Marketplace

The Market Place

This was the place for all organizations to show their colleagues who they are and what they are doing. The marketplace gave participants the opportunity to display posters, brochures, videos, etc. on your work.

The Ultimate Truth: Life as Lived by Women in Pakistan

Tahera Aftab

This short documentary, traces the lives of women and children through a series of interviews with 'actual women' in 'real circumstances'. It presents the issues of gender, poverty, health, and an overall chaos impacting Pakistan's civil society. Contrary to the predominant image of Pakistani women as silent beings, shrouded in a head-to-foot cover, the lens projects women's struggle to seek remedies for their ailing bodies and stressed minds in ways that put to shame development wizards. It shows how women are forced to struggle with the never-ending tension between tradition, belief and modernity. It brings women's own voices, saying loudly and clearly, how they cope with the tyranny of living a life in a society which does ignores their existence. While the State of Pakistan celebrates its nuclear- power status and its culture its feudal-tribal heritage, majority of women are left either to bargain with patriarchy or to pawn their self-respect to buy a few moments of relief. The video shows how development has worked or has not worked. It leaves the viewer with the unanswered question: How should 'development' be developed in societies such as that of Pakistan?

Pagu - Documentation Center: a Brazilian experience on the documentation of women issues

Sandra Infurna Pagu is a pioneer initiative created in 1996 from the material gathered during many years of the feminist movement in Brazil through the work of two non-governmental organizations REDEH - Human Development Network and CEMINA - Communication, Education and Information on Gender, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The documentation was organized using a software given by Unesco (MicroIsis) and the vocabulary of the Women´s Thesaurus, from the Women´s Institute in Spain, adapted to the national reality. The databases with all the documentation are at the general public disposal at the documentation center and in the internet. The documentation center open daily and its attended by students, researchers, non-governmental organizations, and press professionals. Pagu´s site was developed in 2001 - http://www.pagu.org.br. In the site the public can access the databases, texts and publications from REDEH e CEMINA as well as an informative newsletter.

AMARC African Network

Lettie Longwe

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is a global non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement. Its goal is to support and advocate the development of community and participatory radio on the principles of solidarity and international cooperation. Created in 1983, AMARC now has nearly 3,000 members in 106 countries. Its International headquarters is in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and it has regional coordination in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America and Oceania.

AMARC African Network

The AMARC African Network aims at implementing a four-point plan of action:

1. Support the development of a legal, political and cultural environment conducive to participatory radio broadcasting
2. Develop human resources and materials in community radio set-up, management, production and technology
3. Promote African women's access to and participation in all aspects of community radio
4. Build and coordinate the regional network of radio broadcasters.
This network will be a means of distributing information; bringing together various experiences; transferring skills within the network; and bringing African affiliates to the International Solidarity Network.

AMARC Africa activities

Women's Programme
Members of this network benefit from specific services and seminars analysing the place and role of women in the community radio sector and how gender issues should be addressed in community radio.

Training programme
At the request of its members, AMARC offers training workshops in radio production, technical training, management and the development of legislation favouring community radio, networking, fundraising and marketing. AMARC puts emphasis on training the trainers and developing training methodologies and tools. The training sessions could be in local (''in house training''), national, sub-regional or regional basis.

New Technology Programme
The new technology program is to enhance community radio stations to access to new technology.

Training
Amarc Africa also provides training on Internet, radio in the Internet and digital broadcasting.

Communication Programme
This programme aims to reinforce the communication policy between the Office and its members. For this purpose a communication strategy is being designed and contribute to enhance the dynamic of our services to members. Following are some of the activities that this programme provided in order to provide members with relevant information happening in the sector.

Advocacy and Legislation Programme
AMARC is also involved in lobbying for favourable legislative environments through consultative workshops on community radio with stakeholders and awareness seminars in what we identify as ''difficult countries''.

Exchange Programme
Exchange of radio production:
AMARC Africa is involved in the distribution of radio series produced by local partners. The regional Office of AMARC Africa sent out a memorandum to members inviting them to send a request should they be interested in promoting the series by using them or re-broadcasting them into their local languages to enable their listeners to better understand challenges and prospects behind the human rights and democratisation issues in Africa.
Exchange of visitors programme:
Amarc Africa is also promoting the exchange of ideas and experience among its members. Community radio stations or radio initiatives are selected to visits countries where community radio has had a great development or successful impact in many aspects.

Publications

• What is community radio'' a guide for community radio projects and newly established stations.
• A user guide on legislations and frequencies allocations by country is in preparation.
• Amarc Africa review is a quarterly review on the state of CR in Africa.
• InteRadio is a biannual newsletter on community radio and the democratization of communications published by the International office. AMARC-Link is a bimonthly bulletin on AMARC's activities and projects. These publications are being distributed to the African members by International office.

AMARC occasionally support radio stations in countries under conditions of war or serious social crisis.

AMARC Africa through its women in community radio programme (WIN) is interested to participate at the Kampala Know How Conference 2002. The conference will be a good platform for women from cross-cultural world to share information and experiences.

AMARC at the Marketplace: At this stand, AMARC WIN will display posters, brochures, CDs, tapes, books, magazines, newsletters, members directory, training manual and many others. The staff on hand will also be available to demonstrate and give more information on different AMARC activities. At the same time, a presentation can be made at the stand on specific activities programmes that are being run to help empower women in community radio. Membership forms will also be available for those who would be interested to join the network on the spot.

Highlighting Successes; Connecting People and Programs: A Web-Based Newsletter for Organizational Communication By Dee Shore

This poster will highlight Extension On-Line News, a Web-based newsletter that helps share news and information across the North Carolina Cooperative Extension network of 1,000 employees in more than 100 locations across 53,821 square miles. For decades, a quarterly organizational newsletter served as the primary means of sharing organizational news and ideas, including those pertaining to educational programs for women. But the newsletter took several weeks to produce, and so information often wasn't timely. In 1997, when all the state's Extension locations gained access to the Internet, the Communication Services Department began producing a Web-based newsletter. By using the Internet, news editors were able to share more information faster than ever before and to include eye-catching color photos and links to additional resources that would aid extension educators. Today, each issue has more than 600 readers, and formal surveys and informal feedback tell us that employees value the information this communications tool.