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Background report: the Learning Route in Rwanda – Leveraging the Scaling up Nutrition Civil Society Network: building regional platforms to promote learning on how to address malnutrition (SUN Civil Society Network/PROCASUR 2016)

February 26, 2017

This background report was produced in preparation for the 2016 Learning Route in Rwanda. The Learning Route programme’s main objectives are: to build stronger, aligned civil society alliances that work for improved nutrition at all levels of society.

The report is primarily intended as a briefing for those participating in the learning exchange, though it will also be of value to those interested in civil society efforts to end malnutrition in Rwanda.

This background report provides basic information on poverty and malnutrition in Rwanda and the process of scaling-up nutrition.

It also features five case studies that exemplify the work done by civil society in the following thematic areas:

• advocacy, social campaigning and mobilisation • multi-stakeholder coordination • communication for behavioural change • integrated approaches to fight malnutrition

The report was developed following a participatory mapping process involving civil society organisations in Rwanda and a survey of 11 Anglophone Africa. This process identified the priority thematic areas and the best practice examples that are most likely to stimulate country-country learning. Each case study briefly describes the experience, main outcomes and lessons learned by the civil society organisation leading the initiative. The case studies were developed with the participation of the organisations involved and reflect their experience.

Click here for full report.

Filed Under: Advocacy, Behaviour Change Communication, Health, Nutrition, Participatory Approaches, Publications, Rwanda, Social Change Communication, Social Mobilisation Tagged With: Civil Society Organisations, Malnutrition, Mapping, Social campaigning

Using Social Media Data in International Development Research, Monitoring & Evaluation (DFID Practice Note 2016)

September 25, 2016

Abstract: The global adoption of social media has seen the user base expand to an unprecedented level. Estimates put social media membership at around 2.5 billion non unique users globally, with Facebook, Google+ and Twitter accounting for over half of these. Social media data can add value to international development research, monitoring and evaluation in several ways.

These data are‘transformative’ as they are user generated in real time and produced in large volumes in contrast to the necessarily retrospective snapshots of social trends provided by conventional means such as household surveys and administrative data. As such, they can provide insight into the behaviour and opinions of specific populations that are often unreachable by conventional methods where social media uptake is high.

The examples in this pratice note show cases where social media data were available in high volume in development contexts. However,it is important to note that for some situations and regions social media data may not be available in such volumes, precluding their use to gain near real time insights

4 case studies are included:

  • Data-Pop Alliance: Big Data for Disaster Resilience
  • Assessment Capacities Project – Nepal Earthquake
  • Mapping Refugee Media Journeys
  • Nigerian Election

Click here for full study.

Filed Under: Big Data, Big Data Highlights, C4D Research and Evaluation, Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), Nepal, Nigeria, Publications, Research Uptake, Social Media Communication Tagged With: Elections, Mapping, Nepal Earthquake, Refugees

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