Women Making Airwaves for Peace - Seminar

WMAP in conjunction with the Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15 in Manila

WMAP was originally planned in conjunction with the AMARC Asia Pacific conference to provide women the possibility to participate in both events. As you may have learned, the 2^nd regional conference of AMARC Asia Pacific was moved from October 2009 to February 2010. However, another exciting event will take place in October, which is the Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15 from October 22-24, 2009 in Manila, Philippines.

Women Making Airwaves for Peace (WMAP)

WMAP is a five-day seminar that gathers around 30 women community radio broadcasters from the Asia Pacific region. It is a space where participants share their experiences, particularly best practices towards engendered peace building and disaster management -- enabling community radio to empower women in crisis situations.

The seminar also enhances the skills of the participants in radio production and digital audio editing. It sharpens their perspectives in engendered peace journalism, interview techniques, feminist broadcasting and more.
The seminar methodology is interactive as participants are given the opportunity to be resource persons, trainers, facilitators, producers and translators. Moreover, the participants may produce radio programmes that they can broadcast in their respective radio stations.

Who can participate
Women Community Radio Broadcasters from Asia Pacific, preferably with experience in situations of armed conflict and natural disasters (not a condition).

What is the required language skills
The seminar is conducted in English. Non-English speaking women are encouraged to apply.. Isis International will select another participant who can both converse in the same non-English language as well as in English. English-speaking participants are required to translate for their colleague.

Selected participants are expected to:

• share their experiences and skills as trainers during the WMAP seminar.
• mount radio productions during and after the seminar. These radio productions must be broadcast in their radio stations in the local language.
• echo their learnings from the seminar with their colleagues in their radio station.
• document their best practices by contributing to the publications of Isis International and helping disseminate it.
• for English speaking participants, translate for other participants.
• participate in the post-seminar evaluation four months after the seminar

Given the new situation, Isis International decided to move the date and venue of the WMAP seminar to October 16-20, 2009 at the Isis House in Manila, Philippines. This provides the participants the opportunity to attend

Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15 on October 22-24, 2009 also in Manila. Participation in the forum will also enable women to practice the knowledge gained from the WMAP by reporting the discussions and events at the Forum to their respective community radio station(s).

Regrettably, Isis will not be able to sponsor participation in the AP NGO Forum. For more information on the NGO-Forum please visit http://apww.isiswomen.org.

Two WMAP Seminars October 2009 and February 2010
Isis received almost 80 applications for the WMAP seminar. Most applications came from Southeast Asia and South Asia. Since only a maximum of 30 participants can be accommodated in one WMAP seminar, Isis International decided to hold two WMAP seminars, provided we find the necessary funds for the second WMAP:

WMAP Manila Seminar for Southeast Asia and the Pacific in conjunction with the Asia Pacific NGO-Forum on Beijing+15 in October 2009 in Manila, Philippines.

Please confirm your interest of participating as soon as possible:

For applicants from Southeast Asia and the Pacific, who applied for scholarship: If you are still interested in participating in the WMAP seminar that will now take place in Manila from October 16 -20, 2009, please confirm your application for WMAP Manila by email, no later than July 31.

For applicants from any other region in the world, who did not apply for scholarship, meaning you will cover their own travel expenses and registration fee: If you are still interested in participating in the WMAP seminar that will take place in Manila from October 16–20, 2009, please confirm your application for WMAP Manila by email no later than July 31.

Applicants from Central or South Asia who applied for a scholarship, we regret to inform you that Isis International cannot grant your scholarship this time but we will inform you as soon as we can confirm the conduct of another WMAP in February 2010 in Bangalore. Thank you for your kind understanding.

For details contact:
Bianca Miglioretto
Community Radio Officer
Isis International
bianca@isiswomen.org
Tel. +63 2 928 19 56
Fax +63 2 924 10 65
www.isisinternational.org