Development Communications Network (DevComs)
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- Our Profile
- Our offerings
- How We Can Assist?
- Our Credentials
- ORGANOGRAM
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Key Contacts
Our Profile
- DevComs is a media-development, capacity-building non-governmental organization coordinated by experienced development journalists, researchers and development programme managers
- DevComs’ terrain is development projects on contemporary development issues such as health, education, environment, lifestyle, gender, governance etc
- DevComs’ spheres of multi-media platforms include radio, television, print, online, film, audio and video documentaries etc.
- DevComs’ mission is implemented through three approaches: , through media advocacy, capacity building and strategic communications
- Our offerings | THE CCF
The Change Process Framework (CCF)
- DevComs Change Process Framework (CPF) provides a set of approaches for understanding target audience and tested techniques and platforms for facilitating change
- Our CPF enables us to
- Identify the change barriers in working across different and possible cultural issues
- Analyse the significance of the concerns of key stakeholders and build strategies to mitigate them.
- Involve, enthuse, engage and energise stakeholders for the change
- Systematically plan and facilitate target groups and stakeholders to the new way of working about development.
- To engage, we will customize the framework to respond to the specific requirements of any partnering organization and ensure we develop an integrated work approach to address the people, culture, society and systemic factors that will drive change.
- Our offerings (contd.)
Research and Analysis; M&E support - We provide a wide range of support to partners in the areas of research and M&E from performing baseline assessments, to process monitoring and to evaluation of development communication program using scientific and locally applicable methods.
- We bring to bear our deep knowledge and understanding of science and health journalism to provide a prospectus of health communication landscape and how they play out in Nigeria and West Africa.
Our offerings (contd.)
Journalists development & IMMERSION programmE
- ADevComs we see capacity development as a process involving a variety of stakeholders over a period of time.
- The immersion programme is one of DevComs evidence-based media development strategy. It starts with a good understanding of the systems in which stakeholders operate to design and implement a unique (and often with t innovative additions) capacity building processes that will be beneficial to achieving partners’ goal.
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How we can assist
We will assist in several ways:
- Advocacy: We can work with organisations in the area of advocacy, especially media advocacy to help amplify messages among populations
- Inclusion Communication: With our wide array of media partners, we can get media buy-in for strategic campaigns
- Public Health & Development: We are the leading voice in public health and Development communication/advocacy in Nigeria and the continent.
- Public understanding of science: We look at issues from the context of science as a prerequisite to strategic action on development issues and behaviour change.
Our credentials
- MARCH 2020 #COVID19 campaign titled ‘#5daysforCOVID19A twitter campaign reached over 7.5 million people with credible information on Corona Virus in 5 days.
- MARCH 2020 Media strategy and production of communications video for various organizationS (carefully crafted to inform and create awareness about COVID-19
- Training of Media PersonNEl, social media influencers & MDA officials on media advocacy for family planning/ Child Birth Spacing IN 10 STATES funded by the challenge initiative 2019-2020.
- Media-CSO Engagement for Promoting Citizens Voices and Demand for Accountability in Maternal Health in Nigeria Funded by MacArthur Foundation 2017 – 2018.
- Media Advocacy on Reproductive, Maternal, New born and Child Health (RMNCH) in Nigeria. Funded by Champion for Change 2015 -2016.
- Media Advocacy for Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2009 till date
- WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENCE JOURNALISTS PROJECT: SCIENCE JOURNALISM COOPERATION (SJCOOP) MENTORING OF JOURNALISTS IN SCIENCE JOURNALISM IN AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST, 209 TO 2013
- Bridging the Gap: Media, Community-CSOs Collaboration for Accountability and Demand for Quality Maternal Health Services. Funded by MacArthur Foundation 2013 – 2016
- Strengthening media ties between journalists and the Nigerian Academy of Science February 28, 2007
- Immersion program for Health journalists on maternal Newborn and Child Health Advocacy in Nigeria Funded by Ford Foundation 2007-2009
- Journalism Development Programme on the education sector in Nigeria – funded by DFID-Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) 2010 – 2013.
- Investigative journalism training for Southern Nigeria journalists in partnership with IRE Inc, Washington 2007.
- .Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2009-2014
- Promoting Soy Nutrition through an Integrated Media Approach, funded by World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) 2010-2011
- Capacity building for NGOs on Working with the Media July 2001-to-December 2002 – funded by the Ford Foundation HIV/AIDS HOTLINE the first hotline in Nigeria conceptualized by the Youth Empowerment Foundation (YEF) Nigeria and Development Communications Network in 2000 and now upgraded to a national HIV/AIDS Hotline.
- Training On Public Health Journalism for VOA Reporters – (April 2003): Funded by the VOA/USAID
- Journalist-to-Journalist (J2J) Training of 52 Developing Country Journalists at XV International Conference on HIV/AIDS, Bangkok Thailand – (July 2004) in collaboration with National Press Foundation, USA
- Media Training on Health Sector Reform in Nigeria (2004/2005) in collaboration with Federal Ministry of Health and Funded by PATHS/DFID.
- Filming and Video Documentation of activities of Harvard AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, 2005
- National mass mobilization for guinea worm eradication (1995 – 1998): Funded by the Jimmy Carter Center (Global 2000 Program on Eradication of Guinea Worm);
- HIV/AIDS Campaign in the media (1998-1999) Funded by the UNAIDS;
- Communication Strategies for Reproductive Health Reporting in the Nigerian Media (1998/1999): Funded under the MacArthur Foundation Fund for Leadership Development
- Training on Reporting Reproductive Health for journalists in the Northern (Kaduna) and Southwestern (Lagos and Ibadan) Nigeria (1999/2000): Funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
- Capacity Building for Journalists on Safe Motherhood (2000): Funded by with the Center for Population and Development Activities -Nigeria
- Award
- In 2008, DevComs emerged the first ONE Africa $100,000 award winner, for her innovative work with the media in Nigeria for training and sensitizing journalists and editors to public health care issues, especially on women and children’s health.
Experienced Accomplished Faciltators
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Program Director:Akinlolu Akinpelumi
Head of OperationDiran Onifade
Team MemberBola Kolapo
Finance and Admin LeadOmobonike Adebayo
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