Unlike its other forms, communication for development should not be regarded solely as a communication strategy. With a shift to a more participatory approach, C4D has gained popularity among agents of development, as social institutions are now more concerned about increasing the involvement of communities and civil society. This applies especially well when it comes to communities’ rights, in ways that they acquire a higher role in advocacy, and transmit their needs and concerns in spaces that are created for such purposes.

This article delves deeper into C4D beyond it just being a communication strategy to C4D as a participatory approach and a means of effecting change.

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The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit has been called “a People’s Summit.” To amplify the voices of small-scale farmers and other rural people in sub-Saharan Africa, Farm Radio International partnered with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Vision Canada, and the Canadian Food Security Policy Group to conduct a series of On Air Dialogues.

These conversations took place in June and July 2021 over the radio and via mobile phones. Their aim was to create a platform for those who are often excluded from global discussions and decision-making that impacts their lives — small-scale farmers and other rural people, in particular women and young people. Small-scale farmers and other rural people are development actors in their own right, with a wealth of experience to share on how to transform food systems to be more equitable, sustainable, and resilient. Their voices are vital to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.

Join us on September 20th ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit to hear the results of this initiative, as we launch the On Air Dialogues: Listening to Rural People report and share the views expressed by 3,400 small-scale farmers and others in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda about their hopes and needs for the future of food systems.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes endemic and societies prepare for the next normal, “Documentaries for Development” can be both a solution and tool to strengthen cooperation and developed collaborative and coordinated approaches between countries and cultures to meet the challenges, both existent and evolving. [IDN-InDepthNews – 28 August 2021]

Join World Forum 4.0 an international forum where experts will be speaking about “Documentaries for Development in the Post-COVID World.”

The World Forum 4.0 shall feature “Documentaries for Development,” a concept developed by Mr. Manish Uprety F.R.A.S., Special Adviser – Asia and Africa, of the Audiovisual Regional Hub of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Comunicación Audiovisual Parlamentaria (ALCAP), or the Latin American Parliamentary Association of Audio-Visual Communication.

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This book by Emile G. McAnany explores how theories and practices have evolved along with the development of communication technologies, to evaluate the current status of C4D in the long-term struggle for development and social change. This is to better understand the criteria for assessing the influence of C4D-related endeavours.