Panos Talks

Improvisation and audacity in the early days
Diamonds on the soles of our shoes

I was one of the happy band of volunteers who helped set up Panos London in its earliest days. We were all refugees from Earthscan, who jumped ship when Jon Tinker’s idea of floating Earthscan off from the International Institute for Environment and Development, our organisational mothership, got sunk by the IIED board. We resigned en masse, and a number of us followed Jon, our intrepid leader, in setting up Panos as a brand new entity.

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Latest Publications

Oral testimonies of jamaican sex workers
Posted On: : Nov 18, 2011
Hungry in the City
Posted On: : Nov 18, 2011
Radio Debate Uganda
Posted On: : Nov 18, 2011
Why the media matters in a warming world
Posted On: : Nov 18, 2011
Quand une radio fait école… La success story de la radio-école Oxy’Jeunes de Pikine
Posted On: : Nov 18, 2011
Media fellowship 2011
Posted On: : Nov 18, 2011
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Panos in Action

Moral Minefield

 
Has Tata Steel, one of India’s oldest and most admired corporates, diverged from the ethical path laid down by its founding fathers?
 
IN 2007, EXACTLY A CENTURY after the company was founded with almost defiant Indian pride during British rule, Tata Steel took over the Anglo-Dutch steel manufacturer Corus. In his book, The Romance of Tata Steel, published later that year, the most prolific chronicler of the House of Tata, RM Lala, described the felicitous timing of the takeover:

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All together now: Oral testimony, theatre, media, debate How one community’s concerns reached a national audience

This case study demonstrates Panos’s integrated approach to communication for development: combining first person testimony, relationship-building, inclusive dialogue and working with the mainstream media so that the voices of people most affected by development issues contribute to national-level understanding and decision-making.

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Amplifying Local Debate on Governance in Senegal

For 15 years, a process of decentralization was initiated in Senegal,revolutionized the management of local affairs. However, citizen participationin the formulation or implementation of these policies has not really materialized. The analysis of the media landscape shows "also that manyconcerns of local communities are often overlooked because of insufficientelected relayed by local media. Similarly, local content is still very littlepresent in the national media. The first phase of the intervention of the CAPIin the region of Kolda (southern Senegal, the region which has a high potential 

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Radio Debate in Sierra Leone: communicating on human rights

The aim of the project was to strengthen the communication capacity of human rights organisations to give better access to media, to build better partnership between civil society and human rights organisations to develop information and sensitization campaigns on human rights issues and to sensitze the media on human rights issues.

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Deepening debate on liberalization of trade in ICT services in West Africa

 
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to better understanding of the challenges and implications of the liberalization of trade in ICT goods and services, in order to promote the development of public policies favourable to the Development of the ICT sector in West Africa.

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Radio Listening Club: Amplifying Citizen Voices and Public Debate through Coommunity Rsdio Boradcasting

Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA) is working to strengthen the capacity of community groups in Senegal: Rufisque (region of Dakar) and Thiel (Region of Diourbel) to express their views and be heard by local decision makers and it that way let arise citizen concerns and ideas on issues crucial to the community. The small-scale project was a pilot in the use of Radio Listening Clubs and took place in one rural area (Thiel) in the department of Linguère and one suburb in the region of Dakar.

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