Dear Colleagues, The World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Communication Initiative (CI) and the Department for International Development (DFID) invite you to join an E-Forum on Measuring the Impact of Development Communication, during a two-week period between January 17 and 28, 2005. This is one of the major themes that will be addressed at the World Congress on Communication for Development to be held in Rome, Autumn 2005. The input from the e-forum will feed into the design of the Congress. The E-Forum will be organized around two main topics: Quantitative Assessments of the Impact of Communication, and Qualitative Assessments of the Impact of Communication. This e-Forum is intended to debate and, if possible, bring out evidence on the effectiveness of communication in development interventions. It aims to bring together the experiences, information and perspectives of development practitioners, decision-makers, academicians and communication specialists representing various national institutions, NGOs, international institutions and donors active in the field of development. Moreover, the e-Forum intends to: stimulate the debate on how to assess the impact of communication in development initiatives; help to raise awareness of the need to focus efforts in demonstrating the value of communication, searching for methods and techniques that can provide valid measurements, both at the quantitative and qualitative level; compare and contrast the data so far available on this subject. To register please click here: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/devforum-reg_wccd1/reg.htm For more information about the e-Forum click here: http://www.worldbank.org/developmentcommunications/where1/environment/e-forumjan05.htm (Posted 12/01/05)