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

[Charles Oduor Ogada]

Hi Meddie,
Thank you for this mail and reminding me to check on possible
partnership for capacity development for community radio
operators in
local content/ programming. This is a major objective for AMARC
and
they mobilized a few partners who are willing to support in this
area.
The partners work in many African countries and can be accessed
from their
country offices. The partners that were present and would support
on
this are:
  * FAO - On issues of climate change
  * Common wealth of learning - on HIV/AIDS treatment literacy
  * AdoptAfrica - on climate change.
  * Radio Netherlands - on governace issues.

AMARC are also having a capacity building programme funded by
CIDA and would be working with 6 radio stations from 5 countries
in Africa.    The beneficiary countries for AMARC project are
Kenya, Ghana, Ivory coast, South Africa, Siera Leone and Zambia.
The project will be working towards producing ten radio series of
HIV/ AIDS in Africa for the first one year, water and sanitation
and governance issues for the second and third year respectively.

AMARC have also resolved to strengthen countries network and I
think this is a bigger opportunity for us to explore how to
benefit from this.


Thanks once again.

Best Regards

Charles Ogada
UCRC
[1]www.ugunja.org


On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:28 -0400, "Meddie Mayanja"
<mmayanja at idrc.ca> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> ________________________________________
> 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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References

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