Social and Environmental Projects
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Village Voices for DevelopmentProject Village Voices for Development (VVD) The project design enables local people to learn about and act on their rights to information and freedom of speech and has already produced and broadcast 40 radio programmes in Question and Answer format - in which citizens have recorded their questions and concerns directly to local decision makers and decision makers have recorded their response, edited together as in a dialogue; additionally VVD phone in programmes have opened up debate on may topics from hospital service fees to local security issues - unprecedented media interaction for ordinary citizens in a rural area of Madagascar. A woman in the Androy Region of Southern Madagascar testifies how her father has listened to a radio broadcast produced by the Village Voices for Development project, and how it has changed her life. This particular radio programme is about land inheritance and speaks also about women's rights. In Antandroy culture, women have very little status and do not traditionally receive inheritance even though Malagasy law gives them this right. After listening to the VVD programme this woman's father decides to give her and her sisters an inheritance of land. In southern Madagascar more than 80% of the population are rural producers reliant on subsistence farming for survival - so access to land is a primary concern. More about the Village Voices for Development (PDF 1Mb). Village Voices for Development Factsheet 2012 (PDF 162 Kb) VVD Pilot Phase Evaluation Report 2013 (PDF 3.2 Mb)
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