The Center-of-Excellence in Communication for Sustainable Social Change CSSC has the following key strategic and tactical objectives:
- to provide impetus, internationally and nationally, to the study and practice of development communication and social change as a cross- and inter-cultural, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary discipline;
- to provide an intellectual environment for the on-going study and research of Communication for Sustainable Social Change;
- to act as a global focal point and resource base for research and theoretical work in the field;
- to encourage a greater understanding of the role of communication in poverty alleviation and the promotion of human rights, social justice, security and good governance;
- to advise national and international aid administrators, policy-makers and others on policies and planning matters in the field of communication for sustainable social change;
- to establish an internationally accessible, on-line clearing-house for documentation, publications and other relevant development communication materials and information;
- to undertake programmes and projects seeking appropriate solution-based outcomes in specific national and regional development situations;
- to foster awareness amongst aid administrators, policy-makers and opinion-shapers of innovative applied communication and technology processes for development.
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