Evaluering
External evaluation of the Community Radio Stations Capacity
For more than 30 years now, community radio stations, also called free or illegal radios, have emerged from peasant communities and outlying working-class districts in a context of steep inequity, extreme poverty, and exclusion. The Government established 99 indigenous peoples’ radios (radios de pueblos originarios—RPOs) since 2006 (56 installed between 2014 and 2015 are not yet consolidated). A new Law on Telecommunications changed the distribution of the radio spectrum into three equal parts: one third for private-sector communication, one third for government communication, and one third for community and indigenous people’s communication. During the last 30 years, The Radio Broadcasting Education and Production Centre (Centro de Educación y Producción Radiofónica—CEPRA supported community radios and provided skill training. The purpose is evaluating the implementation of “the Community Radio Stations Capacity Building Project so that these radio stations can exert a greater impact on the process of change in Bolivia from 2011 to 2015”, implemented by CEPRA with NPA cooperation.