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ENVIRONMENT MEDIA EXCHANGE
PROGRAMME
This is a project funded by
the European Union. aimed to substantially increase the two-way flow of
environmental information between Europe and India by
increasing the number of
environmental films available for
broadcast
upgrading the capacity of
the VRC partners to adapt and
promote these titles
co-productions
increase support to media
events
production workshops
This three year project
started in 1998 and will continue till the end of AD 2000. The European
partners are TVE London and ARCA Consulting, Italy. The Indian partners are
DA, CSE and CEE.
MODERATION GROUP
This is a specific project to
promote the MODERATION approach for enhancing participation and for the
inculcation of the underlying values for better management of activities in
the field of development.
The project
offers opportunities to
develop skills in moderators
provides a team of trained
moderators
provides training in
moderation
The outcome of the project is
an increased use of moderation techniques by agencies in the field of
development, thus leading to a more participatory management.
This is a three-year project
funded by SDC and is led by representatives of four organisations (including
DA), who comprise the Task Force in-charge of running the project.
PRODUCTION OF VIDEO FILMS
The Unit has an active film
production section which undertakes the production of films for internal and
external clients. The complete production is done within the unit which
offers both technical and creative expertise. The range of productions
include weekly magazines for channels to specific films for niche audience.
Along with the production of
software, the unit also liases with television channels for the broadcast of
programmes for mass dissemination.
The unit also has a stock of
footage which is sold on a commercial basis. The buyers range from
International film producers like WARD Television to producers of domestic
channels.
VIDEO RESOURCE CENTRE
The Video Resource Centre at
DA is linked to the international network of Video Resource Centres and
Television Trust for Environment, London. Its activities include duplication
and distribution of more than 200 films on environment and development to
NGOs, schools, business houses etc., sourcing international software and
feeding information to the network.
DA NEWSLETTER
The Development Alternatives
Newsletter not only encompasses the entire gamut of Development Alternatives
activities but also includes glimpses of the alternative development
paradigm which we are trying to create. It is a shimmering evidence of all
our successes, milestones and even failures in our journey towards the
ultimate goal of creating a just world order.
All in all, Development
Alternatives Newsletter - an English Monthly - has stepped into its 11th
year of existence and is busy disseminating information on Sustainable
Development to numerous NGOs and other national and international
development agencies.
The Newsletter has a
circulation of 3000 copies every month. It reaches a broad spectrum of
individuals and institutions engaged in empowering people at the grassroots
and evolving an egalitarian development paradigm.
Each issue of the DA
Newsletter deals with a wide variety of subjects, ranging from Ozone Layer
depletion to organic farming; Local governance to people’s right to
information ; Sustainable micro-enterprises to appropriate technologies;
Renewable energy alternatives to gender issues; Environmental problems to
shelter alternatives; and more...........DA Newsletter serves as a forum for
sensitive and like-minded people, both locally and globally, who are
striving towards the goal of making our planet a better place to live.
VIKAS VIKALP PATRIKA
Development Alternatives is
an institution whose main aim is to interact with the common man and assist
him to help himself in terms of acquiring a much better quality of life, by
moving from survival to subsistence to self-reliance. Such an interaction
calls for an appropriate dialogue in a common language for better impact.
Hence, Vikas Vikalp Patrika is DA’s vernacular bridge to reach out to the
different development agencies engaged in grassroots activities.
To begin with, we have this
quarterly journal- Vikas Vikalp- in Hindi. But, in the long run, we plan to
have different vernacular versions - say in Telugu, Assamese, Bengali and
all other Indian languages - for an effective information-dissemination.
Communication, basically, is
a two-way street. So, Vikas Vikalp is not merely a newsletter which depicts
the various DA activities in Sustainable Development but it also invites
viewpoints, success stories and feedback from all those who are keen to take
the benefits of Science and Technology to the mud hut of the rural poor.
ENVIRO NEWS
The Communication Unit, on
behalf of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, produces this monthly
newsletter on environment and forest policies, programmes and activities.
The objective of the newsletter is to impart authentic and timely
information on issues such as important policies, amendments to existing
laws and rules, enactment of new Acts, other crucial notifications and new
schemes and programmes. The reach of the newsletter extends to planners,
NGOs, administrators, scientists, research scholars, students and the civil
society in general.
The first issue of the newsletter was published in August 1997. When we started, Enviro News was a
quarterly Journal. Since October 1998, it has been made a monthly Journal. It is usually
a 16 pager but at times additional pages have to be included to impart more
information regarding the Ministry's activities.
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