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Reflections on a Two-Week Global LinkedIn Debate: Community Participation for Radio Financial Sustainability

Birgitte Jallov, A. Sofie Jannusch

Glocal Times, issue 21 (2014), 10 pp.

"A lively debate on (community) radio sustainability took place on the LinkedIn platform, with more than 200 people, from all continents, sharing and discussing simultaneously in English, French and Spanish. The debate was initiated in April 2014 by the communication consultancy CAMECO, run by its t ... more

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An Exploration into the Operations and Sustainability of Community Radio Stations in South Africa

Towera Gondwe, Zororo Mavindidze

Braamfontein: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI);RAITH Foundation (2014), 31 pp.

"Community radio remains the most readily available means of access to information for the majority of poor communities in South Africa. In this regard, the purpose served by community radio within communities is elevated to encompass greater significance in the promotion of active citizens and part ... more

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Gestión de medios comunitarios y populares

Diego Jaimes et al.

Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (2014), 26 pp.

"Objetivos de este manual: Facilitar herramientas prácticas que aporten a mejorar la gestión y la sostenibilidad de proyectos de comunicación popular a través de medios (especialmente radio, pero también gráfica y TV); Aportar y poner en debate ideas, nociones, conceptos y miradas diversas sob ... more

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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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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

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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

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Models of and Approaches to the Station Management of Six African Community Radio Broadcasters

Linje Manyozo, Goretti Nassanga Linda, Claudia Lopes

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 ... 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.

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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

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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

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Abiding Voices: Sustainability of Community Radio in India

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

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The Wanakonnect Pilot Project: Using Mobile Money to Create a Revenue System for Local Radio Stations in Kenya

Angela Crandall, Leonida Mutuku

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 ... more

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The Sustainability of Community Broadcasting in Namibia: An Assessment and Plan of Action

David Lush, Gabriel Urgoiti

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 ... more

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Community MHz: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal. A Pilot Assessment of 15 Stations

Raghu Mainali (coord.)

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 ( ... more

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Maintaining the Enthusiasm: Economic Viability of Community Radio in the Philippines

Kalinga Seneviratne

Singapur: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2011), 80 pp.

"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 ... more

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Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook
Inspiring Practice

Steve Buckley (ed.)

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 ... more

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Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Community Radio Funding Schemes

Kenneth Murphy et al.

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 ... more

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Impact of the Department of Communications’ Community Radio Support Programme: Report and Recommendations

Mandla Msimang, Libby Lloyd, Nadia Bulbulia, Leona Mentz, Babu Charles Katanga, Thabisa Faye

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 ... more

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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

Karim Bénard-Dendé

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 ... more

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Radio Santa Clara: En la punta de la ola

Humberto Vandenbulcke

San Carlos (CR): Radio Santa Clara (2010), 157 pp.

"Radio Santa Clara, una emisora católica de Costa Rica, aprovechó la oportunidad de su 25 aniversario para realizar una amplia revisión de su evolución como proyecto comprometido con la población de San Carlos, en la región norte del país. Con el apoyo de ALER, la Asociación Latinoamericana ... more

The Healthy Community Radio Station Key Guidance

Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook Inspiring Practice

The Healthy Community Radio Station
Key Guidance

Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook
Inspiring Practice