Removing Barriers, Increasing Effectiveness - amarc

Description of the ActivitiesThe three themes (CR global review, CR social impact evaluation and AMARCand CR movement effectiveness) organized the participatory action researchprocess engaged 927 CR stakeholders of 96 countries. First of all in discussionsand knowledge sharing activities (Round Tables, Electronic Forum, Survey, andresearch) leading to the production of documents intended to embed evaluationprocesses leading to remove barriers and increase the efficiency of theCommunity Radio Movements and of AMARC in poverty reduction anddevelopment challenges. Secondly in the debates on the results of the CR SocialImpact assessment process and in policy definitions on how to remove barriersand increase the effectiveness of CR at the AMARC 9 World Conference of CRBroadcasters held in Amman from 11-17 November 2006. The activities of theproject were:(a) Roundtables. The project engaged 232 CR practitioners andstakeholders in face to face to face regional Roundtables where there wasdiscussion on CR review in the region; social impact of CR and what canAMARC do? (The roundtables were attended by external advisors fromthe Communication for Social Change Consortium):a. The Asia pacific Roundtable was held in Colombo Sri Lanka onMay 5, 2006 in combination with The World Press Freedom Day. 43participants including community radio practitioners andstakeholders attended the Roundtable. The participantscontributed consistently in the three themes through workshops.b. The Latin America and Caribbean Roundtable “CommunityRadios and Social Change in Latin America & the Caribbean” washeld in the headquarters of the National Coordination of Radios,Lima, Peru, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25, May 2006. Therewere 48 participants from 19 countries between community radiopractitioners and stakeholders. The Latin American region is one ofthe oldest of AMARC and the nature of challenges proved to beparticular.c. The African Roundtable “Community radio social impact:removing barriers, increasing effectiveness” was held in Abuja,Nigeria on July 5, was followed by a workshop on advocacy forCommunity radio in Nigeria. 52 community radio practitioners, andstakeholders from 14 countries participated. Among others, therewere contributions from Uganda, Benin, Mali, Kenya, South Africa,Ghana, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nigeria.d. The European Roundtable “Community Media Social Impact:Removing barriers, increasing effectiveness” was held in Brussels,in European Parliament on July 12. 41 participants attended it, from12 European countries.e. The North America Roundtable was held July 31 in Madison,Wisconsin, with the Grassroots Radio Conference with participationof 38 CR representatives from Canada and the United States.AMARC Community Radio Social Impact Assessment 2007 Page 19 of 128