media matters - PCA - approaches , tools , process workshop

media matters - PCA - approaches , tools , process workshop from: "media matters"<mmindia.org@gmail.com>
date: December 31,2007

Season's Greetings!

We are pleased to announce our 3rd annual workshop on *Participatory Communication & Action: Approaches, Tools, Processes. *The six-day residential programme will be held at Talegaon (near Lonavla, Maharashtra) from January 11 to 16, 2008.

Our annual workshops on PCA are an opportunity to reach out to civil society organizations across the country who work with groups and communities on a wide range of issues.

The six-day process provides the space and scope for sharing of experiences and reflecting on the learnings; deliberating on communication-related concerns; learning and practicing tools and methods for better facilitation. The workshop will seek to sensitize and build capacities of the participants to facilitate enabling and empowering processes with groups and communities who are otherwise not even heard.

The earlier two workshops brought together participants from variedbackgrounds. Some of the participating organizations included AHRD, MAVIM,
ML Dawale Memorial Trust, Nehru Yuva Kendra, Point of View, SATH Network, WOTR, YUVA (Maharashtra), Sakhi (Kerala) and Samskar-Plan (Andhra Pradesh). Government functionaries from the Education department (Maharashtra), ICDS department (Gujarat), Health department (Maharashtra, Gujarat and Orissa) also participated in the workshops.

We look forward to participation in our 3rd PCA workshop from your organisation/partners, thereby enriching the learning process.

Details of the programme are as follows:

Workshop title : Participatory Communication & Action – Approaches, Tools, Processes
Dates : January 11 to 16, 2008
Venue :
Environment Education Centre, Talegaon, District Pune, Maharashtra

Objectives

By the end of the workshop, the participants will have

Compared different approaches to development, participation and communication
Analyzed the paradigm shift towards participatory communication and action
Practiced the use of different participatory communication tools and methods
Designed an intervention strategy for participatory communication and action
Selected, adapted or evolved a set of tools and methods to be explored while working with groups

Methodology

The effort will be towards creating a participant-centred environment for experiential learning. The facilitation will explore a wide range of participatory tools and methods to encourage learning from each other. While Hindi will be the main language of the workshop, participants will be encouraged to interact/work in their regional languages.

Participants
Middle-level functionaries from NGOs, government departments and other civil society organizations working with groups and communities.

Participation fee
Rs.5,000/- per participant

The participation fee includes lodging, boarding and resources for the workshop. The lodging and boarding facilities at the venue will be available
from January 10 (evening) to January 16 (evening). Participants are requested to make their travel arrangements accordingly.*

Registration
Please confirm your participation together with a demand draft favouring "media matters" payable at Ambernath or Mumbai.

Regards and best wishes

Seema Kurup

Coordinator – Capacity Building
Mobile: 9881261094

media matters
plot 400, sai section
ambernath 421501
maharashtra
india

tel. 91-251-2606929
email mmindia.org@gmail.com
website www.mmindia.org

media matters, a registered non-profit trust, works in the area of development communication, with a rights-based approach, exploring and
experimenting with participatory media and communication with a focus on capacity building; design and development of resources; theatre for
development; video documentaries; research and process documentation.