---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio - September 3 2008 From: "The Soul Beat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, September 3, 2008 04:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio September 3 2008 For people using community radio for social change... === The Soul Beat (SB) Extra: Community Radio updates you on community radio related programme experiences, awards, trainings, evaluations, research results and resource materials recently placed on the Soul Beat Africa website. SB Extra: Community Radio complements The Soul Beat newsletter through a specific focus on Community Radio. For further information on Community Radio in Africa visit Soul Beat Africa's Community Radio Themesite - http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/community-radio === 1. Communicating with Radio: What Do We Know?: Findings from a Review of Selected Rural Radio Effectiveness Evaluations This report by African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFFRI) explores radio-based communication strategies which assist farmers to improve their productivity and food security and includes issues related to optimal formats, schedules, production qualities, and station management. The study analyses 17 case studies from India, the Philippines, Tanzania, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana, and South Africa and outlines key findings, as well as five knowledge gaps in rural and farm radio effectiveness... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/272475/376 2. Manual Técnico de Edicão Digital para Rádios Comunitárias (Digital Editing for Community Radio) While not all community radio stations will choose to use digital technologies, this manual intends to be a systematic guide for those who do, to start using digital audio equipment in producing programmes for the community. It explains the basics of using different hardware and software including digital recording and editing software such as Pro-tools, Speed3, Cool Edi, and Hp Recorder. It also discusses how to care for equipment, and offers information on preventative maintenance and solving basic problems... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271437/376 3. Dealers/Troco - Mozambique, Zambia This is a 13-episode serial radio drama initiated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and produced by Community Media for Development (CMFD) Productions. The drama, which is being broadcast in Zambia and Mozambique, intends to raise awareness around human trafficking, what it is, how it happens, and how to avoid it, as well as promote the IOM trafficking hotline numbers in both countries... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271439/376 4. Teacher Training in Africa Working with BBC African Productions, BBC Swahili Service, and Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) (through the Open University UK), this media campaign broadcast two weeks of radio news reports, documentaries, and discussion programmes about the importance of teacher training in Africa. The programmes, which were broadcast during June 2007, aimed to promote informed debate among teachers, educationalists, parents, policy makers, and the wider community on teaching, and how the goal of "Education for All" can be achieved in Africa by 2015... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/273223/376 5. Swedish Support to a Regional Environmental Journalism and Communication Programme in Eastern Africa for the Period 2002-2006 This is an evaluation of the Regional Training Programme in Environment Journalism, supported by Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), which aimed to improve the quality of environmental reporting in the media in the Eastern Africa region through training (postgraduate diploma and mid-career certificate), networking, community outreach, and developing positive attitudes toward sustainable management of natural resources. The programmes focus on the environment also included relevant areas such as conflict management, gender, and HIV/AIDS... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271236/376 6. PlusNews - Global, Africa This is the global online HIV and AIDS news service of the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, PlusNews produces original HIV/AIDS reports that it disseminates through a website that provides the latest news, as well as country profiles and first-person testimonies from those living positively with the virus... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271099/376 7. Community Radio Social Impact Assessment - Removing Barriers, Increasing Effectiveness: Challenges, Findings, Reflections, Experiences, Lines of Actions for Community Radio Stakeholders This evaluation report details a long-range participatory action research process launched in 2006 by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), an international non-profit organisation that works to support and serve community radio broadcasters around the world. The research was designed to identify the barriers that limit the potential positive impact of community radio (CR), and to explore ways to increase the effectiveness of community radio in achieving poverty reduction, development objectives, inclusiveness, and democracy building in local communities around the world... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/268152/376 === VOTE IN THE COMMUNITY RADIO POLL: What is required most to strengthen the role of community radio in Africa? - a strong African representative body - more funding - more capacity building - more networking - more information sharing - more government support - more community involvement To vote and send comments go to http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/community-radio and see the Top Right side of the page. === 8. The Invisible People: A Practical Guide for Journalists on How to Include Persons with Disabilities This guide aims to provide guidelines for journalists who wish to support and promote the human rights of persons with disabilities. It was developed for use in workshops held for journalists by the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD), an organisation working to promote the rights of the disabled in Africa... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271883/376 9. A Resource Kit for Journalists: Children's Media Mentoring Project This resource was developed as part of the South African-based Media Monitoring Project (MMP)s Empowering Children & Media Project, which analysed and assessed the representation of children in the South African news media. It found that children rarely feature in the media, and if they do, they are often shown as voiceless victims. This resource kit is designed to provide journalists with the necessary information to enable childrens voices to become a part of daily media coverage, without violating childrens rights, South African laws, or international norms and standards... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271953/376 10. Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV/AIDS and Gender This initiative, coordinated by the Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF) with Gender Links and The Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network, is a three-year project developed to devise tools and provide support to Southern African media houses to develop and adopt HIV/AIDS and gender policies in newsrooms. The aim of the programme is for 80% of all newsrooms to have such policies in place by the end of 2008... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271332/376 11. The Media and the Law: A Handbook for Community Journalists According to Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), over the past few years the organisation has charted a trend of increasing media censorship in South Africa. While large media houses are generally well-equipped to handle this, FXI says that smaller community media often lack the knowledge, skills, and resources to fend off threats to their freedom to publish. This guide intends to fill that knowledge and skill gap. It is designed to enable small independent and community media, specifically newspapers and radio, to counter growing media censorship in South Africa, and to ensure that the media is aware of their rights and how to protect and enforce them... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/272761/376 12. MISA John Manyarara Investigative Journalism Awards 2008 Deadline Sept 18 2008 The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is inviting entries for the MISA John Manyarara Investigative Journalism Awards 2008. The awards seek to recognise excellence in investigative journalism in any form of media in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271499/376 13. 1st Media and Gender Violence Conference in East Africa (Sept 15-19 2008) Nairobi, Kenya This conference, with the theme "Working With the Media To Eradicate Gender Based Violence", aims to assess the role played by formal and traditional media in preventing and promoting violence against women. It seeks to bring together key gender violence prevention and women's rights agents, activists, media producers, artists, scriptwriters, news editors, and journalists in the East African region to share lessons learnt, exchange information, assess intervention strategies, and suggest ways of making the media more effective in reducing violence against women... http://www.comminit.com/en/node/272996 14. Human Trafficking: Reporting on the Phenomenon in South Africa As part of the South African Governments strategy to combat human trafficking, the International Organization for Migration, in partnership with METRO FM and international media professional, Nebojsa Ilijevski, will be conducting three 2-day workshops for local media and journalists in South Africa on the topic of Human Trafficking: Reporting on the Phenomenon in South Africa. The location and dates are as follows: Johannesburg, South Africa (Sep 4-5 2008) http://www.comminit.com/en/node/274957 Cape Town, South Africa (Sep 8-12 2008) http://www.comminit.com/en/node/274960 Durban, South Africa (Sep 11-12 2008) http://www.comminit.com/en/node/274961 === For more information, see: Community Radio Theme Site http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/community-radio/ Edutainment Theme Site http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/edutainment.html === To "subscribe" to the Community Radio Extra please go to http://www.comminit.com/en/user/register/38 and indicate an interest in community radio. Or you can send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] indicating that you would like to receive to the Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio. 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