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is being created to give the local radio stations the knowledge, tools, and skills to get young
people involved in producing radio at the local level. It aims to strengthen radio reporting and
production skills with their active participation and to provide tips to facilitate creative spaces
where they can work productively.
The Toolkit is an open educational material, produced in English, French, and Swahili, which will
enable the local radio stations to employ innovative, interactive, and creative resources to produce
youth radio programmes, and broadcast them. It will allow radio stations to conceptualize working
with youth, design a working framework, set up youth programmes and host radio shows at their
stations as well as carry out self-training through a series of easy-to-use modules.
The Toolkit will also be enhanced on a media-enabled and mobile-friendly webpage at the
project’s website, and will also be available for printing and mailing to radio stations of other
geographical regions. It includes:
• Production and broadcast ideas: tips for youth hosting call-in programs, conducting
interviews with community members, and ways to structure thematically-centered
broadcasts;
• Longer-term youth audio projects: audio diary projects, producing topic-centered or
community-centered programs from a historical perspective;
• Outside broadcast suggestions: ideas for organizing a community-based event, engaging
schools and community organizations, hosting debates, and including diverse
stakeholders;
• Documenting community-based events: utilizing online audio channels (such as
Soundcloud) where radio stations can upload their content for other stations to listen to,
broadcast, and share;
• Collaboration with other radio stations: suggestions for building mechanisms of
collaboration across radio stations, including mainstream media;
• Coordinating radio activities: suggestions for working with youth, and ensuring they are
the drivers of the radio stations' initiative;
• Creating a calendar: planning production schedules to make sure all activities have a
realistic timeline for production and broadcast;
• Sample audios from each of the 32 radio stations.
The Youth Radio Toolkit will be distributed to the 32 radio stations participating in project
503RAF5000, in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa,
Tanzania, and Zambia. It will also be distributed to partner radio stations across DRC, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia, AMARC, Plan International, and
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