From: The Soul Beat <soulbeat@comminit.com>
Date: 5 May 2010 07:49
Subject: Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio - May 5 2010
Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio
May 5 2010
For people using community radio for social change...
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The Soul Beat (SB) Extra: Community Radio updates you on community radio
related programme experiences, awards, trainings, evaluations, research
documents, and resource materials recently placed on the Soul Beat Africa
website.
SB Extra: Community Radio complements The Soul Beat newsletter through a
specific focus on Community Radio.
If you know someone who would be interested in receiving this free
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SB Extra: Community Radio subscribers: 7,172
Page Views across the Soul Beat Africa website since January 2010: 90,686
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For further information on Community Radio in Africa visit Soul Beat
Africa's Community Radio Theme site
http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/community-radio
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1. Online Survey Report: Radio for Peace Building Workshops
This survey from United Kingdom (UK)-based consulting company Radio for
Peace Building Ltd. was created as a way of finding out more about the kind
of radio for peace building workshops that radio professionals around the
world say they want. The survey results showed that the majority of
respondents are interested in "workshops on radio journalism for peace
building, and on talk shows for peace building, rather than in soap operas
or youth programmes. However, a high percentage (30.5%) is also interested
in a more generalised workshop approach, that of radio for conflict
prevention / management"...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/312722/376
2. AudienceScapes - Global
Launched by the Washington, DC (United States)-based InterMedia in March
2010, AudienceScapes is an online tool and research programme providing
media use and communication information on developing countries from a
bottom-up perspective. Based on the conviction that successful communication
is central to successful development, AudienceScapes is an effort to make
InterMedia's knowledge and experience in the field available to those who
conceive, design, implement, and evaluate development programmes, as well as
to other stakeholders in the development process...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/312994/376
3. Engaging Media in Local Governance Processes: The Case of Radio Sibuka,
Shinyanga Press Club, and Kagera Press Club
This 4-page case study shares information about the experience of
implementing a project entitled Capacity Building of Local Governance Actors
(CBLGA) in Tanzania, supported by the Netherlands Development Organisation
(SNV), in which the media was acknowledged as a local governance actor.
According to the report, the mass media form an important channel for
communication and delivery of information between authorities and the public
and contribute to a more transparent and accountable society...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/315217/376
4. Media Policy Briefings
Published by Nigeria Community Radio Coalition, the Media Policy Briefings
are an ongoing publication series on the development of media policy and
community radio in Nigeria. The series is designed to provide information
and education to stakeholders and the general public within and outside
Nigeria on issues essential to the development of a sustainable community
radio sub-sector in the country...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/315658/376
5. Strategic Communication for Peacebuilding - a Training Guide
This guide, published by Radio for PeaceBuilding Africa, is designed for
trainers of media workers and government officials in strategic
communication related to major development objectives. By the end of this
training, participants will be able to appreciate the value of
communications in reaching development policy objectives and promoting good
governance. Participants will also be able to state the different components
of effective strategic communication and explain the difference between
information dissemination and strategic communication...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/314264/376
6. Fostering Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Well-being with
Communication for Social Change
This 60-page evaluation report examines a project carried out by Uganda's
Straight Talk Foundation (STF) called "Youth Radio for Better Adolescent
Reproductive Health" in Kisoro, Uganda. The project incorporated a local
language youth radio show with complementary information, education, and
communication (IEC) materials and face-to-face activities - a package of
interventions meant to facilitate sustained and informed conversations
amongst adolescents and the adults in their lives about adolescent sexual
and reproductive health (ASRH)...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/309130/376
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PLEASE SEND US YOUR COMMUNITY RADIO AND RADIO RELATED INFORMATION
If you would like your organisation's community radio and radio related
projects, research documents, or resource materials to be featured on the
Soul Beat Africa website and in The Soul Beat newsletters, please send
information to soulbeat@comminit.com
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7. Kande Ni Bayra Community Radio Listeners' Clubs - Niger
Initiated in July 2009, this two-year project, organised by the
non-governmental organisation Volontaires pour l'Intégration Educative (VIE)
Kande Ni Bayra and Dimitra, works to increase access to information and
communication in order to build the capacities of rural women and improve
their living conditions and leadership opportunities. The project combines
radio broadcasts and face-to-face sessions by working with listeners' club
meetings at literacy centres. The project covers the broadcast areas of nine
community radio stations in two regions of Niger...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/314288/376
8. Dagu Addis Youth Programme - Ethopia
This 30-minute youth radio programme combines reality radio, listener group
discussions, personal narratives, and games to portray challenges young
Ethiopians face in practicing healthy behaviours in relation to HIV
prevention. The programme was launched in December 2008 by the National AIDS
Resource Centre and broadcasts on a radio station in Addis Ababa, as well as
via school-based media in 15 government-owned high schools. The show
explores topics such as sexuality, relationships, peer pressure, gender,
reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS from the perspective of adolescents and
young adults...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/312771/376
9. Majalisar Mata Manoma - Nigeria
Initiated in 2009, Majalisar Mata Manoma was a project that involved
creating spaces for women farmers in the rural community of Gwagwada,
Nigeria to meet and engage with radio. The project, which was carried out by
the African Radio Drama Association (ARDA), involved the development and
broadcast of a radio programme designed for rural farmers, particularly
women, as well as the establishment of a listening club in Gwagwada. Women
in the listening clubs were also trained to use a cellphone to interact with
the radio programme...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/312117/376
10. Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) - Zimbabwe
VMCZ is a professional media self-regulatory body set up in 2007 by
Zimbabwean journalists and other stakeholders in civil society who subscribe
to the principles of media freedom, accountability, independence, and
ethical journalism. VMCZ's mission is to promote a strong and ethical media
with the ability to contribute to building a more democratic and just
society within policy and legal environments that facilitate growth and
development of independent, pluralistic, and free media...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/312889/376
11. Reporting Redd: A Journalist's Guide to the Role of Forests in Combating
Global Climate Change
This media pack, published by Panos London, aims to give journalists an
overview of a vital issue in global climate change negotiations. REDD is an
acronym for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in
developing countries and is a proposed mechanism to slow the loss of
forests, but, according to this document, how it will work in practice is
proving "controversial and raising complex and emotive issues of national
sovereignty, human rights, big money, and corruption". "Reporting REDD"
examines the debates between the different organisations and individuals
involved with the project...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/312368/376
12. Media in Zimbabwe (MIZ) - Zimbabwe
Centring around an interactive web platform, this initiative was launched by
a senior Zimbabwean journalist seeking to circulate information that
Zimbabwean journalists may find handy in their work and to provide a
platform for networking and sharing ideas. The goal is to help create a
cadre of journalists who are: sensitive to human rights and democracy;
unwilling to discriminate on the basis of tribe, race, gender, religion,
sexual orientation, etc.; capable of reporting fairly and objectively,
without fear or favour; committed to ethics and professional standards in
journalism; and enlightened to news and opportunities beyond the eyes of the
ruling party. In short, Media in Zimbabwe (MIZ) seeks to highlight
strategies for fighting or evading media repression and media censorship,
such as by using the internet or blogging to communicate.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/313285/376
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PLEASE VOTE IN OUR POLL ON CHILD PARTICIPATION IN RADIO
How do you rate the success of current efforts to give children access to
the radio airwaves in Africa?
Options:
* Good – most radio stations have at least one programme that is produced by
children.
* Improving – the amount of radio stations that are accommodating
child-driven programming is increasing.
* Bad – it is very rare for radio stations to have programmes run by
children.
To vote and send comments go to
http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/community-radio and see the Top Right side
of the page.
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13. Community Radios in Africa: Networking, Capacity Building, Networks
Strengthening and Women Empowerment for Sustainable Human Development (July
19-22 2010) Johannesburg, South Africa
Hosted by the World Association of Community Radios (AMARC) Africa, this
capacity building conference will bring together over 40 participants from
more than 23 countries to explore and identify effective ways to increase
the social impact of community radio in achieving development and good
governance. The conference is designed to be AMARC Africa's launching pad to
greatly increase its activities and its effectiveness to combat
voicelessness, exclusion, and poverty in Africa, particularly focusing on
improving content and networks related to empowering women...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/315655/376
14. The World Summit on Media for Children and Youth (Jun 14-18 2010)
Karlstad, Sweden
This Summit will bring together 2000 delegates from 100 countries working
with children and youth for a new media world in the 21st century. The
objectives of World Summit on Media for Children and Youth include to:
achieve a greater understanding of developments in children's media around
the world; raise the status of children's media; draw attention to the
importance of issues relating to children; and promote a charter of guiding
principles in children's media...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/310070/376
15. Africa Media & Democracy Conference: Mediating Democracy in Africa (Aug
18-20 2010) Accra, Ghana
This conference is designed to examine the broad impact of the media on
democracy. It seeks to address media practices such as the "announcing of
elections results" ahead of an Electoral Commission or the "deployment of
Press Conferences" by political parties as political posturing during the
voting and ballot counting period of an election. The conference will
address both the constitutional and ethical issues that arise from such
practices and provide context for comparison, dialogue, and analysis between
media practices situated in different cultural-political environments...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/313259/376
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For more information on Community Radio, see:
Community Radio Theme Site
http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/community-radio/
See also:
Edutainment Theme Site
http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/edutainment.html
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