Radio

This page lists posts in which we talk about partners and communities using radio as an outlet for community-centred media content.

Presenter Umoja FM

A trusted friend in times of conflict

By Jon Hargreaves / February 22, 2022

Can you really forgive people who have committed terrible acts of violence? A learning review from the DRC, shows how Umoja FM has become a trusted friend in a time of conflict…

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Listener to radio

Radio: The One to Watch

By Jon Hargreaves / February 1, 2022

As our team explores new community radio opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa this month, we’re convinced that radio remains the single most powerful medium for community development in the region.

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pashtun women in a sewing class

Bright Home – Nowshera

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / October 28, 2021

Amplifying Voices Pakistan supports communities in Nowshera to set up a vocational skills centres integrated with community-centred media.

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Kawale community workshop

Workshopping remotely in Malawi

By Johnny Fisher / August 25, 2021

On Thursday 12 August, we held a remote community workshop with partners Hope for Relief and Community Development Network (CDN) in Chitipa, Malawi. This is our first experience of starting…

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Family listening to educational radio programmes in Kenya

Radio supports digital learning in Kenya

By Jon Hargreaves / April 29, 2021

Adopting technology for learning is attractive in the digital era. It gives a sense that we are changing the old for the new. But technology itself is not transformative. Education technology is…

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A young woman walks alone in a district in Freetown, going to a water source. Sierra Leone

Sierra Leoneans prevail through Covid isolation

By Alice Stout / March 13, 2021

Social distancing – a term that most of us were unfamiliar with pre-2020. These days, we can hardly have a conversation without mentioning it. Though it is essential to keep…

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A local community in Sierra Leone gather to receive essential food and hygiene items amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Combating Covid-19 in Sierra Leone

By Alice Stout / February 4, 2021

Coronavirus has severely impacted our lives – from pressuring our healthcare to keeping families apart. Though we’ve been persevering through the global pandemic for nearly a year, it is hardly…

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Misinformation harms the most vulnerable

By Stephanie Mooney / November 26, 2020

Working in collaboration with Stop the Child Witchcraft Accusations (SCWA) partners, we have been analysing community feedback about Covid-19 and misinformation from trusted contacts in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three key themes emerged …

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girls with school books listening to radio

School’s on air for summer

By Jon Hargreaves / July 7, 2020

With Kenyan schools now unlikely to reopen until January 2021, radio has become an educational life-line for many families across the country.  Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Amani…

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Covid19 – Nudging Nairobi’s youth

By Jon Hargreaves / May 15, 2020

As the number Covid-19 cases begin to rise dramatically in Kenya, health authorities have been urging communities to stay at home, observe physical distancing and not to go back to…

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