The Voices of Change: Strategic Radio Support for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

This paper provides a summary of the scope of radio's involvement in under`pinning sustainable livelihoods, realising rights, human development and the broader goals and targets of the United Nations Millenium Declaration. It challenges DFID and other donors to increase support to the radio sector, which for many poor men, women and children in the developing world continues to provide the essential information lifeline.

The paper highlight the relevance of radio in poor communities, its broad applicability to a range of sectoral activities such health, rights, education, livelihoods, and conflicts prevention, and identifies the need to deepen the capacity of radio broadcasters at all levels to conduct effective monitoring and evaluation, so as to begin the process of developing a rigorous information and communication for development evidence base which highlights radio's - and other communications mediums - strategic contribition to the realisation of the Millenium Development Goals.

It captures a lot of information on Radio deployment, potential and actual impact in the development process.