[eccr] UNESCO SUPPORT FOR 86 NEW MEDIA PROJECTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

>   Media Advisory No.2004-20
>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
>COMMUNICATION REVIEWS SUPPORT FOR 86 NEW MEDIA
>PROJECTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
>
>Paris, March 30 - UNESCO's International Programme for
>the Development of Communication (IPDC) is reviewing
>86 media projects from developing countries and
>countries in transition during its current meeting at
>Headquarters, March 29 - April 2. Financing decisions
>will be reported Wednesday to the Intergovernmental
>Council. The Programme provides financial assistance
>for the development of electronic, print and broadcast
>media.
>
>The session will feature two events that are open to
>the press: a thematic debate on the Promotion of
>Pluralism and Good Governance through Media
>Development (April 1, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., Room X)
>and the award of the 2003 IPDC-UNESCO Prize for Rural
>Communication (March 31, 5 p.m. Room X).
>
>The IPDC is the only multilateral forum in the UN
>system to promote media development in developing
>countries. It provides funding from voluntary
>contributions by donor countries while working to
>secure a healthy environment for the growth of free
>and pluralistic media in developing countries.
>
>An Intergovernmental Council, composed of 39 member
>states and elected by UNESCO's General Conference
>governs the IPDC whose Bureau consists of eight member
>states nominated by the Council. The Bureau meets
>annually to appraise, select and approve funding for
>media projects.
>
>IPDC projects are wide-ranging - from an African news
>agency to a women's television venture in a small
>Pacific island, from a regional media institute in
>Southern Africa to Nepal's first independent radio
>station. Since its inception in 1980, the IPDC has>
>supported nearly 1000 projects in 135 countries.
>
>The US$ 20,000 IPDC-UNESCO Prize for Rural
>Communication will be given to one of the following
>five finalists:
>
>*       "Projet Radio" of the Andrew Lees Trust
>(Madagascar): since 1999 has identified methodologies
>for creating education and information access to 350
>largely illiterate villages by broadcasting programmes
>on health, food security and education in local
>languages. It is currently being scaled up to reach
>1000 more villages in the region.
>
>   *     Community Radio Madanpokhara Palpa (Nepal), a
>women's community radio project run by local women
>engages members of the community in monthly meetings
>to decide on radio programmes which are networked to
>60
>listener clubs and centres. This community radio
>develops its annual action plan to stimulate creative
>and sustainable development work based on the needs of
>the community.
>
>*       Fara'a Rural Radio (Niger): has set up a network of
>rural journalists recruited from local communities.
>They receive basic training on news and information
>gathering, processing, and production to improve
>communication between the local population, government
>departments and development services.
>
>*       People First Network Project (Solomon Islands):
>a growing rural communications network of
>solar-powered, community-owned and managed e-mail
>stations is connected to the internet. It disseminates
>local content in response to basic needs and provides
>distance education and information to foster
>indigenous business development and to encourage the
>participation of women in the information society.
>
>*       Radio Toco (Trinidad and Tobago): since its launch
>in 1997, is the first and only community-based radio
>station in the country and has been using news and
>interviews to inform and educate the community,
>promote development initiatives, and motivate women's
>participation in sustainable development.
>
>On April 1, following the plenary session that
>approves projects, the IPDC will open the thematic
>debate with the participation of: Valdas Adamkus,
>former President of Lithuania and UNESCO Goodwill
>Ambassador for the Construction of Knowledge
>Societies; Professor Kwame Karikari, Executive
>Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa
>(Ghana); Narasinhan Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu,
>India; Jeff Lovitt, Director of Communications of the
>international nongovernmental organization
>Transparency International; Kubashini Rama, Deputy
>Director of Genderlinks in South Africa; and Nasim
>Zehra, an independent journalist from Pakistan.
>
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>
>   For more information see:
>http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ipdc
>
>
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