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Empowerment Radio: Voices Building a Community
Key Guides
Gudhjem: Empowerhouse (2012), 234 pp.
"This publication puts deep-rooted community ownership at the heart of sustainability and real impact of community radios. Jallov focuses on core processes to reach the most adequate realization of a station according to the specific needs and context of the community. Based on her rich hands-on-exp
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Sustainability of Community Radios: A Training Guide. Module 2
Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2012), 12 pp.
"This second module focuses on two main aspects of managing community radio stations. First, it examines the governing bodies of a station and gives succinct descriptions of each body’s function and structure as it relates to the governance of the radio. The second section of this module serves as
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Models of and Approaches to the Station Management of Six African Community Radio Broadcasters
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 28, issue 52 (2012), pp. 7-27
"This article is a political economy critique that contributes to current scholarship on community radio and development by examining the question of the management of six networks from Mali, Mozambique and Uganda. This discussion argues that understanding the models and functions of management comm
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The Wanakonnect Pilot Project: Using Mobile Money to Create a Revenue System for Local Radio Stations in Kenya
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 66 pp.
"The community radio stations participating in the pilot project offer special dedication and greeting programs that allow community members to send greetings to friends and family on air. The main objective of this pilot was to understand whether these generally underfunded radio stations could mon
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The Growing Pains of Community Radio in Africa: Emerging Lessons Towards Sustainability
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
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"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
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Ground Realities: Community Radio in India
New Delhi: UNESCO (2011), 75 pp.
"The Government of India has recognized community radio through its guidelines in 2002 and amended guidelines in 2006. Yet, in the domain of community media, a large gap remains between policy and practice. Communities from the media dark regions of India continue to struggle to get their voices hea
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Impact of the Department of Communications’ Community Radio Support Programme: Report and Recommendations
Pygma Consulting (2011), 80 pp.
"The Department of Communications (“DoC”) Community Radio Support Programme (“CRSP”) was initiated in 1998 and includes a range of categories of support: Infrastructure rollout to provide technical equipment to stations; Signal distribution and upgrade; Programme production support on specif
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"This manual describes the process for starting a local radio station—the organization of community support and planning, equipment needs, programming strategies, business growth and sustainability and journalistic ethics and standards. This manual does not insist that you follow a set of rules to
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Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Community Radio Funding Schemes
Dublin: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) (2011), x, 108 pp.
"This research project was undertaken with the purpose of exploring the ways in which government mandated programme production schemes may contribute to the capacities and sustainability of the community radio sector. The study involved a critical policy analysis of the Irish Sound and Vision Scheme
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Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook
Paris: UNESCO (2011), 80 pp.
"This is a collection of case studies of good practice in community media, mainly from developing countries, and focusing especially on radio. The first section addresses the enabling environment for community media, with ten country case studies of good practice in media policies, regulations, fund
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Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 27 pp.
"This report is based on an extensive analysis of several nonprofit news sites conducted by Community Wealth Ventures (CWV), a management consulting firm that focuses on innovative approaches to the growth and sustainability of nonprofit organizations. Knight Foundation commissioned the review as pa
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Papier de discussion : Complémentarités entre services financiers de proximité et offreurs d’information locale. Des pistes de solutions pour un financement des médias communautaires par l’intermédiaire des institutions de microfinance
Paris: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2011), 19 pp.
"L’objectif de cet article est d’essayer de définir les contours d’expérimentations de financement des médias de proximité par les circuits de finance locale notamment dans les milieux ruraux et enclavés. Les médias de proximité et les établissements de microfinance ont considérés ic
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"AMIC undertook a research project to assess the economic viability of the Tambuli model in the Philippines after 15 years of its introduction. This book documents the opinions and the perspectives of many stakeholders in the community radio sector. It reflects both the success stories and barriers
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How to Start a Youth Radio Project in Your Community: Facilitator’s Handbook
Cape Town: UNICEF; Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2011), 63 pp.
The Sustainability of Community Broadcasting in Namibia: An Assessment and Plan of Action
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 83 pp.
"The study found that, in their struggle to generate the income for day-to-day running costs, stations become detached from their communities, and end up competing - usually unsuccessfully - with better-resourced commercial broadcasters. The solution, the study suggests, is to invest in strengthenin
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Community MHz: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal. A Pilot Assessment of 15 Stations
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2011), 124 pp.
"This document reports on the pilot assessment of 15 community radio stations – or of radios that claim to be community radios – based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) developed by the Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) / Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (
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Sostenibilidad social y cultural de la radio comunitaria
Key Guides
Bucaramanga: vive digital; Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (2010), 100 pp.
