A successful method includes involving communication for development staff in the planning phase of new initiatives or projects.
Support continued to the Southern African Development Community SADCCentretre for Communication for Development for financial sustainability plans, the Norwegian-funded Integrated Programme, the Pan African Rinderpest Campaign and the Centre de Services de production audiovisuelle (CESPA) in Mali, from which a training manual on video use was produced.
The "Communicating with children" resource pack, launched recently in New York, presents principles and guidelines that aim to help experts listen to, discuss with and learn from children, while planning their own communication for development strategies.
Communication for development (C4D) UNICEF Thailand employs a systematic, planned and evidence-based strategic process to promote positive behaviour and social change that is integral to improving health, nutrition, protection and education and outcomes for children.
Communication for development (C4D) UNICEF Cambodia employs a systematic, planned and evidence-based strategic process - including the participation of children, their families and communities - to promote positive and measurable individual behaviour and social change that is integral to improving health, nutrition, protection and education.
To ensure maximum community and caregiver participation in polio campaigns, UNICEF applies Communication for Development (C4D) approaches that embrace a systematic, evidence-based strategic planning and implementation process to effect positive and measurable change in individual and community behaviors.
These include health, nutrition and sanitation; quality education and early childhood development; child protection and adolescent participation; social policy; emergency; planning, monitoring and evaluation, and communication for development.
These principles and guidelines will, we hope, excite you to better listen to, discuss with and learn from children, families and communities, explore proven communication research and programmes, and systematically plan your own positive, measurable communication for development strategies.
These include Monitoring and Evaluation, Communication for Development, External Communication and Advocacy for children and women's rights, and Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning (EPRP).
Tobias Denskus, lecturer communication for development, University of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden, @aidnography @mahcomdev Tobias, a senior lecturer, is a development anthropologist and new media researcher teaching online communication for development.
