Community Media/TCMN/Sengarama Draft Workshop Plan May2009

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Organisational Management Workshop, 25 to 30 May 2009

Sengarama Draft Workshop Plan

TANZANIA COMMUNITY MEDIA NETWORK
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
SENGEREMA, TANZANIA
May, 25 – 29, 2009


Participation

* 8 radios: Sengerema, Fadeco, others (list)
* 16 people: Managers, Programme Coordinators/Leaders
* 2 facilitators: Njuki Githethwa and another from Tanzania TBC
* 2 resource persons

Focus

Organisational development:

  • How does the way that stations are organised affect their success as community radios?
  • What are the key principles of community radio and networks? W
  • What are the capacity needs of community radios?

Aims

  1. To develop skills, tools and plans that will help managers to strengthen the organisation of their community radio stations to ensure community "ownership" and content that meets local needs
  2. To develop relationships and policies in order to consolidate the network of community media in Tanzania

Objectives & Outputs

Objectives
Outputs
1. To craft a set of principles to guide the development of community radio in Tanzania, in particular concerning community participation, independence


Statement of principles (and related public advocacy messages)
2. To share experiences of community radio, identify good practices and available resources; main focuses: organisation, sustainability, programming, volunteerism


Documented set of good practices and associated resource persons
3. To create an agreed policy concerning the role of community radio in elections


Policy
4. To identify the needs of managers and design the elements for a distance (online) training programme


Course plan
5. To increase participants knowledge and skills related to networking


Relationships
Network statement of principles, vision, mission


6. To identify priorities for the sector, including programming needs and content development strategies, and create a realistic, action-oriented workplan


Workplan
7. To share principles and practices of effective learning programmes on HIV/AIDS treatment literacy


Country action plan

PROGRAMME

Time
May 25, 2009
May 26, 2009
May 27, 2009
May 28, 2009
May 29, 2009
9.00 -
11.00 a.m
Principles of community radio
  • Ownership, identity and membership, independence
  • Content, community participation, geographic scope


Leadership and management * Team building, managing people, conflict management
  • Working with staff and volunteers
  • Roles of Boards and Management


Priorities for the development of community radio staff and volunteers
  • Technical skills and competencies
  • Programming, content development strategies
  • Community outreach


Role of community radio in elections
  • Experiences from Kenya
  • Policy on community radio engagement in elections


Closing
  • Key messages from participants
  • Messages from community leaders, government representatives
  • Workshop evaluation



11.00 –
11.30 a.m
T E A / C O F F E E B R E A K
11.30 a.m –1.00p.m Experiences and good practices of community radio * Organisation capacity, programming, volunteerism
  • Resources mobilization, sustainability strategies


Management practices and policies
  • Effective management
  • Management policies


Organisational capacity issues
  • Organization structure, culture and relationships
  • Organisation learning
  • Compositions of boards and management teams


Organisation learning and sharing
  • Visit to local community radio
  • Learning from staff, board, community
  • Sharing experiences


Departure
1.00 –
2.00 p.m
L U N C H
2.00 –
5.00 p.m
Knowledge and skills on Networking
  • Experiences from Kenya
  • Practices and principles of effective networks
  • Network vision and mission statement


Managers training needs
  • Skills and competencies
  • Elements and design for distance online training
  • Timelines and Training commitments


LearnShare HIV/AIDS Africa Treatment Literacy
  • Overview
  • Reflections on the Cote d’Ivoire workshop
  • Action points
  • Wikieducator and other online tools


Way forward
  • Action planning
  • Sharing tasks


8.00-
8.45 p.m
Video viewing on relevant issues


Listening to sample community radio programmes


Recording programmes, live transmission


Sharing materials, online resources


(Comment.gif: Open Office version of document, available here -- Media:Sengarama_Draft_Workshop_Plan_May2009.odt)