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Project
Confronted with a range of environment and development problems, the world is looking for bright ideas to sustain life on the planet. Education at all levels can shape the world of tomorrow, equipping individuals and societies with the skills, perspectives, knowledge and values to live and work in a sustainable manner. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a vision of education that seeks to balance human and economic well-being with cultural traditions and respect for the earth's natural resources.
Saving the Planet is a regional communications project of TVE Asia Pacific dedicated to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, 2005 – 2014. This project will produce, distribute and promote a regional TV series that will showcase innovative ESD activities in the Asia Pacific region. It will also build communications capacity of national and local institutions engaged in ESD.
Saving the Planet involves four inter-related activities:
- Material production: Work with the implementers of some of these innovative projects to document certain aspects of their work on video. A series of short TV programmes is to be produced to international broadcast standards, using TV professionals drawn from the Asia Pacific region. TVE Asia Pacific will mobilize the necessary expertise, equipment and facilities for the entire production.
- Local level capacity building: As part of the material production process, we will also strengthen the communications skills of organizations whose work is to be filmed. To the extent possible and financially viable, we will work with locally based professional film/TV crews or independent film-makers in the countries concerned, thus providing them some on-the-job skills training.
- Material distribution: We will actively distribute the TV series to broadcast, educational and civil society groups across the Asia Pacific region using our extensive contacts in the Asia Pacific region.
- Learning and documenting: We will closely follow the distribution outreach and use of the material, collecting anecdotal and other evidence for impact/influence. These will be compiled into a report at the end of the activity period.
For more information about the TVEAP's COE project titled Saving the Planet, please consult the Project website as well as TVEAP's main website.
Profile
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TVE Asia Pacific - -Moving images moving people!TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) is a regional not-for-profit organisation that uses television, video and Internet to raise awareness on environment, development, health and social justice issues. It responds to the development challenges and opportunities in the Asia Pacific – the world's largest and most diverse region, home to half of humanity and a majority of the world's poor. Established in 1996, and governed by an international Board of Directors, TVEAP operates as an editorially independent, journalistic organisation. It has the status of a non-stock company limited by guarantee registered in Sri Lanka, the country where its headquarters are located. From 2002, TVEAP has organised its programme activities around five key thrust areas. In early 2006, these were internally reviewed and revised for the new triennium as follows, with a sixth new thrust area added:
Our on-going work covers the sub-regions of: East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; and the South Pacific. We do not, as yet, have activities in the Central Asia sub-region. For a decade, TVEAP has worked closely with UN agencies, regional organisations, research institutes and civil society groups across the Asia Pacific, assisting them to strategically access and use the power of moving images to communicate their knowledge, analysis and perspectives on development. TVEAP's particular strength is its ability to produce engaging, non-technical content on highly complex, often technical and contentious development concerns. But we are not just a production organisation: we place equal emphasis in aggressively distributing content to broadcast, educational, civil society and activist users, and using a multitude of media formats and platforms. |
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