What are your priorities, opportunities and challenges?

We are very interested to learn your assessment of the main priorities, opportunities and challenges for your communication and media development, social and behavioural change focused work. This is designed to both provide the network with an insight into "where things are at" in this important field of Development action and ensure that The CI can better respond to your requirements. Thanks for completing the short survey below.

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* 1. In what country are you based?

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* 2. Which Development issues are the main focus for your work?

Poverty

Children

Environment

Economic Development

Adolescent/Youth

HIV/AIDS

Sexual and Reproductive Health

Democracy and Governance

Media Development

Inequality

Health

Gender

Journalism

Disasters

Education

Natural Resource Management

Conflict

Migration

Rights

Immunization and Vaccines

Freedom of expression

Climate Change

Rural Development

Urban Development

Polio

Debt relief

Below please add any of the MAIN ISSUES on which you work that you do not see above - thanks

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* 3. What do you regard as the major OPPORTUNITIES for your communication, media, social and behavioural change initiatives?

Growth of social media

Expanded levels of public accountability

The main Development priorities requiring people-centred responses

Increasing recognition of the interrelationship between Development issues that are most often regarded as separate and distinct

Higher levels of national and local influence over their own Development priorities

Spreading process of social organisation

Growing levels of engagement by the people with whom you work

Rising importance of the voices of the people with whom you work

A broadening range of media and communication channels

Widening importance of independent media

Proliferation of citizens voices

Please outline the reasons for your choices above AND/OR insert some different OPPORTUNITIES from your perspective

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* 4. What WORRIES you most for the future of your work?

Absence of compelling impact evidence data.

Lack of a valid change theory.

Difficulty obtaining the funds required for effective work.

Struggle to get the interest and backing of organisation managers.

Problems obtaining the engagement of the people with whom you are seeking to work.

Continuing expectation that you will support other development sectors rather than your work standing as a valid development initiative in its own right.

No common standards for people working in this field.

A challenge to identify potential staff with the required skills and knowledge.

Comparative absence of the communication, media, social and behavioural change perspective voice in policy making fora.

Frustration in trying to explain what you do in ways that others quickly understand.

Please outline the reasons for your choices above and/or insert some different WORRIES from your perspective.

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* 5. What are the main PRIORITIES for your work at present?

Revise the strategy

Produce the impact evidence

Advocate the importance of your work

Raise the funds required

Improve personnel standards

Provide a critique of overall Development challenges and progress

Align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Refine the messages being communicated

Amplify the voices of the people with whom you work

Negotiate with other Development sectors about their expectations of your work

Better co-ordinate with other organisations involved in similar work

Expand the number of Partner organisations supporting your work

Acquire greater knowledge about this field of work

Please outline the reasons for your choices above and/or insert some different PRIORITIES from your perspective?