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New Publication: Participatory Journalism in Africa

May 31, 2021

This new book by Hayes Mawindi and Admire Mare offers an African perspective on how news organisations are embracing digital participatory practices as part of their everyday news production, dissemination and audience engagement strategies.

Drawing on empirical evidence from news organisations in sub-Saharan Africa, Participatory Journalism in Africa investigates and maps out professional practices emerging with journalists’ direct interactions with readers and sources via online user comment spaces and social media platforms. Using a social constructivist approach, the book focuses on the challenges relating to the elite-centric nature of active participation on the platforms, while also highlighting emerging ethical and normative dilemmas. The authors also point to the hidden structural controls to participation and user engagement associated with artificial intelligence, chatbots and algorithms. These obstacles, coupled with low digital literacy levels and the well-established pitfalls of the digital divide, challenge the utopian view that in Africa interactive digital technologies are the sine qua non spaces for democratic participation.

This is a valuable resource for academics, journalists and students across a wide range of disciplines including journalism studies, communication for development, sociology and political science.

You can find additional details of the book here

 

Filed Under: Africa Hub, x Uncategorized Tagged With: Citizen Participation, Community engagement, Media development

Doing Development Differently in the Global South – Workshop Report (CARE, 2018)

February 4, 2019

On 4 December 2018 CARE International and the British Council convened a workshop in Nairobi with the title “Doing Development Differently in the Global South” to consider how the Doing Development Differently global community can better incorporate Southern voices, and how the principles of DDD – its approach to development practice and its aspiration to deliver better results – can be best actioned in the South.

This report provides an overview of the workshop themes, including critical questions raised by participants on the intersection of DDD principles and Southern practice. It concludes with three practical recommendations for DDD champions going forward.

Filed Under: Publications (published in print and/or online), Voice and Accountability Tagged With: Citizen Participation, Inclusion

People Centred Advocacy for a more Sustainable Food System (IIED Toolkit, 2018)

May 6, 2018

Fostering civic action and agency to ensure that citizens have voice and choice in relation to the food they eat is vital. However, food systems are complex and many actors help shape and influence them at local, national and international levels. By lobbying from the grassroots up, systemic changes to food systems can be made in order to address local and national challenges. This toolkit aims to provide essential guidance and ideas to advocacy professionals and civil society organisations wishing to mobilise and support low-income citizen groups to advocate for improved diets. It is ideal for civil society organisations that work with those most affected and neglected by food policy, low income consumers, producers, traders, processers and vendors – the people who form the backbone of informal food systems, but whose needs are rarely factored in by policy makers.

Click here for full toolkit.

Filed Under: Advocacy, Bolivia, Indonesia, Nutrition, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Mobilisation, Uganda, Voice and Accountability, Zambia Tagged With: Citizen Participation, civil society

Integrated Communication Campaigns to support citizen behaviour change: A Practical Guide (WPP 2016)

October 9, 2016

This report is for people in the public sector who commission or manage communication programmes to support behaviour change programmes. It aims to help people to make choices that will maximise the chances of their communication programme successfully influencing citizen behaviour. The report is organised around the WPP Government & Public Sector Practice model of integrated communication. This report aims to offer an understanding of the cycle of an integrated communication campaign, how to structure and manage an effective multidisciplinary team of experts, and how to set behavioural objectives and how to measure progress against them.

The report is a practical guide for practitioners. The models and approaches are based on a detailed understanding of behavioural science and the academic literature on the topic. However, readers do not need to have a background in behavioural science to apply the guidance in this report – rather, it should help to work effectively with behavioural scientists and other experts.

Filed Under: Behaviour Change Communication, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Tagged With: Citizen Participation

Planeamento Participativo para o Desenvolvimento Compatível com o Clima em Maputo, Moçambique (UCL Press 2015)

July 17, 2016

Planejamento Participativo para o Desenvolvimento Compatível Climáticas, em Maputo, Moçambique é ‘manual que se baseie na experiência de um projeto piloto que foi premiado com a Organização das Nações Unidas um praticantes Award Atividade Farol’.

Baseando-se uma longa tradição académica de planejamento participativo, este dois idiomas (Inglês / Português) livro aborda questões cruciais sobre a relevância da participação dos cidadãos no planejamento para o desenvolvimento compatível com o clima e argumenta que os cidadãos tenham conhecimento e acesso a recursos que lhes permitam desenvolver uma visão sustentável para sua comunidade. A fim de fazer isso, o autor propõe uma metodologia de planejamento de ação participativa para organizar comunidades, e também avança mecanismos de desenvolvimento institucional por meio de parcerias.

Este livro está disponível como um Open Access PDF livre

Filed Under: Humanitarian Communications, Mozambique, Participation, Portuguese/Português, Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Citizen Participation, civic engagement, Participatory approaches

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