[UgaBYTES] 4th Pan African AMARC confernce - Abdjan Ivory Coast

[Meddie Mayanja]

Many thanks for this info, Charles.

Can you check for any partnership opportunities with AMARC or some participants towards building capacities of community radio operators in local content/programming? I think that will be very helpful.

Best, Meddie


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From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org [ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Charles Oduor Ogada [charlesogada at swift-mail.com]
Sent: April 28, 2009 12:18 PM
To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Subject: [UgaBYTES] 4th Pan African AMARC confernce - Abdjan Ivory Coast

Dear Kentel and Ugabytes Family,

Receive greetings from Abidjan – Ivory Coast.  We are here attending the
4th Pan African AMARC conference.  The conference started yesterday
27th, April and is scheduled to end on 30th April.  The conference is
bringing together community radio broadcasting stations, partners
working with community radio and development partners form Africa and
other parts of the world.  From the telecentres fraternity, UCRC
presented by myself from Kenya is participating and Joseph Sekiku from
Tanzania.

The agendas for this conference are not quite different from what we
have been battling with as the telecentres family.  They are almost the
same as the challenges we face in managing our telecentres
organizations.  The agendas are as scheduled below:
1.      Contribution of community radio to conflict resolution and good
governance within African communities
2.      Strategies for lobbying and advocating for recognition and
development of community radio by African government and the community
3.      Role of community radio and communication rights – challenges as
regards climate change.
4.      Community radio content for development and gender equality
strategies
5.      Increasing sustainability and effectiveness of community radios
through better programming and increased participation
6.      Strengthening AMARC Africa network for increased impact and
effectiveness.
The agendas are discussed in workshop groups and debates led by experts
around the issues.  At the end of each workshop resolutions are drawn
for AMARC action and follow up.  I will collect all the resolutions and
share when the conference ends.
Best Regards

Charles Ogada
ARIT
Ugunja Community Resource Centre (UCRC)
www.ugunja.org

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