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Best Experiences for an Action Research Process 12 as a key governance challenge to the community radio global network. It is intended to facilitate knowledge exchange to empower women to exercise their right to be heard, and to build the capacity of women to use the media, particularly community media, to make governments and institutions accountable, more transparent, inclusive and responsive to citizens. To date, little has been done in most developing countries to help women gain greater power and influence in normally male-dominated political processes in local communities. This document from the Women’s International Network of AMARC provides women with examples of how they can get involved in governance issues – particularly to help them gain a greater degree of independence and equality. The action research process is a contribution to the need for a recognition and work for a stronger say for women in good governance, namely through their participation in CR. This will ensure, among other aspects: (1) sensitizing women and encouraging their participation in community radio; (2) reinforcing women’s participation in the various aspects of the operations of stations; (3) improving gender content in programming; and (4) reinforcing women’s networking and knowledge sharing of concrete experiences to help create social change from the communities. Women’s empowerment and good governance through community radio AMARC has facilitated a significant amount of action research concerning the social impact that women’s empowerment can have on good governance through community radio in the last two years. This document includes articles on Women and good governance , as well as practitioners’ experiences gathered through several knowledge sharing and action research seminars held through the CR network worldwide, in continuity with the action research project on “The Social Impact of Community Radio: Removing Barriers, Increasing Effectiveness” held all through 2006 (22). As indicated, AMARC held a series of knowledge sharing and action research seminars. These reflections have resulted in a body of knowledge consisting of written and audio information in several areas, particularly regarding women’s empowerment and good gover-
13 Best Experiences for an Action Research Process nance. This document, disseminated by email and in hard copy to CR stakeholders, contains some relevant contributions and is intended to further knowledge sharing and discussions to increase women’s empowerment and participation in democratic processes. It also seeks to contribute to the impact of CR on influencing governance issues related to gender equality and women’s rights. We also expect to embed action-research techniques for social impact assessment in the Women’s International Network as well as within CR. Notes: 1.- Marcelo Solervicens is Secretary General of AMARC. 2.- Sylvia Balit, Communication for Isolated and Marginalised Groups, Blending the Old and the New, Paper for Ninth United Nation Round Table on Communications for Development (FAO: Rome, 2004). 3.- Chapter 6, World Development Report 2000/2001, Attacking Poverty, New York: Oxford University Press http:// www.worldbank.org/wdr. 4.- See, among others, UNDP, Women’s Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges, 2000. 5.- See AMARC, Community Radio Social Impact: Removing Barriers Increasing Effectiveness (Montreal, 2007). 6.- The World Bank, “A Decade of Measuring the Quality of Governance.” Governance Matters, 2006. 7.- Susanna George, Media and Globalisation: A View from the Margins, paper presented at the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre, January 26, 2003). 8.- Roxanne Toh, Community Radio’s Voice Gets Louder, So Does Interference, Inter Press Service News Agency (December 26, 2003). 9.- See AMARC, Community Radio Social Impact: Removing Barriers Increasing Effectiveness (Montreal, 2007). 10.- McCutcheon, G., and B. Jung, “Alternative perspectives on action research,” Theory into Practice 29 3 (1990): 144-151. 11.- See, among others, Paolo Mefalopoulos and others, Participatory Communication Strategy Design (FAO: Rome, 2004). 12.- Maria Elena Figueroa and others, “Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes,” Communication for Social Change Working Paper Series 1 (2002). 13.- D. A. Schon, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (New York: Basic Books, 1983). 14.- Taken from An Introduction to Action Research by Dan MacIsaac. 15.- S. Kemmis and R. McTaggart, eds., The Action Research Reader (Victoria: Deakin University, 1990b). 16.- Visit http://amarc9.amarc.org. 17.- Visit http://wsf.amarc.org. 18.- Visit http://africa.amarc.org/africa-mena-conference. 19.- Visit http://gk3.amarc.org. 20.- Visit http://alc.amarc.org/international-conference. 21.- Visit http://win.amarc.org. 22.- See AMARC, Community Radio Social Impact: Removing Barriers Increasing Effectiveness (Montreal, 2007).
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