Strategic Communication Management for Development and Social Change

Tsietsi Mmutle is Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria in the department of Business Management, he teaches Strategic Communication Management modules at honours and Masters level in the Communication Management unit.Tshepang B. Molale is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, specializing in communication for development and social change.Olanrewaju Olugbenga Akinola lectures in the Mass Communication department of the Olabisi Onbanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigera.Olebogeng Selebi completed her PhD in Communication Management from the University of Pretoria. She was the host of the first Nobel Prize Dialogue event ever to take place on African soil.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Communication for Development and Sustainable Social Change in Africa.- Chapter 2: Anchoring Participatory Communication in South Africa’s Municipal Citizen Participation During Integrated Development Planning (IDP) Processes.- Chapter 3: Participatory communication for sustainable development: A study of the Access project in Ghana.- Chapter 4: A theoretical framework towards mutual sustainability communication.- Part 2: Strategic Communication in Governance, Planning and Policy Reforms.- Chapter 5: Exploration of the accentuated value of Strategic Communication Management for Inclusive Citizenry Engagement through governance and sustainability.- Chapter 6: Network Governance as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development on the African Continent.- Chapter 7: Communication Strategies for Community Development: A Study of World Bank SEEFOR-CDDS projects in Ukwa East communities, Abia State, Nigeria.- Part 3: Communication for Social Change, Bottom-up Development and Social Movements in Africa.- Chapter 8: The role of the Sudanese Professionals Association in the Revolution of 2019 towards development and social change.- Chapter 9: Invited and Invented Spaces of Public Participation in South African Local Government: The study of community engagement practices and service delivery protests.- Chapter 10: Movement communication practices of students & the poor: The political economy of communication.- Part 4: Cases Studies in applied Strategic Communication, Development, Social Change and Electoral Reform.- Chapter 11: Public health Communication and Growth.- Chapter 12: Using Digital Technologies in Community Radio to Promote Social Change in Kenya.- Chapter 13: Dwindling Voters’ Turnout and Citizenship Participation: A Political Market Orientation Analysis of Nigeria’s 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections.- Chapter 14: The Arena Model as a basis for communication strategy formulation for the National Development Plan.- Chapter 15: Concluding Remarks.