It's Your Life

Communications strategies included:

• Linking community radio stations with local organisations active in the field of RH and rights
• Identifying RH issues relevant to the local communities
• Producing a series of radio programmes in Venda and Pedi based on these issues
• Distributing these programmes to participating community radio stations in the Limpopo province for broadcast in December 2003
• Training presenters/producers on radio programmes to combine the series with open microphone programmes, phone-in programmes, interviews, and discussion panels
• Training NGOs in how to work with community radio stations and to provide a platform for further collaboration with WPF

Reproductive Health, Rights.

According to organisers, "The project succeeded in forming a close bond between the community radio stations and the major NGO's as well as creating entertaining and educational radio material to inform and educate the public about reproductive rights." They claim that, through the project, radio stations gained a better understanding of RH and rights issues, while NGOs gained a better understanding of the participative nature of community radio. This synchronicity, they say, will be enhanced by the development of listeners' clubs. They also hope that the training sessions will provide a paradigm for ABC Ulwazi to develop in the future; the input of the NGO's and community radio stations was invaluable.