it is good if it is possible to create favorable conditions to establish TV Park Mini media and community radio, which is one of the local media that can make information accessible to citizens.

1. SAKIS-914 DIGTAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATION
PROJECT PROPOSAL
Part One (1)
1. Introduction
In our country, efforts have been started to increase the use of information by
developing information dissemination methods that take into account the needs and
capabilities of different sections of the society. From this point of view, both the
country and the region are trying their best to create a system to monitor and evaluate
whether community radio stations that have been established in the past are in a state
of providing sustainable and effective services.
It is certain that the stations will achieve encouraging results in the work done by
paying special attention to the mission, in addition to the greater national importance
they achieve in increasing the access to information of the community through
programs that are easily prepared and presented. Efforts are being made for
community radio stations to be expanded and used for communication. So far, three
(3) community radio stations have been put into operation in the region, but only 1
(one) is currently in operation. The stations are located in Benishangul Gumuz Region,
Kamashi Zone, BeLo Jiganfoi District, Tekelan Zone, Dibate District and Guba District.
In the future, this media network needs to be established in various areas under all
districts and city administrations to make it accessible to various sections of the society.
In order to strengthen the system in which the community can use the stations in a
better way and in the process to strengthen the continuity and accessibility of the
services of the stations, it is necessary to develop a document that can be used as a
procedure manual for those who operate in the field and those who join the sector in
the future by creating a strong relationship with the regional government
communication affairs office. It will be prepared in the future.
Among the issues covered in the document are the nature and importance of
community radio, best practice of community radio, organization and technical status
of community radio, community radio program preparation and ethical rules, and the
use of the digital environment (information communication technology).

2. To briefly describe the essence of a community radio station in article two numbers
two of the Community Radio Guide issued by the Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority in
2004.
It is a not-for-profit radio broadcasting service that is run and managed by the
community, established by the needs of the community.
The Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority has established five types of community radio
organizations as stated in Article Two Number Two of the Community Radio Guidelines
issued in 2004. According to the guidelines, community radio can be organized as one
of the following:
1. Geographical community radio
2. Common interest community radio
3. Community Radio of the Institute of Higher Education
4. Community oriented higher education institution community radio
5. They are community oriented local government community radio.
Therefore, SAKIS-914 DIGTAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATION, based on the above-
mentioned directives of the national governor, has received current and accurate
information from the communities who have been displaced from their villages and are
in shelters in the forest and neighboring regions and districts due to the political
conflict in our country and in our region. I have prepared a study to establish a
community radio center supported by information communication technology that can
make the reliable information about peace and stability accessible in the community's
own language and to establish an information dissemination facility for the community.
2. The importance of community radio
2.1 Reflecting and promoting the identity and culture of the local people
The programs offered by community radio stations reflect the unique situation and
identity of the community in which they are located. As a result, they mainly use local
content as input. By mainly using the local language, they contribute to the
preservation of cultural diversity. In addition to this, most community radio stations
create an opportunity for the community to develop its identity and culture by

3. presenting the local people's music, dance, poetry, theater, stories and similar issues in
an artistic way.
2.2 Creating diversity of opinion
Community radio stations are easy to create diversity of opinion because of their
participation and proximity to the public. Even if the diversity of viewpoints seems to
create conflict, the sites neutrally present everyone's ideas and pave the way for the
community to understand the issue and find a solution.
2.3 Provide different programs and content
Community radio stations provide a variety of programming to the community in a
variety of styles and formats, including roundtable discussions, reports, interviews,
telephone commentary, and live community discussions.
2.4 Enhancing open discussion and democratic process
The central issue of the democratic process is creating opportunities for people to
listen to the opinions of others and to voice their own opinions. Community radio
stations do the same. The sites help the community to freely discuss and decide on
issues that are important to the community by providing an open and free forum for
discussion. This results in a democratic decision being made by the community.
2.5 Encouraging development and social change
Development can only come about when people are able to form a common
perspective on important issues and work in a spirit of unity, not through individual
activities. It is possible to create a common perspective by having an open discussion
about the current situation of the society, the issues that created the situation and the
improvement measures that can be taken. From this point of view, the role played by
community radio stations in facilitating a platform for the discussions and creating a
common point of view in the process is of great importance.
2.6 Encourage civil society
Young people in developing countries who have recently joined democratic governance
have little knowledge about democracy and civil societies that work to promote
democracy. In this regard, community radio stations explain the implications of
democracy and civil society, raise awareness of human rights and responsibilities,

4. enhance the benefits society has gained from democracy, and help society accelerate
its democratization and social development.
2.7 Support good governance
By creating an opportunity for the people to present their grievances and acting as a
watchdog of the community, by conducting discussions and question-and-answer
programs between the people and the leadership, and by live broadcasting the
meetings held by the local administration, the community radio stations enable the
leaders to act in a spirit of accountability to the people.
2.8 Encouraging participation, information sharing and innovation
Community radio encourages participation by providing a platform for debate, analysis,
and diverse ideas and perspectives. In addition, it works by presenting groups or
members of society with successful experiences so that others can learn from them and
be encouraged for better work.
2.9 Giving opportunity to the unheard members of the society
Without the active and informed participation of women, youth and various sections of
the society, no society can develop in an equitable and satisfactory manner.
Community radio stations, in particular, give marginalized sections of society, as well as
society in general, an opportunity to make their voices heard and break free from the
age-old stereotypes of information.
2.10 Providing social services
By providing market information to farmers/pastoralists, community radio stations
reduce the cost and inconvenience of obtaining the information through other means.
In addition, they increase the efficiency of government services by notifying the
government of services such as vaccinations that the government plans to provide to
the community in advance and ensuring that the community is prepared.
2.11 To contribute to the development of the diversity of broadcast media
It is known that all three types of broadcast media have their own role to benefit the
society. However, it appears that community radio is lagging behind in fulfilling its role.
Therefore, the strengthening of community radio stations will contribute to the
development of a democratic society by maintaining the balance and diversity of
broadcast media information.

5. 2.12 Developing human resources for the growth of the broadcasting industry
Although most people who work in community radio stations are volunteers and have
no formal training in the profession, they are increasingly in demand because of the
training and practical experience they gain while working at the station. As a result, it
has become common to see professionals/volunteers who used to work in community
radio join the mainstream broadcast media.
Therefore, SAKIS-914 DIGTAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATION uses two types of
experiences to establish a community radio center by integrating the current digital
media environment. And geographic community radio is community radio that provides
services to community members living in a specific area. He developed this proposal to
open a community radio center that can be used and benefited by the citizens using
the organization.
Part Two (2)
SAKIS-914 DIGTAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATION
Program Business Model
1. Name of the Radio Program
SAKIS-914 DIGTAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATION
2. Program Overview
As a country and region, access to media plays an important role in maintaining the progress of
development and getting out of poverty. In each case, the media plays a significant role in keeping the
public informed and involved. A society with up-to-date and accurate information needs information to
enable it to lead its daily life in accordance with the current situation. And this is unthinkable without
media access.
Also, it is necessary to ensure the diversity and accessibility of public and private media in order to
enable the society to have an active participation in every national and regional issue so that the
country's democratic system can be developed and good governance prevails.
Currently, the world has different media networks; we have reached an era where social media print
and broadcast media are accessible to all corners of the world along with the development of
technology. The media is being used by the global community.
However, most of them, whether it is a country or a region, have limited access to mass media around
limited areas. In particular, access to mass media in the regions still needs to be worked on. Therefore,
the accessibility of mass media in developing regions is a matter that needs to be focused on, so in
order to ensure the benefit of the public in the region, the information transmission is supported by the
digital environment and information communication technology.

6. Therefore, this community radio will be established in a new mainly a commercial program, but also
works for non-profit community services. It contains both live and recorded productions; the live
program will be with invited studio guests, listeners and between host journalists. And, the recorded
tips will be interviewing, event programs and other productions.
3. Objectives of the Program
In order to increase the community's access to information and to create greater national importance, by
building a community radio center and using the digital environment or information communication
technology to link social media addresses and small and alternative media channels that are open
remotely from different areas. To have a system to ensure the security of the information infrastructure
and information of the institutions to keep it separate, to have a uniform international and national
cyber security policy strategy, to have an organization in line with the standards and laws in all the
institutions. In General the main objective of this program will be sharing of information, educate
community directly or indirectly using different forms of content, entertainment which is an important
functions of a media and a kind of performance that provides pleasure to people, influence or motivate
through persuasion, and to be linkage or bridge between different groups who may or may not have
direct connection.
4. Medium of Transmission Language
Mainly, the community radio center starts in Amharic language, but the community radio stations reach
the lower part of the society and work on their socio-political and economic life, so that they can
contribute to the overall national social transformation. They will be translated and made accessible.
With a probability of translated productions and live hosts from other languages.
5. Contents of the Program
The community radio station works based on the needs of the listeners and the current situation, as
the center serves to be effective in its work. This means that he not only entertains the listeners
through the programs he presents to the community based on the needs of the community, but also
focuses on providing recommendations that inspire the community for change, growth and
prosperity as well as general social change.
In order to achieve this, listeners can actively participate in the program planning, implementation
and evaluation of programs by creating a comfortable environment, entertainment songs, poems and
other art collections that gently convince the listeners to share the important objectives of the
program.
Community Issue: Any issue exists or exists in the community which requires the need for a radio
program on specific topics. These can be social, cultural, economic, political, educational, human
rights, public relations and other activities of daily life of people in the society.
6. Audiences of the Program
In terms of the purpose of broadcasting, according to my research, when the community radio
station is established, it will be accessible to all parts of the community within the broadcast
horizon, but nowadays the world uses various media networks to connect with the technology to
create ways for all the programs produced by the community radio station to be accessible to all
corners of the world.
This means that it will be accessible through all social media networks, Facebook, YouTube,
Twitter, LinkedIn, Twitter and other information networks, both audio and video. All radio listeners

7. of Ethiopia who listen Amharic Language in the range of the broadcaster FM Radio and those who
have an access to listen through the internet all over the world.
7. Partners and Stakeholders
 Profit and non-profit organizations,
 Government and non-government organizations,
 Embassies and foreign ministries,
 Civic associations,
 Universities,
 Private companies and any other sponsors.
8. Startup Activities
 Rent managerial and studio office,
 Having license and trade certificates from Ethiopian Trade and Revenue Authority,
 Buy studio equipment and office materials,
 Negotiate with fulltime/part-time journalists, marketers and other supportive staff members
to work together.
9. Broadcast Hours/Week
 Duration: Two – three Hours
 Frequency: daily
 Favorable Days: Saturday and Tuesday
10.Estimated Budgets
No. Items/resources Unit Price/expense in Birr
1 Office rent 50,000 /month 600,000 /Year
2 Studio furnishing Up-to-date
material
300,000
3 Studio Engineer Up-to-date
material
100,000
4 Studio Materials: Studio equipment such as: transmitter,
antenna, mixer, speakers and headphones, amplifier,
camera, voice recorder and other equipment
Up-to-date
material
800,000
5 Office materials: table, chair, computers, printer and
others
Up-to-date
material
500,000
6 Staff salary (average) 8 x 20,000 1,920,000 /Year
7 Other administrative expense Up-to-date
material
300,000 /Year
8 For emergency losses and reserves Rationality 500,000 /Year
Total 4,120,000 = 76426.00 USD

8. SAKIS-914 DIGTAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATION
Key Partners
 The structure of
government
communication
 Ethiopian Broadcasting
Authority
 Ministry of Information
and Communication
Technology
 Pre-established
community radio
stations
 Universities and
research institutes
 civil society bodies
 Public and private
broadcasting stations
 Centers for amateurs and
cultural arts
 Development
Association
 NGOs
 Freelance professionals
 Content creators
 Marketing
 Advertisement
institutions
Key Activities
By connecting the center with the
social media website of legally
recognized institutions in the region
and at the national level, make
information accessible to customers
in the same way.
Providing bilingual (Benshangul,
Gumuz, Shinasha, Mao and komo,
Amharic Oromo, agew, and others)
Information, Education,
Entertainment
Making discussions, reports,
interviews, telephone comments
and community discussions available
live in their language.
Value propositions
 Reflecting and promoting the
identity and culture of the
local people
 Creating diversity of opinion
 Providing social services
 Encourage civil society
 Giving opportunity to the
unheard members of the
society
 Encouraging participation,
information sharing and
innovation
 Encouraging development
and social change
 Support good governance
 To contribute to the
development of the diversity
of broadcast media
 Developing human resources
for the growth of the
broadcasting industry
 Enhancing open discussion
and democratic process
 Provide different programs
and content
Customer relationship
Developing a website for
community radio stations and
facilitating networking
opportunities, promoting new
technologies, and developing a
catalog of broadcast materials
useful for community radio
stations.
Strong network with the existing
institutions in the area and
communication sector
Networks will be formed
 Using the broad
experience, technical competence
and financial capacity of
broadcasting service providers
Customer segments
 Although a
community radio
station is owned by
the community as a
whole, it should be
managed by those
who can take
responsibility for
managing the
station's day-to-day
operations and
represent the
community directly
or indirectly.
Accordingly
 Various
associations from the
community,
 From the Local
Government Council,
 From educational
institutions, and
 It will have at least
150 members fairly
represented from
other sections of the
community.
Key Resources
 Studio equipment such as:
transmitter, antenna, mixer,
speakers and headphones, amplifier.
 Field recording sound
microphone Audio Players and
Recorders Mini Disc Recorders and
Players Digital Audio Tape Recorders
and Players Computers for Studio
Channels
 Radio
 Small and alternative media
TV Park mini media and
social media pages
 Converging social media
platforms Like Face book,
YouTube, Linked in
Twitter, What sap etc.
Cost structure
 Office expenses
 Salaries and wages for permanent staff
 Freelancers fees
 Taxes, insurance, and legal fees
Revenue streams
 Advertisement, Sponsorship, Outsourcing
(Financial sustainability is related to the site's ability to
generate revenue, monetization and control. This is closely
related to the social and institutional environment. As long as
the community considers the radio station to be mine, getting
the necessary funding for its operation may not be a threat.
However, other external revenue generating methods that
allow the site to earn additional income should also be
facilitated by law.)