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The Drum Beat - 48 - Communication and Change News and Issues
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PROGRAMMES

1. Chiapas Media Project - Mexico - is a bi-national partnership that 
provides video and computer equipment and training to marginalised 
indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. Communities produce videos 
to document their struggle for human rights, democracy and land re-
form, and to disseminate this information. 
Contact
mailto:cmp@vida.com 
OR 
mailto:promedia@laneta.apc.org
http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org/html/projects.html

2. MISA Community Media Research - Southern Africa - MISA Broadcast-
ing Programme is conducting community level research into information 
needs and media attitudes in communities in Zambia and Namibia. Re-
sults will be available June 2000. Research will feed into national 
level campaigns in these countries. In Zambia, a coalition will be 
launched to lobby for an independent broadcasting authority and in 
Namibia the focus will be in creating an enabling environment for 
community media. 
Contact:
mailto:johnb@misa.org.na

3. Community Learning Information and Communication Project (CLIC) - 
India - involves case studies of existing initiatives designed to 
tackle access to better infrastructure and services for poor people 
in India; both those started by government and by NGOs and communi-
ties themselves. Through the CLIC case studies, the project examines 
ways through which low-income communities, government and NGOs learn, 
communicate, negotiate, and collect and utilise information. 
Contact:
mailto:admin@sparc.ilbom.ernet.in
http://www.clicc.org/html/project.htm

4. Web of Information for Development (WIDE) Initiative - Global - 
launched by the UN Development Programs Special Unit for Technical 
Cooperation Among Developing Countries (SU/TCDC). "WIDE Online" is an 
Internet-based public access database containing user-maintained data 
on experts, institutions and 'best' practices in the South. "WIDE 
InterLink" is a network of stakeholders sharing WIDE Online to build 
capacity for technical cooperation among developing countries. In-
cludes 2 online Discussion Forums. 
Contact:
mailto:atsede.worede-kal@undp.org
http://www.undp.org/tcdc/wide 


AWARDS

5. PAHO Awards for Excellence in International Health Reporting - The 
2000 Awards will honor reports focusing on international public 
health issues in a daily U.S. newspaper, U.S. magazine, or broadcast 
report in the U.S. from 1 July 1999 - 30 June 2000. More info: 
http://www.paho.org/english/DPI/dpiaward.htm


WEB SITES

6. FEMNET - The African Women's Development and Communication Net-
work. Through communication and information dissemination, FEMNET 
works to promote networking and enhance women's empowerment. 
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet/

7. On-line Bibliography on Dispute Resolution, by Catherine Morris. 
Contains several hundred titles on negotiation, mediation, arbitra-
tion, public policy & environmental dispute resolution, conciliation 
of human rights complaints, international dispute resolution, culture 
& conflict, restorative justice, school conflict resolution, and 
other topics. 
Contact Catherine Morris 
mailto:readings@peacemakers.ca
http://www.peacemakers.ca/bibintro99.html 


EVENTS

8. Africa Direct, 3-17 May 2000. Over 200 business and government 
representatives from 8 Sub-Saharan African countries (Ghana, Mauri-
tius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, S. Africa, Tanzania and Uganda) 
will meet with Canadian counterparts at conferences in Ottawa, Cal-
gary, Toronto and Montreal. Sessions and meetings will explore oppor-
tunities in sectors including: energy, telecommunications, agri-
business, water and sewage treatment, and housing. 
Contact Aida Viveiros 
mailto:Aida_Viveiros@the-alliance.com
http://www.AfricaDirect.net 

9. "Clinical Care Needs and Priorities for Africa in the year 2000 
and Beyond in the Context of the Emerging Co-epidemic - HIV/AIDS & 
TB" will be 5-8 June 2000 on Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Aims to 
provide a forum for discussion of TB and AIDS Clinical trails in Af-
rican settings, and to develop a pilot STD programs targeting coun-
seling for AIDS prevention, behavioral assessments and treatment mo-
dalities. 
Contact Osato Giwa-Osagie, MD 
mailto:giosagie@infoweb.abs.net
http://www.stic.net/users/fiare 

10. 10th Latin American Communication Conference with a focus on 
"Communication and a Culture of Peace" will be held 23-26 Oct 2000 by 
Felafacs, Abecom and the University of Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Bra-
zil. Papers for presentation accepted through 30 May 2000. 
Contact:
mailto:jcoelho@eca.usp.br 
& CC:
mailto:wneira@felafacs.org 

11. Public Forum on "Corporate Citizenship in the 21st Century - What 
Can Business Do For Peace?" 2 May 2000, 6-9 pm at Church House, Deans 
Yard, Westminster, London SW1. 
Contact Indra Adnan or Wendy Bashford 
mailto:corpcit@conflictandpeace.org
http://www.conflictandpeace.org 

12. Local Response to HIV/AIDS Discussion Forum - exchange experi-
ences on local responses. For those participating in or interested in 
the local response agenda. Send your ideas, questions and information 
requests and receive answers from peers involved in local responses 
worldwide. 
Contact Marlou de Rouw 
mailto:derouwm@unaids.org

13. 'Nigeria-AIDS' Forum, the moderated e-mail/internet discussion 
forum on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria of Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS). 
Information and messages are at: 
Contact Omololu Falobi 
mailto:omololuf@hotmail.com
http://www.egroups.com/group/nigeria-aids 


MATERIALS

14. Horizons' Global Operations Research on HIV/AIDS/STI Prevention 
and Care is offering e-versions of its Research Project Summaries: 
The Female Condom in Zimbabwe and The Participation of People Living 
with HIV/AIDS in Community-based Organizations (Burkinabe). 
Contact Cecilia Snyder 
mailto:csnyder@pcdc.org
http://www.popcouncil.org/horizons/horizons.html 

15. "A Manual for Culturally-Adapted Social Marketing - Health and 
Population", edited by T. Scarlett Epstein. 6 case studies of the 
successful application of culturally-adapted social marketing in dif-
ferent parts of the world. Provides guidelines on how social market-
ing is conducted and explains the importance of cultural adaptation 
and what it involves. 
Contact: in India and Asia:
mailto:sageind@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in
in North and South America:
mailto:info@sagepub.com
in UK, Europe and Africa:
mailto:info@sagepub.co.uk

16. Weekly E-mail Bulletin of the International Partnership Against 
AIDS in Africa, produced by the UNAIDS Secretariat. Coalition is 
working to scale up efforts in Africa to "curtail the spread of HIV, 
reduce its impact and halt the further reversal of human, social and 
economic development." 
http://www.unaids.org/africapartnership/whatis.html

17. Call for materials - on election coverage for a campaign to edu-
cate people on the importance of elections and why they should vote. 
Contact Charles Mubambe 
mailto:nmirror@zamnet.zm

18. Call for materials - for a World Health Organisation document on 
lessons learned in IEC for public and reproductive health. Seeking 
synopses, sample materials, findings, methods, and current informa-
tion on projects, programmes, and successful initiatives, especially 
non-US funded or designed, relating to safe motherhood and other re-
productive issues. 
Contact:
mailto:eclift@sover.net


VACANCIES

19. Further details and expanded list of Vacancies is on 
http://www.comminit.com/vacancies.html

20. Recent:

Senior Programme Officer - The Change Project, USAID; Programme Asso-
ciate - Trust for the Americas; Director - Women's Feature Service; 
Assistant Directors & Unit Coordinators - India Centre; Web Site 
Writer - UNICEF


CORRECTIONS Our apologies for errors in the following corrected 
items:

21. The Drum Beat #43, item #5. Community participation - Botswana & 
Zambia - ICRW is collaborating with the MTCT Research Team of the 
MTCT Working Group in Zambia and the Society of Women Against AIDS in 
Africa/Botswana Branch (SWAABO) to conduct qualitative research on 
community perceptions and preferences regarding planned and ongoing 
services to prevent HIV transmission to infants. Studies are intended 
to provide data on which to base design and improvements to services 
and development of communications programs to improve information, 
education, counselling, and support needs of women and communities 
related to MTCT prevention programmes. 
Contact Mary Lyn Field 
mailto:mfield@icrw.org

22. The Drum Beat #43, item #8, information on the JHUCCP "HIM" CD-
ROM and Dateline Health Nigeria was mixed up.

Men and Reproductive Health - JHU/CCP has released the "HIM" (Helping 
Involve Men) CD-ROM which provides 497 documents totalling over 
11,000 pages of information on men and reproductive health. Designed 
mainly for use by policy makers and programme planners in developing 
countries, the CD provides easy access to an "essential library" of 
important research and programmatic findings. JHU/CCP will distribute 
the CD at no cost to people in developing countries. 
Contact Rick Glasby 
mailto:popline@jhuccp.org

Dateline Health Nigeria, launched by the Centre for Health Policy and 
Strategic Studies (CHPSS) Lagos, Nigeria, aims to inform and educate 
Nigerians in the Diaspora and worldwide about Nigeria's health situa-
tion. Covers daily health news, health policy issues, official health 
statistics, and reports on activities of emergencies with health im-
plications in Nigeria. Archives and current issues are on the AFRO-
NETS Listserve site:
http://users.harare.iafrica.com/~gtz-hsr/ 
Contact Yemi Abodunrin 
mailto:chpss_abo@yahoo.com

* Please send items for The Drum Beat to 
The Editor 
Deborah Heimann 
mailto:deborah@vermontel.net

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