Panos South Asia, with its headquarters in Kathmandu, is part of the family of Panos Institutes worldwide that encourage and facilitate public discourse and debate on a wide range of issues.
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RELAY : COMMUNICATING RESEARCH & PLACING INFORMATION IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
The
RELAY programme emerged out of a need to communicate research and place
information in the public domain. Various institutions do conduct research, but
very little of it reaches the public sphere. From its objective to sensitise the
Northern media about issues in the South, the idea has further evolved and RELAY
now is at various stages of implementation in Panos Southern Africa, Panos
Eastern Africa and Panos South Asia. The larger theme in most of the
implementing regions is Conflict and related issues of development, land
alienationand rehabilitation of combat
returnees. In
South
Asia,
RELAY has been completed in Sri
Lanka.It is
an ongoing process in Northeast
India
and is gathering momentum in Kashmir.
Relay will soon expand to Nepal
also. PSA’s Relay project has
undertaken several exercises that help to build bridges between the research and
media communities, thereby facilitating greater access to research and
dissemination of toolkits for journalists on issues of land and rehabilitation,
and scoping/mapping of research. One of the major components of the project is a
Media Research Environment Review, which is in the process of completion. This
review is expected to help Panos to better engage with the media in the regions
of its activities. As a part of the larger goal of Panos in building greater
capacity with the media, RELAY has enhanced both the scope and potential to
bring information to the public domain and to promote informed opinion. The
Media outputs in the form of documentaries, interviews, discussions and reports
are ready. Under the Relay programme, PSA office has commissioned several
articles and scripts (for radio and television) from academics and journalists
in the region.Work on the
production ofradio programmes on
“Land alienation and roots ofethnic conflict” in collaboration with North Eastern Social Research
Centre (NESRC), Guwahati and International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs
(IWGIA) is also under way....More»
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