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“What I know now”: radio as a means of empowerment for women of prison experience (Journal of Alternative and Community Media vol. 2, pp. 14-27, 2017)

July 7, 2018

This article outlines the findings from the first stage of a grassroots action research project conducted with a support group for women of lived prison experience, based in Adelaide, South Australia, to investigate radio production as a means for supporting women in their transition to life outside of prison. The research found that empowerment manifested itself in a number of distinct ways, through both processes and the products of the project. Through the production of radio, women of prison experience recognised their own expertise and took ownership of their stories, while the radio products educated the wider public and validated the participants’ experiences.

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Filed Under: *BROADCAST MEDIA, *MASS MEDIA ROUTES, Australia, Media Development, Participation, Research Papers

Her Farm Radio: Building knowledge and developing the capacity of Malawi’s female farmers on forest landscape restoration (Farm Radio Brief, 2018)

June 12, 2018

As farmers, foresters and providers, women have a unique understanding of the ecosystems they live alongside. A radio programme in Malawi is tapping into this immense body of knowledge by creating a platform for women to engage in landscape restoration.

This brief illustrates the work carried out by Farm Radio Trust on gender-sensitive radio programming on forest landscape restoration in Malawi, using the Her Voice on Air approach to engage women in crucial discussions both on-air and off air.

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Filed Under: *BROADCAST MEDIA, *MASS MEDIA ROUTES, Climate and Environment, Gender, Malawi, Media Development, Participation, Publications (published in print and/or online)

Exploring the role of communication in community health in Sierra Leone (BBC Media Action report 2016)

April 18, 2016

BBC Media Action has worked in Sierra Leone since 2007, using multiple platforms including radio, mobile, social media and interpersonal communication to address three key themes: governance and rights, health, and resilience and humanitarian response.

Community access to health information is particularly valuable in countries with low numbers of health professionals, such as Sierra Leone. To understand more about the role media and communication can play in Sierra Leone, and the ways it can support efforts to rebuild the health system, BBC Media Action carried out a programme of research in Sierra Leone in late 2015.

Using data from a national survey and from a qualitative study in four communities, this report looks at the potential role that communication could play in community health. The report shows there is strong interest from Sierra Leoneans in receiving more health information, but that many people tend to be passive recipients of this information rather than actively seeking it out – unless they face an emergency or particular health crisis. The implications for mass communication are discussed.

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Filed Under: *BROADCAST MEDIA, *INTER-PERSONAL ROUTES, *TELEPHONY ROUTES, Awareness Raising, Governance, Health, Humanitarian, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Publications (published in print and/or online), Sierra Leone, Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), Social Media Tagged With: Community Health Workers, Ebola

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