The climate emergency is a challenge of such magnitude that we tend to forget that solutions are often found at the local level and in unexpected places. Such is the case of Radio Stereo Ideal 98.9 FM, a community radio station based in Tena, in Ecuador’s...
Constructive journalism has an important role to play both within and without conflict situations, editor Philip Lee says in the 3/2024 issue of Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal.Such communication can help those outside a conflict situation to better understand what is happening and increase trust...
A WACC-supported project is advancing community radio as a channel for Indigenous communities in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama to advocate for their rights. Run by the Estor Association for Integral Development (AEPDI), a Guatemalan organization supporting Indigenous social justice and development, the project...
A new WACC-supported study underlines the centrality of community radio to bridge communication and information gaps that hinder local communities in the Amazon from actively participating in forming environmental policy.The publication, “Voces de la Amazonia: Diagnóstico Ambiental – Comunicacional de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana, Brasileña y...
A WACC project is backing efforts by the Guatemalan rights organization Asociacion Ixchel to secure Indigenous peoples’ right to freedom of expression, participation in cultural life, and equality before the law through legally sanctioned radio broadcasting. In the peace agreement that brought an end to civil...
WACC has launched Voices of the Amazon, a multi-year project in partnership with the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) that will use community radio to enable grassroots communities in the region to be active participants in developing environmental policy. [caption id="attachment_52954" align="alignleft" width="300"] La...
The work of WACC regional partners strengthens the right to communicate of peoples in different contexts and helps restore their autonomy and human dignity....
To promote awareness about the care and sustainable management of natural resources, especially in rural and peasant communities in Venezuela, WACC has supported a project aimed at strengthening the programming and production capacity of community radio stations, particularly in stories related to gender and the...
Seventy-one Indigenous communicators from 17 community radio stations in Honduras and Guatemala have received extensive training on how to develop new content about issues affecting remote communities as part of a project supported by WACC and Cultural Survival, a US-based NGO. The project also provided specialized...
A WACC-supported project has enhanced the broadcasting capacity of Indigenous radio stations in the Amazon regions of Ecuador and improved the skills of 30 Indigenous citizen reporters who were able to produce content about challenges facing their communities from a human rights perspective. The project, implemented...