Community Media Development Organisation (COMEdo) - Zambia

Purpose and functions of COMEdo include: a) stimulating and promoting sustainable democratic information communication systems at the community level, b) providing support for fund-raising and other technical information and commmunication needs, c) providing support for awareness raising, research and community media training, d) promoting or assisting in the promotion of community media for social development, e) procuring and providing information to government, affiliated organisations and other local, refional and global community media networks on community media issues, f) arranging and providing for the holding of conferences, meetings, exhibitions and lectures, g) providing advocacy assistance to and for the benefit of community media organisations.

Community media.

Objectives are: "a) to promote and support policies and programmes that aim at building local capacity for the promotion of community media among community based organisations, NGOs and other civic movements working in the field of social development, and b) to promote, co-ordinate, extend and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above purposes and to that end bring together in COMEdo national and local representatives of community based organisations, voluntary agencies and others engaged or interested in the furtherance of the above purposes or any of them."