Community Media/UNESCO TANZANIA

Events
UN Women, in collaboration with UNESCO, and with the support of UNDP, have just completed a Monitoring and Evaluation of the Election Support Project Activities (ESP) delivered through Community Media in the United Republic of Tanzania. The activities delivered through ESP were: UN Women conducted three (3) separate training for community media in Tanzania. The objective of the training was to raise awareness on constitutional changes, good governance, anti corruption, HIV/AIDS and Gender Based Violence through community radio as a long term strategy that encourages the participation of women in democratic discourse. Training One: Venue Micheweni, Pemba: participating community radios were: Micheweni, Makunduchi, Zenj FM, Mtwara, Masasi, Kyela, Makete, Nuru, Kitulo, Kilosa, Pemba Press Club and Uzikwaza. Dates for MIcheweni were 20 - 24 June 2011.
 * '''Monitoring and Evaluation of Election Support Project
 * Voters Education focusing on Women, Youth, and the disabled, through Radio in twelve districts
 * Distribution of 1,500 solar/wind radios to women economically challenged women
 * Hands on training on modern news gathering methods and basic journalism training to women facilitators in rural Tanzania
 * Training for community radios on Constitutional changes, good governance anti corruption, HIV/AIDS and Gender Based Violence

Training two: Venue Arusha: Dates: 27 June - 1 July 2011.

Training three: Venue Sengerema: 3-8th July 2011. participating community radios were: Sengerema, Fadeco, Orkonorei, Loliondo, Kwizera, Sibuka, Sikika, Kwanza Jamii, GRAFCA, Kahama and Ruvuma Press Club. 21-25 June 2011. Participation of women was highly recommended. For more information contact: mailto:rohamu2004@yahoo.co.uk or mailto:salome.anyoti@undp.org

In collaboration with the Community Media Network in Tanzania, UNESCO Dar es Salaam office, the Commomwealth of Learning and MISATAN supported a training for Community Media Practitioners in Tanzania.
 * Workshop on organisation Management - May 2009.

The workshop focused on Organisation development and Education. The workshop was held at the Sengerema Telecentre from 25th to 29th May 2009.

About the Community Media Network
On this page you will find information that has been compiled about the capacity building programmes for Community Media in Tanzania. The information has been compiled on behalf of the Community Media Network of Tanzania. This is a network for those interested with community-based information dissemination and communication initiatives such as community multimedia centres, community radios, rural press and telecentres in Tanzania.

we invite all community media stakeholders to join us at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tzcommunitymedia/

Vision
A Tanzania society in which all citizens have equal access to information and knowledge as a means towards sustainable development.

Mission
To strengthen the coordination, collaboration and networking of diverse Tanzania community media organizations with all other stakeholders so as to influence policy and promote best practices and freedom of expression in Tanzania’s media.

Objectives of the Network

 * Maintain best practices in high quality, relevant and appropriate community oriented programmes delivery.
 * Fostering the capacity building of community media for the development of the communities served.
 * Provide a platform for networking between community media, with other media stakeholders, and the general public.
 * To mobilize resources for the development of community media in the country.
 * Contribute to “mutual learning” between community media.
 * Represent the views of community media in national and international dialogue opportunities. These dialogue opportunities include those that will lead to the appropriate positioning of community media in media policy design as well as the legal and legislative framework, in overall.
 * Maintain best practice in media governance and contribute to the overall credibility of community media.
 * Ensure that community media stays relatively independent of local political, commercial and economic powers, which allows the “dignity and freedom of speech necessary for the free community media”.

Principles guiding network members
This principles were agreed by the network members during the workshop that was held in Sengerema from 25-29 may 2009 at Sengerema.


 * Involve the community in decision making processes to the extent possible from the very beginning of project inception.
 * Ensure that boards and/or committees represent the demographic make up and key constituent of the community, whilst ensuring gender balance.
 * Not discriminate against community members in the provision of opportunities on the basis of sex, cultural, political and socio economic background.
 * Base its operations in the communities they serve and conducted by community media practitioners well knowledgeable of the respective community.
 * Serve as a catalyst for participatory development and decision making.
 * Place priority on developing and promoting activities and programming of high quality, relevance and with locally generated content, which reflect the interests of the served community.
 * Ensure objective and well-balanced programming /activities such that they shall in now way give advantage or disadvantage to a political party or candidate, political platform or particular groupings of society.
 * Give communities an important role of determining the quantity, quality and relevance of the content generated by community media.
 * Ensure financial sustainability that will not compromise any of the other principles.
 * Encourage fundraising from the public, private and CSO sector, development partners and individuals to community media as long as it is not tied to any conditionalities.

Workshop Resources

 * Workshop Summary
 * COL Welcome Text

Inventory of Community Media in Tanzania

 * Boloha Community Radio, Isaka, Kahama (under construction), contact: Mr. Samada Maduhu. mailto:samtycom@yahoo.com ,cell: +255784809285
 * FADECO Karagwe (FRC 100.8 FM) or mailto:fadeco@satconet.net contact Mr. Joseph Sekiku
 * IDYDC_Nuru FM in Iringa contact: Joerg Henkel mailto:idydc94@gmail.com . Mr. Viktor Chakudika, Radio Manager, mailto:nurufm2010@yahoo.com
 * KITULO FM Radio 97.0 MHz, contact: mailto:willjotham@yahoo.com
 * Kwanza Jamii Community Newspaper, Njombe, contact: Daraja Development Limited. mailto:kwanzajamii@daraja.org
 * Kyela Community Radio contact: mailto:bkiswaga@yahoo.com or mailto:gambwene@btinternet.com
 * Loliondo Community Radio, IrkiRamat Foundation (RAMAT),(under construction) contact: Mr. Yannick Ndoinyo. mailto:ramatfound@yahoo.co.uk
 * Makete FM, Makete, Iringa, (under construction) Contact: Abraham Pascal Athuman. mailto:athabra@yahoo.com
 * Micheweni Community Radio, Pemba,Zanzibar, contact: Pemba Press Club mailto:pembapress2002@yahoo.com, Principal Secretary Ministry of Information Zanzibar, UNESCO/UN JP 5, Radio Manager, cell:+255777463543
 * Mtegani FM 91.9 MHZ, Makunduchi, Zanzibar, contact: Mr. Saumu Ali Haji, mailto:mteganifm@yahoo.com
 * Mtwara Community Radio, 98.6 FM, Contact: Ms. Sango Kipozi.mailto:mailto:jean_media@yahoo.com
 * Pangani Community Radio, P.O.Box 1, Pangani Tanga, mailto:mamaveratz@gmail.com contact Dr Vera Pieroth
 * Parapanda Rural Newspaper, contact, Grassroots Female Communicators Association (GRAFCA), P. O. Box 14905, Dar es Salaam Tanzania, cell: +255786586282, mailto:grafcafemale@yahoo.com.
 * Radio Fadhila, Masasi, contact: Mr. Edwin Mpokasye. mailto:edwinmpokasye@yahoo.com
 * Radio Orkonerei FM in Simanjiro, contact: Khadija Abdallah. mailto:khadijajigge@yahoo.com
 * Ruvuma Press Club, contact: Mr. Juma Nyumayo. mailto:nyumayot@yahoo.co.uk
 * Sikika Community Radio, Dodoma,(under construction) contact: Eugenia Madhidha. mailto:eugenia@sikika.or.tz

Other community-based media, invited to COMNETA activities as observers

 * Boma Hai FM 89.4, Hai District, Kilimanjaro, P. O. Box 27 Hai - Kilimanjaro, contact: Hilda Kileo, Radio Manager mailto:hildakileo@yahoo.com mailto:radiobomahai@gmail.com
 * Iramba District Council TV & Radio, P.O. BOX 115, Kiomboi, contact: Matata, +255784665472
 * Kahama FM, contact: Sadiki Mtulya, cell:+255713624666, mailto:kahamafm@yahoo.com
 * Kilosa District Radio, contact: mailto:ewkalimalwendo@hotmail.com, Fadhil Rashid, mailto:fezzyd@yahoo.com
 * Radio Chemchemi, Sumbawanga, P. O. Box 34, tel: +255252600637
 * Radio Kwizera, Ngara, Kagera, Joy Ngallawa. mailto:joyngallawa@yahoo.com
 * Radio Sibuka FM, Maswa, Shinyanga contact: Bhoke Okachu, Radio Manager, mailto:obhoke@yahoo.com, cell: +255787576660, +255655516660, +255756246055, Dr. George Nangale mailto:gnangale@yahoo.com

Contact Info
Joseph Sekiku (Chairperson) FADECO Community Radio 100.8 FM P. O. Box 223  Karagwe - Kagera Tanzania +255 (754) 605682 mailto:fadeco@satconet.org http://www.fadeco.org Mr. Felicien Ncheye (Deputy Chairperson) Sengerema Community Multimedia Centre (98.8FM) P. O. Box 399 Sengerema-Mwanza Tanzania mailto:ncheyefb@yahoo.com http://www.sengerema.or.tz Ms. Rose Haji Regional Chairperson Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Dar es Salaam mailto:rohamu2004@yahoo.co.uk Al-Amin Yusuph UNESCO Dar es Salaam Cluster Office Tanzania a dot yusuph at unesco dot org mailto:a.yusuph@unesco.org

Links

 * Community Media Network of Tanzania
 * International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)
 * http://www.un.org/democracyfund