AMARC ANNUAL REPORT 2007

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World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC

International Secretariat
Editor Marcelo Solervicens
Secretary General
705, Bourget, suite 100
Montral (Qubec) Canada H4C 2M6

http://amarc.org

Thanks to:
Oxfam Novib, Netherlands
Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA
Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED)
Novib-Oxfam Netherlands
Australian Agency for International Developmennt
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC
Organisation catholique canadienne pour le dveloppement et la paix 30 000
Centre de recherche pour le dveloppement internationale (CRDI)
UNESCO
Ford Foundation
Open Society Institute
British Council
Global Knowledge Partnership
Service public fdral Affaires trangres, Commerce extrieur et Coopration au
dveloppement (Belgium)
Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Henrich Bll Foundation
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
The Indonesian International Education Foundation
Institut of International Education (Ford Foundation)
Royaume du Maroc, Ministre de la Communication
Mama Cash

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AMARC GOAL AND STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVES FOR 2007-2010

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC, undertook in 2006, a
comprehensive and participatory global impact assessment and evaluation, in the field
of communications for development (C4D), aimed at removing the barriers and
increasing the effectiveness of community radio and specifically of AMARC, in
achieving social and development goals.
More than 450 CR stakeholders from 97 countries gathered at the AMARC9 World
Conference set the course for Implementing the Results of the Global and
Comprehensive Community Radio Sector Evaluation. The Amman Declaration, the
Strategic plan 2007-2010 and the resolutions taken by the participants including the
development of an harmonization process of AMARC structures were breakdown
decisions
communication
for
development
under
AMARC
perspective.
(http://amarc9.amarc.org )
AMARCs main goal, is to provide information and support the development of
community radio globally so that partner broadcasters can develop programmes and
carry out activities that contribute to greater understanding of key issues, poverty
reduction, the elimination of discrimination against women and other minorities, and
that help empower poor communities to increase the effectiveness of CR and
particularly of AMARC, as a global, association, NGO and network, in reducing poverty,
exclusion and voicelessness and in promoting social justice and sustainable,
democratic and participatory development .
The core programme priorities adopted by members are as follows:
1. Advocacy and policy research: To achieve improvement in the policy, legal and
regulatory environment for community media and for the right of independent
broadcasters to communicate so they can work on social development issues.
2. Knowledge sharing and capacity building: To strengthen the sustainability,
effectiveness and relevance of community media and to increase the appropriation
of community media by excluded and marginalized communities to better identify,
discuss, articulate and voice their development concerns;
3. Content exchange and social action campaigns: To amplify the voices of the
excluded and marginalized on key issues in sustainable democratic development
and to strengthen South-centered perspectives;
4. Gender equality and womens rights: To promote womens voices and rights, to
combat gender-based discrimination and to strengthen womens participation in
community media at all levels; and
5. Network development and communication: To strengthen AMARCs structure and
functioning, to strength country, regional and international networking and
communication within the community media sector and to strengthen alliances
between community media and other networks and social movements.

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THE JOINT DECLARATION ON DIVERSITY OF BROADCASTING

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC saluted as one of the
most important specific contributions to the recognition of community media, the
Joint Declaration on Diversity of Broadcasting signed by the four special mandates on
freedom of expression the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and
Expression, Ambeyi Ligabo; Miklos Haraszti, the Representative on Freedom of the
Media of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe OSCE, Miklos
Haraszti; Ignacio Alvarez, The OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and
Faith Pansy Tlakula, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression African
Commission for Human and Peoples Rights, ACHPR.
The Joint Declaration stresses the fundamental importance of diversity in the media to
the free flow of information and ideas in society, in terms of both giving voice to and
satisfying the information needs and other interests of all, as protected by
international guarantees of the right to freedom of expression. The Declaration
recognises the varied contributions that different types of broadcasters commercial,
public service and community as well as broadcasters of different reach local,
national, regional and international - make to diversity. This last annual meeting of
the special mandates on freedom of expression with NGOs, academics and other
experts was held in Amsterdam on 7-8 December under the auspices of ARTICLE 19,
Global Campaign for Free Expression, assisted by the Institute for Information Law,
University of Amsterdam.
AMARC shares the concern of the Joint Declaration on Diversity of Broadcasting on the
failure of many countries to recognise community broadcasting as a distinct type of
broadcasting and salutes its call promoting that Community broadcasting should be
explicitly recognised in law as a distinct form of broadcasting, should benefit from fair
and simple licensing procedures, should not meet stringent technological or other
licensing criteria, should benefit from concessionary licence fees and should have
access to advertising.

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COMMUNITY RADIO SOCIAL IMPACT: MONITORING THE MAKING OF

A BETTER WORLD
AMARC conducted in a 2006 a long-range world-wide participatory action
research seeking to identify the barriers that limit the potential positive impact
of community radio and explore ways to increase the effectiveness of
community radio in achieving poverty reduction, development objectives,
inclusiveness and democracy building in local communities.
The evaluation process highlighted that communities have sought in community
radio a means to express their own issues, concerns, cultures and languages.
Community ownership of the media and participation in programming has led
to communication processes that have effectively empowered local actors to
achieve poverty reduction, forward development objectives, encourage
inclusiveness and participation, peace building, good governance and
accountability. AMARC and other stakeholders have contributed strongly to the
expansion of scattered CR experiences into a dynamic and diverse global sector
of broadcasting that has become an alternative to commercial and state owned
media, which often neglect representation of the poor, the marginalized
particularly women. AMARC plays a leading role in the worldwide CR movement
for its perception of what CR should be, for its accumulated expertise and the
extension of its network of more than 3000 members from 110 countries
The evaluation process pointed to the lack of proper enabling legislation as the
single most important barrier to increased effectiveness of CR social impact. It
has also revealed the rich experience of CR movement and the need to
encourage exchanges of best experiences in order to better highlight CR social
impact. There is need for appropriate tools and indicators to evaluate CR social
impact that go beyond information dissemination indicators or small project
impact in individuals. Some specific experiences point to the need for further
research on how to increase the effectiveness of CR. To do so, the most
important challenge is to embed participatory monitoring and evaluation across
the CR network
The last AMARC 9 World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters held in
Amman Jordan in November 2006, received the first findings of the evaluation
process and defined strategic lines of action for 2007-2010 seeking to reinforce
the CR movement by removing barriers and establishing conditions for
increasing its effectiveness. (see Strategic_Plan-2007-2010) AMARC challenge
for the next months and years is to disseminate and continue discussion on the
findings and to embed within our network the need to evaluate how can we
further the potential of the CR movement to make a better world possible.
There is also the need to better coordinate AMARC strategies and activities at
the international, regional and country levels within the CR movement and
with civil society partners. AMARC bodies have started joint coordination
efforts in that perspective.
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WOMEN AND GOOD GOVERNANCE THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO

Many experiences have documented how raising the awareness of women on
political processes creates possibilities for their greater involvement in
democracy building which, in turn, can lead to both the empowerment of
women and poverty reduction. But women who suffer more from poverty than
men are systematically discriminated by institutions and lack information on
how community political processes work so, most of the time, they are poorly
equipped to fully participate in insuring good governance in their communities
and societies. The articles gathered from several action-research seminars
conducted by AMARC reveal the challenges for women access to the media and
how important their role can become in building good governance.
The womens movement has long recognized the important role that media
community radio in particular plays in shaping the values of society. As early
as four decades ago, when the introduction of transistors made it possible for
people from lower income groups to acquire radio units, womens groups
actively engaged in this medium to address womens issues, such as sexuality,
advocacy for women, and children in conflict. Over the years, womens
organizations in many countries have used community radio to advance their
issues through the governance process, but others have still not learned about
the power of community radio.
The action research Womens Empowerment and Good Governance through
Community Radio seeks to enhance the effectiveness of community radio as a
key communications vehicle permitting womens citizenship participation in
the governance of their communities and societies. It also leads to
inclusiveness by helping women access to CR and thus increases community
ownership of CR.
There is need is to increase women voices if we want to make governments and
institutions accountable, more transparent, inclusive and responsive to
citizens. A key aspect of women empowerment is to facilitate the participation
of women in poverty reduction strategies in their communities. The Seminar on
Women and Good Governance through Community Radio to be held in Malaysia,
December 12, is part of a two-year action research process seeking to address
the challenges surrounding womens participation in democracy building. By
highlighting and facilitating knowledge sharing of case studies and best
experiences of women practitioners we want to increase the possibilities for
women participation in democratic processes through community radio.
This action-research has also highlighted the challenges to gender equality
within the Community Radio Movement itself and has allowed for exploring the
mechanisms to increase womens participation in Community Radio. This is a
key governance challenge to the community radio global network.

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AMARC HARMONIZES ITS STRUCTURES TO INCREASE ITS NETWROK

EFFECTIVENESS
In the last World Assembly of AMARC the members adopted the Strategic Plan
of our network for 2007-2020 with the intention of contributing to increase the
social impact of community radio in in reducing poverty, exclusion and
voicelessness. In order for the strategic plan to be coherent with the global and
local priorities the members also decided to recommend initiating a process of
harmonisation that the action plan would become grounded in a mutually
agreed operational plan among the regions that make up our world network
and to encourage to common objectives that are complementary with the
strategic objectives of the regions. This process started in 2007 is leading to a
joint and participatory process that allows to each one of the regions to
contribute with specific actions to the strategic plan and, at the same time, to
reinforce the network as a global social movement.
The needs for this harmonization process were clearly highlighted during the
Global evaluation of the social impact of Community Radio and followed by a
resolution by AMARC members present at the AMARC 9 World Conference of
Community Radio Broadcasters held in Amman, Jordan 11-17 November 2006.
The implementation of the Resolution on AMARC structure, functioning and
effectiveness informed was launched by the IBOD of AMARC in Nairobi in its
meeting from 25-27 January.
The purpose of the harmonisation is to build together our operational plan so
that we can harmonise our regional plans with the strategic plan of the
network, increasing its effectiveness. This process requires to Improve
coordination between the International and regional sections of AMARC; to
explore how to increase the social impact of CR and of AMARC by establishing a
collaborative approach based in the use of annual strategic plans of activities
and financing; and to agree on a number of tools and mechanisms of good
governance through our network that will facilitate a collaborative approach
among the different levels of intervention of AMARC.
The harmonisation process set the ground in 2007 for greater coherence and
consistency of AMARC interventions at the Global, regional and country level,
increasing partnerships and the social impact of AMARC and CR movement
while respecting a decentralized delivery framework. It has permitted the
network to advance in establishing a collaborative process between political
and operational instances and between regions in order to better use financial
resources, establishing a coherent relationship with the donor community. It
has also allowed to start harmonising the information & reporting systems in
order to increase the profile of AMARC as a grassroots organization present at
global, regional and local levels.

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OVERVIEW OF AMARC ACTIVITIES IN 2007

I.- INCREASED RECOGNITION FOR COMMUNITY RADIO SECTOR
AMARC increased its advocacy work to consolidate the increasing recognition of CR as
an effective world tier of communication and increased its efforts to create an
enabling environment for CR development. Key elements, were the legal recognition
of CR in Uruguay; the recognition by the five UN mandates on Freedom of Expression,
on
the
need
to
recognize
CR.
http://wiki.amarc.org/?action=shownews&id=901&lang=EN . AMARC in Uruguay
organized the General assembly of the International Freedom of Expression exchange
in October. It also conducted a series of seminars in relation to advocacy and policy
research, in Montevideo, in April, in Bilbao, in October and in Rabat in October. 56
country reports were updated and AMARC LAC produced a documents on basic
principles for a Democratic CR legislation.
Key advances in terms of advocacy and policy research are the increased presence in
international Fora. On this regards some highlights are, the increasing AMARC presence
in the ITU and the creation of a working committee on digital radio impact for CR.
AMARC also has been participating in the implementation of the WSIS lines of action by
UNESCO. We have also reinforced our relations with the ECOSOC and maintained the
presence in the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
In disseminating ICT and CR to the development community, AMARC has had a larger
presence in the World Social Forum activities and in its International Council; AMARC
as continued with an active participation in the Building Communications
Opportunities, BCO, (production of papers on CR social Impact in Nepal). AMARC has
also been active within the Global Knowledge Partnership, GKP, actively participating
in the GK3 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. as well as with other coalitions reinforcing the
relationship between AMARC members and C4D movements and NGO or stakeholders
coalitions.
ADVOCACY FOR COMMUNITY RADIO AND POLICY RESEARCH PROGRAMME
The objective (planned outcome) of this programme is to achieve improvement in the
policy, legal and regulatory environment for access to communications by the poor and
marginalized.
AMARC achieved this objective for the period through increased voice and
strengthened advocacy for community media at the national, regional and
international level supported by policy-oriented research and monitoring.
Making the voices of the poor heard in international Fora
January, the ITU Meeting in Geneva;
Emmanuel Boutherin of the SNRL participated on behalf of AMARC on the ITU meeting
in Geneva 20-23 January . He has distributed material to the informal committee on

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the ITU. A taskforce has been created by the IBOD to follow-up the digitalisation
process that will be affecting community radio spectrum allocation in the future
February. AMARC updates status with ECOSOC
The International Secretariat updated its status with UN ECOSOC, with the
presentation of its reports of activities.
March. Seminar on Good Policy and Legislation in Uruguay.
The 26-27 March there was an international seminar on good legislations models for
Community Radios organized by the legislation program of AMARC LAC, with the
participation as invitee of AMARC president. The Seminar was highlighted and some
information distributed. The president participated on behalf of AMARC international.
April. OURMedia Conference in Australia
From April 9-13 AMARC representatives from Asia Pacific, as well as from Africa and
Latin America participated in the OURMedia Conference. The presentations of AMARC
participants have been uploaded to our website and an email to all has been sent to
highlight the existence of new infos in our website.
Several dates: UNESCO 2nd WSIS follow-up meetings
AMARC representatives participated in the WSIS follow-up meetings of UNESCO and
ensured follow-up of CR recognition in the pocess.
October. IFEX Meeting in Uruguay.
AMARC LAC hosted the General assembly of IFEX in Uruguay in November 2007. These
meeting highlighted the increasing recognition by the FoE community for Community
Radio.
Participation in the Mission to Sri Lanka and Nepal
AMARC participated in the international mission to Sri Lanka and to Nepal, organised
by International Media Support. A report on the findings of the mission was issued.
October. The Rabat Roundtable of AMARC /
In Rabat for October 25, the Roundtable with partners was held (There were 32
participants as a whole. The Roundtable allowed for exchanges with partners on
AMARC priorities and the ways to reinforce the priorities of AMARC and the ways to
deepen the relations.
October. Publication of the Declaration of Rabat
At the AMARC Africa and MENA conference, the participants issued the Rabat
Declaration calling for the recognition of community radio by governments particularly
in the MENA region.
November. The Bilbao Meeting.
In Bilbao, Spain, there was a meeting of CR advocates from Latin America, Africa, Asia
and Europe. The meeting allowed to review the principles for a democratic legislation
for CR being prepared by the legislation programme of Latin America & Caribbean.

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December. The Joint Declaration on Diversity in Broadcasting

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC saluted as an
important specific contribution to the recognition of community media of the Joint
Declaration on Diversity of Broadcasting signed by the four special mandates on
freedom of expression the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and
Expression, Ambeyi Ligabo; Miklos Haraszti, the Representative on Freedom of the
Media of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe OSCE, Miklos
Haraszti; Ignacio Alvarez, The OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and
Faith Pansy Tlakula, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression African
Commission for Human and Peoples Rights, ACHPR.
The Joint Declaration stresses the fundamental importance of diversity in the media to
the free flow of information and ideas in society, in terms of both giving voice to and
satisfying the information needs and other interests of all, as protected by
international guarantees of the right to freedom of expression. The Declaration
recognises the varied contributions that different types of broadcasters commercial,
public service and community as well as broadcasters of different reach local,
national, regional and international - make to diversity. This last annual meeting of
the special mandates on freedom of expression with NGOs, academics and other
experts was held in Amsterdam on 7-8 December under the auspices of ARTICLE 19,
Global Campaign for Free Expression, assisted by the Institute for Information Law,
University of Amsterdam. AMARC shares the concern of the Joint Declaration on
Diversity of Broadcasting on the failure of many countries to recognise community
broadcasting as a distinct type of broadcasting and salutes its call promoting that
Community broadcasting should be explicitly recognised in law as a distinct form of
broadcasting, should benefit from fair and simple licensing procedures, should not
meet stringent technological or other licensing criteria, should benefit from
concessionary licence fees and should have access to advertising. The World
Association of Community Radio Broadcasters is an international non-governmental
organisation serving the community radio movement. AMARC links in a worldwide
network more than 3000 community radios in over 110 countries through direct
membership and national federations. As a network for exchange and solidarity,
AMARC advocates, defends and promotes the recognition of the community radio
sector worldwide. For further information on AMARC visit: http://amarc.org
Participation in the International Council of the WSF
AMARC at the International Council of the World Social Forum
AMARC representative participated in two meetings of the International Council of the
WSF. (Nairobi, in January ad April in Germany. AMARC supported the call for a
mobilisation Day for January 26, 2008.

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II.- REINFORCING THE VOICES OF THE EXCLUDED THROUGH

COMMUNITY RADIO ACTIVITIES IN 2007
AMARC efforts on capacity building and knowledge sharing as well as in content
development and exchange to become an important actor so that the voices of the
poor and excluded, particularly women are heard.
AMARC has conducted training for trainers activities on the use of ICTs in Global and
regional campaigns in order to let the voices of the poor heard internationally; and
facilitated knowledge exchange activities among regions to reinforce the effectiveness
of CR. This was done at the WSF held in Nairobi, Kenya, in January, for the AMARC
Africa MENA Conference held in Rabat, and at the GK3 gathering in December 11-13 in
Kuala Lumpur.
Furthermore an action-research process on Women and good governance through
community radio permitted to increase knowledge sharing and facilitate access the
excluded to CR and to use CR for Women empowerment by highlighting best
experiences. A manual for the use of ICTs in world broadcasting campaigns has been
produced and used for t4T at the AMARC Africa MENA Conference in October in
Morocco.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME
The objective of this programme is to strengthen the sustainability, effectiveness and
relevance of community media and to increase the appropriation of community media
by poor and marginalized communities to better identify, discuss, articulate and voice
their development concerns.
This objective was achieved by building the capacity and capabilities of community
media practitioners (managers, producers and journalists) through training, knowledge
sharing and technical support.
This Action line includes the following activities in 2008:
Content Activities at the WSF in Nairobi
AMARC held all planned seminars at the World Social Forum. They included Women
and good governance, impact evaluation of CR, Gender sensitive programming and
mentoring on the use of ICT in broadcast campaigns and in CR. The objectives were
achieved thanks to uploading the presentation to the internet and distribution in our
network and with partners giving a good image of our participation in the WSF.
OURMedia Conference in Australia.
From April 9-13 AMARC representatives from Asia Pacific, as well as from Africa and
Latin America (Gustavo Gomez) participated in the OURMedia Conference. The
presentations of AMARC participants were uploaded to our website and an email to all
has been sent to highlight the existence of new informations in our website. To see
the
presentations
of
AMARC
representatives,
please
visit
:

http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=OURMedia

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AMARC Africa and MENA Conference: Sharing Experiences for Development and
Democracy Building from the Grassroots.
More than 140 participants were gathered in Rabat, Morocco, from October 22-24 in
Rabat, Morocco, for the First AMARC AFRICA-MENA Conference: Sharing Experiences
for development and democracy building from the grassroots. They issued the Rabat
Declaration calling governments to recognise community media in their legislations.
The Conference was organized by the World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC) Africa, the UNESCO Office in Rabat and the ORBICOM/UNESCO
Chair in Public and Community Communication. The conference reflected on how
AMARC can most effectively contribute to increase the impact of community radio in
Sub-Sahara Africa as well as how to transfer its rich African experience to the MENA
region in order to strengthen community media as an important factor for democracy
building. The participants exchanged on the situation of community radio in their
respective countries and on the contribution of the community radio concerning key
issues such as the democratization of societies, the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG), and the resolution of the conflict situations. AMARC Africa
held a special general assembly to define the process of reconstruction of the AMARC
network in Africa and the MENA working group held a meeting to plan for the
organisation of the work in the North of Africa and in the Middle East. For information
visit: http://africa.amarc.org/africa-mena-conference
AMARC GK3 Activities and Workshop on Women and Governance /
The 3rd Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) was one of the most important
knowledge sharing and creative development conferences in the world It was held in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 11 -13 December 2007. Themed "Emerging People,
Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies," GK3 was a dynamic event focused on the
future. The GK3 Conference explored concrete solutions and possibilities within the
inter-play, interface and interweaving of issues related to the Knowledge for
Development (K4D) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development
(ICT4D) in the context of our globally evolving societies, economies and technologies
worldwide. The multi-stake holder Conference gathered more than 1500 participants
from all over the world to reflect on ICT4D and on knowledge and information sharing
as the way of the future for a truly democratic and inclusive information society. The
AMARC delegation of 45 community radio journalists and representatives participated
in the coverage of the event and held several seminars. Of particular importance was
the seminar on Women empowerment and Good Governance through Community
Radio. For information on AMARC Activities at the GK3 Conference visit:
http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=Global_Knowledge_Conference_GK3&l=EN

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III. AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF THE EXCLUDED AND REINFORCING

CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIONS IN 2007
AMARC has contributed to amplify the voices of the excluded and marginalized on key
issues in sustainable democratic development and to strengthen South-centered
perspectives
Among other activities, AMARC has contributed to the coverage of the WSF in Nairobi,
the March 8 (Woman International Day) and 21 March (International for the Elimination
of all forms of Discrimination) campaigns, the 16 Days Against Gender Violence; as
well as to regionally organized activities in Europe for the G8 in Germany, in the US
for the US Social Forum, in Canada for the Montebello Summit and the Quebecois
social Forum and coverage at the AMARC Africa MENA Conference in Rabat, Morocco,
at the GK3 Conference in Malaysia and at the 16 days global campaign against gender
violence.
AMARC has increased its effectiveness in developing facilitation of content exchange
programs through not only information agencies, like pulsar, but also as interactive
platforms for CR. There is more to done to develop global content exchange activities
in issues of global importance, such as the water and sanitation, the environment, on
the day against poverty and other thematic subjects, where content exchange and
social action campaigns should increase the social impact of CR movement in
development.
CONTENT EXCHANGE AND SOCIAL ACTION CAMPAIGNS PROGRAMME
The objective of this programme is to strengthen the sustainability, effectiveness and
relevance of community media and to increase the appropriation of community media
by poor and marginalized communities to better identify, discuss, articulate and voice
their development concerns.
The objective was achieved in 2007 by building the capacity and capabilities of
community media practitioners (managers, producers and journalists) through
training, knowledge sharing and technical support.
This programme included the following activities for 2007:
January. Coverage of the WSF 2007
Coverage of the first WSF hed in Africa was appropriate although local organisers had
difficulty in properly organising the activities an connectivty was not the best. The
disorganization of AMARC Africa was a handicap. The programs produced and
distributed gave a good presence to AMARC.
March 8 Global Broadcast Campaign.
8 March was held with more success than ever, with almost 24 hours of broadcasting
the world campaign with the theme decided by the WIN for this 8 March, and
coordinated by the International Secretariat. (See report for further details). This
activity was financially supported by CIDA and by SDC.

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March 21st. The Radio Voices Without Frontiers Campaign

This year we held for 9th time the Radio Without Frontiers campaign against racism
and discrimination. On March 21, UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, community radio stations across North America, Europe, Africa, Latin
America, Asia Pacific and the MENA region, devoted a day of broadcast focusing on
issues concerning racism, such as discrimination against women, children, refugees,
and the disabled. Multilingual programming for this day was transmitted all around the
world using AMARC RVSF Website. The broadcast was carried via web stream and
rebroadcast by stations.
The 2007 edition of the March 21 Voices without Frontiers strengthened the network of
exchanges between community radios around the world. Working with close
cooperation with AMARC affiliate networks around the globe, as well as dozens of local
stations, AMARC International Secretariat coordinated this initiative that targeted an
audience of more than 2 millions listeners worldwide in French, English, and Spanish.
Programming contributions were also received in several other languages, including
Arabic, Nepali, and Portuguese among others.
This project is the only one of its kind in the world, reaching into low income and
poverty stricken communities in many parts of Latin America, Africa, and the Asia
Pacific region. AMARC RVFS activities can be viewed and audio programs can be
listened to on the web at http://www.rvsf.amarc.org
May. Seminar on Increasing AMARC Effectiveness and Social impact of CR
Montreal 7-9 May. The Harmonization meeting in Montreal has been very successful in
setting the basic elements for increasing the coherence of AMARC operations and
activities. The minutes of the meeting have been distributed and we are building the
budget and the work plan for 2007 accordingly..
G8 Summit and Alternative Summit in Germany
More than 40 CR journalists from Europe, Latin America,, Africa and Asia-Pacific
covered the G8 summit in Heiligendamm and the alternative civil society summit in
Rostock, Germany. The coverage highlighted the lack of respect for the promises of
the G8 leaders and highlighted the importance of the global civil society movement.
The International secretariat contributed to the G8 summit coverage by ensuring that
there was an AMARC page in the AMARC Europe website, we ensured coordination of
press releases production and distribution to highlight the coverage and ensured
uploading information. All activities were done in support of AMARC Europe and under
their addresses. See the website please visit http://g8.amarc.org . There were 1602
visits to the G8 Website (1427 persons passed through the AMARC website and 175
went through the AMARC Europe Website.) There were 648 visitors downloaded audio
documents.
AMARC Covered the United States Social Forum in Atlanta
Community Radio members of AMARC including the information agency, Pulsar from
AMARC LAC, covered the alternatives raised during the United States Social Forum, in
Atlanta, June 27th - July 1st. Under the motto Another World is possible, Another US is
Necessary, the USSF provided space to build relationships, learn from each other's
experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring
renewed insight and inspiration. It helped develop leadership and develop
consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world. There were 762

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visitors (625 visit it through the AMARC website, and 137 through the AMARC North
America Website.) 381 visitors downloaded audio documents. For notes on the USSF
please
visit:
http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=USSF2007-

Atlanta&l=EN&nosafe=1

AMARC Covered the Quebec Social Forum and the Montebello Summit
Community Radios from Quebec (Canada) covered and participated in the Quebec
Social Forum that was held in Montreal, August 23-26, 2007. They also covered the
heads of government summit of United States, Mexico and Canada for the Security and
Prosperity Partnership held in Montebello, Qubec from 21-23 August 2007. For the
FSQ go to: http://fsq.amarc.org . For the Montebello Summit go to:

http://montebello.amarc.org

December Coverage of GK3 Conference.

The AMARC participation was done as expected, with a 45 people delegation, from all
continents. The Asia pacific delegation was the most important. There was also a
midday direct showcase of CR for the participants in the GK 3 Conference. For details
visit the GK 3 Conference and the AMARC website..

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IV. EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GENDER EQUALITY IN 2007

AMARC effectively contributed to gender equality and Womens rights through
advocacy & policy research, training, content exchange and increased networking.
Some highlights were, the gathering and knowledge exchange activities of CR women
representatives in January in Nairobi, Kenya; for the AMARC Africa and MENA
Conference in October in Morocco, and also for the GK3 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In
terms of content exchange and information on gender issues, there is need to mention
the campaigns for March 8, and for the 16 Days Against Gender Violence. They were
more effective this year and there is a stronger networking among WIN
representatives. The production of a research-action process highlighting best
experiences on Women and good governance through community radio was one of
the most important activities for the year.
GENDER EQUALITY & WOMENS RIGHTS PROGRAMME
The objective of this programme is to promote womens voices and rights, to combat
gender-based discrimination and to strengthen womens participation in community
media at all levels.
The objective was achieved in 2007 through joint broadcast campaign for womens
rights and against gender-based discrimination, by raising awareness of media issues
within gender advocacy and by building the capacity of women in community media
through training, knowledge sharing and peer support.
Action Research on Women Empowerment and Good Governance through
Community Radio
Many experiences have documented how raising the awareness of women on political
processes creates possibilities for their greater involvement in democracy building
which, in turn, can lead to both the empowerment of women and poverty reduction.
But women who suffer more from poverty than men are systematically
discriminated by institutions and lack information on how community political
processes work so, most of the time, they are poorly equipped to fully participate in
insuring good governance in their communities and societies. The articles gathered
from several action-research seminars conducted by AMARC reveal the challenges for
women access to the media and how important their role can become in building good
governance. See in Background Papers on Women and Good Governance The womens
movement has long recognized the important role that media community radio in
particular plays in shaping the values of society. As early as four decades ago, when
the introduction of transistors made it possible for people from lower income groups
to acquire radio units, womens groups actively engaged in this medium to address
womens issues, such as sexuality, advocacy for women, and children in conflict. Over
the years, womens organizations in many countries have used community radio to
advance their issues through the governance process, but others have still not learned
about the power of community radio. The action research Womens Empowerment
and Good Governance through Community Radio seeks to enhance the effectiveness
of community radio as a key communications vehicle permitting womens citizenship
participation in the governance of their communities and societies. It also leads to
inclusiveness by helping women access to CR and thus increases community ownership
of CR. There is need is to increase women voices if we want to make governments and

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institutions accountable, more transparent, inclusive and responsive to citizens. A key

aspect of women empowerment is to facilitate the participation of women in poverty
reduction strategies in their communities. The Seminar on Women and Good
Governance through Community Radio to be held in Malaysia, December 12, is part of
a two-year action research process seeking to address the challenges surrounding
womens participation in democracy building. By highlighting and facilitating
knowledge sharing of case studies and best experiences of women practitioners we
want to increase the possibilities for women participation in democratic processes
through community radio. This action-research has also highlighted the challenges to
gender equality within the Community Radio Movement itself and has allowed for
exploring the mechanisms to increase womens participation in Community Radio. This
is a key governance challenge to the community radio global network.
WIN International representatives meetings
There were two international meetings of the WIN. In Nairobi in January and in
Malaysia in December:

In January, WIN International had an organization meeting to evaluate the

situation and define action plans allowing to replace their space within AMARC and
prepare for the March 8 World Broadcast and lobbying with UNCSW. See attached
report.

WIN international coordination meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to plan for

activities of 2008. See attached report.

March Participation in Activities of the UNCSW

AMARC WIN participated in the UNCSW insisting in the role of CR for enhancing women
participation in conflict resolution
March 8 Global Broadcast Campaign.
This year, the third annual International Womens Day world broadcast was led by the
Women International network and coordinated by the International Secretariat.
This year's theme focused on the UNCHR 1325 resolution on women, peace and
security. The campaign seeks to increase the number of women at decision-making
levels in national, regional and international institutions involved in preventing
managing and resolving conflict. There were more than 24 hours of programming
consisting on 132 Audio programs posted in 14 languages (Spanish, French, English
Portuguese, Bassa kpelle, Gujarati, Luganda, Filipino, Swahili, Creole, Arabic, Lakota
and Japanese.). CR producers from more than 24 countries participated (Among
others, Canada, US, Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru,
Uganda, Liberia, The Gambia, South Africa, Malawi, Morocco, Japan, Nepal, India,
Philippines, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Spain, Austria). More than 300 radios carried part
of the programming reaching almost 1 million CR radio audiences.
To access the archives for downloading the programs for your radio station please go
to: http://march8.amarc.org

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World WIN Campaign16 Days against Gender Violence

The AMARC WIN16 days campaign against gender violence was active from November
25th to December 10th inclusively. In this second year global campaign edition, the
theme was: Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence against
Women. This multilingual broadcasting mobilizes community radios on a theme of
global importance promoting the use of new communication technologies such as
Internet to make women voices heard. Throughout this campaign many thematic days
were highlighted: November 25th : International Day for the Elimination of Violence
Against Women; November 29th : International Womens Human Rights Defenders Day;
December 1: World AIDS Day; December 6: Commemoration day of the Montreal
Massacre; December 10th : International Human rights Days. Community radios from
all over the world participated I the world campaign The International Secretariat
coordinated the preparation, broadcasting and archiving of the broadcasting campaign
of 16 days against gender violence. Please visit the website of the campaign at:

http://www.amarc.org/16days

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V. 5.- INCREASED NETWORKNIG AND COMMUNICATION FOR

COMMUNITY SECTOR REINFORCEMENT
There has been an important work of processing the CR social impact assessment
results and disseminating the information. The results have been webpublished and a
hard copy was distributed through the network and to stakeholders.
The main achievement in 2007 in terms of the AMARC network development was to
start the harmonisation process among the diverse political and operational structures
of AMARC. As defined by AMARC members in Amman for the AMARC9 world conference
the objective is to increase our effectiveness by avoiding duplication and creating
proper synergies as a network by better defining and coordinating the global, regional
and local levels of intervention. Besides strengthening communications throughout the
CR network, AMARC has reinforced its regions by the reconstruction of the network in
Africa, Asia and Latin America & the Caribbean. Furthermore there have been efforts
to facilitate the development of CR in the MENA region with the AMARC Africa-MENA
Conference held in Rabat in October 2007. Appropriate use of ICTs has allowed to
increase communications, sharing of knowledge and content exchange platforms
NETWORK AND COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMME
The objective of this programme is to strengthen AMARC structure and functioning, to
strength country, regional and international networking and communication within the
community media sector and to strengthen alliances between community media and
other networks and social movements.
AMARC achieved the objectives for the year through strengthened planning,
monitoring and evaluation, building institutional capacity, support for network
meetings and events, participation with other networks and a strengthened
communications strategy using traditional media and Internet-based tools.
This Action programme included the following activities held in 2007:
AMARC 9 follow-up
As follow-up of AMARC 9, the information was distributed through website and
electronic emails. The website for AMARC 9 serves as permanent information material
for the World Conference held in Amman, Jordan from November 11-17, 2006.
Publication online and hard copy AMARC Global Evaluation on CR Social Impact..
The final reports and annexes on the Global evaluation of CR Social Impact have been
published in the Internet website and in hard copy.
Distribution of 3 Editions of the AMARC Link Newsletter via Internet.
In February, July and November the International secretariat distributed the AMARC
Link Bulletin over the Internet. These edition were complemented with sending
emails and updating information in the website as needed.

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Development of the AMARC Website

The AMARC website has been consistently ameliorated from the interactivity
perspective and the appearance. There is continuing effort to integrate it to the
harmonization process as a facilitating tool.

The AMARC website has been consistently ameliorated from the interactivity
perspective and the appearance.
A Private Website called Coordination is online to support the harmonisation
process. Visit http://wikiamarc.amarc.org/private .
Coordination List. A list called coordination AMARC, has been established
(international, regional Boards and WIN and employees). It has 55 names

The International Board of AMARC

The International Board of AMAR held two face-to-face meetings in 2007. January and
October.

January. WSF/IBOD Meeting in Kenya ;

The minutes of the IBOD meeting were distributed in English and Spanish. We need
to highlight that the meeting of the IBOD was successful and that a specific
definition on the follow up of the Harmonization process was decided. This will put
AMARC in a new step of its development in 2007

October. Ibod Meeting in Rabat

See annex document on the Resolutions of the IBOD meeting 27-28 October in
Rabat for follow-up.

The Executive Committee of the International Board of Directors of AMARC

The executive Committee of AMARC held 12 Teleconferences and 2 face to face
meetings.
Harmonisation Joint Cordination meetings
From May 7-9 in Montreal, (Qubec) Canada and in Rabat, Morocco on October 26th
the Joint Coordinating Meetings (JCM) brought together the regional presidents and
coordinators from Latin America & Caribbean, Africa, the Asia-Pacifc rgion and
Europe as well as the executive and the AMARC International Secretariat staff.
The need to put in place better cordination and integrated approaches was highlighted
by the Global evaluation of the social impact of Community Radio and the AMARC
members present at the AMARC 9 World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters
held in Amman, Jordan 11-17 November 2006. The IBOD meeting held in Nairobi,
Kenya, from 25-27 January launched the process.
The JCM objectives were to: 1. Improve coordination between the International
Secretariat and regional sections of AMARC; 2. Explore how to increase the social
impact of CR and of AMARC by establishing a collaborative approach based on the use
of annual strategic plans of activities and financing; 3. Agree on a number of tools and
mechanisms that will facilitate a collaborative approach among the different bodies of
AMARC.

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Evaluation of ICT4D developed by BCO in 2007

This evaluation includes 4 component. Reports for components 1-2 and 3 have been
published. Component 4 is being prepared for the impact of CR in Nepal. There were
meetings of BCO in Johannesburg 18-20 February, and in Berne, 8-10 September..
a. AMARC Africa and MENA
The Secretary General supported the reorganisation of AMARC network in Africa,
through support of the Regional Board and activities co-ordination including the
AMARC Africa-MENA Conference. Main aspects are as indicated:
Amarc Africa Board meeting held in Nairobi,
A face to face meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2007. A decision
regarding hiring the coordinator, regarding the AMARC Africa workplace and the
tenure of a Special General Assembly of members in Rabat in October 2007 was
decided.
AMARC Africa and MENA Conference.
The Africa and MENA conference was held in Rabat, Morocco October 22-24 2007
organised by AMARC and the ORBICOM chair of UNESCO, and with the support of the
Communications Ministry. There were 147 participants from Africa-Mena and all
regions of AMARC.
Africa Board meeting and Special General Assembly of Members in Rabat
The AMARC Africa Board held two meetings. One meeting was held for the preparation
of the General Special Assembly and other as follow-up of the General Special
Assembly. In the special General Assembly, the members gave indications for the plan
of action for 2008. The Africa Regional Board also decided that for the time being the
International Secretariat will be the signing authority for the projects implemented in
Africa, until there is a legal entity in the region. There was also a decision to
implement the forensic audit for the Johannesburg Office.
AMARC Africa Plan of Action and harmonization.
An agreement regarding the AMARC Africa Action Plan and budget was agreed in
consultation to the members to be worked together between AMARC Africa and the IS,
because Africa does not have legal existence. The activities for the year are
dependent on fundraising. The harmonization allows to maintain the Coordinator and
execute training for trainers activity together or separate from the Our media
Conference in Ghana in August 2008.
Support to the MENA Working Group
Please note that as suggested I reactivated the MENA working group list and included
the members of the Executive to the list
b. AMARC Latin America and Caribbean AMARC
The AMARC LAC programmes are : Legislations, Gender, Onda Rural, Ritmo Sur, Caesi,
Ciudadania Ambiental, Pulsar Information Agency, Training, Management, Publications

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(Cara y Seal), New Technlogies, Regional Office, National Offices (Uruguay, Mexico,
Brasil) Subregional office in Central America (Salvador)
March. Seminar on Network assessment and Development in LAC in Argentina.
From March 29-31, AMARC LAC Board and programme managers from the region came
together to assess the situation of CR in the region and to define plans of actions and
programmes for 2007-2008.
Women and Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean
From July 4-7 women from radio and those working with new ICTs, met in Managua,
Nicaragua. The meeting contributed to knowledge exchange and experiences
exchange; discuss propositions and strategies that would allow advancing in the use
and the ownership by women of new technologies, so they will serve as platforms for
social change and tools for the exercise of information rights and freedom of
expression. The gathering was organized by the AMARC Women International network
in LAC, the network Nosotras en el Mundo (Cordoba and Madrid) and radio Tierra
(Chile). For further information http://www.rednosotrasenelmundo.org
IFEX Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay
More than 120 free expression advocates from around the world gathered from 7-12
October in Montevideo, Uruguay, at the International Freedom of Expression eXchange
(IFEX) General Meeting. As a priority, 20 participants set up a Burma Action Group to
support protesters and journalists in their struggle against the recent military
crackdown in the country. At the conference, hosted by World Association of
Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) and the Institute of Press and Society
(Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS), participants examined the cause of the decline and
the most pressing threats to free expression: impunity, media concentration, criminal
press laws and Internet censorship. In a joint declaration, the Latin American groups
at the conference, which have been developing a regional initiative on the issue,
urged the whole IFEX network to denounce the growth of parallel powers outside
recognized institutions and the problems of impunity and self-censorship that often
accompany them - a major priority in the coming years. They also called upon the
governments of the region "to take action in the face of the threats and guarantee,
with concrete and legal actions, the exercise of free expression for journalists, media
and all citizens." http://amarcuruguay.org/content/view/22/42
4th Conference of Community Media and Legislation for CR
From November 23-25, Spanish Community Media practitioners gathered in the IV
Conference of Community Media in the Albergue Municipal de Bilbao. The
organisation Tas Tas Irrati Librea was the host of the event. More than 150
representatives from more than a 100 Media of the third tier of communication,
gathered to the call of the Red Estatal de Medios Comunitarios (REMC). Together with
this event, and the 22-23 November, Community Radio practitioners from AMARC Latin
America and the Caribbean, from Asia Pacific, Africa and MENA and from Europe,
discussed on legislation models for community radio. The meeting was related to the
AMARC LAC Legislations & Communication Rights Programme, supported by Open
Society Justice Initiative: Best Practices in Regulation of Community Broadcasting.
For
further
information
on
these
activities
visit

http://bilbao.medioscomunitarios.net

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c. AMARC Asia Pacific

The regional Board of Asia Pacific held its face to face annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur
on December 2007.
Launching of AMARC-Japan Working Group:
The AMARC Japan group was launched in Kyoto, Japan on 23 June 2007. The group's
main objective is to lobby and advocate for the development of CR in Japan. It has
identified the lack of CR legislation as the major impediment for the attainment of its
goal and therefore has strategize to lobby the government to introduce a CR friendly
legislation in Japan. At the moment, the number of participants of the group is 35 but
it expects to grow fast in the coming months.

Augmenting the capacity of the regional office:

The delivery and support capacity of the AMARC Asia Pacific regional office has
been maintained since the office was formally established in 2004. The office
continues to operate under basic staff structure. However, the formation of
focal points in different parts of the region as well as the country level working
groups has augmented the service providing capacity of the office. Internal
communication mechanisms have been strengthened with the help of regular
online meetings of the governance and email based discussions among members
to increase the work efficiency and effectiveness of the executive structure of
AMARC in the region. The regional office has been gaining project development
capacity and operational capacity building at a gradual level. As a step towards
opening up sub regional structures for better coordination activities pertaining
to the Womens International Network (WIN), 14 focal points have been
established across the region. The reporting mechanisms and consultations
mechanisms among the board members as well as members of executive
committee have been pursued consistently. The region continues to work
closely with the international secretariat of AMARC for all global projects as
well as fundraising drives.
Membership expansion: The rigorous membership drive has been pursued
consistently. At the moment AMARC members from the Asia Pacific continues
to grow. Activities such as the publication of newsletter, promoting AMARC in
various regional and sub regional forums have been carried out and active
email-lists have contributed in the continued growth of membership in the
region.
Participation in global and regional consultations:
Members of AMARC Asia Pacific participated in the WSF 2007 as part of a larger
AMARC delegation. WSF 2007 made a clarion call by the slogan Peoples
Struggles, Peoples Alternatives. AMARC Asia Pacific members participated
actively in reporting from the Forum to their own stations as well as
contributed to activities aimed at advocating for greater freedom for oppressed
voices and for the development of community broadcasting for the various
sections of the society such as women, marginalise people, ethnic people,
youths and the under privileged in general. The participation of members of

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AMARC from the Asia Pacific region has also helped in reinforcing networking
and experience sharing among community radio stations in the region. It helped
in strengthening the network and building a stronger and more vocal civil
society for the development of CR as a sector.
A key regional event where AMARC Asia Pacific was represented was the OurMedia Sydney, Australia in April 9 to 13, 2007. The regional coordinator as
well as a board member of AMARC Asia Pacific made presentations about the
CR sector in the region.
Develop communication tools:
Statements and alerts: The regional office of AMARC in the Asia Pacific region
has issued a number of statements and alerts in support of its members across
the region. AMARC has continued to raise its voice against the oppression of
community radio stations and workers in the different parts of the region. In
the reported period, much of the focus was in the Philippines, which saw some
of the most heinous crimes committed against the freedom of expression.
Newsletter:
The newsletter continues to be published and serves as an important
communication cum advocacy tool. In the reported period two issues were
published including a Womens Special Edition in March 2007. This issue of the
newsletter dealt with some of the most pertinent concerns of women
community broadcasters of the region. The creation of the issue was
participatory, which allowed for valuable interactions among WIN Members in
the region. The newsletter, which is distributed through AMARC email lists and
email lists of other networks and organizations, is estimated to reach more
than 1500 recipients within and outside the Asia Pacific region.
Email and online discussions:
Email-list based as well as online discussions have been carried out to discuss
key issues pertaining to the development of community radio in the region.
During the reported period, discussions have been held with members in the
Philippines, Thailand, Fiji and India to assess the ground situations in those
countries vis--vis community radio and to formulate appropriate responses.
Website:
The Asia Pacific website has grown steadily with more and more information
added to it. The promotion of the website is continuously pursued and is a work
in progress.

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Extract of Audited Statement 2007 (Canadian dollars)

Balance Sheet at 31 december

2007

2006

ASSETS
Current Assets
Cash
Receivables
Prepaid Expenses
Total Current Assets

105 078
108 286
15 060
228 424

378 769
137 987
14 851
531 607

Long Term Assets

Net immobilisation
TOTAL ASSETS

4 143
232 567

3 115
534 722

LIABILITIES (PASSIF)
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable
Reported Income
Short term portion of long term debt
Total liabilities

90 658
41 379
11 277
143 314

97 484
386 758
19 716
503 958

Net Assets
Not-Affected
Affected

85 110
4 143

27 649
3 115

Total Net Assets

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

89 253
232 567

30 764
534 722

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Summary of Audited Statement for the Year

Ended 31st December 2007
Income
Self financing
Grants Received
Total Income
Expenses
Manpower
Activities
Functioning
Final Adjustment of AMARC 9 Congress
Excess <Deficiency>
Before exceptional Item
Exceptional Item
Excess <deficiency>

AMARC ANNUAL REPORT 2007. Page 26 sur 27

2007
($)

2006
($)

95 858
1 027 478
1 123 336

130 239
824 501
954 740

1 009 743

30 825
1 040 568

223 734
638 183
72 941

934 858

82 768
25 307
57 461

19 882
80 572
<60 690>

AMARC GOVERNING AND OPERATIONAL STRUCTURES

International Board (elected in Amman November 2006)
Steve Buckley
President
Aleida Calleja
Deputy president
Elizabeth Robinson
Treasurer
Marcelo Solervicens
Network Secretary General
Mavic Cabrera Balleza
VP Women International Network
Maria Pia Matta
VP Latin America & Caribbean
Ashish Sen
Vice President for Asia-Pacific
Mariano Sanchez
Vice President for Europe
Grace Githaiga
Vice President for Africa
Daoud Kuttab
Vice President
Oumar Seck N'diaye
Vice President
Sony Eusteus
Vice President
Jim Ellinger
Vice President
AMARC Womens International Network Representatives
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
VP Women International Network
Sr. Therese Ana Viera
Eastern & Southern Africa
Zara Jacoub
Western & Central Africa
Bianca Miglioretto
Asia-Pacific
Argentina Olivas
Latin America and Caribbean
Margaretta D'arcy
West Europe Representative
Mary Rose Jones
North America representative
Tamara Aqrabawe
Middle East & North Africa
African Board of Directors
Grace Githaiga
Fily Keita
Oumar Seck Ndiaye
Kizito Mushizi
Sr Teresa Ana Vieira
Zara Jacoub
Franklin Huisies

VP for East and Southern Africa

VP West and Central Africa
Training and Capacity Building
Technology Officer
WIN East and Southern Africa
WIN West and Central Africa
Organizational Development

Omar Mamadou
Coordinator
International secretariat Staff
Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General
Sonia Hudon, Administrative Assistant
Jean-Philippe Thberge, ICT Officer
Nick Fillomore, Project Development Officer
Dominique Legendre, Accountant

AMARC ANNUAL REPORT 2007. Page 27 sur 27

Asia Pacific Boards Of Directors

Ashish Sen
President
Sonia Randhawa
Deputy President
Shane Elson
Treasurer
Gwendolyne Longid
VP South East Asia
Raghu Mainali
VP South Asia
Bianca Miglioretto
VP WIN representative
Matsuura Tetsuo
VP East Asia
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls
VP Pacific
Suman Basnet
Coordinator AMARC AP
Latin America & Caribbean Regional Board
Mara Pa Matta
Vice-president
Argentina Olivas
WIN Representative
Daniel Ivn Garca Manrquez Mexico Sub Region
Ricardo Sandoval
Central America Sub Region
Carlos Rivadeneyra
Andes Sub Region
Cleber Silva
Brasil Sub Region
Mnica Giordano
Cono Sur Sub Region
Sony Esteus
Caribbean Sub Region
Ernesto Lamas
Regional coordinator
Europe Boards Of Directors
Mariano Sanchez
Agota Kovacks
Agus Hernan
Sangita Basudev
Margaretta D'arcy
Alexander Dorogan
Rustam Aliev
Nadia Bellardi
Francescom Diaisio

President
Hungary
France
United Kingdom
WIN Representative
Moldovia
Azerbaidjan
Switzerland
Coordinator

World Association of
Community Radio
Broadcasters
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