Implementation Reports on IPDC Projects Approved in 2009 - Unesco

PROJECT IMPLEMENTED BY THE ADDIS ABABA OFFICE
NATIONAL PROJECT
ETHIOPIA: PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING FOR SUDE COMMUNITY
RADIO CODE: 354ETH 5002
US$ 12 100
US$ 5 710 SUPPORT FROM THE WORLD BANK
TYPE OF PROJECT
The project aims to help to tackle capacity building training for the staff of SUDE community radio.
IMPLEMENTATION
PFMA conducted from October 25 to October 29, 2011, a training to Sude Community Radio Broadcasters on
the following topics:
� Radio Program Planning and Interview techniques,
� Digital audio concepts, Effects in Adobe Audition, Learning Audio mixing methods: Multi-track,
View, Data Collection Techniques,
� Advanced writing skills,
� Radio Show/Talk Programs
� Media Ethics and Law, among others.
Peace Family and Media Association through the facilitation of UNESCO and through the support of
International Program for the Development of Communication (IPDC) have organized a five-day long training
workshop under the title “Professional Capacity Building Training to Sude Community Radio Broadcasters” for
10 volunteer journalists including a management member and a technique staff of the station at Adama Ras
Hotel in Adam (Nathret) town from Oct 25 to 29, 2011.
In the opening session of the training Dr. Jean Pierre ILBOUDO, Regional Advisor for Communication and
Information with UNESCO delivered an opening remark by giving emphasis on the overall objective of the
training and the role of the trainee in addressing thematic issues that are affecting the communities at large. He
also elaborated the vital role of community media in the African context and its values in terms of bringing
development for the wider public as well as the empowerment of woman which are unprivileged in many ways.
At the first session of the training, radio program planning was discussed. The discussion also included a
practical exercise how radio programs and news are planned. Hypothetical problems were used from which a
radio program and news was planned.
Advanced interview techniques were also discussed in the second session of the training. This was also
supported by a practical interview in which half of the trainees acted as journalists and the rest as interviewee
and the reverse. Here data collection and analysis as well as research were also briefly discussed.
Audio edition is the main component of the training taking the lion’s share of the training. This was also a
session in which trainers better acquaint themselves with digital editing (Adobe Edition).
Advanced writing skills, the other issue addressed during the training is believed to further boost their
journalistic skill especially in “writing for the ear”.
On the last session of the training, the workshop deliberated on media ethics and finally outlined a draft Sude
community Radio code of conduct to be endorsed by the Board of the Station
Banner bearing the insignia of UNESCO and PFMA has been posted at the training hall as well as in all
visibility activities.
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