The Drum Beat 87 - Communication and Change News and Issues

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Check out the new EVENTS CALENDAR!

Over 70 SEARCHABLE events currently listed.

Our purpose is to provide you with a one-stop shop for you to review upcoming conferences, meetings, and training sessions relevant to you and your work.

Please send us details of your events for listing on the calendar - [email protected]

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PROGRAMMES



1. Enlace Quiché Project - Guatemala - produces multimedia materials for language instruction and strengthening cultural identity in teacher training schools. The EQ project has staff with expertise in creating books in html, a database of Spanish-K'iche'-Ixil words, language games and exercises programmed in Visual Basic, and a CD-ROM of projects that will be done by the students. For instance, the skill of the weavers and embroiderers of the area is outstanding, and each village has different designs. One plan is to make a survey of the styles and techniques for different areas. Contact Sabina Béhague [email protected]



2. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - Global - WWF International Features is a newsletter of stories about the conservation organization's field projects. Works to preserve genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity, ensure that the use of natural resources is sustainable both now and in the longer term, and promote action to reduce pollution and wasteful consumption to a minimum. WWF carries out around 700 international projects, in addition to thousands initiated at a local level by core offices around the world. It combines "localized, practical actions and field projects with broader initiatives to influence environmental decision-making and industrial practises, based on sound conservation policies and constructive dialogue."
Contact Hild Glattbach [email protected]



3. WorldSpace Foundation - Africa - provides satellite broadcasting directly to radio and multi-media receivers at low cost in Africa. The flagship project, "Africa Learning Channel" delivers distance education and social development information via satellite to radios in rural and isolated regions of Africa. A collaboration with UNICEF brings multi-media social development and educational material to community information centers that have no phone lines and hence, no Internet connection in Sudan. Contact Rose Tchwenko [email protected]



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Vacant posts - recruiting at The C.I. Vacancies Page.

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4. INFOYOUTH - Global - UNESCO's international information and data exchange network. Works to spread information on youth, improve awareness and understanding of the problems and expectations of young people in different types of societies, back innovative projects aimed at stimulating the active participation of young people in the political, economic and cultural life of society, facilitate the design of national and international policies and programmes for young people, and organise computer training activities for underprivileged young people. Contact [email protected]



5. Gbara Community Health Development Project - Nigeria - The Community Health Information Education Forum (C.H.I.E.F), provided safe-motherhood programmes, child and adolescent health development programmes, a community elders forum, capacity/poverty alleviation programmes. Key strategy used was Information-Education Communication to create awareness, increase knowledge, build approval, present personal benefits; prompt action, sustain behavioral change and influence community norms. Future plans include: training of volunteer health workers/traditional birth attendants, work with youth in and out of school, community/home-based care of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Contact Remi Akinmade [email protected]



6. World Links - Global - connects and trains teachers and kids in developing countries to improve education and employment opportunities. Initiative combines connectivity solutions, training and professional development, and monitoring and evaluation tools - tailoring this model to each country's needs and objectives, based on feasibility studies and discussions with local officials. Contact [email protected]



7. South North Network for Education Transfer (Sonnet) - Global - an international exchange network of educational professionals involved in basic education in the South and in the North. Sonnet is developing a database of brief content-based descriptions of educational methods of improving the quality of basic education for empowerment, with an emphasis on educational programmes for illiterates, for cultural and/or ethnic minorities, for the most needy in society, and for people with traumatic experiences and/or specific educational needs. Visit Sonnet to submit to this data base. Contact [email protected]



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8. Petition for AIDS Orphans - Global - The Association François-Xavier Bagnoud has announced a "Call for 100,000" petition campaign for AIDS orphans and other vulnerable and AIDS-affected children. The petition and it's signatures will be presented at the upcoming UN conference - Follow Up to the World Summit on Children in September, 2001. Seeks to press governments to implement the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.



ELECTRONIC MAGASINES



9. West Africa Newsletter - a free newsletter reporting on human rights, democracy & development, published by the International Center & Liberia Institute of Journalism . To subscribe, place "subscribe WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER" in the subject heading and email to: [email protected] or [email protected]



10. ELDIS Development Reporter - a free newsletter that currently includes descriptions and links to over 3500 organisations and over 6000 full-text online documents covering development and environmental issues. Subscribe online or contact Tracy Zussman-Kay [email protected]



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Send information on your Electronic Magasines to [email protected]

This will become a New Section on The Communication Initiative web site.



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WEB SITES



11. INASP-Health is a worldwide cooperative network for organizations and individuals working to improve access to reliable information for health professionals in developing and transitional countries. Services include: Advisory and liaison service; Health Information Forum; 'HIF-net at WHO' email discussion list; INASP-Health Directory; and the INASP Newsletter. To participate send an email to [email protected], giving your name, affiliation, and brief description of your professional interests.



12. Africa Film & TV - a pan-African journal that deals with film and video production and distribution, TV broadcast and Technology in the African context. Discusses both local and global issues influencing the industry. Contact [email protected]



13. The Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) - based in Cape Town, South Africa, works to build the capacity of organisations and individuals engaged in development and social transformation. Their work is mostly "through organisational interventions, training, accompanied learning and collaborative explorations."
Contact [email protected]



14. Zambia Association for Research & Development (ZARD) - works to promote and advance gender development and empowerment of women through participatory action-oriented research, advocacy and training. Contact [email protected]



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The Vacancies Drum Beat will be April 18, 2001.

Contact Carey Hooge to place your vacant posts.



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EVENTS



15. 10th International Conference on Health and the Environment: Global Partners for Global Solutions - 25-27 April 2001 at the United Nations. Theme is "Economics of Health & Environment". Will focus on how economic policy can promote or derail health and environment globally. Contact [email protected]



16. International Executive Media & TV Workshop - Beirut - 23 - 26 April 2001. Using a 3-part methodology, CDC trainer's provide hands on coaching in how to design a message and how to deliver it. Contact Moncef Bouhafa [email protected]



17. 2nd Africa Telehealth Conference - 10-14 April 2001 - Kampala, Uganda. Will discuss current problems and trends in the utilisation of computer-based telecommunications technologies in the health sector. Contact Ivan Semakuka [email protected]



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The C.I. is seeking information on:

• communication related training events
• action on tobacco issues
• consultancy opportunities
• communication related books
• communication action on child rights

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