
I love to work with her because she has enough experience of work and life to trust herself and others equally. With this attitude she will always be trusted and listened to by the clients she works for – I have seen it happen so many times and I am always impressed."
Annelie Ewers, Director
Fojo Institute for Media Development, Sweden

Birgitte blends creativity, passion and intelligence with results –
a rare combination . I've known Birgitte since 1999 when we worked together in Mozambique and have absolute confidence in her abilities."
Kristine Pearson, Director
Lifeline Energy, UK and South Africa

Matthias Meier, Programme Analyst
UNDP, Lao PDR

Lupwishi Mbuyamba, UNESCO Head of Office, Maputo
Marylène Spezzzati, UNDP Resident Representative

Patrick Prendergast
Lecturer in development communication
Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication
University of the West Indies, Jamaica

I followed her work on behalf of Sida in Maputo, one of the major donors to the project. I was impressed by Birgitte’s firm and enthusiastic leadership and above all her serious involvement and result awareness. Her particular enthusiasm was with the community radios, where direct impact could be seen on the increased awareness and participation in matters of general interest for the communities. Birgitte Jallov is one of the few in the world who has such a long, broad and successful experience of organising community radios. I would be happy to see that her experiences and advice are shared with all development aid organisations, international, national and NGOs.“
Eva Belfrage, Senior Advisor (retired)
Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority, Sida

Dr. Peter M. Lewis
Senior Lecturer in Community Media, London Metropolitan University

I would warmly recommend Birgitte as an adviser, coach and facilitator to other UN agencies wanting to work at the grassroot level, particularly pursuing a communication for development agenda and also those working on women and gender issues.”
Aida Opoku-Mensah
Director, Science and ICT, UNECA, Addis Abeba

Lydia Richardson
Director, Triple Line Consulting Ltd, London
Thomas Tufte
Professor, University of Roskilde, Denmark

Richard E. Stern
Lead Officer, Business Taxation Program, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Vienna Austria

As a master student I have studied Journalism and International Development for three years and international social science for two years, and I feel quite well equipped theoretically. But his 7-week training course gave me a very different perspective at the theories, and things that I believed through my books and discussions at the university, I now understand in a very different way."
Camilla Simonsen
Master Student, Journalism and International Development, Roskilde University Centre, Denmark
We recruited Birgitte, when we needed a thorough review of our community radio project, hopefully identifying some strong change stories. Birgitte had worked with the project before and knew the particular environment well; when she was selected to do the review we knew the work was in safe hands.
Birgitte's best asset is her tremendous energy - it infused the project for months afterwards, inspiring everyone involved to bring new people into the community radio and try to spread its benefits to others.
While being positive and encouraging, Birgitte also kept a critical eye open during her interactions with our project. She identified some administrative issues which were, in hindsight, impeding the project's progress. With her recommendations and suggested solutions we were able to bring things back on track quickly and efficiently.
Birgitte brings a number of special and unique qualities with her as an adviser: Her energy and enthusiasm - very empowering to all who work with her, not least because it is backed with years of valuable technical and organisational experience.
I would warmly recommend Birgitte’s services, advice and support to community radio stations that are looking for inspiration, ideas from other radios elsewhere in the world, and for donors who wish to learn more about the changes that are happening at the ground level of these fascinating transformational projects.
Sarah Ransom
Programme Analyst
UNDP Lao PDR
“ I recruited Birgitte Jallov as I knew of her good work. Birgitte’s reputation precedes her! And I wanted someone with a lot of community communication experience. Given Birgitte’s communication for development work, through community radio it was easy to consider recruiting her!
Birgitte’s involvement in UNECA’s tele-innovation centre project has led to awareness on community communications by policy-makers. For instance, since the training she conducted with the community Information centres in Ghana, they have asked for more training and ... specifically requested that they want Birgitte to come back!
Birgitte’s commitment to a cause and working for impact is what makes her stand out in the crowd. I was conscious of this in Rwanda where you would prefer avoiding the 'politics' of government to working with people, using communication to empower them! Which is a great strength to have! Furthermore there are three qualities that personify Birgitte: Passion, commitment, and dedication.
I would warmly recommend Birgitte as an adviser, coach and facilitator to other UN agencies wanting to work at the grassroot level, particularly pursuing a communication for development agenda and also those working on women and gender issues.”
Aida Opoku-Mensah
Director, Science and ICT, UNECA, Addis Abeba