Selected Projects Up Close

CTA

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) publishes a wide array of agriculturally focused materials aimed at audiences in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. These valuable publications include Spore, a bi-monthly information bulletin in both English and French. FVI uses its multimedia broadcast to disseminate CTA's resources to a much wider audience of agricultural extension workers, government ministries, Non-Governmental Organizations and Community Based Organizations.

PLI

The Pastoral Livelihoods Initiative (PLI) is an innovative joint project created in order to meet the specific drought related early warning needs of pastoralist populations, in Ethiopia. Project participants are FVI, Save the Children UK, and Livestock Information Network and Knowledge Systems (LINKS) of Texas A&M University, FVI's principal component of this program is the development of a rural communications strategy, which integrates a variety of technologies to find the most cost-effective and sustainable solution.

PMC

First Voice International aired a radio serial drama produced by Population Media Center entitled Cesiri Tono ("All the Rewards of Courage and Hard Work" in West Africa's Bambara language) in 2004-2005 on FVI's Africa Learning Channel. Throughout Mali, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire, 150 community radio stations tuned their provided satellite receivers to the ALC three times weekly to rebroadcast the program to their communities via FM radio. The program addresses child trafficking and child exploitation.

RANET

RANET is an international collaboration to make weather, climate, and related development information more accessible to remote and resource poor populations. In order to provide relevant meteorological and early warning data to rural communities, First Voice International (FVI) has been working in partnership with RANET, www.ranetproject.net, since 2000. RANET is an international collaboration to make weather, climate, and related development information more accessible to remote and resource poor populations. Base support for RANET in Africa is provided by the USAID Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance and US NOAA.

ADB

The pilot met both of its objectives of – demonstrating the effectiveness of the technology and creating an increased level of general knowledge about HIV/AIDS prevention and human trafficking. The satellite technology provides an effective and efficient method for broadcasting the radio dramas as satellite broadcast enables a clear, solid radio signal that bypasses the geographic difficulties limiting FM and shortwave radio broadcasting in rural Laos.