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Process and Document Checklist for Community Radio Licence Procedure

New Delhi: Community Radio Facilitation Centre (2014), 20 pp.

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Pacific Islands Rentier Behaviour and Community Radio: Revisiting MIRAB

Linda Austin

Paper presented at the 10th OURMedia Conference: Diverse Communities, Diverse Media (2014), 22 pp.

"For nearly 30 years, the widely accepted economic-rationalist model used to explain Pacific island development has been variations of Bertram and Watters’ (1985) MIRAB model, or that of development based on the extraction of “rents” from Migration, Remittances, Aid and Bureaucracy. This paper ... revisits the MIRAB model through a culture-centred approach to investigate the phenomenon of community radio, specifically why there appears to be so little of it in the South Pacific islands and what can be learned from comparing the few successful community radio stations with those that have failed. One key difference relates to indigenous notions of rent extraction and wealth redistribution. Hau’ofa (2005) contends that all Pacific island cultures are defined in fundamental ways by the adaptive interactions between people and the sea. This “oceanic” orientation – one that is expansive, cyclical, open and fluid – stands in opposition to the bounded, stationary and seemingly changeless nature of land, which lies at the heart of Western development theories. This outward orientation predisposes islanders to anticipate the introduction of new technologies and ideas from exogenous sources, which are then interrogated, appropriated and transformed into “something meaningful” to island societies. In this way, Pacific communities have long sought rent-seeking relationships with the outside world to sustain their village lives and have redistributed this wealth through social networks. As will be demonstrated through case studies involving donor-initiated, women’s advocacy, and faith-based community radio stations, this rent-seeking orientation is pervasive throughout all levels of Pacific society, from civil society organizations (CSOs) that work with international donors to establish community radio stations, to the communities purported to benefit from the stations, to volunteers who work within them. How well the rent-extracted wealth is redistributed within culturally appropriate social networks is often the key to a radio station’s future sustainability. Such pathways to sustainable development within alternative islander-defined development models, however, are often opaque to international development actors working within Western-defined development theories, resulting in the widespread failure of many community media development projects." (Abstract) more

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Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability

Penelope Muse Abernathy

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2014), 254 pp.

"Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers – from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago – "Saving Community Journalism" is designed to help journalists an ... more

The Healthy Community Radio Station
Key Guidance

Franz Krüger, Romanus Monji, Mike Smurthwaite

Wits Radio Academy;Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) (2013), 72 pp.

"This publication is a diagnostic tool for a "health check" or assessment of the sustainability of community radio stations. The check includes five areas: mission and governance of a community radio station; management and staffing; infrastructure and finances; programming; and community involvemen ... more

Self-Assessment Toolkit for Community Radio Stations and Practitioners

Jayalakshmi Chittoor Parameswaran

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2013), 66 pp.

Claves para iniciar una radio local: Manual de capacitación para iniciar una radio en el marco de la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual

Diego Jaimes

Buenos Aires: Autoridad Federal de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual (afsca) (2013), 43 pp.

Sostenibilidad de las radios comunitarias: Una mirada a las fuentes de financiamiento

Wileidys Artigas, Mildred Romero

Opción, volume 29, issue 71 (2013), pp. 107-124

"El presente artículo tiene como objetivo describir las fuentes de financiamiento manejadas para la sostenibilidad de las radios comunitarias del municipio Maracaibo, tomando como base los postulados de Lamas (2003); a través de un estudio descriptivo, usando como técnica de recolección de infor ... more

Community Radio License Facilitation Training Workshop (Western India Region)

Pune: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, (CEMCA), Community Radio Facilitation Centre (CCFC) (2013), 18 pp.

Case Studies: How Four Community Information Projects Went from Idea to Impact

Knight Foundation;Network Impact;FSG (2013), 41 pp.

"This report offers four case studies on how different foundations used information to improve the healthy functioning of their communities. The cases highlight the following: Why did each foundation support local media? How did it connect to their strategic priorities? What steps did they take to m ... more

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Participation, Effective Management and Governance: Key Aspects in Promoting Sustainable Community Broadcasting

Mareike Le Pelley (ed.)

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 22 pp.

"To be successful and sustainable, community broadcasters need all or at least some of the following: a favourable regulatory framework; comprehensive and meaningful participation mechanisms for the communities they serve; effective management and governance structures. From 18-19 March 2013 communi ... more

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Qualitätsmodelle im Hörfunk: Mehr als Quoten und Formate

Kirsten Annette Vogel, Ursula Wienken (eds.)

Bad Honnef: Katholisch-Soziales Institut (KSI) (2013), 164 pp.

"Das von uns unter anderem vorgestellte Qualitätsmodell QMB (Qualitätsmanagement in Bürgermedien) beinhaltet beispielsweise die Aufforderung zu definieren, welche Vision den Sender oder das Radio leitet. Wie stellt man sich in der Redaktion „gelungenes Radio“ vor? Eine spannende Frage, die vi ... more

Community MHz II: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ);Open Society Foundation (2012), 94 pp.

"The Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) at the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) assessed the performance of 15 community radios based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) in 2012. The assessment was a first full-fledged test after a successful piloted the ... more

The 10 Traps to Avoid When You Want a Sustainable Community Radio

Birgitte Jallov

Empowerhouse (2012), 14 pp.

"Anyone working with community radio in one way or the other longs for a recipe on how to ensure long-term sustainability. Such a recipe does not exist. But there are a number of important factors that are crucial for sustainability - and a related number of traps on the way it is easy to fall into ... more

The Growing Pains of Community Radio in Africa: Emerging Lessons Towards Sustainability

Peter da Costa

Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 135-148

"Community radio is considered as an intervention strategy of choice for deepening participation and community ownership. Donors have funded a proliferation of community radio projects in the Global South, prompted by stories attesting to the power of radio as a tool for social change. The evidence ... more

Sustainability of Community Radios: A Training Guide. Module 4

Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2012), 15 pp.

"This Module IV focuses on the particular characteristics of community radio stations and how these different features influence the way one determines programming. The first section examines ownership questions and the different forms of collaboration between the radio station and the community. Th ... more

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Participation Pays: The Sustainability of Community Broadcasting in Perspective

David Lush, Gabriel Urgoiti

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);fesmedia Africa (2012), 36 pp.

Abiding Voices: Sustainability of Community Radio in India

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);UNICEF (2012), 131 pp.