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The Missing Piece

August 2, 2010 – 2:56 pm

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, made up of 300 organizations, has last week relaunched the G8 leader lobbying campaign ‘The Missing Piece’ designed by M4ID in 2008.  The 2010 call asks for decision-makers to step up and provide the US$ 19 billion needed to save the lives of 12 million [...]

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Women Deliver

June 2, 2010 – 10:45 am

We’ve been busy gearing up for next weeks Women Deliver conference in DC, looking forward to interesting plenaries and presentations, as well as seeing new maternal health advocacy material such as the film Stories of Mothers Saved, by Christy Turlington. 
Reports to following from the conference Mon-Wed!

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Join the Twestival!

August 21, 2009 – 10:43 am

Tweet- Meet- Give! Twestival Local will be taking place 10-13 September 2009, you can still register your city and cause or join the already linked ones.
Twestival is an international movement where people meet offline for one night, have fun and do some good for an important cause in the process.  While Twestival Global, held in [...]

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Women Deliver 2010

August 19, 2009 – 3:02 pm

Women Deliver has announced that the second conference will be held in Washington DC in 2010.  M4ID attended the first one in 2007 and is an avid supporter of the maternal health agenda.  We’re urging the conference organizers to include sessions on new information sharing and service provision solutions, especially mobile-based ones. Maternal health advocacy [...]

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Time to Meet Supporter Expectations

August 7, 2009 – 7:18 am

Over the past weeks, we’ve been thinking a lot about the way in which online user expectations and information sourcing/handling habits have evolved and how this impacts on social change initiatives.  It’s clear that people supporting causes no longer want to be passive ‘consumers’ of publications or recipients of one-way messages, instead, they expect:
•    Participation, [...]

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No to criminals in Indian politics

March 30, 2009 – 1:41 pm

An Indian civil society campaign, ‘No Criminals’, has been  launched  to enable citizens to appeal to political parties not to give tickets to people with criminal antecedents in the upcoming elections.  The campaign is using a number of social media and SMS tools to reach and engage their audience.. including having launched a few YouTube [...]

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Reaching Government Donors through Social Media

March 20, 2009 – 8:44 am

Social media provides effective new channels and opportunities for donor government outreach and advocacy. We’re currently pulling together a brief for agencies to better understand the potential and help them strengthen their external relations through social media.  The  social media strategy should be four-pronged: 1) making current donor communication more effective and engaging 2) harnessing [...]

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