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EE5 Presentations: Getting the Message Out!

Hi - for presentations from the EE5 Conference Session: "Getting the Message Out" please access http://networks.comminit.com/ee5delhi/node/6953

The presentations that can be accessed include: The Theoretical Design of SOUND; Determinants of Behaviours of Contraceptive Use; Persuasion Knowledge in Entertainment Education; and, Research Tainment - Mexico.

Thanks for the further interaction and sharing with this knowledge.

Warren

EE Conf Presentations online - the beginning

Hi folks - hope that all is well and if you did attend the 5th Entertainment-Education conference, very much hope that your travels home were safe and enjoyable!

As I outlined at the end of the conference we are uploading all of the knowledge from the EE conference in a manner that supports further interaction, dialogue and learning.

For example, for this session: "Mini to Mid to Mass: Focus on Maternal and Child Health and FP" - please go to http://networks.comminit.com/ee5delhi/node/6955

You will see most of the presentations and some relevant videos on the learning shared from Pehla Ek Ghanta (India), Nigerian Nollywood movies, Gari Chole Na (Bangladesh) and PataPata Children's Radio Programme (Tanzania) with the Niger presentation still to be uploaded as it is in a different format.

When you review these presentations please do share your comments, critique and questions. To do so just click "Reply" for each presentation/posting and/or use the Comments facility (scroll down) for overall questions, issues or observations.

Please note that there is a lot of knowledge from the conference already uploaded at http://networks.comminit.com/ee5delhi/dashboard. Over the next couple of weeks we will upload more.

Thanks for using this virtual platform to extend the interaction, sharing and learning on this vitally important development process.

Best wishes - Warren

Warren Feek - Executive Director - The Communication Initiative

EE Conf Presentations online - the beginning

Hi folks - hope that all is well and if you did attend the 5th Entertainment-Education conference, very much hope that your travels home were safe and enjoyable!

As I outlined at the end of the conference we are uploading all of the knowledge from the EE conference in a manner that supports further interaction, dialogue and learning.

For example, for this session: "Mini to Mid to Mass: Focus on Maternal and Child Health and FP" - please go to http://networks.comminit.com/ee5delhi/node/6955

You will see most of the presentations and some relevant videos on the learning shared from Pehla Ek Ghanta (India), Nigerian Nollywood movies, Gari Chole Na (Bangladesh) and PataPata Children's Radio Programme (Tanzania) with the Niger presentation still to be uploaded as it is in a different format.

When you review these presentations please do share your comments, critique and questions. To do so just click "Reply" for each presentation/posting and/or use the Comments facility (scroll down) for overall questions, issues or observations.

Please note that there is a lot of knowledge from the conference already uploaded at http://networks.comminit.com/ee5delhi/dashboard. Over the next couple of weeks we will upload more.

Thanks for using this virtual platform to extend the interaction, sharing and learning on this vitally important development process.

Best wishes - Warren

Warren Feek - Executive Director - The Communication Initiative

Local and National Rules..and your Observations from Day 1!

Hi folks - here we go with Day 2 of the 5th Entertainment-Education Conference. I attended some fantastic sessions yesterday and came away with a few strategic (hopefully) observations from the knowledge shared. I want to outline two of them below but can I please encourage you to either submit YOUR observations from Day 1 and/or agree or disagree with my note below. Just click on the READ MORE link below, scroll down, enter your comment and SAVE.

TWO STRATEGIC OBSERVATION OBSERVATIONS for debate and critique!

A. Local and National Rules

Analysis: That because of the subtleties of local and national cultures, the uniqueness of local and national social and political dynamics and the wide diversity of local and national communication "scenes"...

Strategic Observation: ...For an E-E initiative to be effective decision making control has to rest with people and organisations internal to the context that is the focus for the E-E initiative

Extreme example: People from and in the Copper Belt district in Zambia designing and managing a programme focused on sensitive local and State wide issues in Kansas!

b. Writing for Entertainment and Entertainment-Education are very different skills and approaches.

Analysis: That when four important E-E elements of (a) technical knowledge related to the issue in question (b) perspectives of people most affected (c) all relevant research - from relevant overall impact date in this field to specific formative research for an issue and (d) resonance, resonance, resonance are thrown into the process then...

Strategic Observation: ...the writing skills required will be very different for E-E than when producing a straight entertainment "product".

A Question from the Opening of the EE5 Conference

Hi - there were some very interesting insights in the opening of the EE5 Conference - and some great singing!

All of the opening speaker comments about Bollywood, Hollywood and other major global entertainment centers prompt again, for me, a long standing question in the Entertainment-Education field, namely:

Can a programme initiative be classified as Entertainment-Education if it does NOT contain a research component that drives major decision making related to that initiative?

To put it another way, is being research driven the central difference between entertainment-education and entertainment?

And to provide the practical implication of this: In E-E if there is conflict between what the research says and what the creative talent want to produce - then research wins. Not true of entertainment of course.

Agree? Disagree? See some important subtleties?

Please do click on the Read More below and share your thoughts and assessment. (or you can try just replying to this email and sending).

And please do share your thoughts and observations from the opening event.

Thanks - Warren

5th EE Conference

Hi folks - welcome to the online, interactive platform for the 5th Entertainment-Education conference. My colleague Adelaida Trujillo will be facilitating this process along with the conference organisers. But I wanted to quickly do some housekeeping matters! The platform is for both those people attending the Conference and those who are very interested in Entertainment-Education but are unable to be in Delhi this week.We will seek to share the presentations from the conference and to provide an online platform for your comments, questions and observations.

But first let's deal with the most important issue - LOGGING IN! Please either click on the "Read More" link below or go straight to this link http://networks.comminit.com/ee5delhi/user/login?destination=ee5delhi/dashboard

If you do not remember your user name or password please click on REQUEST NEW PASSWORD. Then enter the EMAIL address you used to register for this conference and click SAVE. You will receive an email with your new one time password (normal social networking process) and some further instructions.

Thanks - please do try this - more soon! But it would be excellent if you could first log in at http://networks.comminit.com/ee5delhi/user/login?destination=ee5delhi/dashboard

Warren

Warren Feek

Executive Director

The Communication Initiative

Your Children and Equity Knowledge

To: People working on Children Related issues within the Drum Beat network

http://www.comminit.com/children

Greetings from The Communication Initiative. I just wanted to let you know that we are on the cusp of publishing an issue of our e-magazine, The Drum Beat, focused on Children, Equity and Development as part of our theme site, here: http://www.comminit.com/children This issue of The Drum Beat will focus on the concept of equity, in particular. Please look out for it next week, and send us your feedback by email from this message (just click reply).

Please also send us your knowledge to share through this network. We always welcome submissions of knowledge related to programmes, strategic thinking, research and evaluation, materials, training opportunities,etc related to children and communication. simply reply to this email, contact Kier deVries at kdevries@comminit.com or send to drumbeat@comminit.com

A few recent summaries we have posted focus on the issue of child abuse, such as is the highlight of this communication campaign: 19 Days of Activism for Prevention of Child Abuse - see: http://www.comminit.com/children/content/19-days-activism-prevention-child-abuse We also recently added the following item to the theme site: "A Reasoned Approach: Reshaping Sex Offender Policy to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse" http://www.comminit.com/global/content/reasoned-approach-reshaping-sex-offender-policy-prevent-child-sexual-abuse

If either of these summaries, or anything that you see on the theme site or read in the next issue of The Drum Beat, resonate with you or spark you to send in your own experiences or reports, please do be in touch at any time!

Best wishes and thanks to Kier who guides and coordinates this work in our partnershio with UNICEF.

Warren

Warren Feek The Communication Initiative wfeek@comminit.com http://www.comminit.com

Your Children and Equity Knowledge

To: People working on Children Related issues within the Drum Beat network

http://www.comminit.com/children

Greetings from The Communication Initiative. I just wanted to let you know that we are on the cusp of publishing an issue of our e-magazine, The Drum Beat, focused on Children, Equity and Development as part of our theme site, here: http://www.comminit.com/children This issue of The Drum Beat will focus on the concept of equity, in particular. Please look out for it next week, and send us your feedback by email from this message (just click reply).

Please also send us your knowledge to share through this network. We always welcome submissions of knowledge related to programmes, strategic thinking, research and evaluation, materials, training opportunities,etc related to children and communication. simply reply to this email, contact Kier deVries at kdevries@comminit.com or send to drumbeat@comminit.com

A few recent summaries we have posted focus on the issue of child abuse, such as is the highlight of this communication campaign: 19 Days of Activism for Prevention of Child Abuse - see: http://www.comminit.com/children/content/19-days-activism-prevention-child-abuse We also recently added the following item to the theme site: "A Reasoned Approach: Reshaping Sex Offender Policy to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse" http://www.comminit.com/global/content/reasoned-approach-reshaping-sex-offender-policy-prevent-child-sexual-abuse

If either of these summaries, or anything that you see on the theme site or read in the next issue of The Drum Beat, resonate with you or spark you to send in your own experiences or reports, please do be in touch at any time!

Best wishes and thanks to Kier who guides and coordinates this work in our partnershio with UNICEF.

Warren

Warren Feek The Communication Initiative wfeek@comminit.com http://www.comminit.com

Early Child Development Resources

Hi - hope that all is well with your important work. I just wanted to both draw your attention to three early child development materials featured on the ECD theme site at http://comminit.com/early-child/

If you do access these please do click on the Read More link below and send your comments. How helpful are these resources to you in your work? Why are they helpful or not helpful to advancing that work?

Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Excite, Educate and Heal http://comminit.com/early-child/content/communicating-children-principles-and-practices-nurture-inspire-excite-educate-and-heal

Bouba and Zaza: Childhood Cultures - An Intergenerational African Series of Children’s Books http://comminit.com/early-child/content/bouba-and-zaza

Early Childhood Development for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Key Considerations http://comminit.com/early-child/content/early-childhood-development-orphans-and-vulnerable-children-key-considerations

Thanks for sharing your insights.

Warren

Journalism, Media, Gantmaking

Hi - just in case you missed this when it was first released please see the new summary (with links to full document) on the Media Development theme site at http://comminit.com/media-development/category/sites/global/media-develo

Journalism and Media Grant Making: Five Things You Need to Know, Five Ways to Get Started http://comminit.com/media-development/content/journalism-and-media-grant-making-five-things-you-need-know-five-ways-get-started

And please do share you assessment and analysis of the value of this publication to your work - click the Read More link below and share your thoughts

Thanks - Warren

HIV/AIDS Communication