Frederick Noronha wrote:
Do you know of any international organisations -- UNDP, Unesco or other
suitable supporters -- who could help build structures that would make
the dissemination of training possible?
I recall that on March 3, 2001, Nabil M. El-Khodari forwarded a message
to Listmembers from Sabine Michiels, of the Food and Agriculture
Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), under the subject, '[GKD]
FAO's 1st Int'l Workshop on Farm Radio Broadcasting,' reporting the
outcome of the First International Workshop on Farm Radio Broadcasters,
which took place at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, in February of
2001.
That message included the following information:
International institutions supporting rural radio development:
* Inter-African Centre for Rural Broadcasting Studies - CIERRO
(Burkina Faso),
* World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters - AMARC
(Canada),
* Technical Center for Agriculture and Rural Development - CTA
(Netherlands),
* Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie - AIF
(France),
* UNESCO (France),
* Syteme Francophone d'Information Agricole - JADE (Burkina
Faso/France),
* Panos Institute Western Africa - IPAO (Senegal),
* International Development Research Center (Senegal),
* International Fund for Agricultural Development - IFAD
(Italy),
* BBC (United Kingdom),
* IPS (Mexico),
* Ford Foundation (Nigeria).
Workshop Final Communique
The institutions supporting farm radio, included:
* United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
USA
* United States Department for Agriculture (USDA), USA
* World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC),
Canada
* African Center of Metereological Applications for
Development (ACMAD), Niger
* United Nations UNESCO
* the Ford Foundation, Office for West Africa, Nigeria
* the Federation of African Women in Communications
* the Nigerian Media and Society Institute
* the PANOS Institute for West Africa (IPAO), Senegal
* the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
(CTA),
Netherlands
* Union of Free Broadcasters URTEL (Bamako, Mali)
* the Intergovernmental Agency of French-Speaking Countries
* Inter-African Center for Rural Broadcasting Studies of
Ouagadougou
(CIERRO/URTNA), Burkina Faso
* the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network
* International Service for National Agricultural Research
(ISNAR), Netherlands
* BBC Radio Four, UK
* the SADC Centre for Communication for Development (SADC
CCD), Zimbabwe
* African Journalists for Development Network (JADE)
* the Ghana Community Radio Broadcasting Service
* the Madagascar Farm Radio Network
* the African Association for Radio Series
* Sidama Educational Radio (Ethiopia)
* Southeast AgNet Radio Network (Kenansville, FL, USA)
* Learfield Communications (Jefferson City, MO)
One of the Working Groups recommended that a Global Help-Desk for Rural
Radio would be created, which will include key technical information, a
tool-kit for rural radio, as well as a map of partnerships and countries
/ districts with rural radio; and collaboration with other
organizations, such as CIERRO, SADC CCD, AMARC and NAFB.
Wasn't this a part of the SARD initiative which was to be addressed at
the Global Summit last year, in Johannesburg?
Has anyone any update on this project?
Ginger McCarthy
Department of Special Programming
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