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The Drum Beat - 113 - Communication Competencies
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Competencies: Communication for Development/Social Change


In most Drum Beats we share information with you, The Drum Beat net-
work [now 14,000 plus people and organisations]. This issue is dif-
ferent. We would like you to share your insights, perspectives and 
information with us.

The CHANGE Project, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Pan American 
Health Organization are working to define competencies for practitio-
ners of Communication for Development/Social Change. This information 
will be used to define training/education needs and guide other deci-
sion making. The Communication Initiative is supporting this process. 
We welcome your contributions, from your experience, to this impor-
tant enquiry.

If you have good, easy access to the internet please go to one of the 
following URLs and complete the relevant questionnaire.

English: www.comminit.com/competencies.html
Espa¤ol: www.comminit.com/competenciessp.html
Fran?ais: www.comminit.com/competenciesfr.html

If you would prefer to send your information by email please simply 
reply to this message and then complete your answers [preferably in 
CAPS so that we can easily distinguish your answers from the ques-
tions] following each question.

Para recibir copia del cuestionario de competencias en comunicaci¢n 
por v¡a electr¢nica, solic¡tela a wfeek@comminit.com

Pour obtenir une copie electronique du questionnaire en fran?ais, 
veuillez contacter wfeek@comminit.com

Thank you. We very much look forward to your insights, which are im-
portant for this process and our field.


Your Contact Information:

1.      Name:
2.      Email address:

Your Opinions about competencies:

3.      A competent practitioner of communication for develop-
ment/social change...
3.a ...Knows how to... (list up to five skills)
3.b ...has a broad understanding of... (list up to five areas of 
knowledge):
3.c  ...believes... (list up to five attitudes or values):
4.      How would you define a communicator for development/social 
change?
5.      Now, please consider agents of change working in fields such as 
rural development, gender, environment, health, human rights etc. 
With regard to communication, competent practitioners of these fields 
should...
5.a ...Know how to... (list up to five skills)
5.b ...Have a broad understanding of... (list up to five areas of 
knowledge)
5.c ...Believe... (list up to five attitudes)...
6.      Are you willing to participate in the next phase? This would 
require responding to a short email questionnaire, ranking the lists 
of skills, knowledge and attitudes obtained in this initial survey.
Please answer: Yes; No; or Possibly

Please provide some information about yourself (we would like to un-
derstand how people's background relates to their advice about prac-
titioners and competencies):

7.      Your Country of origin:
8.      Your Country of current residence:
For how many years have you resided in this country?
9.      Your Current primary professional activity:
Title:
Main responsibility:
Issue area:
(e.g., gender, agriculture, health, economic development...)

NOTE: For questions 10-12, please use the following codes for "type":

1       Government Department/Ministry
2       Private sector
3       Local/national CBO/NGO/PVO or community group
4       International NGO (CARE, World Vision, Save the Children)  
5       International foundation (Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Turner)
6       Bilateral (DFID, NORAD, CIDA, USAID, EC/EU, DANIDA, JICA etc.)
7       Multilateral (UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, PAHO, World Bank, etc)
8       Academic/training institution (university, training center)
9       Other (including independent)

10.     Who do you currently work for:
What Type of Organisation [refer to codes above]:
For how many years have you worked for this organisation:
11.     What other organizations have you worked for? Please list the 
five you have spent the most time working for [using codes above]

Type of organisation:------no of Years:

12.     Who/what other organizations now fund or have funded your work 
in the past ten years? Please list the five who have given you the 
most support (total amount of funding).

Type of organisation:------no of Years:

13.     What training have you had (including on-the-job, university 
and professional schools, training centers, short courses, mentor-
ing)? If more than five, list the ones that have most influenced you. 
For degrees/diplomas/certificates, please list the degree, discipline 
and year.
14.     How many Years of professional experience do you have?
15.     What countries have you worked in? (If more than five, list the 
five you worked in the most)
16.     When a potential colleague asks you what you do, how do you de-
fine yourself?
17.     Do you consider yourself a communicator for development/social 
change?
Please answer: Yes; No; or Not Sure
18.     What are your current main sources of professional develop-
ment/training? (training institutions or courses, books, journals, 
internet, mentors, etc.)
19.     How did you hear about this call for opinions?
Please put "XXX" next to the one that applies to you.

Came across it on The Communication Initiative website
Received an email from the Communication Initiative
Received an email from The CHANGE Project
Received an email from The Rockefeller Foundation
Received an email from PAHO
Received an email from a friend/colleague
Other [Please specify]

Thank you very much.

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regions (as a special case of public/private service to remote ar-
eas). Of particular interest - the sociocultural aspects of such ini-
tiatives, in the global context of rapidly encroaching informa-
tion/knowledge management technologies on local governance and social 
policy.
Contact John Lawrence:
mailto:jeslawrence@att.net

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DB CLASSIFIEDS: Training, Materials, Consultants - will be issued Oc-
tober 3rd.  

For more information or to include something in this listing in the 
future, please contact:
Janice Innes 
mailto:jinnes@comminit.com

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velopment activities. Inclusion of an item does not imply endorsement 
or support by The Partners. 

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