AREDMAG works to promote the development of communication projects that support community processes within radio stations of the Magdalena Medio. This has triggered the positioning and local recognition of the community radio projects, based on the awareness of their social responsibility as communication media.

One of the most significant contributions of the network to the community of the Magdalena Medio has been that of permitting, through its radio stations, the democratisation of communication and of the local mass media. It has set in motion a new perception of the region based on the cultural projects and it has created awareness of and within the local people towards the regional project that the network is pursuing. Additionally, the work of the community radio stations has allowed bonding between and supported collaboration among the diverse municipalities that make up the network.

AREDMAG has also played an important role in the processes of strengthening political culture in the region, facilitating processes of civic participation in popular elections to City Halls and Councils.

Conflict, Rights, Democracy and Citizenship.

The Association has a long-term strategy of strengthening radio stations in programmatic and technical aspects of production as well as a long-term aim of strengthening of its presence as a local voice of the people and a gradual establishment of relations with other networks in Colombia.



The projects noted below are just some of those initiated and supported by the network as a result of their empowerment and capacity to design and execute initiatives:

On All Fours, songs and stories for a better breeding (A Gatas, cantos y cuentos para una crianza mejor): a radio series that speaks of the experiences of children from the region, of children's capabilities and development as human beings, and informs about and promotes children's rights.



Radio for Life (Radio para la vida): regional radio series with 5 key themes: right to life, rights of children, cultural rights (right to the diversity), right to communication, and "arguments for hope". 8 community radio stations participate.

Regional Communication and Children Node (Nodo Regional Comunicación y Niñez): proposes the creation and strengthening of radio spaces for children through the production of children's programmes that motivate the expression of the children and in this manner, aims to play an important role in the development of strategies that support the rights of the children in the Magdalena Medio.

National System of Communication for Peace - SIPAZ (Sistema Nacional de Comunicación para la paz - SIPAZ): aims to implement a news agency which highlights peace building events and processes that occur, that are produced in different regions throughout Colombia.

TeleUIS Group: Industrial University Communication System of Santander (Convenio TeleUIS: Sistema de Comunicación Universidad Industrial de Santander): cooperative group that seeks the exchange of programming and radio training to achieve higher quality programming in participating radio stations. Radio programmes , such as The Voice of America, whose broadcasting rights are ceded to Teleuis, are transmitted / broadcast thru the AREDMAG network