XIII United Nations Round Table on Communication for Development Interviews

From the XIII United Nations Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development "Mainstreaming Communication for Development in Policies and Programmes - Enabling social inclusion to support food and nutrition security, resilient rural livelihoods and family farming", held in Rome, Italy, September 16-18 2014, two interviews were recorded and posted as resources on YouTube through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ComDev channel. Links to them are found below, and a sample of an interview by Professor Elske Van de Fliert is included below.

1) "Founder of the C4D [Communication for Development] Network Jackie Davies discusses the quick exponential growth of the C4D Network from an informal peer lunch group in 2007, to a wide network of C4D colleagues in over 136 countries. How do we introduce C4D to our other colleagues in development? Who do we want to support and engage with? Engagement, facilitation and participation are all key pillars. There is a new sense of urgency around these questions and issues and UN [United Nations] agencies, international NGOs [non-government organisations] as well as academics are rallying together around them. This XIII Round Table has recognized the wide variety of actors in the field and the need to get this broad community organized and mobilized."

2) "The Director of the Centre for Communication and Social Change of the University of Queensland Elske van de Fliert discusses Communication for Development as a highly trans-disciplinary field, making it highly challenging for those working in the sector. Some of the important, key and difficult issues addressed for the first time at the XIII Round Table revolved around the need to have concrete action points on inter-agency collaboration and the mainstreaming of Communication for Development practices."