Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia in collaboration with UNESCO and AIMC, is delighted to announce the fifth edition of Community Radio Video Challenge (CRVC) for all students (of any discipline) below the age of 25 years, as on Dec 31st, 2017. The theme for CRVC 2018 is “Community Radio for Women Empowerment”.
Community radio has a significant potential for contributing to women’s economic, social and political empowerment. This is not only through giving information about programmes and schemes, but also through bringing together thousands of women in organised groups and giving legitimacy to the non-economic services they provide to family and society.
However gender discrimination in access too many programmes such as micro-finance services, leadership roles, business, in the use and access of Media & Technology, and in the adoption of good practices in Health, Nutrition & Well-being continues. Moreover evidence suggests that actual contribution to women’s empowerment is often limited. This is not just a question of lack of impact, but may also be a process of disempowerment.
Women’s empowerment cannot be an assumed outcome from any scheme or programme. It must be strategically planned as an integral part of programme design. There are no easy blueprint solutions. Different programmes have very differing structures and constraints in differing socio-cultural contexts. The ways in which women’s empowerment can be most efficiently and sustainably mainstreamed will differ from organization to organization, from culture to culture. It is not just a question of tacking on a few women’s products and a bit of gender training. At the programme level it requires mainstreaming gender throughout to ensure equal access for women as well as men.
Community Radio can play and has played a very important role in making this possible and help in the process of mainstreaming Gender in all walks of life at the grassroots level. The technology of Radio is even more effective as it is an anonymous medium and can be used with much less fear by disempowered women. We would encourage the youth to seriously consider looking at how this powerful medium is being used by a large constituency of voiceless women to appropriate a voice for themselves.
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) is an Educational Media Centre for promoting media enabled learning for sustainable development, among the Asian Countries, of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada established CEMCA in 1994 as an international agency to promote the meaningful, relevant and appropriate use of educational media to serve the educational and training needs of Commonwealth member states of Asia which are Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore & Sri Lanka. CEMCA has been working to empower local communities to engage in learning for sustainable development through capacity building for operations of Community Radios, and ensuring quality of CR operations in Commonwealth Asia.
Community Radio (CR) is said to be a medium of the people, operated by the people for the people. It has emerged as a low-cost alternative to the mainstream media,capable of penetrating traditionally ‘media-dark’ areas and including remote, disadvantaged or marginalized communities in the processes of democracy and development. In various parts of the world, CR has played a significant role in facilitating the participation of communities in local governance and decision-making, the preservation of local languages and cultures, increased access to better learning opportunities for the underprivileged. The right to express one's thoughts and ideas and to communicate freely with others, affirms the dignity and worth of every member of society, and allows each individual to realize his or her full human potential.
The Community Radio Video Challenge (CRVC) was launched in 2013 as a joint initiative of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Its objective was to promote the engagement of Indian youth with community radio (CR), create awareness, and foster an understanding of CR’s importance for the self-expression, learning and development of local communities.
CEMCA has been working to promote the use of CR in learning for sustainable development since 2006. CEMCA has organized over 39 workshops in the past to create awareness about CR, ran a help-desk entitled “CEMCA Community Radio Facilitation Centre” to support new applicants, and served as a clearinghouse for information on CR. CEMCA helps capacity building of CR stations involving the local community in programme production.
Recognizing CR’s unique ability to encourage open dialogue and local transparency, give a voice to the less privileged, and foster good governance and social inclusion, CEMCA focuses on Community Media in its 2015-2021 six-year plan as a major focus area.
CEMCA has been working to promote the use of CR in learning for sustainable development since 2006. CEMCA has organized over 37 workshops in the past to create awareness about CR, ran a help-desk entitled “CEMCA Community Radio Facilitation Centre” to support new applicants, and served as a clearinghouse for information on CR. CEMCA helps capacity building of CR stations involving the local community in programme production.
Recognizing CR’s unique ability to encourage open dialogue and local transparency, give a voice to the less privileged, and foster good governance and social inclusion, CEMCA focuses on Community Media in its 2015-2021 six-year plan as a major focus area.
Short films on the mentioned topic are invited from media students. The acceptable entries for CRVC will be evaluated by a distinguished jury. The winning films will receive awards and the filmmakers will be felicitated at a ceremony being organized by CEMCA at New Delhi on Wednesday, 17th May 2018.
Short films on the mentioned topic are invited from media students. The acceptable entries for CRVC will be evaluated by a distinguished jury. The winning films will receive awards and the filmmakers will be felicitated at a ceremony being organized by CEMCA in collaboration with UNESCO & AIMC at New Delhi in the year of 2018.
The competition is open to all students, who are students of any discipline in any educational institution and are 25 years old or lesser, as on Dec 31st 2017. At the maximum, 2 entries will be allowed from any educational institution.
Women Leadership, Women in Business, Women using Media & Technology, Women against Domestic Violence, Women’s Role in adoption of good practices of Health, Nutrition & Well-being.
Eligible entries will be scored on the basis of the following guidelines:
The outstation participants and the award winners will be invited for the award ceremony at New Delhi and reimbursed round trip 3AC train ticket.
The panel of judges to review the submissions will be decided by CEMCA.
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Community Radio (CR) is said to be a medium by the people, for the people and of the people. It has emerged as a low-cost alternate to the mainstream media in the age of Internet to create opportunity for the marginalized and disadvantaged groups of people in remote parts of the country to participate in the development process. In various parts of the world, CR has played significant role in enabling participation of communities in local governance and decision-making, preserving local languages and cultures, and increasing access to better learning opportunities for the oppressed. The right to express one's thoughts and to communicate freely with others affirms the dignity and worth of each and every member of society, and allows each individual to realize his or her full human potential. As of April 2013, there are 148 operational CR stations, operating under the “Policy Guidelines for setting up Community Radio Stations in India” issued in 2006 by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Since the release of the policy, it is anticipated that India would have 4000-5000 CR stations. Currently there are over 800 applications at various stages of the licensing process. Free speech and freedom of expression are the raison d’être of CR anywhere in the world and they are going well beyond their mandates to do so in India.
The CR Video Challenge (CRVC) is a joint initiative of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), New Delhi, to engage the Indian youth in CR and promote understanding and importance of CR as an alternative media for community’s self-expression, learning and development. CEMCA has been working to promote the use of CR in learning for development since 2006. CEMCA has organized over 30 workshops in the past to create awareness about CR, and runs a help-desk entitled “CEMCA Community Radio Facilitation Centre” to support new applicants and serve as a clearing house for information on CR. UNESCO recognizes that the presence of CR is a sign of media pluralism, diversity of content, and the representation of a society’s different groups and interests. CR encourages open dialogue, local transparency and a voice to the voiceless. The UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) has been promoting the use and establishment of low-cost media, including CR stations for the past several years. In 2011, UNESCO established the Community Media Chair at the University of Hyderabad, India, which is the only UNESCO chair covering the CR sector.
UNESCO proclaimed February 13 as the World Radio Day in 2011. The best videos will receive awards in a function organised by the Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication (AIMC) on the World Radio Day 2014. AIMC is one of the leading media training institutes in the country, which offers Post Graduate Diplomas in Advertising, PR, Event Management, Broadcast Journalism & Production, and Web Journalism. The Institute has been ranked No 1 in the entire Delhi-NCR region in the category of private institutes by the reputed research agency Cfore and Hindustan Times.