"Listening clubs constitute a space that allows a group of people to listen to a radio programme together, discuss the programme, ask questions in order to clarify what it was about, and even create their own radio programmes. Generally speaking, community listening clubs aim to improve access to information for rural populations, particularly women, and to strengthen their power to take action. A listening club is a group of men and women who wish to actively and systematically listen to radio broadcasts with a view to debating their content and, in particular, putting into practice the lessons learnt from these programmes. Listening clubs also aim to conceive and lead their own radio programmes on specific issues, chosen during their discussions, in order to clarify any questions they may have. Their objective also forms part of Oxfam’s protection mandate (the fight against violence, coercion and deliberate deprivation) and its strategic objectives related to the fight against poverty and to gender equality in terms of access to resources, goods and services and involvement in decisionmaking." (Page 1)