From: Puna Das <puna_05@yahoo.co.in>
Date: 2009/9/21
Subject: [cr-india] UNESCO-supported Nepali NGO launches a set of indicators
on community media
To: cr-india@sarai.net
Cc: Web2ForDev <web2fordev@dgroups.org>, rscao-l@infoserv.inist.fr, WSIS <
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UNESCO-supported Nepali NGO launches a set of indicators on community media
16-09-2009 (Kathmandu)
The Nepali Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) has recently launched a new
manual entitled Community Radio Performance Assessment System. This most
comprehensive set of indicators concerning community media is the result of
a decade-long work of CRSC in promoting, enabling and facilitating the
community radio movement in Nepal.
"The one who speaks can market even the flour successfully while the one who
cannot do so cannot even market the rice," says a Nepali proverb. This
highlights the importance of effective communication. Radio happens to be
the most effective way of communication in the country, where the majority
of population lives in villages and the half of it cannot read and write.
The Nepal experience of community radio is fascinating, inspiring and full
of lessons to be learned. But the huge proliferation of community radios
there urgently requires well-considered benchmarks and criteria. The new
CRSC manual is a major contribution to the development of community media
not just in Nepal but more widely in South Asia and internationally.
*Community Radio Performance Assessment System* draws effectively from both
the grassroots experience of community media and from international
broadcast practices. It considers the issues that are the real basis for the
success of community media: public accountability, community representation,
locally relevant programming, diverse funding and acknowledgement of staff,
including volunteers.
The manual contains a great amount of knowledge concerning community radio,
its practices and potential. It covers in details many key success factors,
such as participation and ownership, content, management, volunteerism and
networking; it can be applied across a wide range of contexts, from policy
issues to the assessment of a local station.
"We thank the community radio pioneers in Nepal for coming up with this set
of indicators that should contribute to the improvement of the community
radio sector in the country and provide insights to prospective community
radio operators elsewhere," – says W. Jayaweera, Director of UNESCO's
Communication Development Division in his foreword to the publication.
CRSC is a ground-breaking initiative that was established by the Nepal Forum
of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) in 2000. Working in close cooperation
with UNESCO since its inception, CRSC has actively promoted community radios
across Nepal and provided concrete and practical support to many of them:
almost all community broadcasters in the country benefited from CRSC
assistance to get broadcasting licences, to set up the station or to develop
capacity and networks. It has issued a number of publications, such as
Guidelines for Setting up Community Radio Station, Program Production
Manuals, Strategic Planning Manuals, etc.
*Community Radio Performance Assessment System is available online, on the
CRSC website, in PDF* http://www.nefej.org/pdf/crpa_book.pdf.
Source:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29145&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Dr. Anup Kumar Das
New Delhi, India
http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/
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