Communication and ICTs

Informing, empowering, educating: Celebrate World Radio Day and broadcasting excellence

What: Virtual event — World Radio Day Celebration 2024 When: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024 at 4 p.m. GMT, 5 p.m. WAT, 7 p.m. EAT Register now: Webinar Registration – Zoom Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024 to celebrate World Radio Day as we announce and honour the 2024 winners of the Farm Radio awards! In this year’s bilingual event, meet the winners of the George Atkins Communication Award and the Liz

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! FAO is seeking Communication for Rural Development Specialists

FAO is expanding its roster of consultants! Communication is key to ensuring agricultural growth and sustainable development on a global scale. The FAO Communication for Development Team (ComDev) assists member countries, FAO programmes, decentralized offices and partners in the design and implementation of ComDev strategies and plans and the delivery of inclusive Rural Communication Services (RCS). Priority is given to improving stakeholder engagement in FAO programme delivery, enhancing the capacity

Webinar 6 -  Conclusions, recommendations and sharing of capitalization experiences

On Tuesday, 27 June, we finalized the series of webinars on experience capitalization, organized since the end of March in the framework of the regional initiative YenKasa Africa, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with its OPenACP-FO4AC Programme. This webinar has drawn conclusions and made the latest recommendations in terms of experience capitalization. Webinar 6:

Uliza: Farm Radio's Listener Interactivity Services

What is Uliza? Swahili for “ask,” Uliza was first developed as a tool for audience polling. It has since evolved into a suite of services that combine radio, mobile phones and, often, interactive voice response systems to enable listeners to communicate and exchange information with their radio station quickly, easily and free of charge. How does it help? Broadcasters access audience data in real time through Uliza’s digital dashboard, which

Invitation to the last webinar in the series on experience capitalization

On Tuesday 27 June at 11:00 CEST, we will close the series of webinars on experience capitalization, organized since the end of March in the framework of the regional initiative YenKasa Africa,  in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with its OPenACP-FO4AC Programme. Several YenKasa Africa partners volunteered to share their capitalization experiences. We will have the

Webinar 5 - How to make the most of experience capitalization and to generate change.

The 5th webinar in the series on experience capitalization looked at the final phase of the capitalization process, adding value through adoption, adaptation, scaling up and systematic integration of capitalization into organizations’ activities. The capitalization process does not end with the sharing of ideas and knowledge. Its main objective is to use them to generate tangible changes and to increase the impact and effectiveness of our work. The adoption, adaptation

Webinar 4 - How to document and share experience. Fourth webinar in the series on experience capitalization

The 4th webinar in the series on experience capitalization dealt with the second part of implementation of the experience capitalization process, more specifically the steps relating to documentation and sharing. The main objective of a capitalization process is to share the lessons learned and the knowledge generated. These lessons can be presented in different formats (written, oral, audiovisual and/or digital, etc.), depending on the target audience and their specific objectives.

Webinar 3 - How to collect, organize and analyse data and information in the learning process? This was the topic of the 3rd webinar in our series

The third of the six webinars in the series on experience capitalization was dedicated to the first part of the implementation phase of the capitalization process: the collection, organization and analysis of data and information. It took place on 2 May and was attended by more than 200 YenKasa Africa partners. The second part of the implementation phase is documentation and sharing and will be the subject of the 4th

Webinar 2 - How to prepare the experience capitalisation process? Find out in the second webinar of our series on capitalization.

Since the end of March, the regional initiative YenKasa Africa has organized a series of webinars on experience capitalization. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with its OPenACP Programme -FO4ACP, co-facilitated the second webinar of this six-part series. Through this series of webinars, YenKasa Africa, a communication initiative for family farming and rural development in Africa, is strengthening

Webinar 1 - Experience Capitalization and Knowledge Management: What is it and why is it important? The first webinar in our series on experience capitalization

On Tuesday, 28 March 2023, YenKasa Africa regional initiative, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), held the first session of a series of webinars aimed at strengthening the capacity of organizations in knowledge management. The webinar series in French reviews the online course on “Experience capitalization for continuous learning”. This course is available free of