This presentation is related to the community participation, mobilisation issues of community radio. It also includes the capacity building for community radio. The presentation was made at the Community Radio Awareness Consultation at Guwahati on 27.02.2015 organised by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India and One world Foundation, New Delhi.

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Community Mobilisation and
Capacity Building
(Community Radio Awareness Consultation-
MIB & One World – Guwahati on 27.02.15)
Dr Ankuran Dutta
Programme Officer
CEMCA, New Delhi

2. Who is a community?
• A social unit of any size
• Having a particular characteristic in common or
that shares common values
• Having an identity, may be geographical,
political, economic, religious, cultural, or virtual

3. Understanding Community
Defining the term community is a complex concern,
with various diverging perspectives and outlooks.
How can we define the term 'community' in a
simplest yet most comprehensive way?
As we try to understand the term with a slightly
different approach it’s observed ‘community’
comprises of two distinct yet intricately imbibed
phrases- Common and Unity
(Common + Unity = Community)
http://comcomm.blogspot.in/

4. Understanding Community Media
 Community media is any tool of
communication that is made and
controlled by a community. The
characteristics differentiate community
media from commercial media, state
run media, or public media.

5. 3 Basics of Community Radio
• Community Ownership
• Not for profit
• Community Participation/
Mobilsation

6. Community Participation/ Mobilisation
• Management
• Governance
• Policy making
• Operation
• Content Generation
• Content creation
• Gate keeping
• Sustainability
• Financial
• Social
• Feedback

7. Know Your Community
• Ways of community participation-
• Passive participation: phone in programmes, SMS, letters etc.
• Active participation: Identification, production, broadcasting
• Do participatory researches for identifying the issues of the
community
• Train community on pre production, production and post
production stages
• Create awareness on the “Code of Ethics” for broadcasting ( Do
the survey before establishment of the CRS).
• Ensure that programmes are horizontal in nature

8. Capacity Building for the CRS
Focus on basic three areas for capacity
building—
• Programme Production/presentation
• Technology and maintenance
• Management and governance

9. https://www.facebook.com/communitycomms

10. http://cemca.org.in/

11. Thank You
You may contact-
adutta@col.org
ankurandutta@gmail.com
Blog: comcomm.blogspot.in
Web: www.cemca.org.in