To that end, AUCC has developed both a Climate Change course for its final year (Level 400) students, and also a 2-4 week training course for journalists currently employed in the field. The broad aim of these courses is to educate the journalists on climate change in order to equip them to educate their communities on the need to protect and sustain Planet Earth in order to guarantee quality human life. Training people to become effective journalists is important because journalists help the communication process at two levels: (1) analysis to bring sense and structure out of the never-...
Countries: Ghana
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...
In spite of recent developments in the standard of journalism and communication education available in Ghana and the West African sub-region today, there remains scope for this field to be strengthened. The African University College of Communication (AUCC) located in the heart of Accra is willing to embrace this challenge by welcoming the opportunity to introduce the UNESCO Model Curricula into its programme, in order to build upon its reputation as a leading institution in delivering high quality journalism education. This project will see the adaptation of the AUCC Curricula,...
Ghana's media landscape has witnessed a proliferation of media houses in the past twenty years, with the country now boasting over 130 FM radio stations, 16 TV channels and over 300 newspapers. Unfortunately however, many of these media houses are dominated by commercialism and political agendas, and tend to lack plurality in terms of content and orientation. Community radios by contrast, are not driven by profit and propaganda, and therefore have the potential to change lives through better and increased access to information of social significance. This project aims to provide the...
Lake Bosomtwi cannot be protected or conserved without a cross-cutting and integrated measure. In the past, the communities were small so the traditional chiefs met occasionally in Kumasi and used certain customs and taboos that they all adhered to. Currently, the communities are larger and diverse and beyond the scope of a simple village control. A community radio will allow the communities to interact and learn from each other and introduce community measures for the conservation and protection of the Lake. Furthermore, the communities in the Bosomtwi districts of the Ashanti Region have...
Ghana is a democratic country with a pluralistic media environment, but for the communities in the Nanumba districts of the Northern Region, that freedom is less meaningful since they have no access to any mass media. Unfortunately, the past 25 years have witnessed 20 destructive ethnic conflicts in Northern Ghana. An information needs assessment conducted in the area indicates that communities have no source of reliable and relevant information. The only radio signal that reaches the area is the national network of the national broadcasting service, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC...
This project aims to create a community multimedia centre (CMC) in the rural town of Sogakope. The CMC will provide training to youths and improve computer literacy among students, women and other categories of the public. It will also introduce Internet service as soon as telephone lines are installed in the area. This project will reach a specific marginalized community and promote a participatory social development agenda. It will address issues such as farming, fishing, petty trading, dressmaking, illiteracy, poor school attendance, inadequate health facilities, the threat of HIV/AIDS...
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...
The project intends to develop a low-cost user-friendly grassroots community FM station in the rural community of Ajumako Bisease, in Ghana, with programmes designed by local people to help preserve their cultural traditions, bring down the illiteracy rate, alleviate poverty, promote preventive health education, encourage women empowerment, and discuss modern farming methods. A Community Multimedia Centre (CMC), integrating a radio, a library, a telecentre and ICTs will be developed to help empower the community by giving a strong public voice to the voiceless for greater accountability...
This project seeks to contribute to improving the quality of life for the underprivileged as well as helping to transform Ghana into a middle-income country by 2020 through quality production and broadcast of development-oriented programmes.
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