GFAR webinar: Challenging Development and Research Communications

22nd March 2017
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Paepard

22 March 2017. This webinar covered communications as a “process for change” rather than for promotion or awareness-raising communications: using communications for knowledge creation and sharing, participatory or social learning, creative participatory project synthesis and writeshops or learning briefs. How to work with multi-stakeholder platforms, or use tools like participatory video or farm radio..?

Speakers:

Michael Victor (CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems): Introduction/teaser into the topic
Meredith Giordano (Principal Researcher and U.S. Representative for the International Water Management Institute – IWMI).): Project synthesis (and its

communications) from a researcher’s point of view
Peter Ballantyne (head of communications and knowledge management at the International Livestock Research Institute – ILRI): Social learning, participatory comms, tools and processes to create and share knowledge (with some of ILRI’s

examples)
Julian Gonsalves (Senior Advisor for Asia at the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) Philippines): Repackaging research, using ‘write shops’ as an example
Fisher Qua (Principal Practitioner at Back Loop Consulting): How to use multi-stakeholder

platforms (with the Mekong dialogue as example)
Juliet Braslow (ex-CIAT, has worked with farmers and rural communities internationally for

the past 10 years): Video to engage farmers as a learning, empowering, and farmer to farmer exchange tool.
Karen Hampson ( (Regional Program Manager, ESA, Farm Radio International): Using farm radio and mobile phones as a way to reach farmers with research

outcomes
Beatrice Makwenda, Head of Policy and Communication for the National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM) replace due to technical issues by Fancois Stepman (PAEPARD) presented: The uptake and communications

of aflatoxin research findings in Malawi and Zambia

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