[eccr] CfA: World Congress on Communication for Sustainable Development (WCCD) Rome, March 2006

Title: CfA: World Congress on Communication for Sustainable Development (WCCD) Rome, March 2006

World Congress on Communication for
Sustainable Development (WCCD)
Rome, March 2006

Organized by the World Bank’s Development Communication Division,
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Communication Initiative

Preliminary Call for Abstracts

 

Background

Through the support of the Government of Italy, the World Bank’s Development Communication Division, FAO, and the Communication Initiative are organizing the first World Congress on Communication for Sustainable Development (WCCD) in March 2006 in Rome, Italy.  
 
This first WCCD will focus on demonstrating the value of communication for a variety of development initiatives and the need to increase investment in communication for development as an essential ingredient for meeting developmental challenges.
 
This 3-day Congress will bring together communication professionals engaged in development initiatives, policymakers, development practitioners, donor and NGO representatives, community representatives, and academics from around the world to share experiences and best practices in this growing field for a common understanding of what works, what doesn’t, why and how best to measure impact.
 
 
Objectives

• The WCCD aims to analyse and evaluate new developments in the field of Communication for Sustainable Development, and to develop recommendations for consideration to policy and decision-makers, practitioners and researchers.
• Abstracts and papers are invited on the four main streams of the Congress:
  

·     Mainstreaming Communication in Development Policies and Practice. This stream, which can be considered as the backbone of the Congress, will focus on three main themes: 
-      Communication for Development policies, 
-      Communication for Development support to development policies, and
-       Building Global Alliances and Partnerships.
 
·     Paradigm and Practice: Theory, Principles and Approaches of Communication for Development. This stream aims to bridge the current “disjuncture” between theoretical frameworks and field practices, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of methodologies and approaches adopted in the field. 
 
·     The Value-added of Communication for Development - Cases and Perspectives from Around the World. This stream will include presentations about trends and experiences, as well as discussions of projects and programs that have adopted components of Communication for Development supporting the achievement of MDGs.
 
·     Evaluating the Impact of Communication for Development: Why? What? Who? How? This stream addresses the role and the importance of assessing the impact of communication in development projects and programs.

Abstracts must be submitted in two copies to:

Lucia Grenna
WCCD Director
Unit Head, DevComm - SDO
Communication for Sustainable Development in Operations
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
 Mail Stop: U11 - 1102
Washington DC, 20433
USA
Fax 202 - 522 2654
Email: (LGrenna /at/ worldbank.org)

Deadline for the submission of abstracts:
September 15, 2005.
Early abstracts will be given priority.
 

Format and style

Abstracts of 150-500 words may be submitted by regular mail (typed in double-spacing) or by email (in MS Word or rtf.format).
 
Authors are requested to use the Harvard system of referencing with author’s name and date in the text and a full reference in alphabetical order at the end of the article.
 

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Professor Jan Servaes
Head
School of Journalism and Communication
University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Tel: +61 7 3365 6115 or 3088
Fax: +61 7 3365 1377
Email: (j.servaes /at/ uq.edu.au)
URL: www.uq.edu.au/sjc
CRICOS Code 0025B
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