management resources for community media

Produced by ABC Ulwazi in South Africa, this handbook offers guidelines on setting up, managing and sustaining a community radio station.

• 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.

Download it from: http://www.abculwazi.org.za/jsp/ABC_Ulwazi.jsp

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This article in i4d magazine´s April 2007 issue argues that financial sustainability is possible, but the most important ingredient for this to happen is that the development of community radio stations has to be organic, arising from the community radio stations themselves.

Sustaining community radio

Community Radio Sustainability Project
Financial sustainability presents the greatest challenge to the success of independent radio stations operating in developing countries and is inextricably linked to a news outlet’s ability to preserve its editorial freedom. In these developing countries there is a critical need for gathering and sharing information about the small steps media can take to build their capacity for sustainability.

This guide is intended as the first in a series of guidebooks to equip station managers and staff with management and programming resources for their station. Each guide will include examples and case studies of how the topic has been addressed by stations in Sub-Saharan African countries, including relevant environmental factors and key outcomes.

Guidebook to Sustainability

Principles and Practices
This document has three intended purposes. The first is to provide individual organizations striving for excellence with a tool for strategic planning and operational evaluation relative to the rest of the nonprofit sector. The second is to support the growth and quality of the sector. The third is to increase public understanding of the role and contributions of the nonprofit sector.

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NGO Management Library

Links to materials classified under the following headings:

General Resources
Organisational Development
Performance Management
Managing Finances
Developing Human Resources
Communication and Marketing

Mango: Who Counts?
Financial reporting to beneficiaries improves NGOs’ impact. Using this information beneficiaries can make sure that funds are spent on their real priorities.

Who Counts? is an initiative launched in April 2005 by Mango, a UK registered charity. Mango exists to help NGOs strengthen their financial management by providing training, carefully selected finance staff and guides to good practice.