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Organizations - Index
Global organizations
- Academy for Educational Development, AED - Global
Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems in the U.S. and throughout the world through education, social marketing, research, training, policy analysis and innovative program design and management. Major areas of focus include health, education, youth development, and the environment. - Association of Progressive Communication (APC) – Global
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a global network of civil society organizations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the Internet. - Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) - Global
The Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) is a private foundation created in 1949 that is based in the Netherlands and operates internationally. The Foundation is concerned with young children's overall development and therefore promotes a holistic approach including education, health and nutrition. The mission of the BvLF is to enhance opportunities for children growing up in circumstances of social and economic disadvantage. The objective is to develop children's innate potential to the greatest extent possible. The Foundation is concentrate on children 0-8 years because research findings have demonstrated that interventions in the early years of childhood are most effective in yielding lasting benefits to children and society. - Family Health International, FHI - Global
Family Health International (FHI) works to improve reproductive and familyhealth around the world through biomedical and social science research,innovative health service delivery interventions, training and informationprograms. They work in partnership with universities, ministries of health andnon-governmental organizations, conducting ongoing projects in the U.S. andmore than 40 developing countries. - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung or FES
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung today is a non-profit making, political public-interest institution committed to the principles and basic values of social democracy in its educational and policy-orientated work. The Foundation's offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania are involved in projects in the fields of economic and social development, socio-political education and information, the media and communication and providing advisory services. Approximately half of the Foundation's annual budget is devoted to this co-operation with our partners in the trade unions, politics, the business and academic communities, the media and the arts. - International Catholic Communication Organizations - OIC – Global
These organizations are defined as an ideal space for reflection, training, and action through meetings, dialogs, and the agreement on policies and strategies of Catholic communicators wishing to contribute in the evangelization of global communications. The OICs promote a solidarity dialog amongst different social and ecclesiastic role-players using the resources and languages offered by the world of communications. - International Research Center for Development-Global
A public Corporation created by the Canadian Parliament. Through financial support to researchers from universities, governments, commercial businesses, and non-profit organizations, CIID invests in scientific knowledge and technology to contribute to the improvement of living standards in developing countries in areas such as Health Care, Economic & Social Welfare, Food & Nutrition, Environmental Protection, and Information & Communications. - Konrad Adenauer Foundation
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers political education, conducts scientific fact-finding research for political projects, grants scholarships to gifted individuals, researches the history of Christian Democracy, and supports and encourages European unification, international understanding, and development-policy cooperation. For more than thirty years the Konrad Adenauer Foundation has been cooperating with partners everywhere in the world. In more than 100 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, in the Middle East and in North America, 85 foreign representatives are looking after more than 200 programmes. Our budget for these international activities amounts to more than DM 100 million every year. - Population Communications International (PCI) – Global
This is a communications experience/organization seeking to promote health care and sustainable development by broadcasting its series both on radio and television. PCI works with different drama producers for radio and TV shows at countries in development, where they represent characters and useful situations as social role models. Based on the theory of social learning, these characters encourage the audiences to make use of health services and preventive care thus improving their community's living standards. - Videazimut – Global
Is an international federation of independent video and television practitioners and their organisations around the world. Videazimut is dedicated to transforming communications practices in video and television, so that all people have the same opportunity to transmit, as well as receive, meaningful information. - Women's International Network (RIM) – Global
A group of communicators working together to enforce women's communication rights through community radio programs and from inside the Network. RIM supports women in their efforts to express themselves both locally and internationally, through training and exchanging productions/programs. - World Association of Christian Communication - WACC – Global
This Association focuses on the democratization of Communications, making them available to defend human dignity, and supporting communication rights in censored and oppressed situations. The association includes members from 120 countries and, in general terms, supports communication projects and activities originated in developing countries. Its efforts focus on marginal groups, indigenous colonies, refugees, migrants, and women regardless of their religious belief. - World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters – AMARC – Global
An international NGO Association including approximately 3,000 members and their affiliates from 106 countries. Aiming its efforts at coordination, cooperation, consulting, exchange, and promotion activities for community radio services worldwide it establishes a forum in favor of democratizing communications. It conducts activities at different levels: global and regional conferences and seminars, publications, e-mail networks, support and solidarity networks, etc.
- Center for Highest Studies in Communication for Latin America – CIESPAL – Latin America
This international organism focuses its efforts on the development and democratization of Latin American communications, information, and culture through activities associated with research, professional training, documentation, and production of educational materials in different formats such as printed matter, recordings, and videos. It has extensively influenced the production of communication theories and models in the continent. In the last years, the Center has worked in areas considered as a priority in the process of social change, such as community and institutional communication; regional integration; education through electronic media, and others. - Consensus Action Group - Latin America
The Consensus Action Group is a network of investigators and educators who provide support to those working in health promotion, closing the gap between theory and practice. The network includes a variety of institutions with established infrastructure to strengthen community capacity. The group produced educational materials such as videos and research papers as well as holding conferences and workshops to advertise the aims of the CAG. CAG also developed social marketing messages designed to be promoted in schools and community organizations. - Latin American Association for Radio Communications Training – ALER – Latin America
This association gathers radio stations and related institutions that interconnected, aim their efforts towards "Strengthening the Popular Radio and democratizing communications in Latin America and the Caribbean." It provides training in radio program management and production in different formats, and distributes programs via Internet in Central & South America and the Caribbean, besides researching, automating, and assessing radio experiences. - Latin American Association of Collective Communication - PROA – Latin America
It was founded in 1983, by individuals and institutions currently part of SERPAL (Radio Service for Latin America) - the region's pioneers in radio program production and distribution. It is an association of individuals and institutions with Christian inspiration, working in benefit of popular movements through collective and alternative communication efforts. - Latin American Association of Promotion Organizations – ALOP - Latin America
This Association that favors development harbors NGOs from twenty countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Association provides the organizations committed to this program with space for encounters, dialog, exchange, and proactive relations. The Association focuses on promoting exchange programs and sharing automated experiences, as well as presenting and assessing the joint collaborative programs, the consensus opportunities and agreeing capacity that civil society organizations share in the region. - Latin American Federation of Social Communication Schools, FELAFACS – Latin America
Non-government (NGO) organism grouping over 300 Communication Schools, belonging to universities in 21 Latin American countries. In this Federation called FELAFACS we find the representation of communication schools belonging to public, private religious and secular universities .
- The Foundation for a New Iberian-American Journalism
Journalism is a non-profit organization, founded and presided by the journalist and writer Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Literature Prize laureate. The foundation promotes the continuing education of journalists from Iberian-American countries. The foundation's core project is the Taller de Periodismo Iberoamericano (The Iberian-American Journalism Workshop Program), an itinerant programof workshops and seminars for journalists sponsored by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco), and other private and public foundations. - The Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communication Programs (CCP) - Global
Is a pioneer in the field of strategic, research-based communication for behaviorchange and health promotion that has helped transform the theory andpractice of public health. CCP was established at the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1988 in recognition of theproven importance of communication in public health programs and in keepingwith the leadership role the Johns Hopkins University has played in thisfield. - The Regional AIDS Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean (SIDALAC)
The Regional AIDS Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean (SIDALAC) was promoted by the World Bank. This initiative is now part of the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank. This initiative´s implementing agency is the Mexican Health Foundation. The overall objective of SIDALAC is to contribuite to the mobilization of national and international efforts against AIDS and other STDs in Latin America and the Caribbean through enhanced awareness of decision makers in the region, and the support and development of a new generation of control programs with a specific regional scope for Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Television Trust for the Environment, TVE - Great Britain
This organization prepares and publishes catalogs, produces and distributes audiovisuals, and Internet material on Environmental Protection, Health Care, and Human Rights. Worth highlighting amongst TVE's projects are: the Earth Report series (on development and the environment); Hands On (sustainable businesses and proper technologies); Life (the impact of globalization on the social development agenda), all of which are transmitted by BBC World and distributed in Asia, Africa, and Latin America with support from the Video Resource Centers. During 2000, TVE and its Latin American partners conducted the project called Micro Macro aimed at documenting the environmental protection experiences in the Latin American region. - Radio Nederland
Radio Netherlands is a multimedia organization that covers regional developments in areas of the world without free media. Radio Netherlands focuses on providing relevant programming. They continually examine the media landscape of their targets, looking for ways to complement what is already there and design the best balance of radio, television and Internet programming to be effective.
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