Broadcast (TV, Radio) – C4D Network

Radio Waves and Zambia Speaks! How support to local radio stations empowers social change (BBC Media Action case study, 2019)

May 3, 2019

BBC Media Action has been supporting 15 local radio stations across Zambia to cover local governance issues and improve accountability in the delivery of critical services including education, sanitation and access to water through two projects: Radio Waves (since 2014) and Zambia Speaks! (since 2016).

This case study shows how the programmes helped to improve engagement between citizens and local authorities, resulting in examples of governance issues being addressed, as verified by listeners, station staff and local stakeholders.

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WhatsApp for Radio Toolkit: A toolkit by the Children’s Radio Foundation (MDIF, 2019)

May 3, 2019

The Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) in South Africa has published a users’ guide to using WhatsApp for radio. The guide is the sixth in MDIF’s Media Advisory Services’ series of practical guides for media managers and practitioners and is designed to to produce better radio, and increase community participation and audience interaction. This practical toolkit is based on CRF’s experiences supporting eight radio stations across South Africa to integrate WhatsApp into their reporting and broadcasting environments.

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Handle With Care: A guide to responsible media reporting of violence against women (Zero Tolerance, 2018)

May 3, 2019

The media plays a powerful role in determining how we see the world around us and good reporting plays a vital role in increasing understanding of violence against women. This guide, aimed at journalists, offers comprehensive advice on various issues from interviewing survivors to providing relevant context and ensuring that violence is neither trivialised nor sensationalised.

Click here for the full guide and the four-page summary document.

“Zéro Palu ! Je m’engage” l’outil (RBM Partnership to End Malaria, 2018)

April 17, 2019

Le Programme national de lutte contre le paludisme, aux côtés de PATH et de Speak Up Africa, a lancé pour la première fois « Zéro Palu ! Je m’engage » en 2014 au Sénégal. Cette campagne nationale renforce l’appropriation communautaire des efforts de lutte antipaludique et accroît la sensibilisation et l’engagement politique des principales parties prenantes en matière d’éradication du paludisme afin qu’elles en fassent une priorité nationale. La campagne repose sur:

l’engagement d’acteurs politiques afin de garantir que l’éradication du paludisme reste une priorité pour les dirigeants sénégalais;
la diversification des sources de financement afin d’augmenter les ressources allouées aux interventions de lutte antipaludique et la création de partenariats innovants entre les secteurs public et privé;
la création d’un mouvement communautaire afin d’obtenir une plus grande prise de conscience et une appropriation des interventions antipaludiques par les communautés. La sensibilisation des communautés a été effectuée par des champions communautaires lors de visites à domicile, mais aussi par le biais des médias sociaux et d’une série TV spécialement créée pour l’occasion.

L’outil « Zéro Palu ! Je m’engage » est destiné à toutes les personnes ou organisations désireuses de mettre en œuvre des activités de plaidoyer, de mobilisation des ressources ou de communications dans le cadre de la lutte contre le paludisme à travers le continent africain. Les utilisateurs peuvent l’utiliser comme un tout ou sélectionner les modules les plus adaptés à la mise en œuvre de leurs plans nationaux d’élimination du paludisme.

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Audience responses to migration stories: Voices of African migrants (International Media Support and University of Leicester, 2018)

April 14, 2019

This report was commissioned to examine the nature and quality of media stories produced by journalists supported by the Voices of African Migrants pilot programme (see http://migrantvoices.org/), managed by International Media Support (IMS), in four migration ‘Hubs’ in Africa, and explored how local audiences interpreted and responded to those stories. It used content analysis, interviews and focus group discussions.

The research findings show that most stories used human interest frames and foregrounded migrant experiences. The migrants’ main contributions to the stories were to provide a human face to hardships and suffering. Meanwhile, NGOs were included to provide facts, statements of general causes of migrations, statistics, and a sense of scale. Government statements were used to provide a comment on policies and solutions. Most articles were supportive in their sentiments to the plight of migrants.

Participants in the focus groups (especially migrants themselves) recognised that migrant voices were missing from mainstream media reporting on migration, that reporting on migration tends to be negative, and that there are pressing issues relating to migration that need to be discussed in the public sphere.

Focus group participants generally responded with empathy and understanding in response to stories about the hardships migrants face. Some stories provoked a distancing or disruption to understanding, especially when an aspect of the story did not match their prior tacit or cultural knowledge about migration. A small number of stories deeply moved focus group participants.

The report unpacks how an emphasis on ‘voice’ in this context can inadvertently lead to an underinterrogation of systemic and structural issues by individualising, and in some cases, perpetuating a representation of migrants as helpless victims.

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