Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

AMARC will hold its fourth Pan African radio developmental conference under the theme “Increasing the Effectiveness of Community Radio in Poverty Reduction, Good Governance, and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation” in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The conference will bring together over 140 participants from more than 40 countries. The goal of the Pan African conference will be to explore and identify effective ways to increase the social impact of community radio in achieving development and good governance objectives. Particularly, the conference will explore and identify effective mechanisms to increase the quality and pertinence of programming by reinforcing radio-techniques and content knowledge as well as community appropriation of the media and on participatory approaches of management.

According to the organisers, the objectives of the conference are to:

• improve the radio development skills of conference participants, and for AMARC to identify ways it can help increase the capacity, knowledge, and resource sharing among African radios and radio networks and with other regions;
• provide training and facilitate knowledge sharing through the conference that will lead to an increase in the quality and relevance of community radio content, increasing the social impact of community radio in achieving its development goals of poverty reduction and democracy building;
• increase the social involvement and empowerment of women through community radio in Africa by reinforcing and further developing AMARC’s Women’s International Network (WIN);
• evaluate existing legislation, harassment against communication rights, financing and sustainable challenges for community media, and define strategies to remove barriers to community radio development in Africa; and
• reinforce AMARC Africa’s ability to support community radio development by finalising a strategic plan for AMARC Africa for 2010 to 2013, and by electing a diverse and capable regional Board of Directors.

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