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Angola

SFCG established an office in Angola in 1996 to support the peace and reconciliation process in the post-Lusaka phase. During eleven years of its operation, SFCG-Angola has carried out activities with media, civil society, community members and the Angolan government. With offices in Luanda and Cabinda, a full-time radio production studio, and a community outreach toolbox that includes conflict resolution training, community organizing, facilitation, and youth empowerment, SFCG seeks to transform Angolan society into a culture of coexistence, security, social justice and popular participation.

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Angola Solta a Tua Voz (Angola Lift Up Your Voice)
"Angola Solta a Tua Voz" (Angola Lift Up Your Voice) is the title song and the name of the new CD that SFCG produced in Angola. The CD features the most popular musicians from across the musical and geographical landscape of Angola. Each song is a duet between musicians who normally would not perform together -- merging generations of popular Angolan musicians -- blending different styles of music from different areas of the country -- and symbolically marking the beginning of a new era in Angola characterized by inclusion, participation, and unity. [more]

Civil Society Empowerment
SFCG works with local civil society partner groups across eight provinces to build their capacity to design, implement, and monitor local projects, which bring communities together in search of creative solutions to common problems. Members of these groups are drawn from traditional and local leaders, local NGOs and associations, clergy, and local government officials. [more]

Supporting Peaceful Elections Education
SFCG’s elections strategy in Angola endeavors to increase citizens’ knowledge of their rights and responsibilities within a democratic framework and promote greater participation in the upcoming elections in 2008 and 2009. The strategy hinges on participatory training modules organized across the country that educate citizens on local leadership, their rights as voters, as well as the ins and outs of the electoral processes. [more]

Peace and Security
SFCG works with the Angolan military, police, ex-combatants, and the Civil Defense Forces (local militias), to help them develop the capacity to be a source of security for communities and active promoters of social justice in Angola. SFCG recently published an innovative new conflict-resolution training manual designed for security forces to be used in post-conflict Angola and beyond. [more]

SFCG established a professional radio in Angola, Studio N'Jango, in early 2005 and produces programmes that are distributed to partner radio stations in Luanda and rural provinces. Through the Studio’s radio programming and journalist outreach, SFCG multiplies the impact of its community outreach work by making its message available to wider audiences, including those without regular information access due to illiteracy or geographical isolation.

Journalism Training
Studio N'Jango offers training sessions focused on topics such as Intended Outcome Programming, interviewing techniques, reporting in conflict zones, and using civil society as sources for information. [more]

Radio Programming

• Baza Madie (local youth slang for "Let's Go!") is a thirty-minute magazine programme produced by and for Angolan youth between the ages of 15 and 25. [more]
• N'syeto ("Our land" in Kikongo) is a cultural programme that explores the rich traditions of Angola, aiming to promote culture as a source of common ground. [more]
• O Jogo ("The Game") is a radio soap opera about football (soccer) players from seemingly opposing backgrounds whose common interests bring them together. [more]

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