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Title: October 25


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The Congress - Highlights
  • October 25 27, Headquarter of FAO in Rome,
    Italy
  • The first global event of its kind, specifically
    and entirely focused on communication for
    development.
  • Brought together three key audiences with a stake
    in communication for development that seldom get
    together academia, policy-makers and
    communication practitioners.

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The Goal
  • To mainstream Communication for Development in
    development policies and practices.
  • By sharing experiences and best practices from
    around the world that demonstrate that
    Communication for Development is an
    essential tool for meeting todays most pressing
    development challenges.

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The Process The road to the Congress
  • The preparations to WCCD has been part of a much
    wider process to advance and mainstream the
    discipline of Communication for Development that
    involved
  • Organizing Bodies
  • Associated Events

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The Process The road to the Congress Organizing
Bodies
  • Secretariat World Bank, FAO, The Communication
    Initiative Network
  • Steering Committee 17 organizations -
    inter-governmental (1), civil society-based (7),
    academia (1), the UN system (3), media (1) and
    the donor community (3).
  • Scientific Committee 23 leading professors and
    practitioners of Communication for Development
    from 18 academic and research institutions.
  • Advisory Body 41 organizations - civil
    society-based (14), academia and think-tanks (9),
    media (2), the UN system (7), donors (3),
    multilateral institutions (3) and development
    agencies (3).

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The WCCD Program - Thematic Sessions
  • Themes Governance, Health, Sustainable
    Development, Communication Labs.
  • Streams the overarching communication streams
    addressed by the sessions included
  • demonstrating the value-added of Communication
    for Development
  • providing data and evidence of the impact of
    Communication for Development
  • highlighting the most promising theoretical
    foundations and methodological approaches
    underpinning Communication for Development today

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The WCCD ProgramPolicy Makers Forum
  • A select group of Policymakers reflected upon a
    set of recommendations for mainstreaming
    communication, based on a platform prepared and
    discussed before and during the Congress

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The Outcome
  • The WCCD is a major step in a broader process of
    mainstreaming communication for development. Its
    outcomes and key contribution to that process
    are
  • The Rome Consensus key recommendations agreed
    among Congress participants.
  • Significant amount of evidence for further
    advocacy efforts
  • Base for future institutional alliances and a
    wide platform for mainstreaming communication in
    development policy and practice
  • World Wide Exposure and Media Coverage

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Some Statistics from the Congress Website
  • During the month of October 2006
  • 14,209 total visits from 172 countries, of which
    7,017 during the days of the Congress
  • 79,456 total page views, of which 32,555 during
    the days of the Congress
  • 52.7 of visitors return to the website more than
    once a day
  • Since the website launch in the Summer of 2005
  • 59,401 total visits from 194 countries
  • 415,479 total page views
  • 52,2 of visitors return to the website more than
    once a day
  • Webstream
  • 1,430 viewers
  • Virtual Press Room
  • 1,668 visitors
  • E-fora
  • 1274 participants

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Beyond the WCCD
  • Rome Consensus finalized and translated in three
    languages
  • Mainstreaming Study on C4D revised and finalized
  • Proceedings being finalized (including all papers
    in a cd)
  • A number of publications derived from the
    Congress are forthcoming

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Beyond the WCCD (cont.)
  • A number of similar events at a regional level
    are being planned
  • Strategic partnerships and alliance for
    mainstreaming communication for development are
    taking place
  • And .
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