– A 5-day workshop
The below framework is a sample, which can be adjusted to meet particular needs and challenges identified locally.
Participants
Depending upon the participants in a workshop, the approach and content will be adjusted. Participants benefiting from a community radio management course could be the following categories:
- community radio management teams
- community radio boards
- community radio networks
- community radio consultants
- community radio facilitators and supporters (NGOs, bilateral or multilateral agencies)
- community radio funding partners
- national authorities engaging in creating the legal, enabling environment for community radio
The objectives
For a group of community radio management teams the objectives could be:
- To position community radio within the broader framework of communication for development,
- To equip participants with the skills for effective community radio management with community participation and ownership,
- Help the radio identify its own particular profile, vision and development path, preparing for well managed community radios,
- To explore with the participants, how to best ensure Community-based programming in the future: how to involve members in program production?
- To provide an in-depth understanding of sustainability models and ways forward,
- To ready the community radio leadership for subsequent serious reform needs possibly identified.
Content
- Profiling Community radio within the broader framework of communication for development,
- Community Radio: a reflection of the community – the many different shapes and forms,
- Community Radio management for sustainability: Social, organisational, financial,
- Community participation and ownership of community radio: ways forward through community mapping, understanding the community, planning,
- Organising the community radio,
- Building capacity for sustainability: turning the community station into a ‘learning station’,
- The strategic plan as the skeleton of a healthy radio,
- Building the partnership strategy that will move your plans forward,
- Community-based research: monitoring and impact assessment – way forward,
- Adapting the discussions into action plans,
- the end of the workshop, the participants will have , An overall understanding of the role their community radio can play in the community
- An action plan (written up) on how to get there, step by step, including:
o A mobilisation plan for the community
o A plan for generating a community radio organisation including editorial production (cum action) groups
o A capacity building plan for the community broadcasters
o A good understanding and a plan for how to develop community leadership from board over management of the radio to the community groups
o How to lead a participatory strategic planning exercise in the community, to include all of the above - A strong network made up by the participants, knowing who have which special competencies for sharing.
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