Globe International, a Mongolian NGO has completed a nine-month project entitled “Mongolia: supporting self-sustainability of community radios” implemented from April, 2012 till December, 2012 under the funding of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The project’s goal was to promote sustainability of community radios through enhanced community participation and institutional capacity building of professional association of community radios that is able to advocate and defend the rights and common interests of community radios.

The project targeted 10 community radio stations in the most remote soums of Huvsgul, Khovd, Bayan-Ulgii and Uvs aimags and decision makers at the national level.

The project achieved its immediate objectives:

Objective 1:
To assist in establsihment of community radio association and build institutional capacity of the newly born organization which is able to advocate to achieve the specific objectives and assist in building networking at local, national and international level

The community radio association of Mongolian (CRAMO) establsihed by 10 community radios and registered.The board consists of 7 members, The Board mebers involved to the fundraising and strategy development workshops. The CRAMO Board members conducted two studies: What is community media and its difference from the public media and presented to the advocay seminar organised in cooperation with Globe International and the UNESCO.

Objective 2:
To raise awareness of the relevant stakeholders in the society through reinforcing the political commitment to support community radios, to define and defend policies to develop community radios

Result:
The policy seminar held and involved 28 participants including the Government representative who had an opening remark. The Mongolian practices of the community media, organised the advocacy meetings with 7 representatives of the President’s Office, The Parliament and the Communications Regulatory Committee (CRC) and the American lawyer Dan Byron from the International Senior Lawyer project, New York.  The public informed in through national media

Objective 3:
To offer opportunities for community radios to share information, knowledge and experiences and indentify the common problems and learn the multi media skills

Result:
Each manager of the 10 community radios introduced in the situation of their radios, programs produced, funds raised and stressed on their strengthens and weaknesses, local support and problems and challenges. The project purchased 9 cell phone modems for the CRs and organised the one-day multi-media training.

Objective 4:
To build skills of the radio managers to work with community and engage them to radio activities through tranings, meetings and deliver their voices

Result:
10 community radio managers involved in total four-days training and educated on the radio management and sustainability by engaging their communities.