Communicating for Change (CFC)
is a cutting-edge development communications organization that
specializes in raising Africans’ awareness of important
development issues. CFC is a non-governmental, non-profit organization
which uses radio, television, print, market research, capacity
building, and special events to help change behavior and attitudes
about vital social issues.
CFC’s wholistic approach to research based communications, coupled with its strong partnership with civil society players has made many past program activities hard hitting, informative, and life changing; research results have shown that audiences’ perceptions, and awareness of issues such as HIV-AIDS, generational conflict, and gender roles have changed for the positive.
CFC is experienced in developing national communications campaigns on key development issues, which include media partnerships, training, audience research, production of information materials, special events and film screenings, panel discussions, and evaluation.
CFC has an excellent track record in documentary production; in 2004, CFC won three awards (Best Director, Best Script, and Best Television Documentary) at Africast a biennial conference for African broadcasters, and the previous year, CFC won an award for outstanding documentary film production at the tenth year anniversary celebration of the Independent Television Producers Association of Nigeria (ITPAN). CFC has also won international awards in West Africa and in Europe, and programs have been broadcast by many international stations.
Besides documentary films, CFC is experienced in the production of short films and public service announcements (PSAs). In 1999, CFC produced numerous PSAs on democracy and good governance which were emotive, cutting edge expressions of the men-and -women-on-the-street’s feelings and perceptions – at a critical time of political change in the country. The PSAs, which focused on women, children and the disabled’s views of democracy and good governance were highly praised and recorded high viewership on television.
CFC has a national reach and works
in partnership with media, civil society, and the private and
public sectors, to ensure that social programming is heard from
the grassroots right up to
Website: www.cfcnigeria.org
Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) is an independent,
non-profit organisation, which promotes global awareness of the
environment, development, human rights and health issues through
the platforms of broadcast television and other audio-visual
media. A UK-registered charity, TVE fulfils an international
remit in association with offices and networks of partner organisations
in Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean.
TVE works above all to promote informed debate, public awareness and practical solutions to the growing challenges of human development.
TVE is a member of PACT – the Producers Alliance for Cinema
and Television in the
A commitment to working with international partners to raise awareness and stimulate debate using audio-visual, broadcast media is at the heart of TVE's mission. It places special emphasis on meeting the needs of other audio-visual producers, civil society organisations and film distributors in developing countries and economies in transition.
TVE has been instrumental in bringing together networks of partner organisations in Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America to make programmes of interest and relevance to communities in those regions. The networks also ensure that programmes reach as wide an audience as possible through a variety of means. Since 1984, TVE has produced and co-produced close to 1,000 films and has completed co-productions with a range of North American and European broadcasters, including the BBC and WDR (Germany).
TVE's two flagship series – Earth
Report and Life – are
broadcast around the globe by BBC World. Earth Report also
airs in the
TVE's distribution department delivers thousands of copies of films annually to teachers, students, scientists, campaigners and government officials in over 100 countries.
For more information, contact: www.tve.org
LBS
is widely recognized as the first institution in tropical Africa
offering international class executive education in a continuous
and stable way. The School delivers Executive programmes at three
top management levels aimed at systematically improving the practice
of general management. LBS also offers a wide spectrum of open
and in-company seminars during the year on issues of importance
to business people and managers, Yearly, over 2,000 participants
from multinational and indigenous companies participate in these
LBS programmes. Thus, through its activities, Lagos Business
School has been contributing to national development by improving
managerial skills and professionalism. In
1996, Lagos Business School applied to be raised
to the status of a private university. On the 12th
of February 2002, the Honourable Minister of Education
presented the African Development Foundation (a Nigerian
non-governmental, not-for-profit organization and
owners of the Pan-African University) with the operating
license for Pan-African University. The University
focuses on diverse postgraduate degree programmes,
with LBS becoming the first school of the university.
Pan-African University's mission, like that of the Lagos Business School, is
to develop competent and socially responsible managers to lead sustained
development in
The Pan-African University thus has the following as her objectives:
PAU contributes to national development by providing academic
programmes that are relevant to
Pan-African University is non-denominational in character and is open to all people regardless of their nationality, race, sex, religion or ethnic group. It nurtures individuals who are professionally competent, creative and enterprising, zealous for the common good, and able to make free and morally upright decisions. These people thereafter act as positive agents of change in service to society.
For more information contact: www.lbs.edu.ng
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