Community radios, such as Manooré FM, often face enormous problems, due, among other things, to poorly trained staff and partner producers, and inadequate or outdated equipment. This project seeks to help Radio Manooré FM overcome these difficulties by providing it with modern production and broadcasting equipment and by training its staff so that they gain a better grasp of ethical issues and of their practical application in a community radio setting. This second strand of the project is all the more important as the image of women as portrayed in the media is generally a negative one...
IPDC Project beneficiary type: Radio
After seven years of existence, and despite continuing to broadcast as best it could, Radio Emergence is but a shadow of its former self. Its equipment is outdated, unreliable or simply unfit for use. Yet this is not a recent problem: as early as 2003, when confronted with the problems the station was experiencing, due to the dilapidated state of its equipment, Libreville school-goers decided that they would each make a donation of 100 CFA Francs for the repair of some of the station's equipment. However, the youths' initial enthusiasm progressively waned with time. When it first started...
Communication facilities are among the least developed in Ethiopia. The use of modern communication technology is insignificant. Telecommunication services and facilities are at a very low level compared to the size of the country. The use of electronics media is not well established. Besides, all the available media are owned and controlled by the government. The free flow of information and communication as a vital tool for development is therefore seriously hampered. Information, as a fundamental lever for development and progress, should be provided to the rural communities on various...
The convergence between radio and the Internet is providing new strength to community radio. Not only are community radios being empowered to reach new latitudes, but also Internet users are learning from a participatory experience that is expected to contribute much to social change. In this context, a need for Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) in rural areas of East Africa has emerged. The establishment of CMCs in such areas envisages a combination of community radio with telecentre facilities, under community ownership. Telecentres provide numerous ICT services, such as access to the...
Likoma and Chizumulu Islands are Malawian Islands but are situated in Mozambican Territorial waters. The national radio signals transmitted from Blantyre in the Southern tip of Malawi barely reach these islands. Newspapers, also printed in Blantyre, reach the islands with significant delays.The island dwellers consequently do not have any source of reliable and up-to-date information and are ipso facto left out of the national communication processes. This request seeks therefore to address this information and communication deficit by creating a community radio that will contribute to...
Palestinian media have the potential and obligation to contribute to the development of the Palestinian civil society by strengthening democratic structures, furthering formal and informal education, creating a reliable mechanism for the open exchange of ideas, and contributing to the development of a viable private sector. Since the Voice of Palestine transmitters have a limited reach and sometimes a varying technical quality, digital web-based broadcasting will improve the radio's outreach to audiences in Palestine as well as Palestinian communities abroad. Internet and new communication...
Although Radio Mauritanie's sound archives constitute a precious source of information, access to them is limited on account of their deplorable state, which renders their exploitation difficult, and in some cases, even impossible. Fully aware of the importance and urgency of preserving its archives, Radio Mauritanie has already completed the digitization of 50 magnetic tapes. These tapes were selected for their poor physical state and the frequency of their use. In terms of digitization equipment, Radio Mauritanie already possesses tape recorders, a Dalet platform and digital audio...
Since the Beijing World Conference on Women (1995), a number of women's rights groups and associations have emerged in Mali. These organisations have been actively involved in various initiatives aimed at improving the status of women in the country. Thus, as a result of the impact of awareness campaigns conducted by Radio Bèlèkan, the last communal elections, held in May, 2004, saw an increase in the number of women sitting on Communal Councils within the Cercle de Kati. Despite its moderate significance, this breakthrough conveys a clear message of hope since these newly elected...
In Jamaica, the media are relatively free and champion free speech, considering the vast number of talk-shows being broadcast. However, people are still not communicating. There is a clearly expressed need for a better quality content on the country's airwaves. The cable channels focus mostly on entertainment, the talk-shows often lack a solid basis of reliable information, and even this information may not be easily heard, due to the problem of transmitter coverage. Those concerned with social problems, relating particularly to crime and violence, are demanding more interactive and user-...
Guatemala is a multiethnic, multilingual and multicultural nation that is still emerging from and struggling with the legacy of its 36-year civil war. The inequities and discrimination that helped fuel the repression of the war years still affect the country, particularly in the autochthonous highlands provinces that bore the brunt of the civil conflict. In part as a result, Guatemala suffers from the world's third most unequal distribution of wealth, with poorly developed and underfunded public education, especially in rural, autochthonous areas. Roughly 60 % of Guatemalans are...
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