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Events

  • Technical training for community radios - November 2009.

A technical training for all community radios in Tanzania is planned to be held in Micheweni District (Pemba North), or Kyela District to coincide with the commisioning of the broadcasting equipment of the two radios. The final decision of the venue for the training will be agreed soon as it depends on the completion of the two community media sites. Please watch this space for more information about this training which is tentatively scheduled for November 2009.

In collaboration with the Community Media Network in Tanzania, UNESCO Dar es Salaam office, the Commomwealth of Learning and MISATAN supported a training for Community Media Practitioners in Tanzania.

The workshop focused on Organisation development and Education. The workshop was held at the Sengerema Telecentre from 25th to 29th May 2009.

About the Community Media Network

On this page you will find information that has been compiled about the capacity building programmes for Community Media in Tanzania. The information has been compiled on behalf of the Community Media Network of Tanzania. This is a network for those interested with community-based information dissemination and communication initiatives such as community multimedia centres, community radios, rural press and telecentres in Tanzania.

we invite all community media stakeholders to join us at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tzcommunitymedia/

Vision

A Tanzania society in which all citizens have equal access to information and knowledge as a means towards sustainable development.

Mission

To strengthen the coordination, collaboration and networking of diverse Tanzania community media organizations with all other stakeholders so as to influence policy and promote best practices and freedom of expression in Tanzania’s media.

Objectives of the Network

  • Maintain best practices in high quality, relevant and appropriate community oriented programmes delivery.
  • Fostering the capacity building of community media for the development of the communities served.
  • Provide a platform for networking between community media, with other media stakeholders, and the general public.
  • To mobilize resources for the development of community media in the country.
  • Contribute to “mutual learning” between community media .
  • Represent the views of community media in national and international dialogue opportunities. These dialogue opportunities include those that will lead to the appropriate positioning of community media in media policy design as well as the legal and legislative framework, in overall.
  • Maintain best practice in media governance and contribute to the overall credibility of community media.
  • Ensure that community media stays relatively independent of local political, commercial and economic powers, which allows the “dignity and freedom of speech necessary for the free community media”.

Principles guiding network members

This principles were agreed by the network members during the workshop that was held in Sengerema from 25-29 may 2009 at Sengerema.

  • Involve the community in decision making processes to the extent possible from the very beginning of inception.
  • Ensure that boards and/or committees represent the demographic make up and key constituent of the community, whilst ensuring gender balance.
  • Not discriminate against community members in the provision of opportunities on the basis of sex, cultural, political and socio economic background.
  • Base its operations in the communities they serve and conducted by community media practitioners well knowledgeable of the respective community.
  • Serve as a catalyst for participatory development and decision making.
  • Place priority on developing and promoting activities and programming of high quality, relevance and with locally generated content, which reflect the interests of the served community.
  • Ensure objective and well-balanced programming /activities such that they shall in now way give advantage or disadvantage to a political party or candidate, political platform or particular groupings of society.
  • Give communities an important role of determining the quantity, quality and relevance of the content generated by community media.
  • Ensure financial sustainability that will not compromise any of the other principles.
  • Encourage fundraising from the public, private and CSO sector, development partners and individuals to community media as long as it is not tied to any conditionalities.

Photo Gallery

Community Radio member of staff

C band Sat TV downlink

locally fabricated mast

Sengerema CMC

Organisational Management Workshop, 25 to 30 May 2009

Pemba & IAE participants

KDC and NURU FM participants

2009 Organisation Management Workshop venue

Participants listening attentively


Workshop Resources

Inventory of Community Media in Tanzania

Contact Info

Joseph Sekiku (Chairperson)
FADECO Community Radio 100.8 FM
P. O. Box 223 Karagwe - Kagera
Tanzania
+255 (754) 605682
mailto:fadeco@satconet.org
http://www.fadeco.org

Mr. Felicien Ncheye (Deputy Chairperson)
Sengerema Community Radio (98.8FM)
P. O. Box 399 Sengerema-Mwanza
Tanzania
mailto:ncheyefb@yahoo.com
http://www.sengerema.or.tz


Ms. Rose Haji
National Director
MISA Tanzania
P.O. Box 78172
Dar es Salaam
mailto:misatan@africaonline.co.tz


Al-Amin Yusuph
UNESCO Dar es Salaam Cluster Office
Tanzania
a dot yusuph at unesco dot org mailto:a.yusuph@unesco.org

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