[UgaBYTES] FW- SoulBeat Africa-Extra-Dec 2007-Resources on Community Radio in Africa

[Jayalakshmi Chittoor]

Hi all,

I am taking the liberty of forwarding resources on Community Radio, since 
there have been a few 
queries.http://www.comminit.com/africa/community-radio/

Communication Initiative Africa has a number of resources on CR. UNESCO also 
has a number of valuable training manuals, available online.

Please also check the website: www.eINDIA.net.in/communityradio

Jaya

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From: "The Soul Beat" <soulbeat at comminit.co.za>
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> Soul Beat Africa Extra: Community Radio - December 2007
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> For people using community radio for social change...
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> The Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio updates you on community radio 
> related programme descriptions, awards, trainings, evaluations, research 
> results and resource materials recently placed on the Soul Beat Africa 
> website.
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> SBA Extra: Community Radio complements The Soul Beat newsletter through a 
> specific focus on Community Radio.
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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/africa/community-radio/
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> interest in community radio.  Or you can send an e-mail to Seipati 
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> the Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio.
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> Also if you know someone who would be interested in receiving this free 
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> 1. Filega
> This is an Ethiopian radio drama series that portrays the "problems and 
> pleasures" of living in a rural village in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. 
> The aim of the BBC World Service Trust's drama is to engage and entertain 
> listeners while stimulating debate about rural life and livelihoods. The 
> 18-part radio soap opera was developed in partnership with Ethiopian 
> producers and actors, and aimed to build their capacity to create and 
> produce radio drama.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/264156
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> 2. African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) - Ghana, Malawi, Mali, 
> Tanzania, Uganda
> This is a 42-month action research project being implemented in five 
> sub-Saharan Africa countries: Ghana, Mali, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania, 
> with the aim to gather, implement, evaluate and share best practices for 
> using radio-based communication strategies to enhance food security in 
> rural Africa. It also aims to offer capacity-building and training 
> services for radio broadcasters to improve their programming for rural 
> listeners.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/264154
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> 3. Gugar Goge ("Tell me straight")- Nigeria
> This is a 70-episode radio serial drama produced in northern Nigeria aimed 
> at improving maternal health and preventing obstetric fistula by 
> encouraging the delay of marriage and childbearing until adulthood. 
> Nigerian Population Media Center's (PMC) is carrying out the programme in 
> collaboration with the Rotarian Action Group on Population and Development 
> (RFPD) and with a Nigerian organisation, Multi-Sector Projects.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/134360
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> 4.Communicating Agricultural Research in Africa: The New Role of Rural 
> Radio
> This 12-page paper addresses the current role of rural radio in Africa and 
> explores how researchers can improve communication with farmers via radio. 
> It also discusses research relationships among civil society where media 
> is an influential but often underestimated institutional partner.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/223240
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> 5. Thembi's AIDS Diary A Year in the Life of a South African 
> Teenager -Austria, South Africa, United States
> This is a 30-minute audio documentary about a year in the life of a South 
> African teenager living with HIV. For more than a year, Thembi Ngubane 
> carried a tape recorder and kept an audio diary of her struggle to live 
> with HIV. Listeners hear her first conversation with her mother about 
> AIDS, a visit to the township clinic to apply for life-saving drugs, and 
> they hear how she faces neighbors and friends as they slowly learn her 
> status. Thembi and Radio Diaries toured South Africa and abroad, 
> presenting her story at high schools, universities, community clinics, and 
> other public spaces.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/134970/38
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> 6. Community Multimedia Center (CMC) - Senegal
> This scale-up project aims to promote community empowerment and addresses 
> the digital divide by combining community radio broadcasting with the 
> internet and related technologies, by setting up CMCs in disadvantaged 
> communities. The CMCs aim to make information and communication the basic 
> tools of the economically poor in improving their own lives by helping 
> people access information on health, HIV/AIDS, agriculture, the 
> environment, business and commerce, training, culture and local 
> governance.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/135415
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> 7. Liberia Media Project-Liberia
> This project aims to enhance communication for peace building across the 
> country through radio, with the hope of transforming conflict through 
> dialogue. The Liberia Media Project is a programme of the United Kingdom 
> peace building and conflict resolution charity, International Alert, and 
> three Liberian groups, the Press Union of Liberia, Center for Justice & 
> Peace Studies and the Justice and Peace Commission. The organisers believe 
> that radio will give communities increased opportunities of dialoguing, as 
> opposed to engaging in potentially violent and extra judicial actions to 
> resolve their differences.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/134955
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> 8. Rural radio and the Promotion of People-Centred Development in Africa
> This 14-page paper is part of the author's ongoing research on rural radio 
> in Southern Africa. It explores the nature and levels of villagers' 
> participation in dialogues on local development, facilitated by radio as a 
> rural information and communication technology (ICT). Focusing on two 
> models of Radio Listening Clubs (RLCs), organised by the Malawi 
> Broadcasting Corporation's (MBC) Development Broadcasting Unit (DBU) and 
> Dzimwe Community Radio, the discussion establishes how rural radio 
> broadcasting shapes local discourses on local development planning, 
> implementation and evaluation.
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/223246
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> VOTE IN THE COMMUNITY RADIO PULSE POLL:
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> Training opportunities in community radio management are becoming more 
> accessible in Africa.
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> Let us know what you think. Go to 
> http://www.comminit.com/en/poll_discussion/376
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> 9. Mirror on the Media: Gender and Advertising in Southern Africa
> This publication is a study conducted by Gender Links (GL) on gender and 
> advertising in Southern Africa. It forms part of Mirror on the Media 
> series of monitoring reports coordinated by GL with the support of the 
> Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA) on gender and the 
> media.
> http://www.comminit.com/drupalfive/en/node/264233
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> 10. Desert Voices - Ethiopia, Sudan
> This project aims to increase understanding and awareness of the impact of 
> desertification by amplifying the voices of the rural economically poor 
> living in desert environments.  Compiled and published online, the radio 
> and print testimonies of individuals, produced by journalists, aim to show 
> the long term impact of desertification for the African region.
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> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/135345
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> 11. African Farmers' Strategies for Coping with Climate Change Radio 
> Scriptwriting Competition
> Deadline: March 15, 2008
> The competition is open to African radio organisations, including 
> broadcasters, production organisations, non-governmental organisations 
> (NGOs) with a radio project and farmers' associations with a radio show...
> http://www.comminit.com/en/node/266027
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> For more information see the:
> Community Radio Themesite
> http://www.comminit.com/africa/community-radio/
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> Edutainment Themesite
> http://www.comminit.com/africa/edutainment.html
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