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RFP - Major Entertainment-Education Initiative - UNICEF India

To: The ENTERTAINMENT-EDUCATION network network within The Communication Initiative platform

Request for Proposal - A Multi-Media Communication Series based on an Entertainment-Education Approach (72 episodes) on Gender and Adolescent Girls - UNICEF India

Please note that full details, including the background document and creative brief along with the contact person information for this RFP, are included as an attachment which is available through the Read More link below. (You will need to log in. Your user name is at the beginning of this note. There is a password recovery system. If you have any issues at all please just reply to this email,

UNICEF India is seeking proposals for the entertainment-education component of a multimedia communication series based on entertainment education. The goal of this communication initiative is to create a conducive environment so that adolescent girls and their immediate influencers are able to have an open and uninhibited dialogue about gender roles and norms. The deliverables include: a 72-episode (half-hour) entertainment education TV and radio series respectively; 5 pilot episodes for both TV and radio series developed and pretested; the 72 TV series episodes adapted for preview on mobile phones and tablets; and, an innovative, interactive and user-friendly social impact game/application.

A reminder that the attachment online has very detailed information concerning this opportunity. Thanks - Warren

PS - Apologies for posting to multiple networks. As this is such a major initiative we wish to ensure that all are aware so will risk a few email duplicates.

RFP - Major Entertainment-Education initiative - UNICEF India

To: The HEALTH COMMUNICATION network within The Communication Initiative platform

Request for Proposal - A Multi-Media Communication Series based on an Entertainment-Education Approach (72 episodes) on Gender and Adolescent Girls - UNICEF India

Please note that full details, including the background document and creative brief along with the contact person information for this RFP, are included as an attachment which is available through the Read More link below. (You will need to log in. Your user name is at the beginning of this note. There is a password recovery system. If you have any issues at all please just reply to this email,

UNICEF India is seeking proposals for the entertainment-education component of a multimedia communication series based on entertainment education. The goal of this communication initiative is to create a conducive environment so that adolescent girls and their immediate influencers are able to have an open and uninhibited dialogue about gender roles and norms. The deliverables include: a 72-episode (half-hour) entertainment education TV and radio series respectively; 5 pilot episodes for both TV and radio series developed and pretested; the 72 TV series episodes adapted for preview on mobile phones and tablets; and, an innovative, interactive and user-friendly social impact game/application.

A reminder that the attachment online has very detailed information concerning this opportunity. Thanks - Warren

Post 2015 - Your Health and Rights Communication Priorities

To: The Health, Rights, Media Network

Your Health and Rights Communication Priorities, Post 2015?

"The post-2015 framework should include access to justice and legal empowerment targets in a governance goal to address issues most critical to human development." - from "Justice 2015 - Measuring Justice in the post-2015 Development Framework".

The paper from a consortia of organizations includes proposed targets such as: "Ensure the participation of citizens in monitoring essential services such as healthcare, water and education".

Do you agree? Are these important elements to include in the post-2015 "Goals"? What is the Media role related to such goals? To share your perspectives please either reply by email to this note or click the Read More link below and add a comment on the platform.

Some knowledge relevant to this question includes:

Health Priorities Post 2015: What is the Priority Health Agenda for the 15 Years after 2015?

Legislative advocacy is one strategy outlined. The Health, Rights, Media theme site includes many items on health advocacy, such as these two:

Medical Advocacy Mural Project

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for Tuberculosis Control: Collection of Country-Level Good Practices

Evaluating Children, Equity: Your Critical review

To: The Children, Equity network within The Communication Initiative

Measuring the Effectiveness of Children, Equity action

Hi folks - the question of measurement of children and equity action attracts considerable interest and debate. Four examples follow for your review. Please do return to this email and reply sharing your critical review. Or click on the Read More Link below and comment on the platform (there is a request new password link if you have forgotten yours).

Ethical Principles, Dilemmas and Risks in Collecting Data on Violence against Children

Impact Data - Sisimpur

MAMA Global Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

Impact Data - Soul Buddyz

With many thanks for sharing your critical review.

Warren

Early Child Development Blogs and Perspectives

To: The Early Child Development Network within The Communication Initiative

Please just reply by email or click on the Read More Link below to share your experiences, analysis and ideas on the questions that follow.

We are honoured to have Manuel Manrique blog on The CI platform. Early Childhood Development themes are prominent in those blogs - including Every Child Counts; The Antidote to Bullying; Years ago they voted for peace; Social Innovation Counts and The Swallows of Comuna 8.

In Social Innovation Counts he asks this question:

"Where will be the children of Edison Flores, the young man who died ten years ago lying on a steep street of Comuna 8 ... The protagonist of the documentary La Sierra, poor, 22 years old, not only left behind death and terror but also six children - borne by six different girls - who by now must be between 10 and 13 years, i.e., the age at which the crime lurks and where many children are hooked by crime, where otherwise untouched?"

Violence has a marked effect on children.

  1. How do you address the issues of violence and child development?
  2. What strategies have you found to be most effective?

Rural Development: 3 perspectives - Your critique

To The Environment/Natural Resource Management Network within The Communication Initiative

Rural Development and environment/natural resource management issues are of course inextricably linked. Below are three perspectives on rural development strategies, all of which have an environmental focus.

  1. What is your overall assessment of these strategies?
  2. Which would work best in your context?
  3. What is the central strategy for your work?

Please share your perspectives in support of the work of all in this network.

Information Broker: Communicating and Monitoring Climate Change by Harry Surjadi

"Information brokers are citizens trained on basic journalism knowledge and skills. An information broker has the same knowledge and skills as citizen journalists do. She/he has capability on how to distinguish facts from opinion or analysis, as a professional journalist has. She/he also has developed the skills to write information (or news)." Full blog at this link

Mobile Phone and the Transformation of Lives: a tale of two Communities in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone by Steven Sam

"Tombo is one of the main fishing communities situated close to the capital Freetown. It has about 25,000 inhabitants. The majority of these inhabitants rely on fishing for their livelihood. In an interview with the harbour master Mr.

Edutainment: Using Stories and Media for Social Action and Behaviour Change

To: The Health Communication Network within The Communication Initiative - including the Market Place for International Development (To respond and contribute to this conversation simply reply by email or click the Read More link below and contribute on the platform)

Hi and best wishes. Entertainment /Edutainment/Entertainment-Education (call it whatever you wish!) has proved to be a key strategy for effective health communication action at scale.

Based on the experiences of Soul City in South and Southern Africa, the Pop Culture with a Purpose initiative facilitated by Oxfam/NOVIB has "produced a manual (that) shares perspectives and insights about edutainment, using popular entertainment formats to tackle serious social issues.

That manual is called "Edutainment: Using Stories and Media for Social Action and Behaviour Change".

Sections include: Qualitative formative audiences research; Choosing your edutainment media and format; and, Developing the message and story.

How helpful is this to your work?

Please do review at this link which provides a brief summary with access to the full document.

And please do either return to this email and share your critical comments by email reply or click Red More below and comment on the platform.

Thanks

Warren

HIV/AIDS in a post-MDG World?

To: The HIV/AIDS Network within The Communication Initiative

How should HIV/AIDS be positioned in a post MDG world?

I was just at a very interesting dialogue (one of many I understand!) on the theme of what should follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015, which is of course the end point for the MDGs. Later this year the UN Member States will make the decision. For now the consultations continue.

How would you complete this sentence?

In the United Nations document that follows on from the Millennium Development Goals, HIV/AIDS should feature in the following ways …

To share your thoughts and ideas please just reply by email to this note or open the link below and comment on the platform.

Thanks - Warren

Early Child Development: Improving Physical Environments

To: The Early Child Development Network within The Communication Initiative

IMPROVED PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

Work to improve the physical environments for children is a primary priority for many organizations focused on early child development including The Bernard van Leer Foundation

Reviewing some of the communication processes used to improve those physical environments I was struck by the creativity: circuses in Ecuador; brick kiln children in India; an animal therapy centre as part of a comprehensive programme in Colombia; art in the United Kingdom and Brazil; Sanitation Clubs in Mozambique; theatre in Kenya; story rooms in the USA; information collection in Brazil; and much more.

Please do share the creative communication processes and contexts which yo

Early Child Development: Improving Physical Environments

To: The Early Child Development Network within The Communication Initiative

IMPROVED PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

Work to improve the physical environments for children is a primary priority for many organizations focused on early child development including The Bernard van Leer Foundation

Reviewing some of the communication processes used to improve those physical environments I was struck by the creativity: circuses in Ecuador; brick kiln children in India; an animal therapy centre as part of a comprehensive programme in Colombia; art in the United Kingdom and Brazil; Sanitation Clubs in Mozambique; theatre in Kenya; story rooms in the USA; information collection in Brazil; and much more.

Please do share the creative communication processes and contexts which yo

HIV/AIDS Communication