Period: 2000-2003

The project was a joint submission of the Nepal Press Institute and Radio Sagarmatha who were in the forefront of promoting community radio at the time the sector opened up in Nepal in the mid-1990s. The project was designed to establish two community radio stations, one in Manigram and the other in Sundaprpur as models for rural community radio in Nepal and also to strengthen the ongoing intervention in media policy development.

The long term objectives of this project proposal were to help establish a community-based non-commercial information and educational TV service in Fiji, in order to help to unify this multicultural society and foster understanding; offer educational, informative and worthwhile indigenous programming, particularly to minority groups and to women; provide a training ground for young people in production, writing, performing in the communication arts and other related skills; and to help people find a sense of self worth and motivation.

Radio Sagaramatha, a well-known urban community radio in Nepal, submitted the project in their efforts to support a rural community to establish a rural community radio station. This was the first rural community radio station in Nepal, thus it was expected to become a model community radio run by and for the community.