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Social Media for Change – Ideas, Tools and Best Practices for Civic Engagement and Elections (The Good Lobby, 2019)

May 3, 2019

The how-to-guide covers a range of tools, resources and social media best practices to enable political candidates, campaigners, NGOs, social media managers, and citizens to engage more meaningfully in the lead up to the elections and beyond. It is the result of 4 years of experimenting with content creation, working within tech policy and learning from social media veterans. Highlights include:

  • 100+ hyperlinks to online resources, tools, and additional reading material drawn from social media
    companies and industry veterans.
  • Lists of must-have apps for content creation and free alternatives to expensive editing software.
  • Overviews on building and leveraging online communities, establishing effective content creation
    processes, and a number of other topics.

Click here to download the full guide.

Filed Under: *DIGITAL ROUTES, Civic Education, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Media, Social Mobilisation Tagged With: Elections

Identifying Pathways for More Gender-Sensitive Communication Channels in Climate Services (USAID Info Note, 2018)

March 6, 2019

Access to accurate and useful climate-related information is a prerequisite for smallholder farmers to use and benefit from climate services with respect to both agricultural and livelihood decision-making. Whether or not farmers access particular climate-related information products is determined by the types of information products that the national meteorological service and other providers make available, by access to the communication channels used to disseminate information, and by demand for the information. Gender-based factors can influence differing access to communication channels for women and men. The present brief highlights some of these key challenges to achieving socially inclusive access to weather and climate information, and presents promising pathways for developing gender-sensitive communication channels in climate services.

Click here for full brief.

Filed Under: Climate and Environment, Gender, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Mobilisation Tagged With: Education, ICTs, Media

Civil Society & Inclusive Peace (Peace Direct, 2019)

February 20, 2019

Inclusive peace, or the idea that all stakeholders in a society should have a role in defining and shaping peace, is receiving widespread global recognition. Still, despite the progress made through the increased recognition of inclusive peace at the theoretical and policy level, it has proven difficult to achieve in reality. Peace Direct teamed up with the Inclusive Peace & Transition Initiative and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict to explore the dynamics of inclusivity and peacebuilding in further detail in this report.

The report includes in-depth case studies from around the world, that help us to understand the strategies employed by grassroots peacebuilders to counter the challenges to effective inclusion in peacebuilding. From Nigeria to DR Congo, explore the case studies below to see what has worked (or not) in particular situations, and the successes, challenges and stalemates encountered on the pursuit to inclusive peace.

Click here for full report.

 

Filed Under: *INTER-PERSONAL ROUTES, Colombia, Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Participation, Participation Highlights, Peace & Social Cohesion, Peace Highlights, Philippines, Social Mobilisation, Voice and Accountability Tagged With: Elections, Women

Blood, Sweat and Tears: Community Redress Strategies and their Effectiveness in Mitigating the Impacts of Extractives and Related Infrastructure Projects in South Africa: 2008-2018 (Natural Justice, 2019)

February 20, 2019

“Blood, Sweat and Tears” was developed based on research conducted on communities’ responses to mining and the extractive industries in South Africa. The report tracks strategies used by communities (and their civil society partners and others) to challenge components of these developments and operations and mitigate the impacts that the communities experience – impacts that range from water contamination, erosion and dust, to displacements and disrupted livelihoods.

The research finds that although litigation was the preferred strategy in the past, communities are increasingly mobilising around other strategies, including social audits, petitions, compliance monitoring, community trainings, public campaigns etc.

Click here for full report.

Filed Under: Climate and Environment, Climate and Environment Highlights, Economic & Livelihoods, Health, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Mobilisation, South Africa Tagged With: Campaigning, civil society, Extractive Industries, Mining

The Effect of Civic Leadership Training on Citizen Engagement and Government Responsiveness: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (Making All Voices Count research report, 2018)

February 12, 2019

What are the effects of providing civic leadership training to community leaders from marginalised groups? Can it lead to increased participation by new leaders in local government processes, and increased government responsiveness to the needs of the poorest and most marginalised? Does it have the unintended consequence of these new leaders being co-opted by local politicians?

This research investigated the impact of civic leadership training on citizen participation and government responsiveness in the Philippines. It examined an experimental pilot intervention that targeted ‘parent leaders’ – individuals already identified as community leaders in a large-scale government conditional cash transfer programme that aims to benefit the ‘poorest of the poor’.

Click here for full report.

Filed Under: Civic Education, Governance, Philippines, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Mobilisation, Voice and Accountability

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