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Publications Year 2003
Building Connections: Understanding Relationship and Networks to Improve Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs by Program for Appropriate Technology in Health and NGO Networks for Health.
This tool is designed for field application by program practitioners who have heard about the application of network approaches but are unfamiliar with the concepts and tools, and researchers and academics who are interested in familiarizing themselves with the concepts and practice of social network research."Building Connections describes the structures and dynamics of relationships and networks, and of program approaches that influence youth behaviors. This tool also suggests techniques used to conduct different types of social network analysis according to a program's needs. Finally, Building Connections illustrates how an understanding of social relationships and networks can help with program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. In addition, the appendices provide extensive resources for conducting social network analysis."
To download the publication, please click here (168 pages, 14,570 KB, Acrobat File). For more information, please visit www.path.org
By planes, boats, buses, jeeps, motorbikes and 'tuk tuk' or a combination of some of them, 16 reporters and photojournalists from China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam spread out across the Greater Mekong Subregion in pursuit of cross-border stories, ranging from dams, commercial navigation, drugs, HIV/AIDS, culture or trade.
The product of their in-depth coverage — stories and photo essays produced under the IPS Media Fellowship programme 'Our Mekong: A Vision amid Globalisation' — are compiled in this book.
Through their pens and cameras, these journalists take us through a fast-changing corner of Asia - a combination of different political, socio-cultural and media environments, one that is both modern and traditional, urban and rural, linked by the Mekong river but also separated by it, increasingly integrated but also still restricted by borders and past conflicts.
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Coversheet and Acknowledge (2 pages, 3.7 MB, Acrobat File) Chapter I: The River Binds, Divides For China, Xiaowan Dam a reservoir for progress. (2 pages, 1.7 MB, Acrobat File; 3 pages, 1.47 MB, Acrobat File; 2 pages, 2.56 MB, Acrobat File; 2 pages, 1.3 MB, Acrobat File) Mekong Fishermen left high and dry. (2 pages, 1.1 MB, Acrobat File; 2 pages, 1.2 MB, Acrobat File; 2 pages, 1.4 MB, Acrobat File) Cambodian villages count the costs of Vietnam's dams .(4 pages, 650 KB, Acrobat File) Chapter II: The Border - And Beyond The Karens: one People, different lives. (3 pages, 9.00 MB, Acrobat File; 3 pages, 3.87 MB, Acrobat File; 3 pages, 4.92 MB, Acrobat File) Two stop on the east-west corridors. (8 pages, 368 KB, Acrobat File) For Burmese workers, jobs are dirty but needed. (6 pages, 1.35 MB, Acrobat File; 4 pages, 969 KB, Acrobat File) Thailand and Laos: Criss-Crossing Lives (6 pages, 1.63 MB, Acrobat File) Greener Pastures on the other side (3 pages, 2.5 MB, Acrobat File; 3 pages, 6.4 MB, Acrobat File) Lure of a better life get women trafficked (4 pages, 1.2 MB, Acrobat File; 4 pages, 2 MB, Acrobat File) AIDs is far and near (6 pages, 268 KB, Acrobat File) Chapter III: Changing Lives, Changing Times Heritage for sale (4 pages, 1.7 MB, Acrobat File; 4 pages, 1.3 MB, Acrobat File; 4 Pages, 634 KB, Acrobat File) Appendices Appendix A: A look back through the IPS wire (3 pages, 736 KB, Acrobat File; 3 pages, 2.7 MB, Acrobat File; 3 Pages, 1 MB, Acrobat File) Appendix B: The Fellows at work (2 pages, 5 MB, Acrobat File; 5 pages, 5 MB, Acrobat File; 2 Pages, 1 MB, Acrobat File)
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email mekong@ipsnews.net and contact the IPS directly.
The themes discussed in this book, Cross-Border Mobility and Sexual Exploitation in the Greater Southeast Asia Sub-region are currently a focus of study and actions among scholars and practitioners in this area.
This book explores and reveals some provocative findings that bring new insights and contributions to stimulate the network of collaborative research in which academics from many institutions in the Greater ASEAN region participate. The presentation of alternative ideas and perspectives encourages further dialogue and research.
Given the spatial environments, the common socio-political, economic and cultural backgrounds, and not least the shared spirit of people from the same region, this study suggests further cooperation between governments and the development of collaborative studies involving academics and local expertise.
Due to the magnitude and complexity of the challenges, no single country is able to deal with the issues of sexuality related to cross-border mobility without considerable support from neighboring countries. The strengthening of networks and concerted actions among people at local, national, regional and international levels is needed to reduce and prevent the trafficking of women and children and its negative impacts.
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Cover page (24 pages, 229 KB, Acrobat File)
Contents(320 pages, 1.57 MB, Acrobat File)
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Provided with little opportunity in their home countries, young men and women from Cambodia and Myanmar go in search of work in Thailand's seafood industry to support their families and build their futures. Once there, migrants bear a life of hardship with few rights. The greatest threat to migrants' well-being, though, is HIV/AIDS; yet few are aware of their vulnerability to this disease....
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@raksthai.org or contact the organizers directly.
The six book-series was launched during the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand on July 13, 2004 at the Grand Miracle Convention Hotel in Partnership with the Thai Journalists Association and Press Development Institute of Thailand.
In 2003, the AIDS Society of the Philippines, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, began a research project that would review and analyze the content, trend and quality of Southeast Asian media coverage on sexuality and safe sex: Vietnam - Dilemmas of Doi Moi; Cambodia - Sex without Substance; Laos - Loud Whispers; Thailand - Covering the Condom Nation; Philippines - Sex, Church, & a Free Press; and Indonesia - Riding the Paradox.
To download the publication, please click here (Autorun). For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email aidsphil@pacific.net.ph or visit its website.
"We study the past to understand the present; and we study the present to help make plans for the future"For inquiries on how to obtain hard copies, please email here or visit its website.This book produced by Social Research Institueprovides local writers' perspectives on a wide range of significant, often related, social challenges. They discuss, in a Mekong Region context: international economic integration, the rise of transnational civil society, the relationship between Mekong State and external power, changing geopolitics, poverty, government policies affecting ethnic minorities, gender inequity, industrialisation, labour migration, human rights, HIV/AIDS and drug use, biotechnology impacts on agriculture, uplands land use, fisheries dispute, access to natural resources, state approaches to sustainable development, and the governance of Mekong River and regional infrastructure "development" projects.
Neatly summarising this diversity is neither possible nor desirable. However, one message is clear, Mekong Region challenges require a wider spectrum of regional perspectives to be heard, more learning and, to an extent, concerted action.
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