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Community radio – community participation in local governance (CR-CPLG)

Year when project approved: 
2014
Approved budget: 
US$19 000.00

Radio Peace recognizes the developmental power of radio and realizes that sustainable development calls for cohesive communities that are grounded in their cultures and traditions. However, the limited success of decentralization in Ghana has left many communities in the central region without a clear process for integrated community action. Preoccupied with day-to-day subsistence, most listeners of Radio Peace are unable to fully appreciate the links between quality of life and good governance. This project aims to promote access to communication media and the right to communicate to this audience, which comprises over 700,000 people in rural and marginalized communities in the central region of Ghana. These people are encouraged to participate in and drive the process of development and empowerment, striving for a better Ghana where citizens are responsible and self-reliant. 

Documents
Full project description: 
Ghana_project_proposal.pdf
Project details
IPDC Bureau meeting nº: 
58

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Beneficiary
Beneficiary name: 
Radio Peace, 88.9 MHz FM
Beneficiary description: 

Radio Peace received its frequency of 88.9 MHz –FM from the National Frequency Board (now the Ghana Communications Authority) on August 8, 1996 and was registered with the Registrar General’s Department on April 29, 1997. Its mission is ‘assisting to reduce superstition, ignorance and illiteracy, squalor and disease, poverty and conflicts, giving voice to the voiceless and empowering the vulnerable, thus promoting a more fulfilling higher standard of life among deprived and marginalized communities’. The Station has a nine member Executive Council (Board) which formulates policy, and a Station Head who manages the day to day activities of the Station assisted by a five member Management Team. The Station employs a regular number of 20 volunteers.
 
These are complemented with a further 20 volunteer regular artistes who service the Station’s programmes. These volunteers are trained constantly to be able to equal the challenges and demands of community radio broadcasting. Income sources are mainly from radio announcements, appeals and radio programme funding. In a scientific audience survey, conducted by the Media Foundation for West Africa, Radio Peace stood shoulder high above all radio stations heard in our catchment area. In terms of the Station’s capacity, experience and credibility, the Station has undertaken a number of community projects supported by UNESCO, which provided Forty-five Thousand US Dollars ($45,000), DANIDA (Equipment), Ibis Ghana, Swiss Embassy in Ghana, Media Foundation for West Africa, PANOS West Africa, AMARC among others. It is very gratifying to underscore the fact that the handsome grant of $45,000 from UNESCO in 1998/99, did not only assist Radio Peace take-off in June 1999; it assisted the station to be sustain as well. Radio Peace, on many occasions has been adjudged the best rural Station as well as the best local language (Akan) Station in Ghana.

Beneficiary address: 
P.O. Box 238, Winneba

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(03323) 20879 or 0248954436

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Location and contacts
UNESCO
Responsible UNESCO Regional advisers: 

Ronald David Kayanja

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Project contacts: 

David Ghartey-Tagoe, former UNESCO broadcast expert, recipient of the Order of the Volta, Adviser of Radio Peace

Project place: 
Winneba, Central Region, Ghana

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Follow-up and achievments
Summary of the project implementation: 

1. A training was conducted for 15 participants drawn from the Radio Peace catchment area who were to facilitate the community consultation workshops.
2. Five focus groups (Chief and Elders, Assembly Member and Unit committee Members, Adult Women, Adult Men, and Youth) were organized in ten different communities, in four selected Districts.