People’s Communications for Development: How Intermediary Groups Use Communication Tools for Grassroots Women’s Empowerment?

People’s Communications for Development is a three-year study conducted by Isis International-Manila in collaboration with four partner organizations in India, in Thailand, in the Fiji Islands and in Papua New Guinea1. In coordination with organisations involved with grassroots women across these five countries, the study analyses extensive interviews and focus group discussions in order to examine the relationship between communication tools and empowerment within the lives of grassroots women in the developing South.

People’s Communications for Development: How Intermediary Groups Use Communication Tools for Grassroots Women’s Empowerment?

People’s Communications for Development is a three-year study conducted by Isis International-Manila in collaboration with four partner organizations in India, in Thailand, in the Fiji Islands and in Papua New Guinea1. In coordination with organisations involved with grassroots women across these five countries, the study analyses extensive interviews and focus group discussions in order to examine the relationship between communication tools and empowerment within the lives of grassroots women in the developing South.

PRESS STATEMENT
March 10, 2008

AS CALLS for political reforms, transparency and truth intensify; the voices of grassroots women are definitely left in the wilds or barely heard amidst the public discourse. A challenge rests on the government as it continuously invokes its mandate to continue working to improve the economic conditions of the poor amidst all the political noise. The challenge is not only to speak of their mandate for the poor but to act and act swiftly for grassroots women who continue to bear the burden of economic hardships.

International feminist NGO cites radio, cellphone
as most effective communication tools for grassroots women

International feminist organisation, Isis International cites radio and cellular phone as the most effective communication tools for grassroots women in a recent study in the Philippines, conducted among the non-government organisations working with poor women in the rural and urban areas.