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Network Contact The Developmen… Time to read less than 1 minute Published 10 months ago Last updated 10 months ago Moving Towards Action: Centering Anti-Racism in Leadership Learning speaks to communities of people within and surrounding higher education and specifically, leadership educators, partners, researchers, administrators, and student affairs practitioners.

convening the communication and media development, social and behaviour change community "...hope that this issue might pave the way towards sustaining relationships and collaborations of care, trust, and future feminist decolonial works beyond this special issue, and potentially become a collective of like-minded scholars, activists, artists and thinkers guided by decolonial feminist intentions." This special issue of the journal Gender & Development (July-November 2023) attempts to centre...

convening the communication and media development, social and behaviour change community Affiliation: Tata Memorial Hospital (Raj); former National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Singh); University of Michigan (Singh, Wagner, Boulton) "Human behavior and understanding of the vaccine ecosystem play a critical role in the vaccination decision-making process." People experience a variety of biases, and these biases have an...

Affiliation: "...interventions using an exclusively religious framing are unlikely to be effective and highlight the need to develop and sustainably implement tailor-made interventions that match actual barriers..." The Jewish Ultra-Orthodox (UO) population is an under-vaccinated minority group that has been disproportionally affected by outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) such as measles and polio. Underlying reasons remain poorly characterised.

convening the communication and media development, social and behaviour change community "The findings will add critical insights when introducing/replicating nutrition interventions..., leverage contextually relevant knowledge, practices, and evidence to improve diet diversity and therefore their state of nutrition." This cross-sectional, qualitative exploratory study explores the demand and supply factors that impact the diets and nutrition intake of 6 communities working in the primary...

"The importance of communication in preparing for and responding to health emergencies has long been recognized by public health experts and authorities." This report, published by Internews, shares the findings of a study that explores the current gaps in information ecosystem preparedness for health emergencies as it relates to the roles played by the main actors: health system stakeholders, humanitarian organisations, media organisations, and community actors.

Affiliation: "Caught between polarised hostile politics, broken economics, media capture, platform dominance, and a brutally competitive media and entertainment environment, journalism sectors worldwide are struggling to survive while preserving their key public interest function." This policy paper looks at the emergence around the world of national funds for journalism (NFJs) as an increasingly important instrument for providing strategic, long-term financial support to independent public...

"News media is once again at an unprecedented crossroads after the social media decade wrought havoc on financial sustainability, radically restructured the advertising market, and reoriented journalism around platform logics." This report was published by the Dynamic Coalition on the Sustainability of Journalism and News Media (DC-Sustainability), which is a working group for the press freedom, media development, and journalism sectors to engage with internet governance and digital policy...

convening the communication and media development, social and behaviour change community World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development Series Affiliation: "Generative AI enables the creation of fake images, audio, text and video with amazing speed and scale." This report, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), seeks to explore the potential impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on technology-facilitated...