scholarly journals An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Communication Strategies for Achieving Millennium Development Goals in Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-174
Author(s):  
Muleba Matafwali ◽  
Kenny Makungu
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Communication Methods

According to various reports by the UN and other organizations, Africa is facing big challenges in achieving the world's anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This prompted a study by Muleba Matafwali (2010) which aimed at enhancing the understanding that communication plays a very critical role in the quest to attain development in Zambia. Key findings were that Twenty-Five point Five percent (25.5%) of the respondents indicated that television and radio documentaries were the most useful tool sources of information on MDGs for them. Forty-Three point Six percent (43.6%) indicated that community education on MDGs should be intensified. A total of 16.4% of respondents indicated that radio and television programmes should be prioritized in an effort to accelerate the achievement of MDGs. The findings also revealed that MDG experts and politicians make up 19.1% and 18.2% respectively of people who were good sources of information for them. A total of 126 people were sampled for the study. In the conclusion, the study noted that all key players in the MDG campaign were making significant efforts to reach the wider public with the MDG message. However there was need to accelerate these efforts in order to reach the wider population. The study recommended that MDG campaigners should use more inexpensive communication methods such as folk media alongside conversional means of communication such as radio.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Leadership Forum: 2015: A decisive year for development?

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mean many things to many people. Public debates have recognized the critical role they played in helping the topic of development, the related struggle against poverty and its environmental implications to emerge in the collective consciousness of global actors. In fact, diminishing the number of people living in extreme poverty by half, the main priority of the MDGs, is the most notable success of this political process that began with the Millennium Development Summit in 2000. At the same time, the MDGs have been heavily criticized by leaders and academics for being indicator-driven and, in some cases, unrealistic. It still seems that five of the eight MDGs will not be met before the goals expire in 2015.

scholarly journals School–Family Relations: An Educational Challenge in Times of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10681
Author(s):  
Mario Ferreras-Listán ◽  
Coral I. Hunt-Gómez ◽  
Pilar Moreno-Crespo ◽  
Olga Moreno-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Educational Challenge ◽  
Development Goals

The COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap regarding access to educational opportunities, which was included in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This descriptive, quantitative study aims to examine the communication strategies employed by secondary schools in Spain during the lockdown, as well as to analyse the co-responsibility of the educational process between schools and families. An ad hoc questionnaire (GIESBAFCOV-19) was designed and implemented to gather information. The results show that, in most cases, mothers were responsible for assisting and supervising their children’s homework as persons in charge of education-related matters. Additionally, before the lockdown was put in place, about half of the participating families received information from the educative centres regarding the disease and sanitary measures. Once the lockdown took place, families put the focus on their children’s schoolwork, not without difficulties in academic and digital literacy. In general, the families were satisfied with the communication established with the educational centres. The present study has raised the necessity to improve communication between centres and families and to reflect on the tools and systems used for its exchange. Consequently, it seems that information and digital competences should be promoted to guarantee an equalitarian education for all.

Keeping the promise of the Millennium Development Goals: Why language matters

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Romaine
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Language Minorities ◽  
Major Fault ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Objectives

AbstractThe adoption of the Millennium Declaration in 2000 by 189 member-states of the United Nations defined a critical moment for global cooperation as leaders committed themselves to achieve eight specific development objectives known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. As the largest and arguably most ambitious initiative on the international development agenda, the MDGs have become the normative framework for human development, and the MDG language of goals and targets now shapes the global debate about how to define and measure development. Examination of the progress achieved thus far towards the MDGs pinpoints language at the very heart of major fault lines in the development process: those most often left behind are language minorities. Keeping the promise of the MDGs requires a new understanding of the critical role of language in human development. Because there can be no true development with linguistic development, only by putting language at the center of development can we close the gaps and meet key targets of the MDGs and other global agendas such as Education for All (EFA) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This article issues an urgent call for linguists to make their voices heard.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

The Lancet ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 365 (9464) ◽  
pp. 1030-1030
Author(s):  
D HOLDSTOCK ◽  
M ROWSON
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Development Goals
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