COM+ award certificate
Here’s the COM+ award certificate that was given during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the CGIAR in Beijing last week. The environmental soap opera is a partnership project led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Visayas State University (Philippines), Plant Protection Department (Vietnam) and the Voice of Ho Chi Minh City. To implement the project, it adopted a multi stakeholder participatory process adopted which encouraged local ownership, commitment and matching government support for the soap operas. The process served as a platform for capacity building in drama development, social science and communication research techniques and data analysis.
The COM+ Communications for Sustainable Development Award recognizes excellence in the field of communications, demonstrated through clear impacts and real changes in support of sustainable development. Issued by COM+ the award recognizes the role of communications in improving awareness and understanding of sustainable development issues, promoting increased transparency and dialogue between government and other stakeholders, and influencing policy outcomes to provide pathways out of poverty while protecting our valuable environmental resources.
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December 12, 2007 at 7:29 pm
ella
Wow!! Congratulations ma’am for yet another Com+ award! It feels so great to have the awardee back at Dc 123a standing before us and disucssing about Evaluation of Comm materials. hehehe. we will surely learn a lot from you ma’am. Congratulations again!
December 23, 2008 at 5:43 pm
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