Let’s Count for Peace and Community Radio for Peace and Coexistence
PURPOSE
Provide journalists from community radio stations with technical knowledge, production support, and access to information on progress in the peace process in order to strengthen interaction with their audiences.
IMPLEMENTATION DATES
August 2014–December 2016WHO DID IT TARGET?
- Editors-journalists and technical staff at community media outlets
REACH
354
People participated
ACTIVITIES
- Regional workshops on peacebuilding and coexistence from the perspective of community radio
- “Señales de Paz” (“Signs of Peace”) certificate course
- Program to strengthen community radio stations’ production and circulation
- National Gathering of Community Radio Stations (with guest experts on the Agreement’s topics)
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE
IMPLEMENTING PARTIES
- Cooperative Network of Community Media of Santander (RESANDER in Spanish)
- La Conversación más Grande del Mundo
- Office of the High Commissioner for Peace (OACP in Spanish)
- Office of the President of Colombia
FUNDERS
- European Union
- Ministry of Culture Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies
LECCIONES APRENDIDAS
- El periodismo regional, local y comunitario permite visibilizar la cotidianidad de las comunidades y juega un papel fundamental para que salgan a la luz las historias de quienes han sido más afectados por el conflicto armado.
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