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Best Experiences for an Action Research Process 114 Chapter 23. Women’s and Youth Rights and Good Governance Thanks to Community Radio in Peru: A Successful Experience By Valeria Zamallo (51) In Peru, radio stations and production centres of the northern sub-region of the National Rradio Coordination Coordinadora Nacional de Radio (CNR) have been working together with women and organized youth since 2005 in order to strengthen their participation in local governance and accountability. This work is part of the “Women’s and Youth Rights to Citizen Participation and accountability” project from the process of regionalization in six zones of the north coast of the country: Piura, Tumbes, Lambayeque, Cajamarca, La Libertad and Ancash. It is a project carried out as part of the decentralization process in Peru and, in the particular context of regionalization, with a view to promoting the participation of women and organized youth in processes of local and regional development. Training in the drawing up of initiatives for the monitoring of public management allows for its inclusion in the design and management of local and regional public policy. This joint adventure began thanks to the support of the Spanish Cooperation Agency, the Spanish NGO AIETI and with the participation of 16 radio stations and production centres of the northern sub-region of the CNR (Radio Cutivalu, Chami Radio, Radio San Sebastián, Radio Coremarca, Radio Calor, Radio Marañon, Radio Bahia Mix, Centro de Promoción de la Mujer Micaela Bastidas, Grupo Mujer, Sedys, Radio Vino, Radio Santa Mónica, Radio Manan-
115 Best Experiences for an Action Research Process tial, Radio Santo Domingo, Radio Los Andes and the Asociación de Comunicadores Sociales Calandria). The project had two main lines of action: first, the strengthening of women’s and youth’s organizational abilities for citizen participation and vigilance, as well as the design of advocacy strategies; and second, an attempt to encourage joint work between the organizations and communications media to increase visibility and public advocacy of public policy proposals, as well as consciousness-raising and promotion of citizen participation through the strengthening of information services and the opening up of public debate. The project also sought to work with local governments in institutional capacity building in order to improve the policies and mechanisms of transparency and access to public information for citizen participation and monitoring. The concrete action was to train and accompany more than 300 women leaders during their participation in the petition for a Participative Budget. This mechanism allowed organizations to present proposals and projects through which they participated in decision-making on resources allocation in the budget and in its implementation at local, provincial and regional levels. The work of the CNR and of the participating radio stations and production centres began with training workshops for journalists from the network, since they would be in charge both of training the women leaders and of accompanying the process of reflecting on, choosing and elaborating the proposals. Following this, trainings of organizations were centred on internal communication tools and conflict resolution, laws for participation and gender and rights, as well as on technical aspects such as drawing up work plans, advocacy and accountability of local government management. Radio and journalists have played a very important role in the accompaniment process, providing the organizations with the tools for political advocacy work, that is, convincing the authorities to receive the proposals presented by the organizations. Radio stations also committed themselves to media advocacy work through special programs, information and consciousness-raising campaigns and the organization of fora, debates and citizen festivals to inform the population about the participative process, to make known the proposals worked on by the organizations and, above all, to find out the opinion of the people on local development and on the proposals.
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