The Community Radio for Accountability
and Transparency (CRAT) project is born out of the
“Reducing Decentralized Corruption by Making Local Governance
Work for Local People” project and focuses on the utilization
of the Community media is engaging the local people in
safeguarding the development of their areas through avoidance
of corruption acts and other forms of misuse arising from the
decentralization process. The project will be implemented in
Mchinji in the first year (2011) and in Nkhotakota during the
second year of implementation.
Among other things the project will involve strengthening
project structures that have been created by its predecessor
“Reducing Decentralized Corruption by Making Local Governance
Work for Local People”. The new project will see the
participating Community Radios receive technical support in
the form of Website Development and Freedom Fone deployment.
The Community Radio for Accountability and Transparency (CRAT) project is a two-year project and will receive
financial support from Hivos Foundation to the tune of Euro
80, 000. |
