Communication for Another Development

Wendy Quarry and Ricardo Ramirez are both independent consultant practitioners in Communication for Development, they have worked together on field projects, evaluations and publications over the last years, and they have been involved in relevant academia and development circles.

This should become required reading for communication for development practitioners. This highly personal reflection by two experienced advocates of participatory communication lays bare the reasons why we are so often frustrated with the outcomes of our work, while showing clearly the opportunities for creative support of empowering development from good deployment of communication processes. The stories from their own and others' professional experience demonstrate the power of narrative in bringing us face to face with our preconceptions and misunderstanding.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbout this book1. Communication for development: Setting the scenePart I: What We Know2. The meaning of Another Development3. Planners and searchers: Two ways of doing development4. Why communicators can't communicatePart II: What We Learned5. Working in the grey zone6. Early champions: Uncovering principles7. New activists: Principles that travel8. The forgotten contextPart III: What We Can Do Differently9. Training and negotiating in the grey zone: A collection of touchstones10. Searching and listening: Good development breeds good communicationPostscript: Cultivating common sense on the farmReferences