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Wumen Bagung: Communication for Development and Social Change Bulletin (RMIT Bulletin issue 2)

“Wumen Bagung Ngang-gak ba Boorndap” translates as “Come Gather, Listen and Respect”. Gathering to share stories, learning from one another, respecting one another and the land that sustains us all, are experiences that unite everyone.
The Wumen Bagung bulletin. ‘Making Change Together’ will further facilitate learning, sharing and strengthening ties between participating communities.

Can gossip change nutrition behaviour? Results of a mass media and community-based intervention trial in East Java, Indonesia (Tropical Medicine & International Health article 2016 March 21:3)

This paper presents the the effect of a behaviour change intervention, Gerakan Rumpi Sehat (the Healthy Gossip Movement), on infant and young child feeding practices in peri-urban Indonesia. The pilot intervention was designed based on the principles of a new behaviour change theory, Behaviour Centred Design (BCD). It avoided educational messaging in favour of employing emotional drivers of behaviour change, such as affiliation, nurture and disgust and used television commercials, community activations and house-to-house visits as delivery channels. The evaluation took the form of a 2-arm cluster randomised trial with a non-randomised control arm. One intervention arm received TV only, while the other received TV plus community activations. The intervention components were delivered over a 3-month period in 12 villages in each arm, each containing an average of 1300 households. There were two primary outcomes: dietary diversity of complementary food and the provision of unhealthy snacks to children aged 6–24 months.
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Mixed-Method Impact Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Monitoring in Indonesia (IDS Evidence Report 2016)

Routine growth monitoring is a common practice that aims to: detect children at risk of malnutrition; direct essential resources when children have growth faltering; track nutrition trends; determine eligibility for counselling and other specific services; and help to make child malnutrition more visible to the child’s caregivers, the community and government.

The quality and usefulness of growth monitoring is often limited by poor data quality, long delays between data collection and dissemination that prevent timely response, and shortcomings in the interpretation and use of the data. The full potential of growth monitoring is often underused both to increase knowledge and improve practices at community level and to inform decision-making for better nutrition.

The use of mobile phone technology may offer innovative opportunities to strengthen community-based growth monitoring and make it more effective for tackling child malnutrition. Despite global enthusiasm for using mobile phones for nutrition monitoring and surveillance systems, there are only very few studies that have critically assessed their application. Together with World Vision Indonesia and World Vision Canada, the Institute of Development Studies aimed to fill this evidence gap and evaluate the piloting of a mobile phone application for community-based growth monitoring.

Communicating with children: using an integrated approach [hand-washing in Indonesia] (UNICEF 2011)

In their 2011 publication, ‘Communicating with children’, UNICEF consider how children process and experience learning, using the example of their ‘Let’s Wash Hands’ poster.

“The poster “Let’s Wash Hands” was developed for school-aged children during a capacity-building workshop on holistic child development in Indonesia.The group chose a girl to be the model for a photo-based poster; broke down steps for a correct hand-washing sequence (wet, soap, scrub well, rinse); used a catchy rhyme with each photo; and finished with the girl proudly holding out her clean hands. Supplementary activities included adapting the rhyme to a song to be sung at school or at home when washing hands.The poster integrated hygiene, early learning through rhyme and building self-confidence, especially of girls. It can be used as a model to teach a variety of skills to children as well as adults.”

For more details visit: http://www2.unicef.org:60090/cwc/cwc_58608.html

 

A Critical Analysis of Digital Communications and Conflict Dynamics in Vulnerable Societies (Internews, 2014)

This Internews publication examines the complex interactions between globalizing digital media and processes of democratization within conflict-affected societies. It explores the role that digital communications have played in various protests and conflict contexts, with a particular focus on southern Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia. It also provides guidance for designing media-focused interventions to prevent or quell violent conflict before it breaks out.

Full publication available here: https://internews.org/sites/default/files/resources/Internews_DigComminconflict_2014-11.pdf

 

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