Governance & Communications: Projects
>Conflict Management through Community Radios
Project time line: From 15/Sep/2004 – To 31/March/2007
Project geographic coverage: Gao, Kidal, Timbuktu
Project objective: To manage destabilizing trends by strengthening the capacity of the private sector to contribute to peace building through increasing access to and community control over information pertinent to the overall education and development of the most isolated populations of Mali.
Project key activities:
• Installation of 10 comprehensive community radio packages (radio stations, 2-way Codan radios, World Space receivers, televisions, satellite dishes, VCRs and reinforce selected existing stations
• Establish income-generating add-on technology to keep the radio stations effective and sustainable
• Strengthening 7 existing radio stations through improved technology and training
• Train selected community members to become managers, radio journalists and radio technicians
• Train local theater groups to develop peace and development messages for radio theater
• Establish listening clubs, encourage youth participation
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>NietaKunafoni (Communications for Development)/HKI
Project time line: 01/01/04 – 03/3/08
Project geographic coverage: National
Project objective:To enhance social capital as the key element of national development by promoting positive change in social, cultural, political, and economic behavior, leading to an improved standard of living for the people of Mali.
Project key activities:
• Capacity strengthening of radio station staff trained and with increased capacity to design and produce radio programs on development topics
• Production and broadcast of 6 major communication campaigns conducted on linked development themes designed, implemented, and evaluated
• Support to listening clubs tested on radio message comprehension
• Creation and support to 18 community multimedia centers (CMC) in radio stations
• Design and technical support of 1 website designed for CMC partners.
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>CLIC –Community Learning and Information Centers
Project time line: September 2005 to January 2007
Project objective: Provide reliable public access to a wide range of development related information through ICT. The community Learning and Information Centers are designed to meet community needs and actively support development objectives of the Government of Mali and USAID/Mali.
Project key activities:
Under the CLIC project, thirteen telecenters have been established across Mali, from Kidal in the north to Kangaba in the south. The CLICs are public fee-for-use access centers where people can use e-mail, Internet, telephone, do word processing, receive computer training, listen to radio via World Space receivers etc. The CLICs are also offering digital, paper-based and audio content in the main strategic objective areas of USAID - namely health, education (teacher training), agribusiness, and civil society/governance. In this regard, the CLICs will also be encouraged to catalyze the development of local content and share this information with the other CLICs.
Each of the CLICs is being sponsored by an SO team at the Mali Mission and is operated by a local Malian organization that corresponds with that SO. It is important to note that all 13 CLICs must offer content in all the SO areas and be open to all residents of their particular communities. The CLICs are also encouraged to partner with local radio stations so as to expand the coverage and impact of the content (and in fact, two of the CLICs are operated by radio stations in Kadiolo at Radio Folona and in Djenne at radio Jamana). Project geographic coverage: Mali :Kangaba, Bougoula, Ouelessebougou, Bougouni, Kadiolo,Bamako, Segou, Macina, Mopti, Djenne, Bandiagara, Gao, Kidal USAID principal contact: Martine Keita CTO
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