Radio for Peacebuilding Africa

Search for Common Ground's Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa project aims:

• To increase the knowledge and skills of radio broadcasters, and particularly youth radio broadcasters, in covering issues with multiple perspectives;
• To encourage key government officials to communicate effectively with their constituents;
• To improve the communication flow between policy makers and civil society members and radio broadcasters.

An Integrated Approach
Conflicts in general are highly complex and operate on many different levels. Therefore, the project takes the form of a series of interlinked elements that complement each another.

The project's activities are to:

• Produce individual assessments of the current media environment in the core countries covered by this project: Angola, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Guinea;
• Create a guidebook for radio broadcasters on the role of media in identifying development priorities and communicating policies to their audiences;
• Develop a training module;
• Organise media and policymakers forums to establish working relationships between the two groups and invite NGO partners;
• Develop communication strategies with policy makers centred on communication flows between the governments, the media, and the civil society;
• Offer training sessions to radio station professionals;
• Produce and broadcast radio programmes in French, English, Swahili, Hausa and Portuguese reflecting the manual's themes and approach
• Create and nurture a community of practice through this website. To access our online discussion forum, please click here.
• Organise a regional conference bringing together representatives from each of the six core countries to discuss challenges and approaches experienced during the project;
• Organise two award competitions for the radio programmes that best reflect the guidebook and training module's themes and approach.

Target Audience
The project's target audience are broadcasters, government representatives and members of the civil society in Africa.

The success of this website relies partly on you. Register and participate, download guidebooks and audio and let us know what you think. For any constructive comment, question or proposition, write to: radiopeaceafrica@sfcg.be

• Click here to visit the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa website

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