Reaching the Outside World

Best Practices

For the purpose of this toolkit, these are always UNDP “best practices” that can be replicated to suit different countries. A Best Practice has been tried and tested within UNDP.

Working with the Media

• Presentation on the MDGs and the Role of Media for journalists
• A Sample Op-Ed: the Administrator on Women and Power - Huffington Post

• A Sample Op-Ed: from the former Administrator on the G8 - Accra Daily Mail
• A Sample Op-Ed: from the former Associate Administrator on Emerging Donors - The Asahi Shimbun
• A Guide to the Nigerian Media - Communications Unit, UNDP Nigeria

Websites

 

• UNDP Cyberstar Awards 2009
• UNDP Congo
• UNDP Croatia
• UNDP Guyana
• UNDP Lebanon
• UNDP Lithuania
• UNDP Pakistan
• UNDP Panama
• UNDP South Africa
• UNDP Sri Lanka
• UNDP Sudan
• UNDP Haiti - Honourable Mention
• Putting Together an Award-Winning Website: the Case of UNDP Sudan

Videos and Documentaries

• UNDP YouTube Website
• UNDP Videos Website

Support for Publications

• UNDP Knowledge and Advocacy Products – corporate templates
• Donor briefing kit – Myanmar
• Donor brochure Pakistan flood
• UNDP Pakistan Publications Template
• Sample NHDR Dissemination Plan - UNDP Laos
• UNDP Viet Nam Publishing Guide
• UNDP Pakistan Publications Guidelines

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Newsletters

• For Your Information
• Nepal Newsletter additional editions here
• Development and Transition - UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre
• New Horizons - UNDP Turkey
• Development Discourse - UNDP Pakistan

Use of Joint Logos

• Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of the Global Economic Crisis. Published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNDP
• Parliamentary Engagement Development with the Millennium Goals. Published by the Millennium Campaign and UNDP
• Переходный период: вопросы развития – Границы в Европе и Центральной Азии, декабрь 2010 года (Russian) (Development and Transition: Borders in Europe and Central Asia). Published by London School of Economics and UNDP
• Press release: UN agencies mark Chernobyl anniversary with launch of US$2.5-million project

Public Speaking and Presentations

• Presentation on the MDGs
• MDGs and the role of media
• Video on UNDP’s capacity development support around the world, featuring content from the 2009 Annual Report (six minutes)
• Gender and Strategic Communications Presentation - UNDP Office of Communications 
• Basic slides about UNDP (2010)
• Example of a UNDP presentation to university students (2009)
• Use videos on UNDP as part of your presentation

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Public Service Announcements

• Kick Out Poverty with Goodwill Ambassadors Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane
• Goodwill Ambassador Didier Drogba calls out the vote, campaigns for fair elections
• UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok Anti-Corruption PSA
• Teams to End Poverty Video PSAs
• UNDP Moldova MDG Spot in Russian

Translations

• UNDP Corporate Freelance Translators and Translation Companies

Advocating for UNDP

• UNDP Promotional materials web site
• UNDP Montenegro’s Paper Bag advocacy outreach

Special Events

• Red Ribbon Awards
• Sweden's MDG Hotdog Event
• UNDP Communications Strategy for the Sixth African Governance Forum
• UNDP MDG Training for Youth Politicians

Campaigns

• UNICEF, UNDP team with Beckham and Zidane to help Pakistan
• United Nations Millennium Campaign
• UNDP Teams to End Poverty
• An Advocacy Campaign: UNDP Albania’s Small Arms and Light Weapons Collection Strategy
• UNICEF’s Children and HIV/AIDS Campaign
• UNFPA's Campaign to End Fistula

Goodwill Ambassadors

 

• The Appointment of Zhou Xun as UNDP China's National Goodwill Ambassador - UNDP China
• Preparing for a UNDP Global Goodwill Ambassador's Visit - UNDP Mongolia

If you would like to submit a best practice for inclusion in the Communications Toolkit, please send it to communications.toolkit@undp.org.

 

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