Developing Radio Partners Inc.

“Governing board review of form 990 prior to its filing with the irs, an electronic copy of final form 990 is provided to each voting member of the governing board for review.”

“Monitoring and enforcement of conflicts policy any director who believes he or she may have such a conflict of interest shall so notify the board prior to deliberation on the matter in question, and the board shall make the final determination as to whether any director has a conflict of interest in any matter. The minutes of the board meeting shall reflect disclosure of any conflict of interest and the recusal of the interested director.”

“Process for determining officer compensation board discusses salary as they review and approve the budget.”

“Public availability of other documents copies of drp's governing documents, financial statements and form 990 are available for inspection upon request. They are also available for inspection at drp's administrative office.”

“Developing radio partners is a nonprofit and media development organization which works with teams operating local radio stations in developing countries. They provide them with the skills, content, and methodologies they need to bring reliable information services on development topics to their listeners. Drp was active in malawi, zambia, cape verde, rwanda and cameroon. Malawi: drp was awarded a subgrant from population reference bureau in the amount of 100,104 usd in april 2017 to implement the health policy plus project in malawi. The project is to conclude in january 2018. The objectives of the project are to engage three community radio stations and youth journalists to help improve the enabling environment for planning, programming and delivering youth friendly health services and information to young people in malawi as described in the national youth friendly health services strategy 2015-2020. Activities drp conducted a baseline survey in april 2017 and identified key problems with the yfhs strategy. Key findings: people living in the three districts where drp was to work were unaware of the strategy. Most young people were not aware that their local public hospital offered youth friendly health services; those youth who were aware of the yfhs were often reluctant to use the facilities citing unfriendliness on the part of health care providers, inconvenient hours, and lack of privacy and respect at the yfhs facilities. Using data from its baseline survey, drp created a curriculum and hosted a workshop in lilongwe -- participants included partner radio station managers, reporters, youth representatives and district health officers. The findings were discussed at the workshop and a series of on-site trainings were organized in which more than 140 young people would be trained to produce more than 140 weekly radio programs aimed at informing the three districts about yfhs. Zambia: drp received a grant from the university corporation for atmospheric research (ucar) that began in june 2015 and was to be completed in august 2016, however, drp received a no cost extension to the project through august 2017. The total amount of the award was 171,960 usd. The objective of the project was to assist community-based radio stations and the national meteorological department to help farmers understand the weather and adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. The project involved eleven partner radio stations throughout zambia. Activities training was carried out at each radio station and there was follow-up monitoring and mentoring throughout the year. Impact - zambia activity: yatsani fm organizes a drp-sponsored community activity on sanitation and hygiene in a lusaka neighborhood hard hit by a cholera outbreak in march and april 2016. Hundreds of citizens take part in a day of music, poetry, dance, drama and speeches. Impact: the lusaka city council and community members launched an intensive trash pick-up campaign in the neighborhood. There have been no new outbreaks of cholera in this compound. Activity: mkushi community radio does a radio program on the harm caused by deforestation and planting of crops on river banks. Impact: five traditional leaders in different parts of mkushi -- namely munsakamba, milombwe, myafi, nkolonga and mikunku have started discouraging human economic activities, such as deforestation and river bank cultivation. Activity: yatsani fm in lusaka produces weekly programs (30 minutes long) and seedlings (1-2 minute programs) on a variety of environmental issues as part of the drp project. Impact: as a result of these programs, yatsani radio has witnessed more organizations seeking partnerships with the station to address environmental issues and climate change, in particular. Yatsani has become a source for the distribution of important adaptation and mitigation information on climate change. Activity: yatsani fm produced a documentary on organic vegetable farming. Impact: a group of women i”

“Impact: more than 600 seedlings have been planted around the water catchment of the government bilingual primary school in the lebialem division. This is to improve the water quality and protect it from drying up. The tree species are acacia, angustissima and leucaena and were planted 07 september 2016 by the pupils and their parents. Activity: lebialem has broadcast a seedling that included a poem about the environment by cameroonian poet ekpe inyang. Impact: the radio station has launched a competition for students of government bilingual high school to explain the meaning of the poem. The purpose is to measure the degree of their understanding of the poem and to encourage the students to get involved in climate change issues. A prize of 5000 cfa frs (about 9 usd) will be awarded to the student who best describes the poem and commits to protecting the environment. Activity: bonakanda rural radio in beau, cameroon produces at least four radio programs each month on environmental issues. Impact: as a result of these programs, community-based organizations around mount cameroon, are realizing the importance of community radio as a powerful medium to promote climate change discussions and educate the community. Through the radio station, these cbo's are creating greater awareness of climate issues and, among other things, providing free trees to communities. One organization, global hand, has partnered with bonakanda radio to promote sustainable forest development in 41 communities in the mount cameroon area. Activity: bonakanda community radio in buea produced a radio program on the benefits of rain harvesting to irrigate vegetable crops during the dry season or when rainfall drops. Impact: dozens of farmers along the slopes of mount cameroon have begun to harvest rain water. "i have tomatoes when most people don't have tomatoes," says idah mwambo, who is 56. "my harvest has increased and i make more money because off-season tomatoes are more expensive." activity: drp weekly bulletin and mentoring session at lebialem community radio in menji, cameroon, on the need to protect the water supply. Reporters produce a radio program on the issue. Impact: water management committees formed in 25 villages. Menji water authority official philip forchap says there "has been a floodgate of applications for the council authority to create water management committees." activity: as a result of drp mentoring, lebialem community radio in menji, cameroon produced a program on the harmful effects of farmers burning grassland. Impact: lebialem divisional delegation of environment and nature protection in collaboration with the mayor of menji issued a decision forbidding the burning of grass across the division. Most farmers have stopped the practice. Activity: lebialem community radio in menji, southwestern cameroon has launched a campaign to plant five thousand fruit trees in 20 communities along the nveh river in order to conserve its banks. The station is working with the chief, forchap, of nveh. The station hosts a sunday musical request program. Impact: any person or group of persons within the nveh community that have planted more than 20 fruit trees can call in for five minutes and greet their relatives and make a song request. So far, 100 fruit trees have been planted along the nveh river. Activity: drp provides lebialem community radio with seedlings each week. Impact: twenty students from the gbhs fontem school environmental club permanently participate in the station's poem competition. They also interpret the poems from the seedlings on air. Activity: drp sponsors weekly environmental radio programs on lebialem community radio assisting the station with story ideas from weekly bulletins and seedlings. Impact: one hundred students of gbhs fontem (local high school) have joined the school environmental club motivated by listening to the voices of their classmates on climate change programs. The club originally had just 30 members. The s”

“Developing radio partners brings the most important development information to those hardest to reach in africa using the most widely used medium--radio--by enriching the programming of community based radio stations. We train journalists about climate-smart agriculture, health for women and youth through workshops, weekly bulletins on timely issues with a problem statement and solutions and production tips. We provide funds for community activities and on-site mentoring. As a result, farmers have improved their livelihoods, trees have been planted, cholera reduced and health services made more accessible. Drp has worked in zambia, rwanda, cameroon, malawi and cape verde in the last year. By providing much-needed training, drp helps radio stations live up to their potential of being powerful agents for positive change.”