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6 Words of Wisdom: Working with the Media and Nongovernmental Organizations
Pages 66-71

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... He remarked on the amazing evidentiary content of the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2002a) World Report on Violence and Health and that it was a fresh perspective for him to learn that so many types of violence could be addressed with the same public health approach for prevention, but that "it was all over the place." Cultivating a relationship with a reporter using new research findings that have not yet been published is also a possibility.
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From page 67...
... His third suggestion was for participants to keep in mind that the media landscape is undergoing incredible transformation, especially in the United States. Economic survival has required many budgets to be reduced, which results in fewer domestic and international staff.
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From page 68...
... ­ Gartner agreed with Donnelley's earlier call for marshaling evidence to make the case for policy development and resource mobilization for a cause, but also stated that accurate costing data grounded in what is actually needed for programmatic success are critical to helping multisectoral organizations coalesce around
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From page 69...
... policy agenda and mobilizing real resources is to ask for what is really needed, not what is "reasonable," which in ­Washington, D.C., is defined as "lacking ambition." Asking for what is needed and what a unified coalition of researchers, advocates, and organizations truly wants increases the likelihood that it will become a reality. Earlier, he mentioned the costing estimates from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS (UNAIDS)
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From page 70...
... These could include providing access to a safe education for all girls, which may come from abolishing school fees, as well as linkages to economic empowerment strategies that contain violence prevention messages, such as microcredit financing programs illustrated by the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) study.
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From page 71...
... He did articulate support for the recommendation to create an agency for women as part of the United Nations, which Stephen Lewis mentioned as a possibility for an appropriate multilateral mechanism. If this recommended agency does not evolve, he suggested that people should support the UNIFEM to become a major multilateral mechanism that can leverage money from the rest of the world.
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