Description/achievement of initiative
We aim to create, evaluate, and refine effective music and dance interventions for public health education in the developing world. In particular, we seek to collaboratively develop and assess the impact of participatory "dance dramas" (comprising music, song, dance, poetry, drama, and comedy in traditional or neo-traditional idioms) for public health education in northern Ghana, that country's most underdeveloped area, partnering with a Ghanaian performing arts/education NGO experienced in applications of music and dance to development projects, along with Ghana Health Service and the University for Development Studies, partnering with U. Alberta and Ryerson U. in Canada. See http://bit.ly/sngdnc4h
Implementation methodologies
Sustainable communications for development.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
Training local music/dance groups to perform community change repertoires.
Coordination mechanisms/governance structure
Coordinated from the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta.
Partner(s)
Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta, Ryerson University (Canada); Ghana Health Service, Youth Home Cultural Group, University for Development Studies (Ghana)
12/2016
