Blog posts by year and monthAugust 2013
Posts (6)
Health innovation: how to spread new ideas fast?
A focus on “people talking to people” ignores the complementary role of other forms of communication in improving health in the developing world, argues BBC Media Action's Yvonne MacPherson and Caroline Sugg.
Young blood: Loy9's latest big challenge
Yen Chenda, events producer of Loy9, Cambodia’s multiplatform project for young people, on how they persuaded 999 people in nine places to donate blood in just nine days.
Vote of confidence
BBC Media Action's Sushama Pandey on how a radio programme helped two Dalit women in Nepal speak out for their rights and register on the electoral roll.
A Girl Called Zaat: a TV drama for a turbulent Egypt
BBC Media Action's Abir Awad on how TV series A Girl Called Zaat is portraying Egypt’s modern history – even while that history is being made.
How effective is opposition politics in Sierra Leone?
As democracy finds its feet in Sierra Leone, radio debate show Tok Bot Salone tested the strength of the country’s party politics in holding the government to account.
The road well travelled
In the first in a series of blogs, Sema Kenya’s senior production manager Jackie Christie reflects on why the TV and radio debate show travels far and wide across Kenya.
