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Amplifying voices from the margins: A handbook for building a sustainable and transformative community radio station

Kudzai Kwangwari, Ntando Dumani

Harare: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);National Association of Community Broadcasters (NACB) (2024), 82 pp.

Community Radio Station Toolkit

Sandra Mazunga, Cephas Mubvuta, Kudakwashe Mukute, Desire Kateyera, Rejoyce Mjimba

Harare: Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations;UNESCO (2024), 73 pp.

"This toolkit is unique in the sense that it is designed as a one-stop-shop practitioner’s guide to setting up and maintaining – what the Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (ZACRAS) defined as – best practices for managing healthy and sustainable community radio stations, which a ... more

Sembrando voces: Manual de comunicACCIÓN comunitaria. Práctica 1

Comunicadores y Comunicadoras Populares por la Autonomía (COMPPA) (2019), 158 pp.

Sembrando voces: Manual de comunicACCIÓN comunitaria. Teoría 1

México, DF: Comunicadores y Comunicadoras Populares por la Autonomía (COMPPA) (2019), 209 pp.

Research Report: Regulatory Framework for Community Broadcasting

Johannesburg: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) (2017), 109 pp.

"There are currently 280 community broadcasting services (275 community sound and 5 community television services). According to AC Nielsen and All Media and Products Survey (AMPS) data, community broadcasting services collectively take up an audience share of 6.3 million people in South Africa. How ... more

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Community Radio and Governance: Leadership, Relationship and Organizational Identity

Anne O’ Brien

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 227-242

"This study examines the challenges of good governance for community radio stations. It does this by exploring how volunteers, managers and members of the Boards of Directors at four community radio stations in Ireland view governance issues. The article finds that there are three key requirements f ... more

Community radio management in South Africa: A study of Mafikeng Radio and Radio Mafisa

Jendele Hungbo

North-West University, Master Thesis (2017), 89 pp.

Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal: Evaluation Report UDF-NEP-10-387

Sue Nelson, Sita Gautam Acharya

United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF);Transtec (2015), 30 pp.

"The Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal project sought to strengthen the institutional capacity of community radios to promote social accountability and represent the interests of their constituencies. Its intended outcomes were to: 1) improve internal governance, o ... more

"A contramano": Modelos de gestión y estrategias económicas de las radios comunitarias argentinas en búsqueda de la sustentabilidad (2005-2015)

Martín E. Iglesias

Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Master Thesis (2015), 198 pp.

"La presente tesis presenta un panorama de la problemática particular de los medios audiovisuales sin fines de lucro y de la radiodifusión comunitaria en particular. Desde la perspectiva de la Economía Política de la Comunicación (EPC) analiza aspectos vinculados a la industria de la radiodifus ... more

La Radio Popular: Manual de Capacitación

Cajamarca; Surco: Grupo de formación e intervención para el desarrollo sostenible (GRUFIDES);Servicios en Comunicación Intercultural (SERVINDI) (2015), 28 pp.

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Qualitätsmodelle im Hörfunk: Mehr als Quoten und Formate

Kirsten Annette Vogel, Ursula Wienken (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2., aktual. Aufl (2014), 148 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 Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit
Key Guidance

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik, Vasuki Belavadi, Aditya Deshbandhu, Preeti Raghunath

New Delhi; Hyderabad: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad, version 2.0 (2014), vii, 64 pp.

Provides indicators of performance along 9 parameters: 1. Content Generation and Programming; 2. Policies and Guidelines; 3. Volunteers; 4. Technology: Access and Management; 5. On-Air Standards of Broadcasting; 6. Governance; 7. Feedback and Grievances; 8. Content Sharing and Networking; 9. Revenue ... more

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

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.

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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.

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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

Community Participation at Local and Community Radio Stations: An Explorative Study in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

Julia Fröhlich, Daniel Däschle, Andrés Geerts, Sofie Jannusch

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2012), 19 pp.

"This report presents the main findings of three regional surveys on participation at local and community radio stations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. The studies examined the involvement of the radio stations’ communities in programming, management, ownership and funding. Partic ... more