Rural Radios at IFAD Community Driven Development Seminar

Last week IFAD organized a  seminar on Community Driven Development (CDD) and we thought Rural radios could be a very important issue to raise while talking about the way communities can be empowered.

@NancyWhite and the other facilitators chose the following ways to run the workshop:
* Chats Show and Tour of Exhibit during Day 1;
* World [...]

2009 AMARC Pan African Conference: the results

The results of the election of 4th AMARC Pan African Conference held in Abidjan the 27-30th April 2009.

The new Board of Directors is composed by (from left to the right):

Benilde Nhalevilo: Women Representative from Eastern and Southern Africa (FORCOM) Mozambique
Kofy Larweh: Training officer, (GCRN) Ghana
Zara Yacoub: Institutional development, (DJA FM) Tchad
Franklin Huizies: Vice-president from Eastern [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference Starts

The 4th AMARC Pan African Conference is just started and immediately appeared to be a very useful occasion to get in touch with Radio broadcasters here in Abidjan. What’s better to spend time around a table talking, and most of all, listening to people involved everyday in radio broadcasting?

Thanks to a very good wifi access, [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference

I’m very happy to participate to the AMARC Africa’s 4th Pan African Conference!
At the Conference, AMARC will gather its members, community radio stakeholders and relevant partner organizations to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa. In his invitation, Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, is eager to stimulate further collaboration between the major partners.
In [...]

More and more integration and convergence

The Digital World Forum “Africa Perspective on the role of Mobile Technologies in fostering social and economic development” held in Maputo 1 – 2 April 2009 seemed to have produced numerous interventions in support of the idea of convergence between tools.
Have a look at this two interviews with Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS on “Using SMS [...]

Why local content creation is so important for farmers

Interview during the MobileActive 2008 World Summit (Johannesburg, South Africa) with Mary NAKIRYA, Program coordinator at BROSDI, Busoga Open Source & Development Initiative, in Uganda.
Mary explains how the CELAC (Collecting & Exchange of Local Agricultural Content) project enables farmers to voice record their own innovative techniques and how they disseminate their experiences with radio/CD players [...]

Using Radios to support Rural Communication

During the Share Fair 09, I had the pleasure to facilitate an interesting session called  “Using Radios to support Rural Communication“. The session was about three main applications of radio in rural development contexts:

Rural and Community Radio,
Educational Radio, and
Radio for promoting good farming practices.

The Session, followed by some 20 people, proposed a first round of [...]

“The role of Radio” Workshop – DAY 3

The third and final day was crucial as well. The main task was to put together bits and pieces and design the future scenario for this large partnership on rural radio.
The day before, each group had chances to meet and discuss. Not so much as we hoped at the beginning but enough thanks to all [...]

“The role of Radio” Workshop – DAY 2

Day 2 – Clarifications, offers/demands matching and group work

Once the preliminary activities have been done and people got a better idea of what was on the table, we moved to the second step of this meeting: the matching between OFFERS and DEMANDS.
This was a crucial point, where the evolution of the workshop was to be [...]

“The role of Radio” Workshop – DAY 1

Day 1 Dedicated to presentations
The workshop, dedicated to “The Role of Radio in Development Practice”, has been prepared well in advance by the three agencies involved. To maximize the use of the time before the event, we decided to use a list on Dgroups: people introduced themselves and shared with the rest of the group [...]

“The Role of Radio in Development Practice” Workshop

I have been pretty busy organizing the “The Role of Radio in Development Practice“, a joint AMARC/FAO/AMISnet Workshop. We want to learn from each other about communication for development activities actually going on the Lakes region in Africa.
As we stated in the concept note of the meeting, together the three big organizations were planning a [...]