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When Does Information Change Lives? An Evaluation of Community Radio Development in South Sudan and the Three Areas

Sonya De Masi

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 34 pp.

The major conclusion of this study is that there is enormous potential for media development in South Sudan because of the enthusiasm for and interest in news and information, even in the most remote villages. Local radio is a platform for political and cultural expression and a site for citizen par ... more

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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), 2nd ed. (2012), 149 pp.

"This report examines seven central areas of media development—funding, digital media, sustainability, media law, journalists' safety, journalism education, and monitoring and evaluation. It also delves in-depth into four areas deserving of greater attention: citizen journalism, investigative jour ... 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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Promoting Awareness of Women’s Human Rights Through Community Radio Listening and Media in Kenya: Evaluation Report

United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) (2012), 17 pp.

"The project [...] was implemented in Kenya by the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) from September 2008 to January 2011 [...] The project’s overarching goal is to promote women’s human rights by raising awareness in six communities in Kenya and strengthening social action using commun ... 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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Light in the Darkness: Internews Radio in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas. Findings of Community Impact Assessment

Sonya De Masi

Internews (2011), 126 pp.

"This report offers an overview of results of an assessment that sought to investigate the audience impact of Internews’ network of five FM radio stations in southern Sudan and two transitional areas that were established to provide their communities with critical information about the peace agree ... more

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Voices from Villages: Community Radio in the Developing World

Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 52 pp.

"Since the 1990s community radio has mushroomed throughout the developing world. In fact it has grown faster than either state or commercial radio. Across Africa, community radio grew, on average, by a significant 1,386 percent between 2000 and 2006. Asia and Latin America have also seen remarkable ... community radio booms. This has been due mainly to the widespread liberalization of the airwaves, the falling costs of the necessary technology, and a thirst for alternatives to government-controlled and commercial media. International aid agencies are showing ever greater interest in community media’s ability to inform and empower. More governments are acknowledging the contribution of community media to education, public health, and economic development and are creating policy and legal frameworks to enable its expansion. Nevertheless, community radio still faces repression in many countries. This report explores the reasons for this expansion and the constraints and challenges community radio still faces. It also looks at community radio’s record in terms of development and examines its real achievements against its ideals. For purposes of this report, community radio is defined as radio by and for the community, be it a physical community or a community of interest, with an emphasis on community ownership and management on a not-for-profit basis. Wider and more hybrid definitions are acknowledged and explored, and community radio’s differences from vernacular, fundamentalist, and hate radio are clarified. The report also points out where community radio is most prevalent in the developing world and the reasons for this, looking especially at the kind of pro-freedom policies that allow it to thrive and what positive change is possible where community radio works well. A short case study takes a more detailed look at India, where community radio was only recently allowed. The major challenge for community radio continues to be economic survival and sustainability beyond donor and NGO support. Various models are explored, including some new initiatives that emphasize a more business-oriented approach than has been the case in the past. Another big challenge is the right of community radio to exist at all. The record of the support given by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC, in the French acronym) is examined in light of these continuing struggles, as well as the work of national-level platforms also engaged in advocacy." (Executive summary, page 5) more

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Voces y sonoridades de un proceso ciudadano: Sistematización de una experiencia social
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María Orlanda Aristizábal, Eduardo Gutiérrez et al.

Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura (2010), 254 pp.

"El programa ‘Radios Ciudadanas’ es liderado por la Dirección de Comunicaciones del Ministerio de Cultura y su objetivo es impulsar la democracia, la participación ciudadana y la diversidad cultural, por medio de la creación y consolidación de franjas de análisis y opinión, en las radios c ... more

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Media Component Start-up Assessment

Washington, DC: IREX (2010), 30 pp.

"A description of the radio landscape in Liberia, and recommendations for the IREX Civil Society and Media Leadership Program." (commbox)

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Radios communautaires de Dakar: Communication pour le développement et extraversion

Jeanne Dorelli

Montréal: Université Concordia, Master Thesis (2010), xii, 137 pp.

"Ayant comme source principale des entretiens effectués au cours de l’automne 2009, ce mémoire s’attelle à explorer la réalité des radios communautaires de Dakar, la capitale du Sénégal. Plus particulièrement, il s’agit d’interroger les relations qu’elles entretiennent avec leurs � ... more

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Report on Evaluation of "Community Radio Listening Groups Project"

Khartoum: UNICEF; Nutro Health for Development (NHD) (2009), 298 pp.

"In 2002 the UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communication ( represented by Sudan Radio & TV Corporation –SRTC) launched a pilot project of Community Radio Listening Groups (CRLGs), designed to reach population in hard to reach areas in the country with messages and de ... more

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Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds

Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.

"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... more

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Plaidoyer pour l'appui des radios locales de service aux communautes en Afrique de l'Ouest: Guide a l'intention des ONG et des bailleurs de fonds
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Stéphane Boulc'h (ed.)

Bruxelles; Dakar: COTA; Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2008), 243 pp.

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Pioneering Community Radio: Impacts of IPDC Assistance in Nepal

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2008), 12 pp.

"IPDC’s support for community radio in Nepal has been a strategic, defining factor in the growth of the community media sector. The Programme has regularly supported small, distinct projects that have catalyzed the growth of the sector at different times by promoting replicable models, establishin ... more

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Community Radio in India

New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 50 pp.

"This is a series of five introductory booklets on how civil society, government, donor agencies, media and the United Nations can strengthen the community radio sector in India." (commbox)

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Informe de la evaluación del programa Centroamérica en Sintonía (CAESI)

Andrés Geerts, Margarita Herrera

Free Voice (2006), 38 pp.

"El programa CAESI ha sido el primer intento de trabajar un programa en conjunto entre ALER y AMARC, dos redes con mucha historia y momentos de rivalidad. Fue la primera vez en la historia que se hizo un proyecto de estas características. Se hizo en una región muy problemática, históricamente po ... more

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Haiti Media Assistance and Civic Education Program (RAMAK): Final Report

Creative Associates International

USAID (2006), 60 pp.

"Creative Associates International (Creative) launched the Haiti Media Assistance and Civic Education Program in October 2001. Known by its Creole acronym, RAMAK, which means “Rassemblan Medya pou Aksyon Kominite” or Media Gathering for Community Action, the goals of the project were to increase ... more

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Kreyon Pèp La Pa Gen Gonm: The Peoples' Pen Has no Eraser. Communications Stories from Haiti's Grass Roots

London: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (1999), 31 pp.

"The overall aim of the assessment was to gauge the impact of projects supported under the Critical Situations Fund (CSF) in Haiti. The following questions provided a framework for the assessors: How does the project promote popular communication, and contribute to the strengthening of civil society ... more

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Radio: A Future for Sound

UNESCO Courier, issue February (1997), pp. 11-39

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Tripartite Review of Tambuli Community Radio

Carlos A. Arnaldo, Nina Wernberg

Paris: UNESCO (1994), iv, 24 pp.

"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 ... more

Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World Top Insights

Voces y sonoridades de un proceso ciudadano: Sistematización de una experiencia social Top Insights

Plaidoyer pour l'appui des radios locales de service aux communautes en Afrique de l'Ouest: Guide a l'intention des ONG et des bailleurs de fonds Key Guidance

Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World
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Voces y sonoridades de un proceso ciudadano: Sistematización de una experiencia social
Top Insights

Plaidoyer pour l'appui des radios locales de service aux communautes en Afrique de l'Ouest: Guide a l'intention des ONG et des bailleurs de fonds
Key Guidance