The Global Archive
2007-12-30
Ukraine Public Dialogue website
Dialogue, openness and transparency are key features of an open democracy. In this, both media and the civil society are important actors. The Ukraine Public Dialogue project is financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The aim of Ukraine Public Dialogue is to improve public communications and the dialogue by increasing the capacity of key staff working with public communications in Ukraine government authorities. For the purpose of exchanging ideas and documents relevant to the project a special web site has been created, ukrainepublicdialogue.org. Download a pdf about the project.
2007-12-06
Developing democracy in Ukraine
On the 4-5 of December, Global Reporting and the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers arranged jointly a seminar on government commuication. More than one hundred information officers from most of Ukraine’s ministries, authorities, state committees and regional administrations participated along with independent Swedish and Ukrainian journalists. Read more.
Among the speakers at the seminar were Lars Tallert who talked about the role of the changing role of the public communicator. Download the speach.
2007-02-26
Supporting the Dairy Sector in Georgia
Milk farmers, milk collection centres, dairies, retailers, health staff and customers must all cooperate to reach this goal to alleviate poverty and increase food safety in Georgia. So the Dairy Information and Promotion Agency (DIPA) has an important role to play in promoting the diary industry.
Global Reporting is assisting DIPA in developing a communication plan that involves dialogue with all stakeholders in the sector, including State Authorities. The primary goals are inform and encourage the wider public to consume more and safer milk products and to feed in international communication experiences to the DIPA members. Read a chronical by Lars Tallert.
The project is financed by SIDA and managed by Opto International
2007-02-10
Global Reporting’s *Kuwala picture project illustrate UNDP report
UNDP:s 2007 Zambia Human Development Report is illustrated with pictures taken by children from some of Lusaka’s poorest neighbourhoods who who participated in a pilot project run by Global Reporting and their Zambian partners Youth Vision and Back to School. The project name Kuwala is Chewa, one of the about twenty distinct languages in Zambia, and means to shine or to stand out. Read more
2007-01-10
Radio Sweden meets Global Reporting
David Isaksson and Anki Wood met Bill Schiller at Radio Sweden International. "A very unusual company with its offices in Stockholm’s Old Town medieval island strives to promote Swedish interest in the world around it – far from the standard stereotypes." This is how Global Reporting is described. Listen to Bill Schiller's report here.
2006-12-15
Meanwhile, back in Zambia…
Africa – we all know what it is like, don’t we? Images of poverty, dependence and desperation have shaped our view of an entire continent. But is that all there is to say? We at Global Reporting decided to find out for ourselves. We went to Zambia and the result is the book “Meanwhile, back in Zambia” – a scrapbook, a collage, and maybe a point of departure for reflections about how journalists portray other countries and cultures. “Meanwhile, back in Zambia” was produced (all text, all photos, all design) during eleven days in Zambia and another eleven days back in Sweden. Are you ready to challenge your prejudices? Please contact us if you would like to buy the book.
2006-10-25
Remarkable results among the garbage in Tegucigalpa
Between 2004 and 2006, Global Reporting has been working on an environmental communication project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The project has been commissioned by the City of Stockholm, and includes, among others, an information campaign; ?Jeugo Limpio?. The project has now been evaluated by SIPU, a Swedish consultancy and training organisation. The results are described as ”remarkable”, and SIPU points out the possibilities to use the same method in upcoming projects. Read the Final Report here.
2006-10-11
Evaluation on communication in water project in Latvia
Global Reporting assisted Jurmala Water in Latvia during 2004 and 2005 to improve their communication - both internal and external. We introduced planned, strategic communication as a tool and engaged in capacity development at a broad basis - prior to the project, the organisation had practically no experience in communication. Read more here.
Global Reporting has since the start in 1996 focused on communication and development in an international context. Combining theory with practice, Global Reporting’s staff travels extensively around the world, making us one among very few communication consultant companies specialised in this area.
Improving public dialogue in Ukraine
Global Reporting has been engaged by Sida to assist in developing the dialogue between the State and the public in Ukraine. The project focuses on one of the key functions in developing democracy: improving Government frameworks, strategies and communication methods in order for people to understand the political processes and decisions. Cooperation partners are the Cabinet of Ministers, the Parliament Verkhovna Rada and the Secretariat of the President. Read more about the project here. Read Memo 1 here and Memo 2 here.
2006-08-15New co-operation with SPIDER
We have recently produced an information package to the Swedish Program for Information and Communication Technology in Developing Regions, SPIDER. ICT4D is a new and highly dynamic field of development co-operation, and stands for Information and Communication Technology for Development.
The information package we made includes a brochure, a folder, quick screens and a strategy document. We wanted to mediate a soft and human profile of the type of activities that SPIDER is dealing with. We focused on people who use technology and those who work within the projects. Texts produced by David Isaksson. Graphic design by Lisa Jansson. See the whole brochure here. Read more about SPIDER here.
2006-06-08
Commmunication for development at
Global bar
Exchanging ideas and experiences with others is one of the driving forces in our work. Global Bar is an easy going gathering for people working in an international context, taking place in Stockholm roughly once a month. In an informal setting together with inspiring speakers the participants get the chance to exchange ideas and discuss important issues.
In June 8 2006, before the summer’s break we had our last gathering featuring “Communication for development” together with the Master Course in Communication for Development under the supervision of the University of Malmö. You can follow the interesting debate, which took place by clicking here . Go to "Live Lecture: archive" and you'll find the seminar.
2006-06-01
HIV/AIDS Prevention
David Isaksson and Anki Wood at Global Reporting documented an international conference, ”Standing Up for HIV Prevention – Building a Constituency”, in the beginning of May 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden. It was hosted by the Government of Sweden and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in collaboration with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU). The conference was summarised in a report, designed by Cathrin Emdén.
2006-04-15
Finalisation of Tegucigalpa Project
Since June 2004, Global Reporting has been working on an environmental project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The project has been commissioned by the City of Stockholm, and includes, among others, an information campaign; ?Jeugo Limpio?. The project is now finalised. Read our Final Report here.
2006-06-01
Ukraine Dialogue and E-tigers of Estonia
Since the independence in 1991 Estonia has leapfrogged from virtually nothing to become one of the world’s most IT-savvy countries. As part of the project Ukraine Dialogue (see above) a study visit to Estonia was organised in June 2006. The purpose was to study how public communication in a post Soviet country can be enhanced using ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Read about Estonian e-democracy here.2006-05-20
Stand up for Children's rights!
In international aid work, children are often left out of the big plans, though they often represent the majority of the population.
On May 20, the organisation Save the children, Sweden and the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation, Sida, arranged a conference in Stockholm on the subject. Global Reporting covered the event and produced a brochure that will be presented on the World Social Forum in Vancouver in June 2006.
2006-01-20
The Global high school visible!
Global Reporting has helped to draw attention to the Global high school. A 25 square meter big picture is now decorating the wall of the high school in order to draw the passers-by attention to the schools new location. The picture, taken by David Isaksson, is from Ghana. Idea and design by Lisa Jansson. See the picture here.
2005-12-20Chia Se, Vietnam-Sweden Poverty Alleviation Programme
Agneta Carleson from Global Reporting is going to work as an informant in Vietnam with Chia Se for a year. The Chia Se programme aims at poverty alleviation and broad political and societal changes, bringing about increased local democratisation, stronger empowerment of the poor, gender equality and transparent governance. The people in the villages will for example decide for them selves what they need to reduce poverty – a water buffalo, a healthcare clinic or better education for the children. Orgut is the main consultant and you can read more about the project here.
2005-12-10
Research makes sense
The yearbook on research co-operation 2004, ”Research makes sense”, was newly launched by Sida. Related to this the opening of the exhibition ”Poverty Alleviation requires research” was held. The openingspeech was made by the author Henning Mankell.
Global Reporting has been producing text and graphic design for the yearbook. Journalists at Global visited five different countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to write examples showing how research is necessary to combat poverty in low income countries. Global Reporting has also produced the exhibition with examples from subjects like pharmacology, biotechnology and marin science. 2005-09-01
Report on Information Flow-back
Global Reporting was together with Amazonas Relationships Management given an assignment by Sida to propose a model for information flow back to the taxpayers in the donor countries. The study is the first of its kind and has now been forwarded by Sida to DAC, the body within OECD that handles development issues. DAC will use it in an attempt to find a global solution on this problem. Read more about the report here.
2005-08-01
Global Reporting opens an office in Africa
Global Reporting has now opened an office in Zambia as well. Petter Bolme, writer and project manager who has worked at Global Reporting since 1999, will be covering all of Southern Africa from Lusaka. Read more
2005-08-10
Walkabouts No2 out now
An afternoon spent among breakfast cereals at Safeways, a dead camel in Cairo, a Chinese bookshop in Bangkok, a pot-smoking nun in Iran, a prime minister caught in a police raid on an African nightclub in Stockholm. Walkabouts in not a guidebook but a collection of improbable stories from halfway around the world. Read more
2005-06-15
Life in the Urban Landscape in Gothenburg
David Isaksson talked about the Tegucigalpa environmental communication project at the conference Life in the Urban Landscape in Gothenburg, Sweden on May 30. Download the paper for the seminar. Read more (Swedish and Spanish only) about the Tegucigalpa project. More about the conference at www.urbanlife2005.com
2005-06-09
A look at Sweden
Richard Hill, writer and one of Global Reporting's international partners, has written extensively on Europe and the Europeans. Some years ago he took a look at Sweden with the following result, read the chapter. The text is taken from the book "The Newcomers", written in 1995. Read more about Richard's most recent book.
2005-04-26
Ukraine
Communication can be a vital tool to analyse and improve development projects. One example of this is a report on the Ukrainian forest sector Global Reporting did for Sida and the consulting company Ramböll. Read the report.