Event Title: Community Radio in Africa-MENA: Sharing Experiences for development and democracy building from the grassroots on 22-Oct-2007 to 24-Oct-2007
Organizer: The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Venue: Rabat, Morocco
Representative: Marcelo Solervicens, Secrétary General AMARC
Email: Marcelo.solervicens@si.amarc.org
Website: http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=AMARC_Africa-MENA_Conference&l=EN
Description/Theme: The first AMARC AFRICA-MENA Conference is to take place on 22 to 24 October 2007 in Rabat, Morocco.
The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Africa, the UNESCO Office in Rabat and the UNESCO Chair in Public and Community Communication, jointly organize à conference entitled: Community Radio in Africa-Middle East and North Africa: Sharing Experiences for development and democracy building from the grassroots
This gathering of community radio stakeholders, will offer an opportunity for more than a hundred broadcasters from the two regions to improve their skills, and increase the social impact of community radio where it exists and to develop an enabling environment for community radio in countries where community radio is not yet established particularly in the MENA region by benefiting from the best experiences in Africa.
The conference will reflect on how AMARC can most effectively contribute to increase the impact of community radio in Sub-Sahara Africa as well as how to transfer its rich African experience to the MENA region in order to strengthen community media as an important factor for democracy building.
The participants will consider the situation of community radio in their respective countries and on the contribution of the community radio concerning key issues such as the democratization of societies, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), and the resolution of the conflict situations.
The main objectives of the AMARC Africa and MENA Conference will be to:
* Review and evaluate the existing legislation, financing and content framework for community media, and define strategies to remove barriers to community radio development in Africa and the MENA region;
* Share experiences and define lines of action on how the AMARC network, NGO partners and multilateral institutions can best contribute to increasing the social impact of community radio in achieving development goals;
* Explore mechanisms leading to increased networking among community radio operators, NGOs and institutions to support civil society development and democracy building in Africa and the MENA region;
* Explore how best practices in Africa and elsewhere can be replicated or adapted for use in the MENA Region; and
* To define the best experiences and mechanisms to develop the Womens International Network (WIN) across the Africa and MENA regions.
Source: GKP
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