On December 10, 2009, CMFD participated in the launch of a new campaign, Score a Goal for Gender Equality, spearheaded by Gender Links and the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC).
Radio for Peacebuilding Africa recently awarded CMFD's six-part serial drama Crossroads winner of the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards Special Category.
Serial radio drama to encourage good governance and civic participation in Mozambique
Background
CMFD is undertaking a project to create a lively and engaging serial radio drama that uses entertainment-education to promote and discuss governance issues. Within the context of the Community Multimedia Centre initiative in Mozambique, the project will produce content to support community media broadcasts related to local development. The specific objectives are to produce, record and disseminate a 13-part radio drama on democracy and human rights in Portuguese and 2 local languages. Topics to be addressed are: democracy, human rights, civic participation, transparency, accountability, right to information and freedom of expression. The drama will promote empowerment of vulnerable groups such as women and children through the composition of strong character types. The purpose of this activity is to raise awareness on democracy and human rights and promote civic participation in development processes. Dovetailed to this, sustainability of community media will be enhanced through the dissemination of content.
The objective of this initiative is to give a voice to those most affected by landmines, as a strategy to continue raising awareness about landmines as a challenge in Mozambique. Since many of the most affected areas are away from urban centres, these views and voices are sometimes forgotten. This could include survivors, those who have lost families to landmines, communities affected by agricultural loss, etc.
The "Together We Can End Human Trafficking" radio spots were produced to raise awareness about human trafficking and to provide information about where to report suspected cases of trafficking during and after the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. CMFD organised, recording and produced these spots as part of a communications campaign spearheaded by Gender Links, held in partnership with the Red Light 2010 Campaign (network of organisations including SANTAC, WLSA), the National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) and supported by IOM and Oxfam GB.
They were getting ready for the big game. He sounded the warning, but they thought he was joking. And when it happened, they risked losing it all! As the waters rise, so do the treachery, conflicts and dangers. Ride the rapids of love and hatred, greed and honour. Follow the lives of a community torn apart by an event completely beyond their control!
Bravos do Zambeze (‘Zambezi Braves’) is a multi-faceted initiative that combines a high quality 26-episode radio drama with training for community radio journalists, in order to convey information around disaster risk reduction and build local capacity for reporting on disasters and climate change. The project was produced by CMFD for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), as part of the UN Delivering as One, Joint Programme on Disaster Risk Reduction Project.
Speaking out on landmines
