The African Community Radio Manager’s Handbook

This handbook, targeted at station managers and anyone involved in community radio, aims to be a guide on how to manage a community radio station in a sustainable manner.

The handbook does not aim to be prescriptive, but aims to offer guidelines on issues that need to be considered when setting up and operating a community radio station and at what stage of the process they need to be considered. It offers information on the relationships that need to be built with stakeholders and gives ideas on how to make these relationship work better for the station.

The handbook covers guidelines on the following issues:

• How to get the Government to support you
• How to identify what you want to do for the community, then doing that in your radio station
• What is a volunteer
• How to work with volunteer
• How to get the community involved and how to keep them involved
• How to market the station
• What is an audience survey?
• How to make money for your station
• How to keep your station independent
• How to manage conflict
• How to manage change
• How to help a community radio station to grow
• How to make a training plan for the station
• How to solve common problems you may face.