Il arrive bien souvent que ce soit les membres de la communauté immédiate qui fournissent les premières, les dernières et peut-être les meilleures réponses tactiques aux personnes qui subissent un déplacement ou vivent dans la menace d’un déplacement. Quelle que soit la manière dont la protection ou la communauté sont définies, à moins qu’ils comprennent cette réalité les acteurs extérieurs éprouveront des difficultés à proposer un soutien approprié. S’ils ne réussissent pas à développer une conscience plus aiguë du rôle assumé par les stratégies communautaires de protection ils risquent d’échouer à intégrer activement le « pouvoir d’agir » des communautés à leurs politiques comme à leur programmation ; au pire, ils risquent d’entraver la capacité de prévenir ou de survivre à la violence et au déplacement inhérente aux communautés.
Archives for November 2016
Ten Frontier Technologies for International Development (IDS report 2016)
As new technologies and digital business models reshape economies and disrupt incumbencies, interest has surged in the potential of novel frontier technologies to also contribute to positive changes in international development and humanitarian contexts. Widespread adoption of new technologies is acknowledged as centrally important to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
But while frontier technologies can rapidly address large-scale economic, social or political challenges, they can also involve the displacement of existing technologies and carry considerable uncertainty and risk. Although there have been significant wins bringing the benefits of new technologies to poor consumers through examples such as mobile money or off-grid solar energy, there are many other areas where the applications may not yet have been developed into viable market solutions, or where opportunities have not yet been taken up in development practice.
Against this background, the Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned the Digital and Technology Research Group at the Institute of Development Studies to undertake a review of frontier technologies in five key areas.
What drives behavior? Key factors for handwashing in Bangladesh (Alive & Thrive Case Study 2015)
Designed for practitioners, trainers, and students of behavior change or social marketing, this case study shows how to take the guesswork out of two critical decisions:
- What behavior will you promote?
- What key factors will you address to motivate people?
Use the case study kit to teach or learn about methods for behavior change and view A&T’s final TV spot on handwashing + child feeding.
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Media Development and Countering Violent Extremism: An Uneasy Relationship, a Need for Dialogue (CIMA report 2016)
This report looks at how media development practitioners are reacting to the rise of the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) agenda, and its growing influence on their field. This influence is the cause of concern, not only because practitioners of CVE and media development have fundamentally different worldviews, but because the CVE agenda is seen to pose serious risks for southern media houses and the organizations that support them.
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