"The Community Mapping Handbook is based on the community mapping toolkit for community radios. The toolkit, developed by Raghu Mainali and Yadab Chapagain, is a practical and participatory resource designed for community radio program producers to better understand the needs, wants, and preferences ... of their target audience, particularly marginalized and underserved communities. Through a clearly structured and stepwise process, the toolkit guides community radio program producers in receiving meaningful information and feedback from the broadcast community in the shortest possible time. It describes the process, methods, and materials required to carry out community mapping with the aim of finding answers to the following questions: Who are the most vulnerable people in the community? Where are they located? Why are these people especially affected by poverty? What are the problems, needs and wants of the most vulnerable people? The logic and the methodology prescribed in the toolkit may also be used by any civil society organization and individual interested in identifying the core concerns of a community that they wish to serve. The handbook is designed to inspire community radio program producers and reporters to integrate the community mapping toolkit into their work. By doing so, they can better identify the needs and priorities of their broadcast communities, with a particular focus on amplifying the voices of the most marginalized and vulnerable groups." (About the handbook, page 1) more

"Community media is an integral component of CEMCA’s TYP 2012-15 and mission, “to assist governments and institutions to expand the scale, efficiency and quality of learning … in open, distance and technology enabled learning.” In September 2013, CEMCA contracted Ashish Sen to evaluate its C ... ommunity Media activities for its Three Year Plan (TYP) 2012-15. The Evaluation process comprises three parts. These include: 1) Development of the Monitoring & Evaluation Plan (October 2013). 2) Interim Report (August 2014). 3) Final Report (April 2015). It focuses on the four key goals specified in CEMCA’s TYP. These comprise: 1) 20 % increase in number of community radio stations supported by CEMCA. 2) 100 community women empowered in media literacy, health, and leadership & democracy to develop community learning programmes. 3) 9 community radio stations adopt sustainable models & and show case best practices. 4) Increase in the number of stakeholders among content exchange platforms to share programmes in different formats and media." (Pages 9-10) more