"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 are deeply rooted in the communities where they operate. With this handbook, one can understand the essential ingredients for building a healthy community radio station from scratch. At the same time, it provides important troubleshooting information to existing community radio stations. The handbook outlines in detail the nature and form of healthy community radio stations: how their governance structure should look like; how they should be staffed and managed; what infrastructure and financial management systems have to be in place; how to produce good quality programming; and how to ensure real community participation in all aspects of their daily work." (Foreword)