Manual for Participatory Radio Campaigns

This publication by Farm Radio International is a revised version of a training manual published to support participatory radio campaigns (PRC) for improved food security for smallholder farmers and their families. It was initiated under the African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI), a project of Farm Radio International which seeks to assess the effectiveness of farm radio on meeting the food security objectives of rural farming households in Africa.

The manual was produced for farm radio broadcasters, specifically for the broadcasters in twenty-five radio stations across Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Tanzania, and Uganda who were planning their second participatory radio campaigns in the summer and fall of 2009 as part of AFRRI. However, the publishers also state that the contents of this manual will be useful for other civil society organisations, researchers, and academics working in the area of food security and agriculture issues.

The manual includes the following chapters:

• About campaigns
• Best practices from PRC1
• Planning the broadcast part of your PRC
• The campaign's four on-air stages
• Afterwards