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Exchange lunchtime discussions are an opportunity
to explore and open up key health communication issues. Below is a complete
list of lunchtime discussion reports. The discussions
relate to the five subject areas Exchange focuses on:
HIV and AIDS communication
Building
community communication in response to HIV and AIDS through STAR (Stepping
Stones and Reflect)
Exchange lunchtime discussion 12 May 2004
Linnea Renton of ActionAid believes that STAR is an approach that will
enable communities to analyse and tackle issues that affect them, from
agriculture to war, in the context of HIV and AIDS...
HIV/AIDS:
What about very young children?
Exchange lunchtime discussion 21 April 2004
Recent research suggests that HIV and AIDS programmes are ignoring
very young children, particularly under fives, and those in the critical
0-3 period...
Gender sensitive approaches
to reproductive and sexual well-being
Exchange lunchtime discussion 13 June 2002
Alice Welbourn introduced the Stepping Stones methodology, which
is designed to empower people to explore the huge range of issues that
affect sexual health.
Approaches to HIV
and AIDS communication strategies
Exchange lunchtime discussion 20 March 2002
James Deane of PANOS described how new approaches to communication are
needed to halt the remorseless spread of HIV and AIDS.
UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Communication
Framework
Exchange lunchtime discussion 8 June 2001
The purpose of health communication is to bring about some form
of change, said Andrew Chetley of Exchange. Models and theories used in
health communication were introduced including the UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Communication
Framework.
Social mobilisation
and grassroots communication
Communicating
for advocacy: lessons from a disabled people's organisation in Bangladesh
Exchange lunchtime discussion 9 September 2004
"What we need is rights and justice",
said Shahidul Haque as he shared lessons form SARPV's innovative advocacy
work...
Engaging
culture in development
Exchange lunchtime discussion 29 July 2004
Culture needs to be more explicit in development policy and practice,
concludes new research by Creative Exchange...
Communication for
social change
Exchange lunchtime discussion 18 November 2003
Denise Gray-Felder of the new Communication for Social Change Consortium
introduced the Consortium's aim to build communication capacity and sustain
change.
Linking local, regional
and international action: Health communication challenges
Exchange lunchtime discussion 19 February
2002
Maria Zuniga, Global Coordinator of the International People’s
Health Council (IPHC), introduced a debate on communication challenges
faced by people involved in local, regional and international advocacy.
The People’s Health
Assembly: Communication challenges
Exchange lunchtime discussion 19 September 2001
Globalisation does not benefit everyone, particularly not the poor. This
is the key message of a video about the People’s Health Assembly
(PHA) that was discussed by participants.
Learning evaluation
Most Significant Change
- monitoring without indicators
Exchange lunchtime discussion report, February
2005
A participatory monitoring technique based on stories
gives a rich picture of the impact of development work...
How
are we learning in North-to-South NGO partnerships?
Exchange lunchtime discussion 22 June 2004
Recent research finds that more genuine, consistent and creative
NGO partnerships are needed...
Challenging
evaluation: an introduction to Outcome Mapping
Key points from Exchange lunchtime discussion 6
April 2004
Sarah Earl from IDRC believes Outcome Mapping can help health and development
programmes evaluate specific changes in behaviour, relationships, actions
and activities. At the same time, the methodology encourages them to consider
their contribution to much larger dreams, such as universal health care
or an end to violence against women...
Lessons from ALPS: Action
Aid's Accountability, Learning and Planning System
Exchange lunchtime discussion 25 November 2002
ALPS is an attempt to deal with the problems of the massive amount of
work involved in programme reporting, to reduce the reliance on written
reports, and to make more of the learning from existing work.
Most Significant Change:
An evolutionary approach to monitoring that facilitates organisational
learning
Exchange lunchtime discussion 8 October 2002
Most significant change is a participatory monitoring system that can
deal with the unexpected. The method involves systematically collecting
stories which are are analysed, discussed and verified.
Using qualitative inquiry
to enhance effectiveness in early childhood programming
Exchange lunchtime discussion 11 April 2002
The Effectiveness Initiative (EI) links 10 Early Childhood Development
programmes around the world. Babeth Lefur and Arelys Moreno introduced
EI uses to build a sense of the diversity of local circumstances, but
also to link this to broader common themes.
Documenting and sharing
lessons
Exchange lunchtime discussion 1 November 2001
Pat Norrish, an independent consultant, believes that those working in
natural resources and health communication can learn a lot from each other.
She described a project in Uganda that helps identify communication needs
of stakeholders (including farmers) in the project's target area.
Issues in evaluation for
health and disability communication
Exchange lunchtime discussion 23 August 2001
Geoff Barnard, Head of Information at the Institute of Development Studies
(IDS) and Rob Vincent, Learning Coordinator at Exchange gave an overview
of key issues in evaluation. Getting stakeholders to participate in the
evaluation process and communicating the results to different audiences
were key issues.
Integrated communication
How can journalism
strengthen health responses?
Lunchtime discussion 23 February 2006
Journalism is an essential element of effective
health communication. But is it the role of journalists to support dialogue
and ongoing community engagement?
Radio
for health communication
Exchange lunchtime discussion 18 October 2005
Focus on audiences, communication processes
and compelling writing to produce effective radio for health communication.
These are some of the lessons from Health Unlimited's work...
Theatre for Development:
opening up dialogue
Exchange lunchtime discussion 1 July 2003
Communities can use theatre to analyse and
change their situation - but it is a truly cultural process, not a shortcut
to behaviour change...
How can we use ICTs to
empower the rural poor in the developing world through better access to
relevant information?
Exchange lunchtime discussion 2 September 2002
Dr Subbiah Arunachalam (Arun) of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
argued that the current lack of access to the internet for scientists
in the developing world creates a new form of poverty - information poverty.
Developing effective health
communication systems at the grassroots level in Kenya
Exchange lunchtime discussion 24 January 2002
Christopher Wood and Caroline Nyamai from AfriAfya (Africa Health) described
how they are developing an information system made up of a ‘hub’
and seven field centres run by partner organisations. Through strengthened
infrastructure - a computer, printer and WorldSpace receiver in each centre
- information goes out to local change agents, but also a two-way flow
of information is ensured with questions and feedback coming to the centres.
Developing country experiences
of ICTs
Exchange lunchtime discussion 19 July 2001
Andrew Chetley (Exchange Director) introduced four speakers based in Sri
Lanka, Costa Rica and Tanzania. This was the third of a series of meetings
looking at the role of ICTs in health information and communication.
Communication Initiative
(CI)
Exchange lunchtime discussion 15 April
2002
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of 16 development
organisations seeking to support communications interventions for positive
international development. Warren Feek, the Communication Initiative Director
updated participants on the strategic direction and performance of the
CI.
Capacity development
Building
capable communities: promoting and evaluating community capacity
Exchange lunchtime discussion 16 March 2004
Glenn Laverack, author of Health Promotion Practice: Power and
Empowerment, believes the "domains approach" can help a community
shape the agendas of "top-down" health and development programmes
and develop skills and knowledge that will last when the programme ends.
Lessons from
Capacity Development in HIV and AIDS communication
Exchange lunchtime discussion 1 April
2003
David Musendo presents the experience of Family Aids
Caring Trust (FACT) in Zimbabwe. Issues include how capacity development
outcomes are conceived and measured; ownership of capacity development
efforts; and how longer term processes can be supported when projects
emphasise short term results.
Quest - Supporting
the local design of appropriate health learning materials
Exchange lunchtime discussion 16 July 2002
David Curtis from Healthlink Worldwide introduces the international debate
about the importance of appropriate local content and materials.
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