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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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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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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
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Sustainability of Community Radios: A Training Guide. Module 3
Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2012), 11 pp.
"This third module focuses on elaborates on the various aspects of human resources management such as evaluation and training, compensation for employees, communication and conflict prevention among staff members. The guide provides practical suggestions and guidance on how to motivate staff, how to
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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
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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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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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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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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.
La radio comunitaria: Una empresa social sustentable. Herramientas para la gestión
Bogotá: Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones; Ministerio de Cultura; vive digital (2010), 78 pp.
"El texto propone un marco teórico sobre comunicación y participación, sintetiza los aspectos fundamentales de las emisoras comunitarias para detenerse en los principios y criterios que deben ser tenidos en cuenta para una gestión adecuada y para el logro de su sustentabilidad como empresas soci
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Doing Community Radio: A Toolkit for Nigerian Communities
Lagos: Nigeria Community Radio Coalition; Institute for Media and Society (IMS); Panos West Africa (2010), 82 pp.
"This toolkit illustrates what it takes to set up and manage a community radio station in Nigeria. It discusses what community radio is and how it can contribute to the individual (provide relaxation, information, entertainment, promote self-expression and creativity) or to the community as a whole
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La sostenibilidad de la radio ciudadana: Ruta para una nueva gestión
Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura (2009), 25 pp.
Community Media Sustainability Guide
Key Guides
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2009), 90 pp.
"Like other publications on "commmunity media sustainability", this guide looks not only at financial, but also institutional sustainability, and social sustainability, i.e. it's rootedness in the community to which it belongs. The first section highlights the centrality of mission for sustainabilit
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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
Key Guides
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 292 pp.
"This guidebook offers instructions for strengthening the organisation of community radio stations, in order to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. The all-embracing essentials of community radio station management, ie, governance and programme/financial/technical management, are discussed i
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Community Radio Performance Assessment System
Key Guides
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 86 pp.
"This publication allows community radio stations to assess their performance regarding: community participation and ownership; radio governance structures and procedures; radio programme structure; radio station management; financial management and resource structure; as well as networking. Using a
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