"The Tripartite mission review of community media centres in Banga, Ibajay and Laurel, and discussions with representatives of Batanes and Olutanga have shown that the project has basically fulfilled its development and immediate objectives. An experimental methodology has been established based on
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the varied experiences of setting up the first five stations. Wherever possible, trainers and researchers are recruited from the regions where the sites are located, backed up by experienced consultants recruited in Manila. While guidelines for the setting up of community media centres have been drafted, these notes are still being updated and improved, as n ew experiences bring in improved methods or show new challenging situations. Collaboration with the national cooperators has been cohesive and productive. The Project Management Team has also focussed on developing a network of local cooperators to spread the idea of community radio, and to root research and training work on a firm anchorage of local specialists and institutions. This has not only produced a broad team of cooperators but has also netted significant savings in the use of project resources, while ensuring an implementation team w h o better understand the local ideosyncrasies. Every effort has been taken in this project to demystify radio and newspaper work, using simple equipment and production methods. Special use has been made of the karaoke (a singalong cassette console with loudspeaker) for producing the flagship programme of all stations, Baranggayan sa Hintpapawid. While maintaining simplicity, the project should not lose sight of professionalism in radio production, in choice of equipment, production techniques and regular transmission. Maintaining a high technical quality will be especially important for F M broadcasting which provides clean signals and can exaggerate even small technical faults. Professionalism will also be necessary for maintaining the respect of other commercial stations in the broadcast areas. Ways are also being studied to link up with established commercial stations for news and programme exchange." (Executive summary)
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"Detallado estudio realizado por ERBOL y la Organización Holandesa de Desarrollo y Cooperación (SNV) que cubre el análisis de 29 emisoras en 7 diferentes zonas de Bolivia. Se ha coleccionado datos referidos al personal, programación, financiamiento, audiencias, recursos técnicos y humanos actua
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les, áreas de cobertura. Además trata de resumir los principales problemas y proyecciones de las radioemisoras. Como resultado el libro concluye que sobre todo los aspectos de personal, programación, técnicos y de equipamiento actualmente son débiles." (CAMECO Media Forum 1994)
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"In December 1991, upon the initiative of the London-based World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) in collaboration with Isis International in Manila and the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) based in New York, the concept of the Women Empowering Communication global conferenc
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e was crystallized. Now, over two years later, and after several planning meetings and preparatory work, the global conference. Women Empowering Communication in Thailand is a reality. Isis International, in addition to its principal role as a co-organizer, wanted to make a tangible contribution to the conference. Thus we bring to you this issue of Women in Action, a collection of articles on women's experiences in community media from the regions of Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific. The conference participants constitute representatives of women's networks, alternative media, grassroots groups, the academe and other disciplines. It seems only fitting that we share with them how individual women and women's groups have creatively expressed themselves in various media forms in the community setting. In fact, we have featured some of the participating groups in the conference such as Video SEWA, Sistren Theatre Collective, and Cine Mujer. These women have set inspiring examples of how we can utilize varying media expressions not only to attain, self-empowerment but also to improve the portrayal of women in media. They have shown us the similarities in the lives and struggles of women all over the globe, despite cultural and geographical boundaries. What is even more encouraging is that these women's voices come from the community. They have successfully explored in very creative ways the use of low cost media such as song, dance, street theater, drawings, posters, puppetry and flipcharts. There are many other women's groups who have done some very good work in community media such ; as FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour), a feminist radio program in Costa Rica and the East Sepik Documentation Project in the Pacific. We also acknowledge the value of traditional forms of expression such as arpilleras and tapestries, woven stories on cloth by women in Chile, Peru and the Philippines and the khanga, a piece of cloth used as a communication tool by women in Africa.. What we have presented here is but a microviewing of women's experiences in community -media. In bringing this to the Women Empowering Communication conference, we join in the gathering of women i communicators who will enrich us with the breadth and depth of their experiences in media." (Editorial)
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