UNESCO’s
radio toolkit – Linking Generations through Radio – is an open access
document, which is inspired by children and youth who make up one-third of the
world’s population.
The
majority may listen to radio but the likelihood they are invited to regularly
produce interviews and programmes, express their information needs or their
opinions about productions made for them is very low.
Radio
reaches over 95 per cent of people worldwide and several radio stations in
Africa have more than a million listeners each. One of the benefits of
community radio is that it reaches a wide range of people and addresses the
realities of local life.
Community
radio often speaks in languages ignored by mainstream media and shares vital
information with hard-to-reach audiences.
Children
and young people make up an important percentage of this audience. But young
people’s voices are still not heard in a consistent and recognised way.
The
62-page radio toolkit provides inclusive examples to allow free exchange of
ideas between girls and boys and increase awareness of radio producers and
managers about ethical and legal requirements particularly when working with
minors.
It
may serve as a routine training or programming handbook in radio stations, a
reference and resource for young people, and an advocacy tool to inform policy
makers as well as the general public.
This
toolkit will help you start up a customised youth radio programme that can
be further adapted to the capacity of your radio station and the needs of
your community listeners.
Source: http://en.unesco.org/radioict/linking-generations
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