MISA Lesotho, with financial support of the US Embassy – Maseru, will hold a two-day training workshop
for the six Community Radio Stations in Lesotho on Thursday 7 – Friday 8 November, 2024. The workshop
will be held at Boikhutsong Guest House, in Hills-view Maseru. The workshop is aimed to enhance capacity
of the community radio station’s editorial personnel on the following:
- Editorial independence of radio
- The role of radio in promoting democracy,
- Creating an informed society through information provision, through community radio, as a medium
of information exchange - Building the accountability-holding power of radio,
- Civic education role of radio as a medium of knowledge
With the support of the US Embassy – Maseru, under the the Public Diplomacy Grants, MISA Lesotho is able
to pursue a project named: Bridging the information gap in areas where mainstream media does not reach, through capacity-building of community radio, to regularly provide reliable and credible information to
citizens and carry out civic education on the development agenda of the country.
The project aims at closing a serious information lacuna obtaining in the rural areas, regarding regular and
constant provision of reliable and credible information on the development agenda of Lesotho. The project
is aimed at building the capacity of community radio stations, which are found in six of the 10 districts of
Lesotho, so that they are able to contribute effectively to the development in the communities in which
they operate. The project is intended to focus on five key areas of capacity building – internal corporate
governance, conflict management, programme sustainability and financial management and sustainability. This project is entirely financed by the US Embassy Maseru to
