This manual has the following objectives: to present an overview of the ASEAN environmental scenario; to provide concepts about environmental communication; to discuss women and their relationship with the environment, what they can do to conserve it and how they can do so; to teach the different steps of communication planning; to train women communicators to prepare and produce media resources, namely: low-cost print materials, community radio broadcasts, small-format video programmes and community theatre. This manual resulted from the Workshop on Capacity Building of Women Communicators to Promote Environmental Awareness and Conservation sponsored by the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) in Bangkok, Thailand from November 5 to 9, 2001. The workshop brought together media practitioners, representatives from grassroots women's organisations and researchers from seven Asian countries: Cambodia, Lao, PDR, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Mildred Moscoso is University Extension Specialist, College of Development Communication, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, Philippines. She was a participant of the the AMIC-sponsored Workshop on Capacity Building of Women Communicators to Promote Environmental Awareness and Conservation.