Unidad de Radio not only creates radio programmes, but also establishes production centres throughout Colombia. The materials they produce is distributed in schools, cultural institutions, universities, and community and state radio stations.

Unidad de Radio carries out workshops in various different regions of Colombia; established the School of Radio Production in the city of Bogota; supports regional processes of dialogue and debate and reflections of local experiences through the radio.



Through workshops, audiences and programmers have developed an awareness and increased use of their local contexts and perspectives as basic materials for radio programme making. Training is offered to people without a formal education beyond secondary school and it includes intensive work in research, interviewing, reporting and critically evaluating social situations. Programming includes documentaries, chronicles, debates and entertainment programmes.

Violence, Conflict, Citizenship, Human Rights, Democracy, Political Development, Economic Development.

In 1995, Unidad de Radio participated in the debate towards a progressive legislation on radio, and then provided assistance and information in the legalisation of different community radio projects. Unidad de Radio is one of the few experiences in Latin America where the state has become a facilitator of community participation in communication processes.