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Hi Don,

I forwarded your message to a like-minded group, focused on "Creative
Radio for Development." This international group of people formed after
attending a conference in Birmingham last year in May, organized by
Health Unlimited. To contact them again, please send a message to:
<radio@xlines.tiac.net>

Regards,

Antje Becker
Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Health
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
International Department
615 N. Wolfe Street, Room 5505
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 410-955 69 31; Fax:410-955 20 10
Mail: <ABecker@phnet.sph.jhu.edu>

>>> Don de Silva <dondes@MIHIKATA.DEMON.CO.UK> 05/23/97
02:19am >>>
COMMUNICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This is to inform Devmedia about the work of a network, entitled the
Communication for Sustainable Development Group.

The group consists of resource persons and NGOs, particularly in the
Third World, who are committed to participatory communication for
sustainable development.

The group believes in bringing communication, in its entirety, into the
centre of the sustainable development debate. Communication is the key
to sustainable development. Without people's participation there can
never be sustainable development.

The group has: pioneered concepts highlighting the links between
communication and sustainable development; created and established
innovative alternative communication programmes in the South and North;
solid experience in creating and establishing communication programmes
(including video, press, radio, inter-personal, and grassroot campaigns);
conducted training programmes to sensitize media personnel to report on
development and environment issues; assisted NGOs, community
organisations, and disadvantaged groups to develop their communication
capacities and established communication units; and produced quality
material in audio-visual and print media.

Particulary in video, the groups has produced documentaries containing
field evidence: demonstrating the effectiveness of communication in
solving development and  environment issues; the cost-effectiveness of
communication programmes; and that communication can change the
price of bread for disadvantaged groups.

The group is committed to using communication for sustainable
development, advocacy and change.

The group is interested in linking up and working with like minded groups
and organisations in implementing democratic and effective
communication programmes for action and change.

For further information, contact: Don de Silva, Communication for
Sustainable Development Group (CSDG), 97 Tudor Avenue, Watford,
Herts
WD2 4NU, England. Tel: 00 44 1923 251502 Fax: 00 44 1923 242918
E-mail: dondes@mihikata.demon.co.uk