On 9th December 2004, TRAI had issued a set of recommendations for the government to follow in devisinbg Community Radio policy for the country. TRAI had recommended that "there should be no spectrum fee for the first two years of licence to lighten the financial burden on a community radio station in its initial years" (See page 43). Authority had also said that there is no need to introduce license fee (See page 62). 

This book is intended to serve a number of purposes: For those concerned in management, it provides ideas about the use of radio in Africa and a guide to the development of staff and staff training programmes.For instructors and training officers, it offers source material for lectures and  demonstrations and help in working out training projects. For senior producers who may have trainees to supervise but little time to spend with them, this book may provide what is needed for assignment work. It will be useful also for working broadcasters with little or no access to training facilities and for students of broadcasting it provides a course manual.

Source: UNESCO

This toolkit provides an overview of community-based, participatory video, its benefits, and its effectiveness across a spectrum of development issues. Program examples highlight how locally-made video creates social change through processes of collaboration, dialogue, and action, and how video capacity strengthens communities and organizations. The latter part of the section focuses on using community video to address highly sensitive issues such as genderbased violence and HIV/AIDs, and on special considerations when working in crisis settings.

Source: American Refugee Committee

The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media has published its Yearbook: New Questions, New Insights, New Approaches with sections on:

• Children, Media, Consumption and Health
• Media Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Communication for Social Change
• Media Literacy and Education

The book contains reworked papers presented at the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth in 2010, Karlstad, Sweden

Invite your grandmother, your friend, or coach to join you. And listen. That’s the key. In the listening, you will hear stories that people often keep to themselves - which we don’t slow down enough to hear. This booklet will help you gather those stories. It is an introduction to spoken history. The stories you gather may be from your family, your neighbours or your coaches- everyone has a story to tell.  You may want to save the aas family history, send an audio letter to someone or give them to a local library.

Source: StoryCorps

This guidebook for journalists, produced by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), describes how climate change, environmental degradation, evolution of extreme events such as droughts and floods, poverty and rapid urbanization contribute to expose more people to disasters, and discusses what media can contribute to convince more national and local governments to invest more in disaster risk reduction policies.

Source: United Nations

Participatory Communication Strategy Design (PCSD) is normally conducted by a team of facilitators such as extension staff, field workers, communication and media experts in radio, video production and graphic designers. Development workers and communication specialists can use the handbook in two ways. First as a reference guide as they develop their Communication Strategy in the field and second as training guide as they prepare others to develop Communication Strategies.

Source: FAO

Journalists covering human rights issues must find the balance between exposing corruption without fueling ethnic tensions. Internews recently released a web resource titled "Speak up, speak out: A toolkit for reporting on human rights issues", including issues like gender violence, human trafficking and workforce exploitation.

Source: Internews