The Drum Beat 11 - Communication and Change News and Issues

PROGRAMMES

1. Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) - Romania - provides technical assistance to the Romanian Public Health and Health Management Association (RPHHMA) to enhance capacity and to implement activities which impact upon Romanian national health policies and programs. They are interested in information on experiences with Public Service Announcements, "best practices" on PSAs, and further communications strategies. Contact James Chauvin [email protected]

2. End Violence Against Women - Global - Mar. 8, 1999, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) will host a global multimedia event: "A World Free of Violence Against Women". Live, 2-way video will link human rights activists in India, Kenya, and Mexico with UN decision-makers and government, academic, and media representatives in discussions on critical policy directions and successful actions. Join as an observer via two options: video conferencing or the World Wide Web. Contact Marisa Kohan [email protected]

3. Media House - Egypt - produces professional videos for development. Using a community based approach, they are developing 10 programmes of 25 minutes each for parents of children who are mentally challenged and several videos against female genital mutilation. Contact Jos M. Strengholt [email protected]

4. "Knowledge and Information for Development" - Global - The E.D.I. of the World Bank and the Panos Institute invite you to join an electronic debate on this theme commencing Feb 1st for 6 weeks. The debate responds to the growing consensus that the future prosperity and progress of all countries will depend on how people and governments access, interpret, use and create knowledge and information and how best to seize the opportunities presented by the information age. This initiative is designed to foster a frank, focused and productive discussion. If you would like to participate, please send an email to [email protected] Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message, type: subscribe [email protected]. If you do not subscribe, you will still be able to read the messages at the Development Forum - click here for website. Contacts Kerry McNamara [email protected] 
5. Television Violence and Its Impact on Children - India - was the theme of a UNESCO-UNICEF public hearing on Dec. 5 in New Delhi. Based on a study conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Advocacy and Research which found that psychopathic behaviour constitutes 26%-50% of programming on a given day on single channels, with over 50% of the violence graphic in nature, this was the first time members of the Mumbai-based film and television industry were sensitised to impacts of their programming. Contact Latika Padgaonkar [email protected]

6. Africa Alive! - 8 African countries - an initiative to improve reproductive health and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst youth through synergistic partnerships. 48 representatives from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe met in Harare, Zimbabwe (November 16-19, 1998) for the first Stakeholders' Meeting to endorse and plan the initiative. Contact Anne Akia Fiedler [email protected] / [email protected]

7. ID21 (Information for Development in the 21st Century) - Global - an Internet-based system which links development research and researchers directly to policymakers and development practitioners worldwide. Key feature is an online collection of short digests of the latest social and economic research studies. Newsletter is also available. http://www.id21.org Contact Geoff Barnard, Programme Manager [email protected]

8. SCARCNet (Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center) - USA - a network for public health, policy, and communications specialists engaged in tobacco control advocacy. SCARCNet provides advocacy resources, including facilitated discussions and content dissemination of news summaries, research publications, and media advocacy tools. SCARCNet website.

FEATURED ON THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE WEB SITE http://www.comminit.com

9. Change Theories
 

• Social Cognitive Theory
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• Social Expectation Models
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10. Planning Models
 

• CDC's Health Communication Wheel
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• Capacity and Environment Window
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11. News Articles

 

• Funding for Communication and Reproductive Health - Zambia - Dec. 31st
• Neonatal Health Communication Service - Malaysia - Jan. 7th
• Television Venture - Kenya - Jan. 8th
• Media Ownership - India - Jan. 6th

WEB SITES

12. Radio Netherlands: "Community Radio" - articles on and links to information about community radio initiatives. Community Radio site. "Clandestine Radio" - launched with an article relating the history of Radio Venceremos and Radio Farabundo Marti. Clandestine Radio site. Contact Francois Laureys [email protected]

11. The Unit for Media & Communications (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) in Bombay, India is a resource programme engaged in media production, teaching, and cultural studies research and dissemination. Website.

14. Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is an NGO "striving to advance and inform movements for peace, economic and social justice, human rights and environmental sustainability around the world by promoting...use of...computer networking technology." Programmes include: PeaceNet, WomensNet, EcoNet and ConflictNet - Website.

GATHERINGS

15. The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is organizing "Reporting on Women's Health Care," a three-day conference in Constanta, Romania in June 1999. 50 women journalists from Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Macedonia will be invited as delegates. Now seeking nominations for other delegates and speakers. Contact Amy Johnson, Program Director [email protected].

16. VISIONS-AFR is a new space for people and organisations within and outside of West Africa to come together, discuss, and work on issues of gender, reproductive health and rights. This bi-lingual forum (French and English) also serves as a bulletin board to post conferences, workshops, rallies. To subscribe contact [email protected] [in body of email write "subscribe visions-afr", leave subject header blank.]

17. Hurricane Mitch Postponement - UNAIDS' regional workshop on the development of a framework for communications programming for HIV/AIDS in Latin America and Caribbean, which was to be in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Nov. 4-6, 1998 will now be held in Santo Domingo, capitol of Dominican Republic, Jan. 20-22, 1999. Contact Collins Airhihenbuwa [email protected]

MATERIALS

18. Communications-related Headlines is a free daily online news service provided by the Benton Foundation. Includes important USA communication industry developments, policy issues, and other pertinent communications-related news events. Benton website.

19. "Communicating Health: An action guide to health education and health promotion" by John Hubley, explores the role of communication in improving people's health and discusses strategies for health education, health promotion and empowerment of families and communities. Published by Macmillan, 1993.

20. "A Tool Box for Building Health Communication Capacity" is a collection of practical, field-tested tools to be used by practitioners of modern health and social communications throughout the developing world. Materials include models, concepts, and strategies dealing with logistical barriers, cultural contexts and personality differences. Published by USAID, Health Com, & BASICS Apr. 1995 - reprint May 1996.

PEOPLE

21. New members of the "Journal of Health Communication" Editorial Board include: Tom Eng - Interactive Health Communication; Warren Feek - The Communication Initiative; Gary Filerman - George Washington Univ. School of Public Health & Health Services; and Ilona Kickbusch - Yale University School of Medicine. Website. Contact Scott Ratzan [email protected]

22. After 7 years, Gabriel Urgoiti will soon be leaving his position as Director of the Media Training Center at the Progressive Primary Health Care Network in Cape Town, South Africa. He will continue to work as a consultant in the areas of Health Promotion Communication and Development.

23. AMARC (Association Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires), the Canada-based World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, is offering an internship/p-time job as Asst. to the Training Project Manager - Deadline 20 Jan. 1999. Send letter of motivation (max. 2 pps.) to : Secretariat International - 3575, boul. Saint-Laurent, bureau 611, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T7, CANADA, fax: +1 (514) 849 71 29. Contact Sophie K. Ly [email protected]

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Thanks to everyone for their involvement, encouragement, support and cooperation. Please send information that you would like to have included in The Drum Beat to the Editor - Deborah Heimann [email protected]