Community Radio - The People's Voice

The "Community Radio - The People's Voice" handbook aims to offer guidelines on setting up, managing, and sustaining a community radio station.

The manual looks at how community radio can be used as a tool in social and economic transformation, and how it can fill the gap between the public and commercial broadcasters, especially at the grassroots level.

This manual is meant to be a reference tool, and offers theoretical and concrete principles to anyone involved in or wishing to be a part of community radio and its role in rebuilding civil society from the ground up.

The handbook:

• Explores the differences and similarities between commercial and community radio stations, explaining the unique position of community radio in South Africa, and highlighting its role as a tool for development.
• Offers extensive guidelines on how to manage a community radio station, and outlines the roles that each employee or volunteer plays in the station.
• Explores issues relating to effective and ethical reporting.
• Shows how community radio is pivotal to educating people about their human rights.
• Details the main processes in producing programmes on a minimum budget.
• Outlines the serious issue of sustainability and offers guidelines on working toward making your community radio station sustainable.

The hanbook covers the following chapters:
(click on each chapter to download the sections in PDF format)

• Cover
• Introduction
  How you can use this guide effectively
• Chapter 1
  What is community radio?
• Chapter 2
  Why human rights are essential
• Chapter 3
  Managing a community radio station
• Chapter 4
  What community radio journalism involves
• Chapter 5
  Why production is the heart and soul of radio!
• Chapter 6
  How to make your station self-sustainable