Information communication technologies, poverty and empowerment

Andrew Skus

Voices of change: strategic radio support for achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Information and Communication for DevelopmentAndrew Skus

Communication for Humanitarian Action Toolkit

Working version May 2015. Andrew Skuse, Director of the Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit, ACCRU, at the University of Adelaide, prepared this toolkit. Patricia Portela Souza and Consultant Teresa Stuart Guida reviewed and finalized the Toolkit for publication.Welcome to the Communication for Humanitarian Action Toolkit, CHAT, . It has been designed with practitioners in mind and is a resource that you can work with and adapt as you strive towards your communication for humanitarian action goals. The toolkit provides guidance to humanitarian and development organizations in the area of emergency communication strategy design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It addresses several important aspects of communication during emergencies. These include a focus on providing essential emergency warnings, as well as communication that promotes behaviour change, community mobilization and action. Well-planned communication can help to promote community resilience and reduce vulnerability to a wide range of disasters and emergency situationsAndrew Skuse, United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, and the International Federation of the Red Cross, IFRC, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities Network, CDAC, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, World Health Organization, WHO, High Frequency Coordination Conference, HFCC, and subject matter specialists, SMS, from UNICEF Offices in India and Pacific Islands

Working with the media in conflicts and other emergencies

Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department (CHAD)For people who are caught up in conflict and other emergencies, the need for information is often acute. Frequently, they are separated from their families, lack shelter and adequate food, and are scared and confused by the events occurring around them. Media programming tailored to the needs of such people can provide an essential information lifeline. At the same time, the media can play a role in efforts to actively prevent and resolve conflicts, and support post conflict peace-building. This guide has been produced by DFID's Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department and Social Development Department to serve as a reference point for DFID staff and partner bilateral and multilateral development agencies. It aims to provide geographical desk officers and sectoral advisers with a resource to strengthen both their understanding of the role media can play in conflict and other emergency situations and the options open to them for supporting practical initiatives. DFID's Governance Department is producing guidance on longer-term assistance to the media. Provisionally entitled "The Media in Good Governance: Developing Free and Effective Media to serve the Interests of the Poor" this is expected to be published later in 2000.Department for International Developmen

Social networking, social media and complex emergencies: an annotated bibliography

Andrew Skuse and Tait Brimacomb

AIDS communication

Information and Communication for DevelopmentAndrew Skuse, Fiona Powe

MTV EXIT ASIA III : A campaign to increase awareness and prevention of trafficking in persons (Independent Review)

Dr Andrew Skuse, Dr Scott Downma

The political economy of social capital: chronic poverty, remoteness and gender in rural Eastern Cape

Western Cape Social Capital Network (Department of Social Development, Western Cape Government) - Reports & ResearchThis paper uses two case studies drawn from in-depth ethnographic research in South Africa's Eastern Cape to interrogate and problematise the often simplistic or reductive ways in which the concept of social capital is used in debates about development and poverty alleviation. It argues that if the concept is to be useful at all, it needs to be used in ways that are sensitive to the fact that social capital inheres in social relations; that these social relations cannot be understood separately from the meaning-giving practices and discourses with which they are entangled; that the analysis of social capital requires an agent-centred approach that is alive to the way in which it is used, transformed, created, made and remade; and that such an analysis further more needs to be alive to the nature of power relations both on the micro-level and the macro-level of political economy. The analysis of social capital therefore should be linked to a careful account of the practices, networks, systems and processes that empower some and enable them to climb out of poverty, but which also marginalise and trap others in poverty that is deep-seated and chronic.Andries du Toit, Andrew Skuse, Thomas Cousin

Radio broadcasting for health: a decision maker's guide

Information and Communication for DevelopmentAndrew Skuse, Nadia Butler, Fiona Powe, Nicola Woods, Mary Myers, Nicola Harford, Heather Budge-Reid and Gordan Ada

Equal Access Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Helping communication for development organisations to demonstrate impact, listen and learn, and improve their practices

Equal Access Nepal, EAN; Equal Access International, EAI; Queensland University of Technology; University of Adelaide; Professor Jo Tacchi; Dr Andrew Skuse; Dr Michael Wilmore; Dr June Lenni