[FoME] Publikation: Assessing community radio performance - pilot assessment in Nepal

[Christoph Dietz]

Community MHz: assessing community radio performance in Nepal. A pilot
assessment of 15 stations
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of
Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ), 2011, 124 p.

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This document reports on the pilot assessment of 15 community radio
stations – or of radios that claim to be community radios – based on
the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) developed by
the Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC)/ Nepal Forum of Environmental
Journalists (NEFEJ). The CR-PAS
seeks to assess community radio stations in seven performance areas:
participation and ownership, governance, programs, resource structure
and management, station management, financial management and networking.
It uses a set of 60 indicators and is intended to be a practical tool
that the stations could eventually adopt for continuous self-assessment.
Following a brief overview of radio in Nepal, this report provides an
overview of the CR-PAS and the assessment process. Thereafter, it
reports on the findings and analysis both of all the radios that were
assessed and also of individual stations, leading to conclusions and
recommendations. (source: executive summary)