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Pictures from 4th of July 2013 Dialogue of African Shared Values. Photo Credits: African Union Commission Department of Information and Communication. ...
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For more than 25 years, the response to AIDS has taken primarily short-term, crisis views of the challenges the pandemic presents. Despite tremendous progress, much work is needed now to prepare for future management of AIDS as a disease of communities not just of individuals. The ...
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One of the big questions on my mind during my first trip to the Kiziba refugee camp in Karongi district, western Rwanda, was how communication for social change created a sense of collective responsibility among Congolese women from the Abakundanye association. In Kinyarwanda, Rwan...
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People often ask why dialogue is important, what it achieves and why we should support such activities. Being core to the Consortium's values and mission, our support for dialogue processes across the world takes different forms. Since 2004 we have been actively involved in E...
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Here are a few stills from "Voices from the Magdalena," showing how a rural radio network in Colombia creates a public space in which all people, including children, have the power to talk about local problems. The DVD shows how open community dialogue has the potential to end de...
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In impoverished villages surrounding Zaheerabad, India, a handful of illiterate Dalit women have taken communication tools into their hands—specifically, video and radio. Their goal: autonomy and self-reliance for their communities. They experience three kinds of discri...
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he Kingdom of Lesotho is a small mountainous country completely surrounded by South Africa. It is a peaceful, politically stable country; a nation with a traditionally high literacy rate when compared with other African countries. The people of Lesotho place a high value on educati...
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The Communication for Social Change Consortium has been working on polio communication in Nigeria since 2005, following the suspension of polio immunization in two northern states. The Consortium is working with several local partners to help local people use community-based commun...
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The photos in this issue are from CFSC projects in the Umzingwane and Bindura districts of Zimbabwe, in southern Africa. In all of the CFSC Zimbabwe projects, young people between the ages of 14 and 25 have developed, and are running, communication programmes aimed at empowering yo...
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Experts, academics and practitioners of communication for social change discussed ideas and challenges at the Consortium's global meeting at the University of Philippines in September 2005. Check out "Developing a Unique Proposal for Communicatio...
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Our Vision Our vision is a world in which the people living in poverty successfully control the communication processes essential for reducing poverty. Our purpose is to change thinking, practice and the study of communication so that people living in poverty can manage...
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