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C4D: An Evaluation of UNICEF’S Capacity and Action- Ethiopia Case Study

September 18, 2019

The purpose of the global evaluation of UNICEF’s capacity and action in C4D is to generate credible and useful evidence on the requirements for successful implementation of C4D in order to strengthen UNICEF’s future action and results in this area. The Ethiopia report is one of five case studies. Each country case study has four main objectives: 1. To assess the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the CO’s efforts to (a) develop the individual knowledge and competences of staff in C4D and (b) enhancing the CO’s overall capacity. 2. To assess the extent to which, and how appropriately, C4D has been integrated into the CO structures and programmes; 3. To assess how relevant C4D related planning and implementation has been (including through use of proposed benchmarks) to the contextual needs of the country programme; and identify factors driving or constraining the relevance of C4D-related planning and programming. 4. To review C4D related performance monitoring and, knowledge management and assess the evaluability of results (outcomes and impact) achieved through programmes using C4D interventions.

Click here to read the Ethiopia case study.

Filed Under: [E] C4D Monitoring & Evaluation, *ONLINE LEARNING, C4D Introduction, C4D Research and Evaluation Highlights, Ethiopia Tagged With: C4D Evaluation, C4D Strategy, UNICEF

Join our newly launched C4D & Peace Group

March 6, 2016

The C4D Network is excited to invite you to join our newly launched  topical group focusing on C4D and ‘Peace’.

The group welcomes those working in or interested in the areas of C4D and Peace. We have forums, resources and collaborations around peace and are happy to welcome new members to join our online community.  Click here to join.

C4D Network is currently partnering with UNICEF to develop a ‘C4D & Peacebuilding’ platform and a set of resources and support activities to UNICEF country offices and other Network affiliates and members. Click here for full details of the UNICEF & C4D Network Partnership.

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Filed Under: NETWORK, Peace & Social Cohesion Tagged With: C4D Network, UNICEF

Communicating with children: using an integrated approach [hand-washing in Indonesia] (UNICEF 2011)

August 15, 2015

In their 2011 publication, ‘Communicating with children’, UNICEF consider how children process and experience learning, using the example of their ‘Let’s Wash Hands’ poster.

“The poster “Let’s Wash Hands” was developed for school-aged children during a capacity-building workshop on holistic child development in Indonesia.The group chose a girl to be the model for a photo-based poster; broke down steps for a correct hand-washing sequence (wet, soap, scrub well, rinse); used a catchy rhyme with each photo; and finished with the girl proudly holding out her clean hands. Supplementary activities included adapting the rhyme to a song to be sung at school or at home when washing hands.The poster integrated hygiene, early learning through rhyme and building self-confidence, especially of girls. It can be used as a model to teach a variety of skills to children as well as adults.”

For more details visit: http://www2.unicef.org:60090/cwc/cwc_58608.html

 

Filed Under: Awareness Raising, Case Studies, Indonesia, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Tagged With: children, Communication, Girls, Hand washing, Hygiene, Poster, UNICEF

Participatory Theatre Gains Momentum (UNICEF workshop report 2015)

August 7, 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, and sharpen strategies on how participatory theatre can engage communities to claim their rights and address specific development and humanitarian challenges.

The seven-day workshop closed over the weekend in a ceremony with representation from Zambia’s Deputy Minister of Tourism and Arts, Hon. Esther Banda, MP, Chairman of the National Arts Council, Mulenga Kwepepe and senior UNICEF officials. Throughout the week, workshop participants deliberated on principles and standards for raising the quality of practice. These were captured in a Lusaka Declaration outlining detailed commitments of theatre practitioners for using participatory theatre as an approach for community engagement, behaviour change and social transformation.

“Participatory Theatre can be a potent medium to address power imbalances in communities which prevent them from fulfilling their basic rights. It can be applied in conflict-affected settings to address underlying causes of tensions and build social cohesion; in post emergency situations to help reduce trauma and in development contexts to tackle harmful socio-cultural norms and practices such as child marriage, female genital mutilation and open defecation,” said Kerida McDonald, UNICEF’s Senior Advisor for Communications for Development at its New York City-based headquarters. “But it is important to ensure that we are not un-wittingly supporting theatre groups to practice one-way messaging in the name of ‘edu-tainment.’”

 Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ, Kerida McDonald discusses with Hamid El-Shadir - Photo credit: Baldwin Old
Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ, Kerida McDonald discusses with Hamid El-Shadir – Photo credit: Baldwin Old

UNICEF is partnering with the Zambian-based Africa Directions, a youth theatre non-governmental organization (NGO) to lead a multi-country mapping exercise and the development of guidelines and tools to ensure that participatory theatre is used effectively to empower communities examine their realities, express their opinions and identify collective solutions to issues affecting them.

Said UNICEF Zambia Representative Hamid El-Bashir Ibrahim, PhD., “In Zambia, we are supporting participatory theatre in schools and communities to address a number of issues, including school dropout and teenage pregnancy. We welcome this workshop which is focusing on defining standards of practice and addressing critical issues such as evaluation. If theatre can bring about results for children, create spaces for them to speak and be heard, and advocate for their rights and life-saving needs, then we need to find mechanisms to scale it up and make it sustainable,” said El-Bashir.

The workshop, which was held from 05-11 July, invited expert guest speakers to provide an overview of the historical and current status of participatory theatre including Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn who shared findings from his recently conducted global literature review of participatory theatre; Alessandro Conceição from Brazil’s Centre of the Theatre of the Oppressed; and Professor Dickson Mwansa Zambian Open University. Participants met in groups to consider the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats for participatory theatre and suggest recommendations for strengthening the practice.

Adrian Maanka, Nat'l Arts Council; Kerida McDonald, Senior Advisor C4D Unicef HQ; Mark Chilongu, Director, Africa Directions; Hon. Esther Banda, Dep. Min. of Culture; Dr. Hamid El-Shadir , Unicef Zambia Rep; Madam Mulenga Kapepwe, Chairman, Nat. Arts Council - Photo credit: Baldwin Old
Adrian Maanka, Nat’l Arts Council; Kerida McDonald, Senior Advisor C4D Unicef HQ; Mark Chilongu, Director, Africa Directions; Hon. Esther Banda, Dep. Min. of Culture; Dr. Hamid El-Shadir , Unicef Zambia Rep; Madam Mulenga Kapepwe, Chairman, Nat. Arts Council – Photo credit: Baldwin Old

“The workshop has provided an eye-opener for all of us. Hearing of country experiences from other African nations and across the world has broadened our awareness of a wide range of models for supporting participatory theatre: through drop-in centres, schools, youth centres, university departments and religious networks. There are also exciting innovations we are learning about such as combining participatory theatre with live TV and doing legislative theatre to influence the development of new laws and policies,” said Africa Directions Excecutive Director, Mark Chilongu.

In partnership with UNICEF Communication for Development Section at the organization’s New York headquarters, Africa Directions will be using the outputs of the workshop to develop a global guide for participatory theatre practitioners. The organization will also begin to serve as a regional centre to improve professional exchanges, networking and capacity development to strengthen the contribution of the application of theatre for development. Funding for the initiative has generously provided to UNICEF by the Government of the Netherlands as part of its global peacebuilding initiative, which in many countries UNICEF is implementing in partnership with the Search for Common Ground.

About UNICEF
UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere. For more information about UNICEF and its work visit: www.unicef.org/zambia.

Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ summarizing the way forward for the Global Participatory Theatre initiative – Photo credit: Baldwin Old
Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ summarizing the way forward for the Global Participatory Theatre initiative – Photo credit: Baldwin Old

Source: Kerida McDonald, UNICEF

 

Filed Under: Awareness Raising, Behaviour Change Communication, C4D and Peace, Case Studies, Peace & Social Cohesion, Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), Theatre for Development, Zambia Tagged With: Africa Directions, Child marriage, children, Edutainment, Female Genital Mutilation, School Dropout, Schools, Search for Common Ground, Teenage Pregnancy, UNICEF, Youth theatre

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