| CFSC Consortium Body of Knowledge |
Are you looking for articles, books, essays, journals or reports on communication for development and social change? Is your interest HIV/AIDS, human rights or rural development? No matter what your issue, as long as it deals with communication for social change, you should be able to find useful references in the Body of Knowledge, the CFSC Consortium’s searchable database.
The body of knowledge has more than 3,000 references from around the world now registered. We invite you to consult the database for your use. And we encourage you to submit any reference you consider relevant to helping our database continue to grow. |
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| Inviting Guest Contributors |
Do you know of interesting examples of successful applications of communication for social change principles within your community or country?
Mazi is looking for good case stories of CFSC at work: illustrations of the process of dialogue leading to community decision-making, action, implementation, monitoring, assessment and evaluation. We’re especially interested in examples of how communication processes have been strengthened or established at a community level by people who have been traditionally marginalised.
Help all of us build a better understanding of the many and varied ways that public dialogue leads to community decision-making and action. Describe for us where it takes place and why. Explain how CFSC is working. Inspire us all by telling us your community’s story.
Please e-mail your contribution of at least 250 words to mazi@communicationforsocialchange.org
Please make sure your story includes the CFSC elements: catalyst or catalytic event, problem identification, dialogue, decision-making, community action, monitoring and evaluation, and assessment of change at the individual and societal levels. Include your name, phone number, fax (if available) and email address.
The facts of all submissions will be verified. Once verified, they may be included either in Mazi or on the Consortium’s Web site. |
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| Inviting Artistic Images, Songs, Poetry Showing CFSC In Action |
Mazi invites your original images showing communication for social change in action. Whatever your medium—photography, painting, sketches, mosaics, murals, songs or dances—if you have an image showing people working together to give everyone a voice—we will consider publishing it in our online magazine. Unfortunately, we are unable to return your submission. We also reserve the right to crop and/or edit your work for style and content. Each creator will be credited online for his or her submission.
Please e-mail your contribution to mazi@communicationforsocialchange.org |
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| Please Support Us |
Your tax deductible contribution to the Communication for Social Change Consortium will be used to support our work in a number of areas including HIV and AIDS globally and in Africa and the United States, polio communication, communication for empowerment, case story development and evidence gathering, participatory monitoring and evaluation, publications and research, Body of Knowledge and curriculum development and training.
All contributions made are fully tax deductible in the United States to the full extent of the law. The Consortium is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organisation working throughout the world.
To make a donation online, please click here. Or, contributions can be mailed to: CFSC Consortium, 14 South Orange Avenue, Suite 2F, South Orange, NJ 07079. We can accept bank drafts or cheques in U.S. dollars, British sterling, euros or South African rand.
Thank you for your support. |
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Year-End Reflections Prompt Increased Hope for the Future
Message from Denise Gray-Felder |
As 2009 beckons, Consortium President Denise Gray-Felder reflects on democracy, inclusion and the future.
Oh what a year.
As year-end 2008 fast approaches, we, as a global community, have much to be grateful for and nearly as much to be apprehensive about. We are thankful for the first-ever Black president of the wealthiest nation on Earth, and equally thankful that such a transition can happen peacefully and democratically. We are thankful that across the globe, other governments in various states of democratic progress also are making - or struggling valiantly to make -- noteworthy transitions. The significance of elections this year in Russia, Kenya, Pakistan and even Zimbabwe capture our attention and demand our analysis and understanding of their outcomes. |
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| Critical Need for Water Information in the Congo |
Right now, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 250,000 people are homeless due to civil strife. Please support this special appeal from the Consortium's President.
Fleeing from camp to camp or village to village, the displaced Congolese from the eastern part of the country lack access to clean and reliable sources of water and sanitation. Public health officials fear a cholera epidemic as dozens of cases have already been reported in eastern Congo where fighting continues.
You can help by supporting KnowWater®, the CFSC Consortium's pilot program that puts information about accessible sources of clean water in the hands of the world's poorest families. |
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| Are International Aid and Community Participation Inevitably at Odds? by Silvio Waisbord |
| Community participation is the glorified ideal of international aid. So why is it seldom at the centre of development programmes? Silvio Waisbord, a professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs, at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States, argues that multiple interests and contradictory ideas too often influence the international aid system. According to Waisbord, organizational procedures, imperatives, and cultures explain the disconnection. |
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| Evaluating Social Change and Communication For Social Change: New Perspectives by Ailish Byrne |
| Today's growing interest in assessing and demonstrating the impact of social change and communication for social change processes is the focus of this essay by Ailish Bryne, the Consortium's senior associate of research and evaluation. Using the meeting of HIV/AIDS Implementers in Kampala, Uganda, last June, Byrne lays out the challenges and diverse factors impacting measurement and evaluation. She raises questions regarding many current M&E practices and their implications for development. |
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Exclusive Special Preview for Mazi Readers
Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings Excerpt from the Spanish Version |
Communication for Social Change Anthology is available for the first time in Spanish. A collection of readings on the subject of communication for social change, this is an essential reference for universities and research centres as well as for departments of anthropology, sociology and international relations. The 1500-page book contains 200 readings by 150 authors from all regions of the world, including many Latin American experts on communication for social change.
Click here to order Spanish version
Click here to order English version
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| Praise for the Spanish edition of Communication for Social Change Anthology by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron |
| Since the Consortium launched the Spanish edition of Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings in Mexico at the IX Congress of the Latin American Association of Communication Research (ALAIC), events helped promote the book: The first Spanish review appeared in Bolivia; a second launching of the book took place in Bolivia, and a full-page ad appeared in a prominent Bolivian political journal. Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron, the Consortium's managing director of programmes, reports the good news. |
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Report from Rwanda: Rebuilding in the Wake of Catastrophe
by Shirley Randell |
| Since the 1994 genocide in their country, the people of Rwanda have worked to rebuild the nation's reputation and its commitment to law. Shirley Randell, senior adviser, education and governance for empowerment, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, East and Southern Africa Region, reports on progress she saw on her recent visit to Rwanda. |
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| Photo Essay: CFSC in the Republic of Maldives: A Community in Transition by Jean Douglas-Laird |
These photographs in the following essay are part of an exhibition that took place last May in Male, Republic of Maldives. The images are the result of a Theatre and Media for Development project facilitated by Jean Douglas-Laird, part of her work towards a master's degree at Winchester University, U.K. Over a four-month period, Douglas-Laird worked with participants from two local NGOs, facilitating workshops in participatory video, drama and photography.
Following the photo essay, Douglas-Laird provides a background article, "Why the Maldives are Vulnerable to an HIV/AIDS Epidemic." |
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| Photo Essay: “Women of Pastapur” by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron |
| These photographs were taken during filming of the DVD "Women of Pastapur," which the Consortium produced. See below for information about the DVD including instructions on how to order it. |
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| DVDs: “Women of Pastapur” and "Voices from the Magdalena" Show Power of Community Media Ownership |
| A new, 27-minute documentary, a DVD directed and photographed by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron, the Consortium managing director of programmes, shows that, when people who are poor own their own media, they have the means to raise their voices as a community, address problems and improve their lives. In the villages around Zaheerabad, an impoverished area in the state of Andhra Proadesh, India, a handful of Dalit women, illiterate and mostly dedicated to farming, took communication into their own hands, using video and radio in their struggle for self-reliance. Achieving local, national and global impact, the community's broadcasts show CFSC in action. Rich in beautiful images, this DVD is a must for anyone seeking to demonstrate the power of local community ownership of media and how they can achieve positive social change. Available now for $10 USD. Special offer: If you order this DVD, along with its companion DVD, "Voices of the Magdalena," the price is $16 USD for both. |
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