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isaScience 2018 Conference: ‘Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy’ (Vienna, Austria)

August 10, 2018

The conference isaSience is part of isa, the summer academy of mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, and has offered a platform for interdisciplinary research on music and performing arts on diverse themes since 2013.

Over the last few decades, a rich body of literature has explored how individuals and groups use music as a resource to achieve social, cultural and political participation and to bring about social change in society. Studies have also investigated music’s use by political groups and parties in the past and present that impose authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas. Finally, research is concerned with the promise and myth of democratization through technology in regard to music production, distribution and reception/appropriation.

The  isaScience Conference will consider music and democracy from a wide range of disciplines (e.g. musicology, ethnomusicology, music sociology, cultural studies, queer studies, postcolonial studies, arts and cultural management).

Tagged With: Democratisation, Participation, Social Change

Communication for Development (C4D): Global Progress and Country-Level Highlights Across Programme Areas (UNICEF, 2018)

July 29, 2018

This report examines the role of Communication for Development in the work of UNICEF, presenting its framework, guiding principles and the strategic context for its implementation. It also details key results achieved during the period of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2014−2017, with an emphasis on 2017, and a special look at achievements from the field. This report compiles best practices and innovations of strategies, activities and tools that have been successful in engaging children, youth and adults to effect positive social and behaviour change. Although many Communication for Development strategies are cross-sectoral, this report takes a look by sector and thematic area, with illustrative examples gathered from around the globe.

Click here for full report.

Filed Under: *REGION: Global, C4D Introduction, Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Behaviour change, Social Change

“Communication is not an option, but a constant obligation” – 2018 SBCC Summit: Keynote Speech by Anibal Gaviria, former mayor of Medellin, Colombia

May 4, 2018

This keynote speech on citizen dialogue and debate within an urban setting was delivered on 20 April 2018 during the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit featuring Entertainment Education (Nusa Dua, Indonesia).

2018 SBCC Summit: Keynote Speech by Anibal Gaviria, former mayor of Medellin, Colombia

“Communication is not an option, but a constant obligation.”

Aníbal Gaviria was the mayor of Medellín, Colombia, from 2012 to 2015. He is one of a string of mayors credited with turning around this city of 2.5 million people. Once the stronghold of the dangerous Medellín cartel, the city witnessed 6,349 killings in 1991. The homicide rate has fallen by 80 percent since then and, in 2013, the Urban Land Institute named Medellín the “most innovative city” out of 200 it considered. Prior to that, Gaviria was governor of Antioquia, of which Medellín is the capital.

Gaviria sees a connection between reducing inequality and violence in the city and the facilitation of dialogue and debate in communities. Medellin is well known for social urbanism and development policies, including the creation of the Metrocable system, a network of cable cars that link the city’s subways to some of the city’s informal settlements on the city’s steep hills. These settlements were in many ways cut off from the city, with residents commuting as long as 2.5 hours a day before Metrocable opened. Not only could people in these poorer isolated communities get to jobs more easily, but to public libraries, schools, health centres and recreation spaces. Metrocable – by linking people to what they need – is credited with dramatic reductions in crime in the areas reached by cable car, an integrated approach to creating change.

Summary of Anibal Gaviria’s keynote speech.

Anibal Gaviria explained the key principles behind the city’s transformation. He noted that the transformation did not take place under one mayor, but was a continuous process of change over many years of consecutive and synchronised “good governments.”

Gaviria listed the four key principles as being:

  • Planning
  • Transparency
  • Citizen participation
  • Communication

Planning: Gaviria pointed out that “planning is an absolutely critical and fundamental element for the development of cities in the next 30 years. Many of the cities in the world have developed and grown without planning, with bad planning or with planning that is not respected. Fundamentally [this has taken place] in Africa, Asia and Latin America but also in other regions of the world too.”

Transparency: Gaviria explained that “the process that Medellin has gone through was triggered by high levels of transparency being honest and open with their citizens together with a clear accountability]  compared with other Colombian and Latin America cities.”

Citizen Participation: When Gaviria spoke about citizen participation he described four different ways to implement this:

  • As a transversal element – interventions in public space;
  • through participatory budgeting;
  • through “life and ability journeys” through “participatory processes with the communities through dialogue and debate during the development plan”;
  • “as a long-term territorial plan” – with consultations about how to ‘occupy’ the territory. “It [Medellin’s development] was discussed over two years with more than 2,000 meetings.”

Communication: Gaviria explained, “Communication is a basic principle, like a credo…to govern is to communicate. Communication is not an option, but a constant obligation – a daily process where we communicate and receive communication from the citizens.”

Further details of the Summit can be found at the Summit website: https://sbccsummit.org/

Filed Under: Colombia, Participation, Urban Highlights Tagged With: Social Change

The 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit featuring Entertainment Education (Nusa Dua, Indonesia)

April 16, 2018

The collective power of people to transform the social and political structures that govern their lives 
is the true heart of development. Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) engages and supports people to shift norms, change behaviors, and amplify the voices needed to address the persistent development challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, gender inequities, public health emergencies, acute and chronic diseases, climate change, and democracy and governance among others.

The 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit featuring Entertainment Education is organized to better understand what works in shifting social norms, changing behaviors and in amplifying the voice of those who have most at stake in the success of development efforts. It is designed to wrestle with the profound issues of social justice and agenda setting that affect these decisions. Who decides, for example, what behaviors need changing or which norms should be shifted? How can people’s realities and voices be put at the center of such change? How much emphasis should be placed on shifting norms and behaviors when power structures, policy environments or lack of services may constitute problems that overwhelm the capacity of individuals or communities to act?

Tagged With: Behaviour change, Edutainment, Social Change, Social Norms

Contested and Under Pressure: A Snapshot of the Enabling Environment of Civil Society in 22 Countries (CIVICUS 2017)

April 8, 2017

Between 2013 and 2016, civil society in 22 countries carried out an Enabling Environment National Assessment (EENA). The EENA is a civil society-led process that analyses the extent to which national conditions enable the work of civil society.
The EENA analysis explores in particular how laws and regulations relating to civil society are implemented in practice, and how they impact on civil society. The assessments, led by national civil society partners, employed a common methodology that encompassed interviews with key stakeholders, consultations, focus groups and desk research. In every country, six core dimensions were assessed: the ability of civil society groups to form, operate and access resources -all aspects of the freedom of association – plus the freedoms of peaceful assembly
and expression, and relations between civil society and governments.
Overall the EENA assessments reveal a picture of an environment for civil society that is volatile, contested and often under pressure, but also with some optimism in some contexts about the potential for progress.

Filed Under: Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Governance, Honduras, India, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, Publications (published in print and/or online), South Africa, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia Tagged With: civil society, Social Change

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