KNOW-FOR Case study: Knowledge sharing for impact: The Global Landscapes Forum

The document summarizes the agenda and progress report of the Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI) Steering Committee meeting. The report discusses the project objectives of promoting effective communication strategies to support sustainable natural resource management and climate change adaptation. It provides updates on field activities in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Caribbean region. It also outlines technical advice provided in Bangladesh and the Andean region, as well as partnerships, publications and expected outputs through the end of 2008. Key issues for discussion include a delay implementing activities in Bolivia requiring a project extension.

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Participation of CSDI to AfricaAdapt Symposium on Climate Change in Addis Ababa (9-11 March 2011) A Climate Change Symposium launched by Africa Adapt took place form the 9th to the 11th of March 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Crosscutting issues were discussed such as Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability and Water in the entire African area. Over 120 researchers, civil society actors, donors, government officials and NGOs gathered to share and learn at this 3-day event the significant lessons or learning of their project or research. CSDI also participated to the debate with Federica Matteoli’s intervention. Here is her presentation.

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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) implies a multi-stakeholders action, innovation and a process of social learning for adaptive livelihoods. Within this framework, Communication plays a key role to facilitate knowledge sharing, participation and to enhance rural institutions capacities to assist small farmers to face climate change challenges. The three case studies underline the importance of ComDev for CBA and in particular for natural resource management (NRM), disaster risk management (DRM), and livelihood adaptation. • Democratic republic of Congo: NRM is an important component for CCA and the CSDI is supporting the Rehabilitation Programme of the National Agricultural and Forestry Research System of the Democratic Republic of Congo through a communication Action Plan where the use of rural radios, participations of civil society and rehabilitation of extension systems play an important role.

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Capacity building is key to establish sound climate change adaptation processes, as well as for framing adaptation within development goals. This is particularly significant in Community-Based Adaptation (CBA), where empowering communities is fundamental in order to strengthen their capacity to face climate shocks. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can play a major role for the development of climate change adaptation strategies. Particularly, ICT can be employed in five different levels: • Observation: data collection at global, national and local level; • Analysis: data and capacity sharing, as well as interpretation of possible climate change scenarios and system mapping; • Planning: design of community-based adaptation initiatives. • Implementation and management: translation of adaptation strategies into action, networking with stakeholders at every level and human/natural resources management. • Capacity building: awareness raising, advocacy, training and formal education programmes. Finally, to capitalise the full potential of ICT as a driver for community action, every intervention should be formulated within the Communication for Development (ComDev) framework. A two-way bottom-up and top-down communication system is critical for facing climate change related issues, therefore ComDev is essential to foster community participation, build on local resources and knowledge sharing among different stakeholders.

GWP-C Journalists Network

The document discusses the creation of a Journalists Network on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) by the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C). Some key points: GWP-C aims to promote knowledge sharing and communications as one of its strategic goals. It plans to create a journalists network to disseminate information on IWRM to raise public awareness. The network will empower journalists with technical expertise and provide opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange. It will facilitate the inclusion of journalists in GWP-C events and promote their work online to expand outreach. The goal is to build understanding of water issues through strategic messaging targeted at stakeholders.

Module 2B - Building GBIF Nodes III: strategically positioning your Node

Alberto González-Talaván

This document discusses strategically positioning GBIF Nodes. It emphasizes understanding the international and national relevance of GBIF, communicating the desired public image, and improving the Node's profile using media. Specifically, it discusses: (1) GBIF's role in relation to multilateral environmental agreements and science-policy bodies (2) how Nodes can support national priorities like legislation and policies (3) identifying target audiences and crafting consistent branding and messages through a Node's website, data portal, reports and other products (4) using various media like social media, newsletters, traditional media, and videos to engage audiences and drive traffic to the Node's website.

The document summarizes key aspects of the Vietnam Land Administration Project (VLAP) from 2008-2015. It provides background on the project, outlines major outputs such as 3.6 million land profiles prepared and 3 million land use right certificates distributed. It also discusses lessons learned, such as the importance of strong project management, building capacity, and managing approval processes to avoid delays and cost overruns. Next steps proposed include focusing on a sustainable land administration system with emphasis on access and service delivery.

Governance of Forests Initiative: Forum Overview

The Governance of Forests Initiative is a global civil society network that aims to promote transparency, participation, coordination, and accountability in forest governance across international and domestic scales. It has developed a framework of indicators to assess forest governance and has conducted pilot assessments. It also seeks to generate demand for good governance in implementing forest laws and policies, developing REDD+ strategies and systems, and raising awareness through dialogue.

GFI Cameroon: Effective Participation in REDD+g

Cameroon's laws encourage stakeholder participation in decision-making regarding the environment, forestry, mining, and land use planning. However, participation in practice faces challenges, such as a lack of clear consultation procedures, low capacity of communities, and poor documentation of processes. Weak participation in REDD+ poses risks like tenure disputes, elite capture of benefits, and process failures. The report recommends strengthening consultation procedures, learning from past platforms, monitoring participation quality, and establishing an early grievance mechanism for REDD+.

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Richard E. Lucier

ccnmtl

This document outlines a 6-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation and housed at the University of Virginia to promote scholarly communication in a digital world. It discusses how scholarly communication is a cyclical process of research, analysis, presentation, preservation, and dissemination. The overall goal is to help scholars embrace digital scholarship through collaboration with scholarly societies, research libraries, and technology experts. Key components include summer meetings, communities of action, and advancing digital scholarship in various fields such as practical ethics, architectural history, and visual studies.

Communication for development in Climate Field School: the case of Livelihood...

Livelihood adaptation is the key element of the support that CSDI is doing to FAO projects in Bangladesh to develop CCA. CSDI is developing a communication action plan for: institutionalization of the learning process; replication of good adaptation practices through the Climate Field School approach; up-scaling and mainstreaming successfully pilot tested livelihood adaptation options into development planning and policy decision making.

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BridgingGowanus

This document summarizes community meeting #2 that was convened by local elected officials to develop a framework for infrastructure and land use regulations for a sustainable Gowanus neighborhood. It notes the risks of inaction, including threats to ongoing Superfund cleanup and potential for flooding, loss of affordable housing and manufacturing jobs, and displacement. It outlines the public participation process including working groups that generated ideas in key topic areas. It previews upcoming engagement opportunities and milestones in the planning process.

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Valerie Weeks

Forest communications

Neha Srivastava

Collaborative Change: approaches and experiences in ComDev applied to CBA

World Bank Infrastructure

4th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 21-27 February 2010 CBA approaches emphasize the need to empower rural communities and identify, through participatory learning methodologies, suitable adaptation options. Planned knowledge and communication activities have to be acknowledged as strategic assets to improve information sharing, people’s participation and concerted action towards social learning for livelihood adaptation. As recommended by participants to the 3rd CBA conference, communication processes and strategies are essential to enhance rural institutions’ capacity to assist small farmers and reduce communities’ vulnerability. These should be fully integrated and mainstreamed within the CBA approach, in order to: • facilitate equitable access to knowledge and information • enhance learning and action → co-creation of knowledge • promote peoples’ participation and direct involvement in the design of coping strategies • bridge the “glocal information divide” between global environmental systems and local communities improving linkages among research, extension, advisory services and farmers. FAO is implementing the Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI), a global programme to test, document and share communication strategies, services and tools for climate change adaptation and sustainable NRM. Based on two cases in Congo and Bangladesh, this presentation will draw on field experience to demonstrate that sharing knowledge on good practices among peers fosters horizontal collaboration and helps rural people define new adaptation strategies to climate change, while reaffirming their right to communication services. The contribution will also introduce a CSDI initiative in response to the need for enhanced communication capacities among development practitioners, field agents and decision-makers. It aims to establish a cross-regional and cross-institutional community of practice, for sharing information and knowledge on communication applied to climate adaptation, through networking and partnerships with development programmes, institutions, NGOs, universities and research centres.

Digital Diplomacy: Technology Governance for Developing Countries

The document discusses technology governance priorities for developing countries based on a survey. The top three priorities identified were fostering digital cooperation between countries, tailoring technology governance to better ensure implementation across different national contexts, and unlocking data to improve people's lives. A lack of international coordination was seen as a major obstacle in achieving these priorities. The document concludes by outlining key principles for a cooperative digital world.

Trust and safety in online communities - Saskia Harmsen (Oxfam International)

Dgroups Foundation

CSDI

Open Data Research Network

Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) implies a multi-stakeholders action, innovation and a process of social learning for adaptive livelihoods. Within this framework, communication plays a key role to facilitate knowledge sharing, participation and to enhance rural institutions capacities to assist small farmers to face climate change challenges. CBA requires communication methods and tools to deal in an integrated manner with climate change issues, in order to: • involve communities through participation and dialogue; • discover with farmers appropriate technologies, livelihood options and sound economic practices; • share knowledge through improved advisory services, such as Farmer and Climate Field Schools, demonstrations, field days etc. Communication for Development (ComDev) is an approach promoted by FAO and other development agencies. It is central to CBA as it combines participatory communication methods and processes with a variety of media and tools, ranging from rural radio to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The FAO’s Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI) is documenting and sharing good practices on the use of communication for CBA and it is piloting out strategies and services in selected pilot areas, namely: Congo, Jamaica, Bangladesh and Bolivia. These initiatives and other ongoing efforts and experiences will be shared and assessed in a working session at the conference come up with a common framework on communication for CBA.

Drt discussion highlights

The document summarizes key takeaways from a discussion on how open data could contribute to poverty eradication in Kenya and Uganda. There are several main points: 1) Open data can help with resource allocation and poverty reduction by providing statistics on services, access, and demand. Data needs to be more accessible and relevant to needs. 2) Technological advances in both countries provide opportunities to increase data access and awareness, while demographic and cultural shifts also support more open data. 3) While some government data is collected, it often goes unused. More needs to be done to transform data into usable information to support development goals.

Media convergence presenation

Ben Joly

Media convergence refers to the flow of content across multiple media platforms and the integration of multiple media industries. It has led to new technologies that expand media accessibility and interactivity, while media ownership has concentrated into few large companies. Convergence is an ongoing process that varies in pace depending on a country's development. It affects community ties and national identities, challenges older systems of distribution and ownership, and shifts consumers from passive to active participants through new media like Twitter. Important negotiations now occur between producers and consumers in areas like audience measurement, content regulation, intellectual property, and the relationship between popular culture and citizenship.

Francesco Minora, Collective Action And Habitability In Residential Contexts

Francesco Minora, Collective Action And Habitability In Residential Contexts

Springwood High School Media

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The document discusses several topics related to audiences and institutions, including issues of media ownership and cross-media convergence in production, distribution, and marketing in light of new technologies. It will also cover the significance of increased access to content and hardware for audiences and institutions, as well as challenges of international companies targeting both national and local audiences.

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Juliane_at_lead

The document discusses an organization that focuses on building sustainability leadership. It has over 200 staff worldwide and over 3,000 fellows in 90 countries. It discusses three strategic themes: capacity building for sustainability, climate solutions, and ecosystem resilience. It also outlines three problem statements: increasing clean energy in Lagos, Nigeria; using ICT to engage civil society on climate projects; and developing a mobile app to connect and inspire the organization's network of sustainability leaders.

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