Tagged with: Research
Posts (25)
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The rise of edutainment: taking stock of the evidence
Sonia Whitehead
Head of Research Programmes, 成人论坛 Media Action
What have evaluations proven about the value of drama and why should the global development community care about media that informs while it entertains?
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The art of designing surveys about social norms: insights from Ethiopia
Hilina Assefa and Lois Aspinall
成人论坛 Media Action
What are the challenges in researching social norms with surveys and how do you overcome them? Hilina Assefa and Lois Aspinall offer some solutions, drawing on five responses commonly heard in the field in Ethiopia.
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Five questions our data portal can help answer
Sonia Whitehead
Head of Research Programmes, 成人论坛 Media Action
There's a lack of data on what ordinary people think, feel and want in developing countries. Our new Data Portal aims to help fix that.
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Using storytelling to make statistics accessible
Mahmuda Hoque
Research Officer, 成人论坛 Media Action (Bangladesh)
Bangladesh-based researcher Mahmuda Hoque explains how her team created a story about 鈥淢aya鈥�, a 19-year-old mother, to help bring their findings about antenatal preparations to life.
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Dispatch from the UN World Data Forum
Sonia Whitehead
Head of Research Programmes, 成人论坛 Media Action
Head of Research Programmes Sonia Whitehead shares her three top takeaways from the first-ever UN World Data Forum.
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Researching women in Afghanistan
Katy Williams
Research Editor, 成人论坛 Media Action
International development organisations need to understand the viewpoints and experiences of women and girls if they are to improve opportunities for them. We speak to Ahmad Tamim Sharifzai, the organisation鈥檚 senior research officer in Afghanistan about some of the challenges...
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Lifeline programming: bringing together humanitarians, media and governments
Katy Williams
Research Editor, 成人论坛 Media Action
Preparing to run 鈥榣ifeline鈥� programming before a crisis can build relationships between humanitarians, media and the government, facilitating collaboration to get life-saving information to people when disaster strikes.
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Media, participation and social inclusion: what are the links?
Chris Snow
Governance Research Manager, 成人论坛 Media Action
Reviewing the results of a survey of 23,000 people across seven countries, Chris Snow looks at the potential of media to engage even hard-to-reach groups in politics.
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What are the challenges facing young people in East Africa?
Alasdair Stuart
Senior governance advisor
Alasdair Stuart shares the challenges faced by young people in Tanzania, Somalia and Kenya and outlines how they themselves think the media can help.
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Getting data on the lives of ordinary people in the developing world
Kavita Abraham Dowsing and Sonia Whitehead
成人论坛 Media Action
Ahead of the launch of 成人论坛 Media Action鈥檚 data portal in October, Kavita Abraham-Dowsing and Sonia Whitehead explain why we need more data about the views, aspirations and challenges of ordinary people in the developing world.
