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Dignity and humanitarian action in displacement (ODI report, 2019)

April 3, 2019

This report draws on the findings of a two-year HPG research project on ‘Dignity in displacement: from rhetoric to reality’. The goal of the project was not to define dignity, but to understand what it meant to affected people in different places, with different cultures and at different times. It explores how refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and returnees in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Lebanon, the Philippines and South Sudan understand dignity, and whether (and how) they feel that their dignity has been upheld in displacement.

It then compares their understanding with that of humanitarian workers in these responses, analysing what this means for humanitarian policy, programme design and implementation more broadly, and the localisation agenda more specifically.

It suggests six recommendations for incorporating dignity into a humanitarian response including:

  • Invest time and resources in listening to the affected population from the start of the response, and use this information to inform project design and implementation.
  • Use more face-to-face communication, especially in the assessment phase of the humanitarian response, and pay attention to what means of communication are appropriate at each stage.
  • To better understand the local culture and language, include anthropologists, sociologists, translators and others in the response, who can help in understanding the affected population and the dynamics of their situation.
  • Invest in programmes that promote self-reliance, where possible, and encourage more participation by affected communities in project design and implementation.

Click here for full report.

Filed Under: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Humanitarian, Humanitarian Communications, Lebanon, Migration, Participation, Philippines, Publications (published in print and/or online), South Sudan, Voice and Accountability Tagged With: IDPs, Refugees

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.

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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

What’s Up with WhatsApp: The Widespread Use of WhatsApp in Political Campaigning in the Global South (Tactical Tech Research Analysis, 2018)

September 3, 2018

This research conducted by Tactical Tech and partners argues that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

The research reveals some of the many ways WhatsApp is being deployed as a major part of the political process in countries including Brazil, Colombia, Kenya and Malaysia.

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Filed Under: Brazil, Colombia, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Kenya, Malaysia, Social Media Tagged With: Mobile Phones, Political Participation, Rural Communities

Audience Research in Media Development (DW Akademie Report and Case Studies, 2017)

May 28, 2018

The three case studies presented in the publication “Audience Research in Media Development” are directly related to ongoing DW Akademie media development projects. The first case study addresses the measurement of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) of young media users aged 12 to 16 years in the Palestinian Territories (West Bank). The second focuses on the impact of radio broadcasts on women and land rights (station: Nam Lolwe) in Kenya. It was designed as a quasi-experiment, comparing listeners of the radio stations to potential listeners and non-listeners. The third study examines the social media strategies of two community radio stations (Granada Stereo and Contacto 10) in Colombia. It uses focus groups, a survey, and digital analytics methods. Results and lessons learned of all three case studies are presented in the publication.

Click here for full report and case studies.

Filed Under: *MASS MEDIA ROUTES, Case Studies, Children, Colombia, Community Media, Media Development, Palestinian Territories, Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Land Rights

“Communication is not an option, but a constant obligation” – 2018 SBCC Summit: Keynote Speech by Anibal Gaviria, former mayor of Medellin, Colombia

May 4, 2018

This keynote speech on citizen dialogue and debate within an urban setting was delivered on 20 April 2018 during the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit featuring Entertainment Education (Nusa Dua, Indonesia).

2018 SBCC Summit: Keynote Speech by Anibal Gaviria, former mayor of Medellin, Colombia

“Communication is not an option, but a constant obligation.”

Aníbal Gaviria was the mayor of Medellín, Colombia, from 2012 to 2015. He is one of a string of mayors credited with turning around this city of 2.5 million people. Once the stronghold of the dangerous Medellín cartel, the city witnessed 6,349 killings in 1991. The homicide rate has fallen by 80 percent since then and, in 2013, the Urban Land Institute named Medellín the “most innovative city” out of 200 it considered. Prior to that, Gaviria was governor of Antioquia, of which Medellín is the capital.

Gaviria sees a connection between reducing inequality and violence in the city and the facilitation of dialogue and debate in communities. Medellin is well known for social urbanism and development policies, including the creation of the Metrocable system, a network of cable cars that link the city’s subways to some of the city’s informal settlements on the city’s steep hills. These settlements were in many ways cut off from the city, with residents commuting as long as 2.5 hours a day before Metrocable opened. Not only could people in these poorer isolated communities get to jobs more easily, but to public libraries, schools, health centres and recreation spaces. Metrocable – by linking people to what they need – is credited with dramatic reductions in crime in the areas reached by cable car, an integrated approach to creating change.

Summary of Anibal Gaviria’s keynote speech.

Anibal Gaviria explained the key principles behind the city’s transformation. He noted that the transformation did not take place under one mayor, but was a continuous process of change over many years of consecutive and synchronised “good governments.”

Gaviria listed the four key principles as being:

  • Planning
  • Transparency
  • Citizen participation
  • Communication

Planning: Gaviria pointed out that “planning is an absolutely critical and fundamental element for the development of cities in the next 30 years. Many of the cities in the world have developed and grown without planning, with bad planning or with planning that is not respected. Fundamentally [this has taken place] in Africa, Asia and Latin America but also in other regions of the world too.”

Transparency: Gaviria explained that “the process that Medellin has gone through was triggered by high levels of transparency being honest and open with their citizens together with a clear accountability]  compared with other Colombian and Latin America cities.”

Citizen Participation: When Gaviria spoke about citizen participation he described four different ways to implement this:

  • As a transversal element – interventions in public space;
  • through participatory budgeting;
  • through “life and ability journeys” through “participatory processes with the communities through dialogue and debate during the development plan”;
  • “as a long-term territorial plan” – with consultations about how to ‘occupy’ the territory. “It [Medellin’s development] was discussed over two years with more than 2,000 meetings.”

Communication: Gaviria explained, “Communication is a basic principle, like a credo…to govern is to communicate. Communication is not an option, but a constant obligation – a daily process where we communicate and receive communication from the citizens.”

Further details of the Summit can be found at the Summit website: https://sbccsummit.org/

Filed Under: Colombia, Participation, Urban Highlights Tagged With: Social Change

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