Central African Republic
Internews’ 18-month intervention in Central African Republic has for the first time linked existing community radio stations into an effective humanitarian communication network. Internews partners with 15 radio stations which communicate through a coordination center managed by the Association for Journalists on Human Rights, another local Internews partner. This community radio network now covers almost all of CAR, and has resulted in an effective two-way flow of information between the local and humanitarian communities. The Internews-supported network provides humanitarian organisations with timely, and in some cases the only, information from remote areas. The radio stations are new players in the local media landscape, and are owned and managed by their communities. With Internews’ support they are effectively communicating about the most pressing issues in CAR; peace, food security, access to basic services, health, religion and education.
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