Healthy Communities Initiative Partners
COL’s Partnership Strategy
As a small agency working across the Commonwealth, one of COL’s principle strategies is partnership. Our main partners are national and regional agencies that work in the field of development education in different regions of the Commonwealth.
COL works with partners to develop capacities to develop community-based open and distance learning (ODL) programmes that address community needs and national priorities. In turn, COL’s national and regional partner agencies work with local groups to build knowledge and skills and to develop programmes on the ground.
COL’s partners in the Healthy Communities initiative are intergovernmental, government and civil society groups. Partners include media centres and associations, especially those specialising in training and production, educational institutes, and health and development organisations.
Collaborating partners (international and regional)
Implementing partners (national and regional)
Africa
- Cameroon Link (camlink) is a registered charity, not-for-profit organisation created on the 9th September 1991 with head office in Douala, Cameroon. Its objectives include the promotion of Community Health and Food Security through interaction with smallholder peasant farmers and media professionals, especially those involved in community radio action. Media action focuses on poverty alleviation, nutrition, community health development, women’s empowerment, human assistance, advocacy, education and communication on the rights to adequate food for all and well being of mothers and children.
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- Kenya Community Media Network
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- The Media and Training Centre for Health (MTC) is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa. Working in collaboration with key stakeholders, MTC uses community media - primarily print and radio, to facilitate learning programmes that focus on health issues that have been identified by marginalised groups. Programmes are designed in conjunction with our beneficiaries in order to ensure that content is relevant and interest sustained. MTC provides services in six provinces of South Africa and in Namibia and has recently conducted training with community radio practitioners from Zambia and Malawi.
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Asia
Caribbean
Pacific
- FemLINKPACIFIC is a feminist organisation based in Suva, Fiji and whose work with partners in Solomon Islands, Tonga, PNG/Bougainville as well as Vanuatu to contribute to a vibrant Women, Peace and Security Architecture through the use of Community Media in particular community radio. Since 2000 FemLINKPACIFIC has taken small but strategic steps towards the development, production and distribution of a range of media initiatives focusing on the advancement of women in Fiji and in the Pacific region including the development of the “suitcase radio” and Generation Next project.
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- Solomon Islands Development Trust
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Implementing partners (local)
Africa
- Family Alliance for Development and Cooperation
- MaiMwana Trust
- Radio Riverside
- Radio Mang’elete
Caribbean
- Jeffrey Town Farmers’ Association
- Roots FM
- Tumul K’in Learning Centre
Pacific
- Isabel Provincial Government
- New Dawn FM