regiones del mundo; una referencia esencial tanto para los estudiosos como para los que trabajan en programas de desarrollo.
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Region: Global   Language: Spanish   Type: Book


New  Communication For Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings

This first-ever major reader and reference in communication for social change is suitable for university level study in communication, sociology, anthropology, international affairs, and development studies. It is also a ready reference and scholarly resource for communication practitioners and managers.
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Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Book


New  Future Connect: A Review of Social Networking Today, Tomorrow and Beyond, and Challenges for AIDS Communicators

This report produced by the Communication Working Group of aids2031 talks about how young people use social networking sites and services and how development and social change organizations are using digital technologies to extend their impact. It recommends ways on how to apply the learnings in HIV AIDS communication based on research and case studies from across the globe.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Report / Working Paper


New  Mujeres de Pastapur

En los pueblos alrededor de Zaheerabad, en una zona empobrecida del estado de Andhra Pradesh, India, muy pocas mujeres de Dalit quienes son analfabetas y que se dedican a la agricultura, utilizan instrumentos de comunicaciones como el video y la radio como parte de su lucha para logar la autonomía e independencia para sus comunidades.
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Region: Asia   Language: Spanish   Type: DVD


New  Public Conversation DVD

This DVD discusses how to facilitate public conversations on sensitive community issues that may not be readily discussed in communities.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: DVD


New  Voces del Magdalena: Comunicación para la Paz

"Voces del Magdalena. Comunicación para la Paz" es un video documental de 35 minutos sobre la red de emisoras comunitarias de la región del Magdalena Medio de Colombia. Esta región es tradicionalmente conocida como territorio de enfrentamiento entre guerrilleros y paramilitares, causando a lo largo de varias décadas un enorme perjuicio económico, político y social para la región.
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Region: Latin America   Language: Spanish   Type: DVD


New  Voices from the Magdalena: Communication for Peace

"Voices from the Magdalena. Communication for Peace" is a 35-minute video documentary on the community radio network in the Magdalena Media region of Colombia. The region is known because it is at the centre of confrontation between guerrilla and paramilitary forces. Decades of conflict have caused enormous economic, political and social damage to the people living in the region.
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Region: Latin America   Language: English   Type: DVD


New  Women of Pastapur

In the villages around Zaheerabad, an impoverished area in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, a handful of Dalit women, illiterate, mostly dedicated to farming, are using communications tools such as video and radio as part of their struggle to achieve autonomy and self-reliance for their communities.
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Region: Asia   Language: English   Type: DVD


Bibliography of Who Measures Change

An Annotated Bibiliography of Useful Websites, Reports, Books and Articles on HIV/AIDS Communication, Communication for Social Change, and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E).

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Publication


CFSC Consortium Brochure - French Version

Le Consortium de la Communication pour le Changement Sociale (Consortium CFSC) est une organisation globale à but non lucratif dont l'objectif est d'aider les personnes vivant dans les communautés pauvres et marginalisées à utiliser la communication pour améliorer leurs conditions de vie. Vous trouverez ci-dessous la plaquette de présentation du Consortium CFSC donnant des informations quant à sa mission, sa vision, sa stratégie et ses domaines d'intervention.

Region: Global   Language: French   Type: Press Release


CFSC Consortium Brochure - English Version

The Communication for Social Change Consortium is a non-profit organization dedicated to help develop poor and marginalized communities; by allowing them to use their voice to better their lives. The following is the Consoritum's brochure which explains our mission, our vision, the Consortium's strategy and how we work.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Press Release


CFSC Consortium Brochure - Spanish Version

El Consorcio de Comunicación para el Cambio Social es una organización global sin fines de lucro dedicada a desarrollar comunidades empobrecidas y marginadas a usar la comunicación para mejorar sus vidas. Lo siguiente es el folleto del Consorcio cual explica su misión, visión, estrategia y áreas del trabajo para nuestros visitantes de habla hispana.

Region: Global   Language: Spanish   Type: Press Release


Communication and Social Change: A Position Paper and Conference Report

This paper argues that communication for social change is a distinct way of doing communication - and one of the few approaches that can be sustained because ownership of both the message and the medium - the content and the process - resides with the individuals or communities affected.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Report / Working Paper


Communication for Empowerment: A Practical Guidance Note

For download free. This project is done in partnership with UNDP Oslo Governance Centre in Madagascar, Mozambique and Ghana.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Publication


Communication for Social Change Working Paper Series: A case study in communication for social change

Talking Cure: A troubled city puts its trust in civic dialogue and community-based decision making

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Report / Working Paper


Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes

This report provides a practical resource for community organizations, communication professionals and social-change activists working in development projects to assess the progress and the effects of their programs.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Report / Working Paper


Communication for Social Change: The New Communicator

Whatever we plan for the future in terms of social change should associate in one strategy the objective of social change, the knowledge of new technologies and the process of communication

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Article


Communication for the Abandonment Of Female Genital Cutting

Neil Ford, UNICEF's Regional Advisor for Programme Communication in Eastern and Southern Africa, advocates using communication for social change based on human rights principles to help stop female genital cutting, a practice that violates the right of young women to sexual and reproductive health.

Region: Africa   Language: English   Type: Article


Communities Measure Change

An at-a-glance reference guide to participatory monitoring and evaluation of communication for social change.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Publication


Comunicación para el Cambio Social: Clave del Desarrollo Participativo

Dos corrientes principales se distinguen durante las cinco décadas pasadas: por una parte una comunicación inspirada en las teorías de la modernización y en técnicas derivadas de las estrategias de información utilizadas por el gobierno de Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y por la industria norteamericana para publicitar sus productos comerciales; y por otra, una comunicación nacida de las luchas sociales anticoloniales y antidictatoriales del Tercer Mundo, que tienen su referente académico en las teorías de la dependencia.

Region: Global   Language: Spanish   Type: Article


Family Tree of Theories, Methodologies & Strategies in Development Communication: Convergences & Differences

Participatory theories also criticized the modernization paradigm on the grounds that it promoted a top-down, ethnocentric and paternalistic view of development.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Article


Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age

The publication contains articles, audio and video documents by practitioners, decision makers and scholars inviting to reflect on concrete examples on ICT for development and particularly the role of community media.
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Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Publication


Haciendo Olas - Historias de Comunicación Participativa para el Cambio Social

A través de las cincuenta experiencias descritas, "Haciendo Olas" examina proyectos innovadores de comunicación para el cambio social en àfrica, Asia y América Latina. El libro ofrece un análisis de los métodos y los medios usados para alentar cambios sociales, y de los obstáculos que enfrenta la comunicación para el cambio social. La información está organizada por año, por medio de comunicación, y por país. Es un libro informativo tanto para académicos como para quienes ejercen la comunicación desde la práctica. " Making Waves no pretende ser una referencia definitiva", afirma Denise Gray Felder, Directora de Comunicación de la Fundación Rockefeller. "Alfonso Gumucio ha escrito una excelente guía de las estrategias de comunicación participativa que se utilizan en el terreno.

Region: Global   Language: Spanish   Type: Book


How to Do Community Radio

Community radio has a special place in UNESCO's programs. The aim of UNESCO's community radio program is to address crucial social issues at a community level, such as poverty and social exclusion, empower marginalized rural groups and catalyze democratic processes and development efforts.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Publication


La Radio Pública Local

Tiene muchísima lógica que si entendemos la descentralización y el fortalecimiento del poder local como una manera de estimular la participación ciudadana en los asuntos que tienen que ver con su desarrollo social, cultural y económico, la radio local sea también una responsabilidad asumida por los municipios, como lo son la educación, la salud y la cultura. El derecho a la información puede ser mejor servido desde un concepto de cercanía y participación de la sociedad civil, y para ello, los municipios tienen que invertir y abrir las puertas a la comunidad. En el caso de Bolivia, como en España, esto sería factible a través de las organizaciones territoriales de base (OTB) y los consejos de vigilancia conformados por ciudadanos.

Region: Latin America   Language: Spanish   Type: Article


Measuring Change

Designed as an abridged version of the introductory guide Who Measures Change?, this publication is ideal for community groups perfecting their skills in communication for social change and participatory monitoring and evaluation. Edited by Ailish Byrne, Ph.D., with Consortium staff.
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Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Publication


Media, freedom and poverty: A Latin American perspective

Media conglomerates grow bigger by the day, while alternative options are crushed with legal arguments drawn by the marry alliance between private media and government servants. It has taken many years for emblematic intellectuals, such as Ignacio Ramonet, to acknowledge that the so-called "˜fourth power' has colluded with economic and political interests, and to suggest that we need to build from scratch a "˜fifth power' that will genuinely represent people. This paper was presented by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron, Managing Director , at the conference Media, Freedom and Poverty in Developing Countries, hosted by The Rockefeller Foundation, Panos and The Communication for Social Change Consortium, in Bellagio (Italy), October 2-5, 2003.

Region: Latin America   Language: English   Type: Article


Next Steps in Advocating Communication for Social Change at the Community Level: Building the Body of Knowledge

In May 2004, the Communication for Social Change Consortium (the Consortium) convened a meeting of authors and scholars in communication for development to discuss and select pieces for an anthology with the aim of creating an academic reference resource of communication for social change for scholars and practitioners around the world. Approximately 100 texts on communication for development, participatory communication, citizens' media, and community media were pre-selected. With a focus on theoretical essays as opposed to case studies, the strategy was to trace the concept of communication for social change from its origins, looking back 40 to 50 years if necessary. The end goal was to select 50 essays that are key to the understanding of communication for social change. A panel* of 12 met for 3 days with the editors of the anthology and the Consortium to determine the 50 final texts to be published.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Report / Working Paper


Ondes de Choc - histoires sur la communication participative pour le changement social

À travers les cinquante expériences décrites ici, « Ondes de Choc » examine des projets innovateurs de communication pour le changement social en Afrique, Asie et Amérique latine. Ce livre offre une analyse des médias et des méthodes utilisés, ainsi que les obstacles qui vont a l'encontre de l'usage efficace de la communication pour le changement sociale. Certaines ont été directement observées, l'information sur les autres ayant été obtenue par courrier électronique, fax, téléphone et Internet. L'Amérique latine est en tête par la quantité et la qualité des expériences de communication participative, et la radio a été parmi tous les médias, le plus important pour le développement et les changements sociaux. Les critères de sélection ont été conçus pour identifier les expériences ayant une forte composante d'« appropriation » par la communauté. Certaines expériences avaient pour objectif final l'« appropriation » communautaire, mais elles n'avaient pas encore atteint ce niveau de développement au moment de la recherche.

Region: Global   Language: French   Type: Book


What can ICTs do for the rural poor?

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, managing director of the Communication for Social Change Consortium, presented several papers at the recently held World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland. Gumucio is a widely recognized as a leading writer, scholar and practitioner of innovative communication, especially methods that are participatory and based on community-owned solutions. His address to the IFAD session appears below.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Article


Who Measures Change

An introduction to participatory monitoring and evaluation of communication for social change by Will Parks, Ph.d., with CFSC Consortium staff.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Publication


World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD), Rome, October 2006

The Consortium holds a seat on on the steering committee for the World Congress on Communication for Development to be held in Rome, Italy in October 2006. Below is a Call for Proposals and Abstracts for this Congress. We strongly encourage people working with community-based communication initiatives to submit proposals or abstracts "" especially for initiatives that demonstrate the effectiveness of communication for social change and of participatory methods in general.

Region: Global   Language: English   Type: Press Release