Networks & orgs

Networks and organizations in development communication

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Development communicators are generally not well organized at the national or international levels. Some of the related associations that do exist are listed below. Many focus on national (rather than international) issues and are specialized: in radio, for example, editing, or print journalism. Some have their own newsletters or academic journals.

Virtually all organizations involved in development also do some type of development communication work: publishing a newsletter, for example, or promoting improved technologies in the field. The organizations listed below have communication as their main (or a major) activity. See the Communication Initiative website for another list.

	ACCE, African Council for Communication Education University of Nairobi, Education Building (3rd floor), PO Box 47995, Nairobi, Kenya
	ACE, Agricultural Communicators in Education University of Florida, Building 116, Mowry Rd., PO Box 110811, Gainesville, FL 32611-0811, USA; tel. +1-352-392 9588, fax +1-352-392 7902, email ace@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu, internet www.aceweb.org Organization mainly for extension communicators in US universities, with intern ational members and interest group. Publishes the Journal of Applied Communications.
	AED, Academy for Educational Development 1255 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA Implements development education and social marketing projects throughout the world. Currently implementing GreenCom, a major project on environmental communication.
	*Aidcom,* Asian Institute for Development Communication 6th Floor, APDC Building, Persiaran Duta, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Fax: (603) 62013785, email devcom@pc.jaring.my Publishes the Journal of Development Communication.
	AIJ, Asian Institute of Journalism SCC Chevalier Building, 3892 R Magsaysay Boulevard, Sta Mesa, Manila, Philippines
	AIAEE, Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Satish Verma, Extension Education, Louisiana State University; tel. +1-504-388 6194, email xtpvrm@isuvm.sncc.isu.edu, internet http://www.aiaee.org Association of extension educators in the USA, with international members. Produces The Informer newsletter and the Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education.
	AMARC, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters 3525 boulevard St Laurent, bureau 611 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2X 2T7; tel. +1-514-982 0351, fax +1-514-849 7129, email amarcho@amarc.org, internet www.amarc.org Supports the development of community and participatory radio.
	AMIC, Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre Jurong Point, PO Box 360, Singapore 916412, Singapore. Street address: SCS Building, #02-28 Nanyang Drive, NTU, Singapore 639798; tel +65-792 7570, fax +65-792 7129, email amicline@singnet.com.sg, internet www.amic.org.sg Publishes *Media Asia, a quarterly journal on communication in Asia, and the Asian Mass Communications Bulletin* newsletter. Membership is payable in local currencies in Asia.
	Benton's Best Practices Toolkit www.benton.org/Practice/Toolkit. Contact Jillaine Smith jillaine@benton.org A collection of resources aiming to help NGOs use information technology more effectively. Topics include: Planning, implementation & evaluation; Organizing & advocacy tools; Publicizing your efforts; and Technology funding for nonprofits. US-oriented, but many useful ideas for the developing world too.
	Book Aid International 39-41 Coldharbour Road, Camberwell, London SE5 9NR, UK, tel +44-171-733 3577, fax +44-171-978 8006, email info@bookaid.org, www.bookaid.org Current and past issues of *Partners in African Publishing* newsletter available as a website. Also a useful list of publications on development communication.
	CIKARD, Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development 318 Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University, Ames IA 50011, USA Coordinates an international network on indigenous knowledge in development.
	CSE, Council of Science Editors c/o Drohan Management Group, 11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 8 Reston, VA 20190-5202, USA; tel. +1-703-437 4377, fax +1-703-435 4390, email CSE@CouncilScienceEditors.org, internet www.councilscienceeditors.org Professional organization for US scientific editors. Publishes a bimonthly newsletter and books on scientific editing and presentations, including a useful style manual.
	Communication Initiative Warren Feek, wfeek@coastnet.com, fax 1-250-658-1728, www.comminit.com Email and web network on development communication with information, ideas, linkages and dialogue on communication, development and change. Regular email and web newsletter (Drum Beat) has news on communication programmes, websites, people and organizations, ideas, information materials and meetings. If you subscribe to one email group on development communication, this is the one. Website has very useful summaries of communication models, change theories and a discussion forum.
	CTA, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Postbus 380, 6700 AJ Wageningen, Netherlands. www.agricta.org Publishes a wide range of technical information materials for agriculture in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific. Can supply materials for free to institutions in these countries. Produces *Spore*, a bimonthly newsletter. Can also provide information on exchange to institutions in other countries.
	DCFRN, Developing Countries Farm Radio Network 416 Moore Avenue, Suite101, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4G 1C9, tel. (416) 971-6333, fax (416) 971-5299 e-mail info@farmradio.org, www.farmradio.org Produces free radio scripts for broadcast in developing countries.
	DevMedia www.devmedia.org/index.cfm, don@tdg.ca Site focuses on participatory use of telecommunications and internet. Useful list of dev comm organizations and an email newsletter. Managed by the TeleCommons Development Group (www.telecommons.com) and the University of Guelph's Don Snowden Program for Development Communication (www.uoguelph.ca/~snowden).
	EASE, European Association of Science Editors PO Box 426, Guildford, GU4 7ZH, UK, email secretary@ease.org.uk, internet www.ease.org.uk Professional organization for scientific editors in Europe and elsewhere. International interests and many international members. Publishes a newsletter, European Science Editing, 3 times a year.
	Environmental Broadcast Circle c/o PFRB 4th Floor NIA Bldg. A EDSA, Quezon City 1100, Manila, Philippines. Cellphone +63-917-5369454, fax +63-2-642 2128 bethcebc@epic.net, www.sdvillage.ph/ebc/ Network of broadcast media practitioners and educators providing information on the environment and sustainable development. Serves as a clearing house for information between sectors, communities and broadcasters. Promotes networking, training, environmental broadcasting, research, documentation and production, and a video resource centre.
	FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization Communication for Development Unit, Sustainable Development Division, FAO, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/cddirect/, www.fao.org/sd/cddirect Supports development communication activities; produces occasional papers describing these. Has articles on innovative projects, full text of books and description of field projects in communication.
	FTPP, Forests, Trees and People Project RECOFTC, Kasetsart University, PO Box 1111, Bangkok, 10903 Thailand Produces a quarterly newsletter dealing with community forestry and participatory, people-centered approaches to extension.
	GATE, German Appropriate Technology Exchange GTZ, Dag-Hammarskj�ld-Weg 1+2, 65726 Eschborn, Germany Provides information and supports projects on appropriate technology in developing countries.
	HAIN, Health Action International Network 9 Calabantuan Road, Philam Homes, Quezon City 1104, Philippines Publishes AIDS Action Network and other publications on health, family planning and health extension.
	Healthlink Healthlink Worldwide, 40 Adler Street, London, E1 1EE, UK. Tel +44 (0)20 7539 1575 (direct), fax +44 (0)20 7539 1580 www.healthlink.org.uk Formerly AHRTAG, Appropriate Health Resources & Technologies Action Group. Produces information materials and supports health programs. Most materials published through TALC.
	Humanity Libraries www.oneworld.org/globalprojects/ for description of organization and activities. http://payson.tulane.edu:8888/ for full text of CD-ROM Publishes CD-ROMs containing information materials on development. The Humanity Development Library CD-ROM contains full text of 1200+ books on development. Only around $10, it's an incredibly useful resource. CD-ROMs also produced on food and nutrition, health, environment and critical global issues, and on the Sahel (in French).
	ICAN www.interaccess.com/consulting/ican.html International Communicators in Agriculture Network message group, hosted by the international special interest group of ACE.
	ICT, Information and Communication Technologies rural-ict-dev@listserv.uoguelph.ca Email list server with news and info on the use of communication technologies in development.
	IDRC, International Development Research Centre www.idrc.ca. Singapore Office (Asia): Tanglin PO Box 101, Singapore 9124 Supports the Acacia network (developing telecentres in Africa) and the Pan-Asia Network (an electronic information exchange form development in Asia).
	IICD, International Institute of Communication and Development Loeki Schaeffers, Communications Manager, schaeffers@iicd.org tel +31 70 3117311 Promotes communication technology in development.
	IIED, International Institute for Environment and Development 3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0DD Publishes *PLA Notes* (PLA = Participatory Learning and Action).
	IIRR, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction Silang, Cavite 4118, Philippines. headquarters@iirr.org Offers short courses on development management. Runs workshops to produce information materials.
	ILEIA, Information Centre for Low-External-Input Agriculture Kastanjelaan 5, PO Box 63, 3830 Leusden, Netherlands Produces a newsletter on low-external input agriculture.
	Interconnection www.interconnection.org A non-profit group that donates websites, computers and provides internet training to organizations dedicated to benefiting the local community or environment in developing countries.
	Interpaks International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. www.ag.uiuc.edu/~interpak/ Newsletter (Interpaks Interchange, renamed Interpaks Digest in 1992) on development communication, ceased publication in 1996. Covers extension systems rather than individual extension techniques or media. Back copies available online. Bibliography of ag extension also online.
	ITDG Publishing www.developmentbookshop.com The publishing arm of the Intermediate Technology Development Group. Publishes books on appropriate technology and development. Very useful online book catalogue. Also runs *Books By Post*, a mail-order unit selling ITDG's own publications and those of other publishers.
	MCD, Media Center for Development 19/6 Aree 4 (North), Phaholyothin Road, Samsennai, Phayathai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Provides development communication services to Thailand and other countries in Indochina.
	Media Matters Kolsawala Building, 16 Cawasji Patel Street, Fort, Mumbai 400001, India, fax +91-22-2871751, 2870544; email mediamatters@vsnl.com Research, study and experiment with media forms and the dynamics of communication; provides media and communication services to organizations; imparts skills training in media and communication; documents, analyses and disseminates information about development initiatives. Has recently begun an action programme in an urban slum, working mainly with women and children.
	NAFB, National Association of Farm Broadcasters 26e Exchange St., St Paul, MN 55101, USA; email nafboffice@aol.com, internet www.nafb.com US association of farm radio and TV broadcasters.
	ODI, Agricultural Research and Extension Network (AgREN) 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD, UK; tel. +44-20-7922 0300, fax +44-20-7922 0399, internet www.odi.org.uk/agren/index.html Network publishes papers on agricultural research and extension. Membership is free for people in developing countries.
	OneWorld Online Host site for many British and European NGOs
	Outreach c/o Science Education Program, 933 Shimkin Hall, New York University, 50 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10003, USA Publishes *Outreach Packs* dealing with health, environment, media, communication, development, etc.
	PACE, Philippine Association of Communication Educators Contact through: Institute of Development Communication, University of the Philippines at Los Ba�os, College, Laguna, Philippines
	PACT Publications books@pactpub.org Publishing arm of PACT, a consortium of US NGOs. Publishes books on development
	Panos London, UK Promotes news with a developing-world perspective
	Red Cross Health Department, attention Ms Natacha Scott, PO Box 372, 1211 Geneva 19, Switzerland Produces a range of publications on health issues (including HIV/AIDS) and health education and training.
	SEAPCP, South East Asia Popular Communications Porgramme Ms Jo Hann Tan, 18 Jalan PJS 7/9a, Taman Bandan Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, http://SEAPCP.homestead.com/seapcp2.html Offers media skills training, implements community-based (popular) media and communication activities, and publishes a newsletter.
	SADC Centre of Communication for Development www.zimbabwe.net/sadc-fanr/sccd/sccdtxt.htm SADC Centre of Communication for Development, Box 3730, Merchant House, Robson Manyika Ave, Harare, Zimbabwe Ph: (263-4) 722723/722734; Fax 722713, E-mail: comdev@fanr-sadc.org.zw; Mr. C. Kamlongera, Coordinator, ckamlongera@fanr-sadc.co.zw Provides training, documentation and consultancy services in communication for southern Africa. Promotes information exchange, provides a directory of communication services, a reference centre, audio-visual and print services, and develops training manuals.
	SDM, Studio Driya Media Eddie Handono, Coordinator, Jalan Rajamantri Tengah IV no 12, Bandung 40264, Indonesia. Tel/fax +62-22-302565, ybm-sdm@indo.net.id, www.geocities.com/driyamedia/main.html Offers short courses on development communication. Produces media materials to support participatory, sustainable development. Publishes the Indonesian-language newsletter, *Jalur*.
	SID, Society for International Development International Secretariat, Palazzo Civilt� del Lavoro, 00144 Rome, Italy, internet www.sidint.org International organization of individuals interested in development. Publishes a journal, *Development*.
	SDOnline, Sustainable Development Online http://susdev.eurofound.ie "One of the most reliable, comprehensive and up to date focal points for information on sustainable development." Searchable databases of development activities. Subscribe to the email newsletter for news of updates.
	TALC, Teaching Aids at Low Cost PO Box 49, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 4AX, UK Publishes low-cost health training and information materials
	TLRC, Technology and Livelihood Resource Center 2/F Urban II Building, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Metro Manila, Philippines Produces television programs and information materials on enterprise and agricultural technologies.
	TOOL Books PO Box 321, 23300 AH Leiden, Netherlands Publishes and distributes publications on development. Catalog includes other publishers' books.
	TVE, Television Trust for the Environment Postbox 7, 3700 AA Zeist, Netherlands Produces and distributes videos and TV programs on the environment in developing countries.
	Unicef, United Nations Children's Fund Division of Information and Public Affairs, 3 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Produces *Facts for Life* (a must for health educators) and a range of other educational materials on mother and child health. Unicef has probably the best development communication programme of all UN agencies.
	VHAI, Voluntary Health Association of India Tong Swasthya Bhavan, 40 Institutional Area, Near Qutab Hotel, New Delhi 110 016, India Produces and distributes information and training materials on health.
	WACC, World Association for Christian Communication 357 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5QY, UK. Tel +44-171-582 9139, fax +44-171-735 0340, email wacc@gn.apc.org, internet www.wacc.org.uk Association of Christian communicators. Interest in broader aspects of development communication as well as spreading the gospel. Publishes Media Development and newsletters.
	World Neighbors 4127 NW 122nd Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73118 USA; tel. +1-405-752 9700, fax +1-405-752 9393, internet www.wn.org Produces training and information materials, including videos and slide sets.
	WRENMedia www.wrenmedia.co.uk Media production, consultancy and training group, based in the UK. Focus on radio and video.