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Radio Progress - 'Our voice': the benefit community radio can bring for the development of its audience in the Ghanaian upper West region

Amsterdam: Master Thesis International Development Studies (IDS) Universiteit van Amsterdam (2007), x, 109 pp., 18 tables, 6 illustr., bibliogr. p.100-103
"Some recommendations can be made to Radio Progress and its community. The station seems to provide the Upper West people with what they needed – a voice to make themselves heard and to communicate with each other. Since the research showed that most limitations are due to the restraints in financial stability some stronger effort to receive funding would be advisable. Without undermining the non-profit character, Radio Progress could put more emphasise on some fundraising activities. More financial flexibility could solve most of the limitations the station is facing. Furthermore, the station board should pay more attention to a stable coordination of the station. The formerly absent and recently not existing coordination might bear negative impact on the staff motivation. Moreover, this rather unorganised coordination possibly restricts a consequent performance and a stringent development of the programming as well as potential improvement strategies. Some advice can be addressed to the listening communities. The research showed how vital the listeners handle information and educative input they receive through the station and as such also from other villages. By internal clustering of information and output through internal reflection they could even intensify the mutual learning effect the programming offers. Communities could form a committee to which people can address their grievances, demands and ideas on a frequent basis and which could present these collected information to the station. Such an organised information collection and transfer could overcome a crucial obstacle to participate for many people - the restriction to call or visit the station on their own." (Recommendations, p.98)
Contents
1 Research Background, 1
2 Conceptual approach, 21
3 Methodology, 33
4 Research context, 45
5 Radio Progress and its community: a beneficial interaction? 54
6 Conclusion, 90
Recommendations, 98