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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
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Media Development Project - Mozambique

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"Strengthening Democracy and Governance through Development of the Media" is a project implemented by UNESCO to further media pluralism through support to the independent media of Mozambique, decentralisation of the media presently primarily based in Maputo, and capacity building within the press.
Communication Strategies

The project aims to: offer support to emerging independent media initiatives primarily outside Maputo; establish newsrooms in the provinces and printing facilities for the independent press; create 10 community radios in the provinces; train journalists for the independent media, public radio and community radio stations (special attention will be given to gender balance); fund additional transmitters (based on an assessment of how the project can assist Radio Mozambique in its wish to cover 100% of the country); initiate a feasibility study of the media training in the country.
Development Issues

Communication development
Key Points

The destroyed infrastructure of the country and the severe poverty presently means that many areas of the vast country does not receive news and information on a regular basis. The most effective and most widely received medium is the national radio service, Radio Mozambique, which is not even heard everywhere, and in many places only vaguely for an hour or two every day. With literacy rates of 57.7% for men and 23.3% for women (1998 figures), the importance of radio communication based on the spoken word is of particular interest.
Partners



UNDP, UNESCO, Governments of Finland, Norway and Ireland.

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