"Support to Community Radio Broadcasting in West Africa: Legislative and
Capacity-Building"
SLAJ, PIWA, EU conclude National Media Policy seminar
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Written by Cocorioko Newspaper Limited
Sunday, 02 November 2008
The purpose of the Seminar which lasted from Thursday, October 30 to
Friday, October 31, 2008, was to assess the national communication policy
formulation process, especially the radio component. It concluded by
defining the way forward with concrete action plans.
PRESS RELEASE
A two-day National Media Policy Seminar on the Legal Framework of Radio
Broadcasting and the National Media Policy Formulation Process in Sierra
Leone has been successfully concluded by the Sierra Leone Association of
Journalists (SLAJ), in partnership with Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA)
and the European Commission (EC) at the Archbishop Brosnahan Memorial
Hall, Santano House, Howe Street, Freetown.
The purpose of the Seminar which lasted from Thursday, October 30 to
Friday, October 31, 2008, was to assess the national communication policy
formulation process, especially the radio component.
It concluded by defining the way forward with concrete action plans. It
brought together about 30 participants from across the country as well as
representatives from PIWA, comprising civil society organizations, public
servants and decision makers in charge of national communication policies,
managers of radio stations, leaders of media and media advocacy
institutions/
self-regulatory bodies.
According to the Assistant Secretary General of SLAJ, Mustapha Sesay who
coordinated the process, the two-day activities of the seminar implemented
by SLAJ, form part of a PIWA project funded by the European Commission,
entitled "Support to Community Radio Broadcasting in West Africa:
Legislative and Capacity-Building"
Radio Stations represented at the Seminar included Radio Moa (Kailahun),
Radio Gbafth (Tonkolili), Galaxy Radio (Port Loko), Radio Maria
(Bombali), Radio Mount Aureole (Freetown), Radio Democracy
(Freetown),Voice of Islam -VOI (Freetown), Sierra Leone Broadcasting
Service –SLBS (Freetown), KISS 104 FM (Bo), West Africa Democracy Radio
–WADR and UN Radio. Other media or media related institutions that
participated in the Seminar included the Independent Media Commission
(IMC), Ministry of Information & Communication (MIC), Sierra Leone
Reporters Union (SLRU), Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WIMSAL), Talking
Drum Studio (Search for Common Grounds), Society for Democratic
Initiatives (SDI), Community Radio Network (CORNET) and Initiative For
Mobile Training Of Community Radio (INFORMOTRAC)
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