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Location Capacity strengthening
The Institute of Social Communications (ICS) is a public institution with a network of over 80 community radio stations across Mozambique. Its aim is to promote a better quality of life for rural communities through information and education programmes.
Following discussions with UNICEF, DMI was requested to deliver a capacity strengthening project to strengthen the social behaviour change (SBC) skills of ICS staff in Zambezia province from 2022-2023. We will be extending the project to the Sofala province for 2024-2025.
The project consists of designing and delivering a training programme which employs a combination of workshop training, site visits, self-directed learning, and remote supervision.
Mozambique
Capacity strengthening – training for ICS radio stations to improve capacity to produce and broadcast evidence-based radio programmes and outputs
Baseline assessments
Training workshops
Support visits
Ongoing remote support
Endline assessments
Fortalecer I (Zambezia): 2022-2023
Fortalecer II (Sofala): 2024-2025
15 ICS stations in Zambezia province, who reach 37% of the population.
9 ICS stations in the Sofala province, who reach 54% of the population.
Science
ICS stations are valuable resources with impressive reach and a deep understanding of their communities. To enhance these resources, we delivered training which integrated our proven methodologies, equipping ICS staff with the knowledge and skills to embed the same evidence-based methodology and SBC best practices in their own work. Doing so will ensure the quality and robustness of future outputs from ICS radio stations.
Stories
At the start of the project, DMI conducted a capacity assessment of current practices and SBC materials at ICS Zambezia stations, including interviews with staff members. The purpose of this assessment was to better understand how ICS radio stations plan and implement their radio programmes.
Saturation
One of two new capacity strengthening projects delivered by DMI in Mozambique, Fortalecer is an example of our commitment to sustaining impact beyond the life of our campaigns.
With improved SBC capacity, the ICS stations will be equipped to broadcast evidence-based health messaging that will lead to a sustained positive impact on important social and health issues.
Because of their wide reach, it is estimated that the training of ICS radio stations will directly impact over 3 million listeners across both provinces.
We are grateful to UNICEF for supporting this project.