Cambodia Meet-Up July 2015
Date: 15/07/2015 Location: Phnom Penh, Meta House It was mostly a meet-and-greet event over drinks. Each briefly introduced him/herself and shared what they do for work in Cambodia. Jane gave a brief overview of the C4D network. It was a free-flowing discussion but all agreed that knowledge sharing is important. Among ...
Ethopia Meet-Up August 2015
Date: 01/18/2015 Location: Addis Ababa, Top View Hotel The group discussed about how next meeting should be structured and agreed to use the platform as a forum for exchange of information of what C4D members are doing, best practices in program implementation, challenges and strategies to overcome them. We also ...
Increasing Access to Balanced and Objective Reporting: BBC World Service Great Lakes Lifeline Service
In response to the conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region, the BBC World Service established its Lifeline Service in 1994, broadcasting news and factual material from the United Kingdom gathered by its locally situated reporters in Rwanda, Burundi and the Great Lakes region. The service, which is currently ...
Multi-Media Response to Colombia Earthquake
Following the earthquake that hit the Colombian town of Armenia in January 1999, a local NGO, Viva la Ciudadanía, has started a multi-media project to aid the reconstruction, involving radio, TV and newspapers. A model that is earmarked for peacebuilding as well. Radio is the major component with news and ...
Peace-Building through Media: Opening Dialogue, Liberia
In Liberia, Talking Drum Studio, has people from different ethnic groups working on a broad spectrum of programming, that ranges from news and humanitarian information to a radio soap opera, on the problems and dilemmas faced by a Liberian refugee family. The Common Ground approach is used to identify and ...
Bolivia Meet-up: La Paz, 9th July 2015
All of the attendants are people very committed to vulnerable people, and who work very hard for them: independently from their positions, or organizations to which they work for (including me :). So we talked about our jobs in favor of the most vulnerable. Somehow, some of them also do ...
Participatory Theatre Gains Momentum (UNICEF workshop report 2015)
Participatory Theatre Gains Momentum, New Vision and Renewed Focus Workshop Charts a Path for Strengthening Participatory Theatre as a cross-cutting Communication for Development Platform LUSAKA, Zambia, 16 July 2015 (UNICEF) – More than 70 participants from 18 countries -- across six continents -- gathered here last week to share, learn, ...
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 ...
