Since 1992, the Fondation SAKS has been working with grassroots organizations to help the Haitian people break their isolation and overcome the inadequacies of the communications network. Through to this project, Fondation SAKS aims to transform two community radios, situated in Cayes, in the south and Mare-Rouge in the north-west, into community multimedia centres. The centres will be connected to the Internet via satellite and operate using solar panels and batteries. Three computers will be installed in each centre and a schedule will be drawn up to facilitate the rational use of the...
IPDC Project beneficiary type: Civil society organizations
This project, developed by the International Palestinian Youth League (IPYL) aims to empower the media in Hebron to increase awareness in the local community about participation in the democratic process. IPYL proposes to achieve this goal through: Establishing a small specialised media training and resource centre in its Hebron premises that would focus on civil society; Providing basic and advanced training for staff working in the local media stations, on modern and state-of-the-art equipment; Providing advanced training courses on civil society issues, such as democratic participation...
The principal objective of this project is to build a network of freedom of expression organizations and by so doing strengthen their collaboration and capacity to increase and intensify advocacy work on the African continent. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) intends to acheive this by organizing a conference of freedom of expression organisations in Africa and developing a programme of collective campaigns involving all the partners in the network for particular continental issues. Strengthening the collaborative networking of African freedom of expression organisations will...
This project will develop a community multimedia centre (CMC) from an existing telecentre in the Sitakund sub-district in Bangladesh. It aims to raise awareness in the community of the potential benefits of a community multimedia centre and to train the local community in community media skills; it also intends to increase the amount, quality and diversity of local content production and local distribution in Sitakund. It will pay particular attention to poor and marginalized youth, indigenous peoples and fisher-folk communities. By setting up a community multimedia centre, the Young Power...
The Instituto Costarricense de Enseñanza Radiofónica through its program El Maestro en Casa (The Teacher at Home) gives students the opportunity to go from learning to read and write up to the completion of the high school degree. El Maestro en Casa is an educational program for adults and young people offered in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Education. At present, there are almost one hundred thousand students unrolled in the system. Thanks to this system, age, level of education, occupation, difficulty of transportation or distance of residence from educational centers are no...
The Agencia de Noticias por los Derechos de la Infancia (ANDI), or News Agency for Children's Rights, is a Brazilian NGO whose mission since its founding in 1992 is to promote and defend the rights of children and adolescents through a strategy that includes research, training for media professionals, and the creation of guides and information resources for journalists. In March 2000, it created the Red ANDI, a network of seven Brazilian organizations also involved in promoting children's and adolescent's rights in order to strengthen its activities to train journalists and improve...
ERBOL is an NGO based in La Paz, Bolivia. It is dedicated to using radio as a means for providing education, social service and pluralistic news. The present project is designed to provide training in radio production, programming content and management to radio practitioners from stations affiliated with ERBOL, with a view to developing an electronic news bulletin distributed to ERBOL members, and to producing a weekly radio programme on national affairs.
The aim of the project was to upgrade Cambodia's only women's radio station with modern broadcast equipment. A women's NGO known as the Women's Media Centre (WMC) established the radio station initially as a pilot scheme entitled 'Women Speaking To Women radio' through UNESCO regular programme support. Within the IPDC project, WMC requested support to upgrade the broadcast and production equipment enabling the station to cater to a larger audience.
The aim of this project is to promote the local media and in particular television in order to benefit isolated rural communities in the mountain region of Sierra Maestra. ANAP (National Association of Small Farmers) thus wishes to fulfil the needs of rural populations for information.
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