Empowerment Radio: Voices Building a Community

Based on the author's experience in working with community radio around the world, this book has been written "with a desire to share powerful insights and experiences that can help get a genuine community radio off the ground - and keep it on air." It offers a step-by-step guide to key concepts and practical aspects that are essential for creating community radios that are sustainable, community-run, well managed, and an effective platform for the community's voice to be heard.
The book includes the following chapters:

• Sustainable community radio for development
• Preparation - The community organises
• Establishment - The radio takes shape
• Strengthening - Building long-term sustainability for empowerment
• Enablers and facilitators - The enabling environment

According to the author, the main intention of this book is to help all participants interested in supporting community radio for empowerment to get it right, learn from the experience of others, be inspired by examples from other areas, and avoid the many potential pitfalls on the way. It is written for everyone interested in ways of turning community radio into a tool for development and empowerment.