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World Family of Radio Maria Africa NGO Annual Report 2019 World Family of Radio Maria Africa NGO Annual Report 2019 Dar es Salaam, March 2020 The Annual Report is edited by: Paolo Taffuri With the collaboration of Anitha Mushi Photo: World Family of Radio Maria Africa archive 2 Sommario 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 4 2. Governing Bodies ........................................................................................................................ 6 3. Employees and Collaborators ...................................................................................................... 7 4. Activities and Projects ................................................................................................................. 9 5. Training Activities ...................................................................................................................... 15 6. IT development and Support ..................................................................................................... 16 7. Finances Sources and Main Expenses ........................................................................................ 18 3 1. Introduction World Family of Radio Maria Africa is a non-governmental organization born in Tanzania on the 30th of October 2008, registered under the Non-Governmental Organizations Act n.24 of 2002. Registration number: 00002617 These are the Vision and the Mission: Vision To have in Africa an excellent level of communication in order to be capable to spread peace, love, brotherhood and all those values that make all peoples of the continent as one family. Mission To support radio broadcasting activities in Africa with the purpose of developing skills, technology and professionalism for an integral development of the human being. World Family of Radio Maria Africa NGO (WF Africa) is an organization that works for the advancement of communications in Africa, providing a wide range of services to radios, especially in capacities building, preparation and diffusion of programs which aims at spreading human values like peace, love and solidarity, networking with civil society organizations, private and public companies for improving the world of communication in Africa. WF Africa, in collaboration with its world-wide partner World Family of Radio Maria, cooperates in particular with Radios Maria in Africa in order to help them become a remarkable and transformative instrument in the broadcasting sector in Africa. WF Africa follows criteria of transparency in managing funds which are received in form of donations. To grant the highest level of accountability and transparency towards its stakeholders, every year World Family of Radio Maria Africa’s financial statemens are submitted to an audit and certification by an indipendent company. Again for the year 2018 the auditing firm was Claritas International, which for the fourth consecutive year gave its unquilified opinion. During the year 2018 WF Africa received a total of 4,772,419,00 TZS which added to the opening balance of 155,615,000 TZS ammounted to a total income of 4,928,034,000 TZS. The total expenses in the year 2018 were 4,775,059,000 TZS with a closing balance of 152,975,000 TZS. Such balance will be used during the year 2019 for the projects which are still to be completed by WF Africa. 91% of the available amount was used for the projects and activities carried out, while only 9% was used for the running costs of the organization. Besides the routine activities to implement several projects WF Africa organized and important event in Kigali, Rwanda. From 14th to 16th of February a continental conference was organized in where rapresentatives of all WF Africa partners were invited. It was attended by 75 people from 23 4 African countries and 2 Europaen countries. It marked an important benchmark in the development of our partners becouse the discussed topics concerned the way in which radios can increase their sustainability. More and more partners are growing in their activities and in their sustainability. Associations with which WF Africa started working years ago like the ones in Tanzania, in Togo, in Rwanda, in Burundi and Madagascar are already in position to cover the totality of their running costs through the fruits of their own fund raising activities. Other partners are about to join this group, and we assist them to develop their strategies to increase their local donations. 5 2. Governing Bodies Members of WF Africa are 5, and they are all volunteers: Senen Edmund Mponda Emanuele Ferrario Vittorio Viccardi Paolo Taffuri Jean Paul Kayihura Board Members: Chairman: Senen Mponda Tresurer: Paolo Taffuri Secretary: Jean Paul Kayihura They were elected during the General Assembly held in Dar es Salaam on 30th of October 2018 for three years. As Board Members they are volunteers and they don’t receive any allowances for seating in this organ, not even during the Board meetings. Executive Committee: Senen Mponda, President of WF Africa Paolo Taffuri, Coordinator of WF Africa This is the organ which assures the daily management of the organization. 6 3. Employees and Collaborators At the end of the year 2018 the operative personnel of WF Africa were 5: Coordinator: Paolo Taffuri, volunteer from Italy Chief Administrator: Anitha Mushi, employee Fund Raising officer: Sylvie Kayombo, employee Promoter: Veronica Mwita, employee Administrator: Boniface Bahati, employee Among the permanent staff there are 3 guards employed by WF Africa: Mustapha Ally Njegeka Thomas Daud Kivunja Fadhili Saidi Machaku All these staff members are in Tanzania, working in WF Africa the main office in Mikocheni Insustrial Area in the presmises of Radio Maria Tanzania and some in the office in Ursino St, Dar es Salaam. The main office was transferred to Radio Maria Tanzania premises in May 2019. Our collaborators instead are resident outside Tanzania and work in specific projects in different African countries. Collaborators in Technical Support project: Alberto Santarelli, Italy, radio frequency engineer Edward Kallawy, Sierra Leone, radio frequency engineer André Makoka, Congo, radio engineer Zacarias José Mabui, Mozambique, radio technician Mwaka David, Uganda, radio frequency technician Renato Bovolo, Morocco, civil engineer Collaborator in Mozambicque project: Mauro Guarrido, Mozambique, manager This project was concluded at the end of February 2019, therefore also the collaboration with Mauro Guarrido ended. During the year 2019 it was decided to change the FARM committee in the Africa Excom (Executive Committee) with the purpose of planning and monitoring activities of the WF Africa team on all the projects under their superviosion. If FARM committee involved six people, Africa Excom is composed of four members. They had one physical meeting in October and several skype conferences. The members are: Paolo Taffuri, Coordinator of WF Africa Humphry Julius Kira, President of Radio Maria Tanzania Roger Wawa, Director of Radio Maria Congo DR Jeanpaul Kaiyhura, Editorial manager in Africa for WF They don’t receive any allowance for their participation to such committee, but they do it for their spirit of volunteerism and participation to the mission of the organization. 7 8 4. Activities and Projects WF Africa’s objective is to assist the radio communication in Africa in particular for non for profit organizations. There are usually or existing non profit radios, or Church organizations that want to establish a radio, or they have already one and they ask WF Africa to improve it in management, procuction and technical equipment and know-how. Such assistance is realized in four specific areas Set up new radios: this include the planning phase of a radio and its realization with the support or supervision of WF Africa specialized staff both in management and organization and in the technical area. During the past year WF Africa activated a new radio in Nairobi and was called for the same in Cape Verde, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Sudan. Technical assistance. WF provides all the services that a radio needs in their technical department both for studio and for broadcasting stations. WF Africa technicians give assistance and training to the radio teams in order for them to manage routine maintenance and to troubleshoot and request further assistance when needed. An important help that WF Africa gives is in terms of satellite service. Being a continental organization it has better negotiation power than every individual radio, therefore through satellite companies it provides to 10 national radio networks in Africa the possibility to connect their main station to broadcasting stations spread in their countries via satellite. Capacity building, in particular in areas that help radio become self-sufficient like promotion and fund raising, accountability and transparency, radio production. Methodology used is both with training on the job by accompanying teams and individuals in their activities, and residential courses where more people from different radios but with similar positions gather and participate to classes and educational activities. Innovation and technology: WF Africa offers assistance in developing software and tools that non for profit radios may use for their own growth in the marketplace where they operate. Example of the latest tools developed by WF Africa or disseminated to partners by providing licenses and training are the app to listen to radios via smartphones and CADMA
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