Community & Rural Radio
Women’s Empowerment and Good Governance Through Community Radio - Best Experiences for an Action Research Process
AMARC International, March 2008
AMARC has facilitated a significant amount of action research concerning the impact that women's empowerment can have on good governance through community radio in the last two years. This document includes articles on women and good governance, as well as practitioners' experiences gathered through several knowledge sharing and action research seminars held through the CR network worldwide, in continuity with the action research project on - the Social Impact of Community Radio: Removing Barriers, Increasing Effectiveness - held all through 2006.
Farm Radio International
Farm Radio International is a Canada-based organisation working in direct partnership with approximately 300 radio broadcasters in 39 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity. Its materials are available electronically to broadcasters and to rural development organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It supports broadcasters in meeting the needs of local small-scale farmers and their families in rural communities, and helps broadcasters build the skills to develop content that responds to local needs.
Community Radio Social Impact Assessement - Removing Barriers, Increasing Effectiveness Challenges, Findings, Reflections, Experiences, Lines of Actions for Community Radio Stakeholders - AMARC Global Evaluation 2007
AMARC, 2007
AMARC conducted in a 2006 a long-range participatory action research seeking to identify the barriers that limit the potential positive impact of community radio and explore ways to increase the effectiveness of community radio in achieving poverty reduction, development objectives, inclusiveness and democracy building in local communities.
Guidebook on Sustainability
Developing Radio Partners, 2006
Developing Radio Partners researched and produced this guide on local radio management and sustainability. Through presenting studies of six local independent radio stations, the authors propose a different understanding of sustainability. The studies highlight different factors, including context, leadership, management, partnerships, programming, human and technical capacity, will, community support, audience research and many others, and show how they work together to contribute to the overall sustainability of stations.
InteRadio
InteRadio is the periodic magazine published by AMARC. InteRadio is primarily a feature magazine. It examines key issues affecting the community radio movement around the world linking it to the democratization of communications at large.
InteRadio contributors range form grassroots community radio workers, established cultural players in the democratization of communications movement including engaged academics. InteRadio is a platform for investigating the critical questions that community radio activists don’t always have the time to ask.
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The One to Watch - Radio, New ICTs and Interactivity
FAO, 2003
Sometimes looked down upon as the "poor relation" of television, and certainly considered old-fashioned compared to the Internet, radio today has become the one to watch... Still the most portable communication medium, the most widespread and the most economical, radio is now proving itself versatile enough to go hand-in-hand with the Web.
