Radio Scriptwriting Competition

Farm Radio International, in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners, is coordinating a scriptwriting competition on smallholder farmer innovation in sub-Saharan Africa.

The competition is open to organizations and individuals that work with radio in Africa, including radio stations, broadcasters, production organizations, NGOs with a radio project, farmers’ associations with a radio show, etc. To assist participants with writing the radio scripts, a free, two-month on-line scriptwriting training course will be offered. Entries must be received no later than November 1st, 2009, and the winners will be announced in January 2010.
On the competition website you will find more information: http://scriptcompetition.farmradio.org

Press releases

Scriptwriting competition for African radio broadcasters (July 27, 2009):

Winners announced in scriptwriting competition on smallholder farmer innovation (January 25, 2010)