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Amplifying voices, fostering resilience: The radio listener clubs and Rohingya refugee adolescents in Cox’s Bazar

Hakan Ergül

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 3-23

"This article explores the role of the radio listener clubs in the Rohingya refugee response in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The article demonstrates the unique potential of radio in reducing the challenges relevant to the lives of crisis-affected adolescents since the influx in 2017. Adolescents are ... more

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Community Voice and Participation in Climate Change Communication Through Community Radio in Malawi

Chimwemwe Richard Chavinda

Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2023), 18 pp.

"This study examines the role of community radio in increasing climate change awareness in Malawi. The article broadly reaffirms the importance of community radio in Africa in democratizing media access, more interestingly by using radio listening clubs in the production process and participation. T ... more

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Terms of Reference of Listening Clubs for Community Protection Resilience

Gracia Kambale Bahwere

Oxfam (2021), 4 pp.

"Listening clubs constitute a space that allows a group of people to listen to a radio programme together, discuss the programme, ask questions in order to clarify what it was about, and even create their own radio programmes. Generally speaking, community listening clubs aim to improve access to in ... more

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Manual para organizar un club de escucha

Radio Ambulante (2019), 15 pp.

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Listening Groups Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 39 pp.

"The Listening Groups Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience managing more than 700 Listening Groups across the country [...] “Part I. Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan, and the value of ... more

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Peace Radio Programme in the Border Areas Between Oromia and SNNPRS in Ethiopia: Impact Assessment 2016

Addis Ababa: Civil Peace Service (CPS) Programme Ethiopia Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2017), vii, 32 pp.

"The impact assessment comprised a survey, focus-group discussions and key informant interviews as its sources of data. The survey covered 194 members of the Peace Radio listener clubs, in which members discuss the Peace Radio contents and initiate peace initiatives on the basis of a standardised qu ... more

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Using Radio and Interactive ICTs to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Heather E. Hudson, Mark Leclair, Bernard Pelletier, Bartholomew Sullivan

Telecommunications Policy, volume 30 (2017), pp. 1-15

"The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) ... more

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Interactive Radio Program Report: An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Heather Gilberds, Adena Brown, Mark Leclair

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 23 pp.

"Here we discuss a unique and innovative radio-based approach to improving mental health literacy and creating a demand for mental health services—part of a larger project called 'An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania'. Grounded in theories of so ... cial and behavior change communication and edutainment, and leveraging participatory methodologies, Farm Radio International and partners Teen Mental Health and Farm Radio Trust in Malawi worked with local radio broadcasters in Malawi and Tanzania to design and deliver weekly, interactive youth radio shows about mental health. Ongoing engagement with the content, and deliberation over the messages, was facilitated through SMS feedback mechanisms, and mobile polls and quizzes delivered through the radio stations, along with school-based radio listening clubs that met weekly to listen to the programs and discuss the themes in a group. Over the course of the 45-month project, the radio shows gained immense popularity, in large part because they talked about issues that are important to youth, and incorporated the language youth use and music they prefer. The programs attracted an average of 500,000 listeners each week, and received tens of thousands of text messages and Facebook posts by young people giving feedback, telling the radio hosts about what topics they would like to hear about, and asking questions about mental health or requesting to be connected with a mental health expert. The impact of the radio was measured according to whether and to what extent the interactive media programs play a role in triggering or facilitating drivers of the process of change. These drivers include bringing about improvements in knowledge and attitudes, mobilizing a social movement, and facilitating greater social and public support to put mental health on the agenda as a topic of conversation, grounded in new understandings and new knowledge. Our findings demonstrate that an interactive radio campaign can have a marked effect on improving knowledge, decreasing stigma, and increasing demand for mental health services among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Youth who listened to the radio programs fare better than their peers in understanding the signs and symptoms of mental health disorders and in knowing where to go if they or someone they know needs help. Further, interactive radio programs can have a direct impact on reducing stigmatizing attitudes, frequently recognized as a crucial element in promoting improved access to care." (Executive summary) more

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Community Radio as a Tool for Development: A Case Study of Community Radio Stations in Malawi

Peter Matthews Mhagama

Leicester: Doctoral Thesis University of Leicester (2015), xv, 342 pp.

"The thesis investigates community radio as a tool for development drawing on case studies of Nkhotakota and Mzimba community radio stations in Malawi. The thesis employs communication for development and ‘another’ development theories to help understand the role of community radio in developmen ... more

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Radio Listening Clubs in Malawi as Alternative Public Spheres

Peter Mhagama

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 13, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 105-120

"Many people in rural areas in Malawi lack access to information due to illiteracy and the unavailability of reliable sources of information. There is also an absence of a proper forum where rural ordinary people can express their views and have their voices heard. However, in communities where ther ... more

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Dimitra Newsletter, Nr. 25

Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2014), 24 pp.

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Le rôle des médias communautaires dans la stabilisation des régions de post–crise en Afrique. Étude de cas: La spécificité des radios de proximité en Côte d’Ivoire

Magali Siaudeau

London: Internews Europe; Fondation Roi Baudouin (2014), 40 pp.

"Transformer des radios existantes en radios «communautaire» n’est pas un modèle envisageable à large échelle. Toutefois, le lien créé avec les communautés à travers les groupes d’écoute dans l’ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire a con tribué au processus de rapprochement social entre les ... more

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Listeners' Clubs: New Partnerships

Dimitra Newsletter, issue 23 (2013), pp. 3-7

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Dimitra Newsletter, Nr. 24

Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2013), 24 pp.

"For several years now, the FAO-Dimitra project has been supporting community listeners’ clubs (CLC), which facilitate a process for strengthening rural communities, with a special focus on women’s leadership. At this stage in the project’s progress, we think it is necessary to take the time t ... more

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Using Radio to Drive Development in Southern Africa: Report on the Radio Platform for Community Development (RPCD)

Lusaka: Panos Southern Africa (2013), x, 27 pp.

"The project aimed at enhancing the capacity of community radio stations to operate as agents of change for the rural poor and marginalised people [...] The project worked with a sample of 15 community radio stations – five per country – in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. In implementing the RPCD ... more

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The Dimitra Community Listeners' Clubs on the Move

Dimitra Newsletter, issue 22 (2012), pp. 3-10

"In Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the rate at which listeners’ clubs are being formed and the fact that the approach is now being reproduced in various settings are indications of the success of this strategy and the extent to which it is proving sustainable. In South Kivu, for ... more

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Les clubs d'écoute communautaires: Un tremplin pour l'action en milieu rural
Key Guidance

Bruxelles: FAO Dimitra (2011), 56 pp.

"Cette publication fait le récit de l’expérience unique des clubs d’écoute communautaires mis en place au Niger et en République démocratique du Congo par la FAO-Dimitra et ses partenaires. Mécanismes d’information et de communication centrés sur l’action, ces clubs ont remporté un s ... more

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Community Listeners' Clubs: Stepping Stones for Action in Rural Areas
Key Guidance

Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2011), 54 pp.

"This publication is particularly relevant for radio stations intending to establish listeners' clubs. It presents the experience of community listeners' clubs established in the mid-2000s in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger by the FAO and its partners, and the results that these initiativ ... more

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Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium

Angeliki Gazi, Guy Starkey, Stanislaw Jedrzejewski (eds.)

Bristol: intellect (2011), 254 pp.

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Panos Southern Africa’s Communicating HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa Project, 2005–2008

Jolly Kamwanga, Richard Mutemwa

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2009), 29 pp.

"The PANOS radio listening clubs have proved to be an effective means of communicating not only HIV and AIDS issues but other development issues within communities. The female radio clubs proved more effective than the male radio clubs. Interviews revealed that communities with the radio listening c ... more

Les clubs d'écoute communautaires: Un tremplin pour l'action en milieu rural Key Guidance

Community Listeners' Clubs: Stepping Stones for Action in Rural Areas Key Guidance

Les clubs d'écoute communautaires: Un tremplin pour l'action en milieu rural
Key Guidance

Community Listeners' Clubs: Stepping Stones for Action in Rural Areas
Key Guidance