Operationalising Community Radio for NGOs working in Andhra
Pradesh
From:
"geetha nambisan bhardwaj" <geethanambisan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, September 24, 2007 5:41 pm
To: "OneWorld South Asia Partnership"
<oneworldsa@dgroups.org>
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Subject: [cr-india] Workshop announcement in Andhra Pradesh
Dear
friends,
The
Deccan Development Society (DDS), in association with Community Radio Forum, India
and carried out with assistance from UNESCO, announces a residential
workshop on Operationalising Community Radio for NGOs working in Andhra Pradesh
from October 11-13, 2007.
As many
of you know, after a decade-long struggle by civil society organizations,
media activists and policy advocates, the Union Cabinet has finally
opened up the airwaves to grassroots groups through a community radio policy in
November 2006. The new policy allows community-based organizations with
a track record of development work to apply for a FM radio license, with
transmitter power of up to 100W, which could serve people residing
within a 15-20 km radius. The Community Radio Forum-India (CRF-India), with
modest support from UNESCO, is organizing a series of regional-level
workshops for creating greater awareness and contribute to building the
capacities of communities to set up radio stations that would be community-owned
and managed, and run on a not-for-profit basis.
The
workshop being organized by the DDS will focus on introducing Community Radio
(CR) as a development tool to NGOs working in Andhra Pradesh. It will
equip organisations with technical information as well as details of the
application process for initiating the process of establishing CR
stations in their region and including CR as a meaningful tool for social
change in their area.
It will
also provide basic hands-on experience of operating radio at the DDS Community Radio
Centre at Machnoor village, Jharasangam Mandal, Medak District, AP.
Organisations
interested in participating in the workshop may kindly email Jayasri at
hyd2_ddsppvr1@sancharnet.com or General Narsamma at communitymediatrust@gmail.com
or call +40-2776 4577 or 08451-282271 by October 5, 2007.
Organisations
interested in participating need to bear their own travel costs, while
boarding and lodging will be arranged at the venue and covered by the CR
Forum of India.
Dgroups
is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS
