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Amarc Asia Pacific
International non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement, with almost 3 000 members and associates in 110 countries..

ANDI in Brazil
An agency that seeks better media coverage of children and youth.

BBC World Trust Service
The BBC World Service Trust is the independent international charity of the BBC which uses media to advance development worldwide. A section of their web site entitled “I have a right to..” aims at a better understanding of human rights. The BBC World Service Trust supports global education projects around the world to denounce the violation of human rights.

Bernard van Leer Foundation
Private trust which funds and shares knowledge about work for disadvantaged young children.

Children as partners' Alliance
Children as Partners is focused on sharing information that can advance meaningful child participation at all levels of decision-making.

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights among non-governmental organizations (NGO's), United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organization (IGO's), educational institutions, and other child rights experts.

Children and Broadcasting Foundation for Africa (CBFA)
Created in 1995 to ensure the implementation of the Africa Charter on Children and Broadcasting. CBFA's mission statement says that: «Our mission is to contribute to the transformation of South African society by acting with due respect for constitutional rights and freedoms, the right to dignity of all and with special regard to the protection of children from exposure to potentially disturbing, harmful and inappropriate material

Communication Initiative
The communication Initiative is a partnership of development organizations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development.

Communication for Social Change Consortium
The CFSC Consortium is dedicated to the belief that innovative communication processes are critical to development of poor and historically marginalizes communities. The Consortium seeks to increase the capacity of communication specialists, development workers, aid agencies, non-profit organizations and communities to use communication for social change.

Community Media For Development (CMFD)/ CMFD Productions
Community Media For Development (CMFD)/ CMFD Productions aims to provide assistance to communities, non-profit radio stations, NGO's, and media organizations to strengthen the use of communication and media for development. Using a wide variety of media, such as radio, print, community theatre and comic stories, CMFD focuses on participatory methods for communities that often do not have access to such media. Based in Johannesburg, CMFD operates a fully portable digital audio production studio to visit the communities

Cyberhus
A Danish web-based community for kids and teens.

Global Movement for Children
The Global Movement for Children (GMC) is a world-wide movement of organizations, individuals and children. It unites efforts to build a world fit for children.

ENDA Third World
Enda Third World – Environment Development Action in the Third World – is an international non profit organization based in Dakar (Senegal). Enda works to enhance the visibility and value, in practice as well as theory, of the knowledge and tools that exist in local development efforts. They have created and produced radio shows with working children to assist them in defending their rights.

First Voice International
First Voice International’s mission is to integrate communication technologies to facilitate the sharing of practical information amongst undeserved communities. Utilizing its technology endowment of 5% of the WorldSpace Corporation satellite network covering Africa and Asia, FVI delivers information to remote populations using cost-effective and locally- maintainable systems. FVI utilizes its satellite capacity to broadcast both audio programming and computer-based multimedia to its target areas and includes a variety of other technologies such as AM/FM radio, Internet, and mobile phones to maximize the reach and impact of its programs.

FRD
International NGO promoting sustainable development and implementing communication based programmes, mobilizing existing communication networks and
creating new ones.

Freeplay Foundation
Freeplay Foundation's mission is to facilitate cost-effective communication in the developing world. The Foundation is revolutionizing access to information and education for people by using a unique radio that is powered by sustainable wind-up and solar technology.

Global Youth Action Network
The Global Youth Action Network is a not-for-profit organization that acts as an incubator of global partnerships among youth organizations. GYAN's mission is to facilitate youth participation and intergenerational partnership in global decision-making; to support collaboration among diverse youth organizations; and to provide tools, resources, and recognition for positive youth action.

IMS
International Media Support, is a Danish organization which aims to defend freedom of speech and to strengthen professional journalism in conflict zones.

ItrainOnline
Offers a selection of computer and Internet on line training resources for development and social change in the South.

International clearinghouse on Children, Youth and the Media
In 1997, The Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research, Nordicom Göteborg University Sweden, began establishment of The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (formerly the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen), financed by the Swedish government and UNESCO.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs
The Center for Communication Programs (CCP) envisions a world in which communication saves lives, improves health, and enhances well-being. Their mission is to design and implement strategic communication programs that influence political dialogue, collective action, and individual behaviour; enhance access to information and the exchange of knowledge that improve health and health care; and conduct research to guide program design, evaluate impact, test theories, and advance knowledge in health communication.

One World Radio
Offers services and networking for broadcasters and civil society organizations that use radio for human rights and sustainable development.

PANOS Institute West Africa
Panos Institute's mission is to work with media and other information actors to enable developing countries to shape and communicate their own development agendas through informed public debates. Panos produces information and shows broadcast by more than a hundred radio stations in West Africa.

Plan International
Plan is one of the world's largest child-centered community development organizations, working in 60 countries to alleviate poverty and help children in developing countries to realise their full potential.

Plan Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, Plan works with children in poor rural communities, to transform their lives, by bringing sustainable development to their communities.

Radio Nederland Training Centre (RNTC)
RNTC is a centre of excellence in media, education and development, attached to the international broadcaster Radio Netherlands. It focuses both on the development of the media sector, and on the use of media for development. RNTC works with media professionals all around the world, including broadcast journalists, programme-makers, managers of media organizations, trainers as well as professionals and NGO's seeking guidance on the most effective way of sharing a message with a diversity of audiences and target groups.

Radio Peace Africa
Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa aims to develop, spread and encourage the use of radio broadcasting techniques and content for peacebuilding

Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a Knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world.

Say Yes for Children
People of all ages are joining together as part of a new Global Movement for Children, determined to build a better world for children and for all of us. Their message is straightforward: the citizens of the world care about children and expect governments to keep the promises they make to them. Close to 100 million people around the world said "Yes".

Search for Commom Ground (SFCG)
SFCG's mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict. They emphasis cooperative solutions, pursued on a realistic scale and with practical means. They are running a project in Africa called Radio for peacebuilding. The project aims to develop, spread and encourage the use of radio broadcasting techniques and content for peacebuilding.

Soul Beat Africa - Communication for Change
Soul Beat Africa aims to be a space for communicators across Africa to share experiences, materials, strategic thinking and events, and to engage in discussion and debate. This site is meant for communicators, practitioners, media makers, academics, researchers, and others who are using or are interested in communication for change in Africa.

UNICEF
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), works in various domains such as immunization, education, child protection and the promotion/application of children's rights.
MAGIC
" Media And Good Ideas by, with and for Children"
The Magic Website is UNICEF's recognizes the enormous potential of media to make the world a better place for children. All over the world, children and young people are contributing to a range of TV programmes, radio shows, newspapers, websites and other media projects, getting their voices heard and putting their hopes and concerns into the public arena.

VOICES OF YOUTH
UNICEF website for youth.

World Radio Forum (WRF)
Site of producers who 1) make radio for, with, and by children and youth and 2) work to make broadcasters aware that children need quality radio programmes and that they have the right to participate in radio productions.

World Space
World Space is a corporation which provides digital satellite audio, data and multimedia services primarily to African and Asian markets.

Youthful Media – Young people’s media network
This group is for young people in Europe and Central Asia who work in or with the media. It is set up to exchange opinions, ideas, recommendations and to facilitate a network of young reporters.



Child Rights


50 Ways To Save Our Children
A not-for-profit organization created in 1999 by Cheryl Saban and the Saban Family Foundation to encourage philanthropy and public service to the benefit of children and their families. The organization does not solicit funds. The goal is to educate, guide and inspire would-be philanthropists to get involved with existing local, national and global charitable organizations that have a track record of serving the myriad needs of children and their families.

ActionZone.cc
This site is all about DOING something in the fight against poverty. Find out what we're up to and take action now!

Global movement for children
Established in 2001, the Global Movement for Children aims to put children’s rights on the public agenda. Founded by Plan International in partnership with UNICEF, the International Save the Children Alliance, World Vision International, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and Netaid.org Foundation, the Movement is a worldwide initiative uniting for the first time all those concerned with the welfare of children and the promotion of their rights.

Global movement for education
The GCE believes that free, quality basic education for every girl, boy, man and woman is not only an essential right, but an achievable goal. Determined to end this injustice, aid agencies, non-government organizations, child rights activists, and teachers' and public sector unions operating in 180 countries have joined forces to launch the Global Campaign for Education (GCE).

International society for peace and human rights
The International Society for Peace and Human Rights is a global network of caring individuals working together for peace, human rights and the environment. Based out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the ISPHR works with representatives in all regions of the world to contribute to the protection of peoples and places, believing in the collective power of civil society and its ability to bring about positive change.

OneWorld.net
OneWorld is a community of over 1250 organizations working for social justice.

MyMountains.org
The Mountain Children's Forum (MCF) is a platform from which children from mountain communities around the world can communicate, discuss issues, and find solutions.

The Child Rights Information Network
Global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organizations (NGO's), United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organization (IGO's), educational institutions, and other child rights experts. The Coordinating Unit is based in London, UK.