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

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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

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1. Introduction

World Family of Radio Maria Africa is a non-governmental organization born in 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 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, . 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 , in Rwanda, in and 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.

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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.

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3. Employees and Collaborators

At the end of the year 2018 the operative personnel of WF Africa were 5:

Coordinator: Paolo Taffuri, volunteer from 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, , radio frequency engineer André Makoka, Congo, radio engineer Zacarias José Mabui, , radio technician Mwaka David, , 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.

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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 and CIVI CRM which are customer relation software helping radios to improve performance in fund radios activities.

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While some of the projects ended in 2019, others contined. Following are some of the most important projects which have been implemented in 2019:

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 Radio Frequency Support providing satellite service and technical assistance through contract with IGP, a satellite provider based in USA, and a task force of engineers and technicians from four different countries;  Transparent Radios aimed at improving continuously transparency and accountability of radio by periodical training sessions and audits; and,  Sustainable Radios in Africa with the objective of providing methods and tools which can be used to make even no-profit radios in Africa capable to sustain themselves by promoting their activities.  Radio Maria . Giving Voices to the Voiceless A new non for profit radio in a country where for decades broadcasting was an activity in the hand of government and very few more organizations.  Communication for Peace and Development in . A set of programs aimed at improving life of people living in Bangui, one of the poorest cities in Africa  A New Voice on Air for Nairobi. Setting up a new non for profit radio in one of the most populated African cities.  The Radio Maria African Congress. A meeting that gather representatives of more than 25 non for profit radios in Africa.

Some new projects started in 2019;

1. Radio Maria Nigeria. A Radio for Peace and Development in Abuja. New non for profit radio station 2. A Voice Through the Mountains. In technical assistance to Radio Maria Lesotho to involve people from rural and mountainous areas in radio programs 3. Radio Maria Congo Brazzaville. Going Far to Stay Closer. A project to expand the coverage of the radio in remote rural areas of the country

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4. Empowering Children to Protect Themselves. A Project to Contrast Child Abuse in Tanzania. Radio programs realized by children who have been going through a specific training in collaboration with the Social Welfare of Dar es Salaam, will be aired by Radio Maria Tanzania, Radio Mbiu and other interested community radios in the country. 5. Expansion of Radio Maria Congo DR in Lubumbashi, Matadi, Kisangani to include in a national non for profit radio network also areas which are far from the capital city. This project intends to create closeness and inclusion among people living extremely far away in the same country.

Some previous projects were concluded during the course of 2019. These are:  Peace Journalims. Training Journalists to Contribute to Spread Peace through Media (in Partnership with Archbishop James University College in Songea, a constituent of St. Augustine University Tanzania – SAUT). In 3 years 60 students were trained in Peace Juornalims.  Radio Mbiu in Bukoba. This radio after a period training and of monitoring and evaluation is now completely independent from WF Africa. It is one of the most popular radios in the area of Bukoba town. From 2019 it has its own app to be listened via smartphone.  Communication for Peace: Increasing opportunities to build peace in Rwanda. A new studio in Kigali was set and new educational programs were aired with participations of both experts and volunteers.  Communicating Peace to Make Peace. A set of radio programs in aimed at reconciliations and peace building after turbulent years contribute at stabilizing the social situation in Yamassoukro and Man, two important cities in the west part of the country.

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Generally we have received calls from many parts of Africa where our help to establish a reliable and sustainable means of communication was requested. It is the case of Nigeria, in the capital city of Abuja, where His Eminence John Card. Olorunfemi called WF Africa to establish a radio that from Abuja can expand in a second phase to other regions. In fact also Radio Ozira in Owerri requested a collaboration to improve quality and variety in their programs, while the Dioceses of Kaduna, Makurdi and Gboko have already requested the same setting of a radio station which is part of the national network from Abuja. In Democratic Republic of Congo already five Dioceses have requested the same assistance and during the course of 2019 WF Africa has started realizing projects in three of them, while in the rest it will work in 2020 and 2021. In Zimbabwe the Catholic Bishop Conference called and requested WF Africa assistance to set up a radio network now that the Government permit private radios. It will be the first private community service radio network in the country. South Sudan after years of instability, seems to be experiencing some peaceful time. In order to spread a culture of solidarity and development for all, the Church intends to strengthen their radios and produce and disseminate educational programs, both in rural and urban areas.

In Tanzania, a project realized by WF Africa in the past, Radio Mbiu in Bukoba, is now running on its own legs. In 2019 WF Africa planned the production of a radio show which with the participation of 10 kids will aim at helping children, teenagers, and their parents to increase their awareness on child abuse and the skills on how to identify it and avoid and denounce it. The project “Empowering Children to Protect Themselves” will have as a fruit a series of radio programs which 13

will be broadcasted in Radio Maria Tanzania, Radio Mbiu and other interested radios among the religious and community ones in the country.

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5. Training Activities

Training is one of the core activities of WF Africa which intends to raise awareness on topics of particular interest for no-profit media world and provide knowledge and skills to personnel and volunteers engaged in radios in Africa. Also in 2019 WF Africa continued to train people and to disseminate knowledge both by direct meetings with partners and by constant communication and remote contacts with them.

From 6th to 8th of February 2019, WF Africa organized a Conference with all her partners. Representatives of 27 organizations in Africa came from 26 African countries. The Conference was held for the third time in Kigali, Rwanda, where visa process is simplified and facilities are affordable. The participants were 82, they discussed methods of fund raising and strategies to become financially self-sufficient.

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WF Africa staff visited regularly partners in several countries. Their visits always include training sessions. Not only staff specialized in promotion and fund raising, but also accounts, audio frequency and radio frequency are topic taught on the job.

6. IT development and Support

In nowadays communication we use several means. In a digital area smartphones have become the tool to access information in different formats. Also for the audio it is becoming the most used tools. Therefore World Family of Radio Maria Africa helped partners to develop their apps, in order to offer to their listeners the possibility to listen via mobile phone with a customized app. Such tools allows and boost also the usage of podcasts through which the public can access to programs that may be missed when broadcasted live. Fourteen partner radios in Africa are using the App that World Family of Radio Maria Africa helped develop and whose creators are companies in Europe and in Usa. The apps are both for Android and Apple devices.

Besides WF Africa assists radios in the use of technological tools for fund raising and accountability activities.

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CADMA (Cash Donations Management) is an app and a web based system which allows to record donations and aliment the radio database with contacts of donors, which are then used for fund raising campaigns and events. 22 radios in Africa are using such tools with remarkable results both in easiness in campaigns organization and donations data collection. A new tool is under development which will replace CADMA. It is called CIVI CRM and is now under trial in three countries: Tanzania, Lesotho, Angola. CIVI CRM offers a wider range of possibilities for the radios comparing to CADMA, which is a technology developed 5 years ago.

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7. Finances Sources and Main Expenses

WF Africa main donor has always been World Family of Radio Maria Onlus in Italy. During the year 2019, a new donor, Voce Di Maria from , contributed USD 11,115.64, which were destined to the project in Angola. USD 1,604.42 was contributions from those who attended training courses in 2019. The total donations received in 2019 were 1,324,129.19 USD. The following table shows the sources and the amount donated.

SOURCES OF INCOMES 2019 USD Opening balance 2019 66,316.25 Training fee 1,604.42 Voce Di Maria-Switzerland 11,115.64 Subsidy - World Family 1,241,517.72 Local Donations 3,575.16 TOTAL 1,324,129.19

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On the side of the expenses the WF Africa spent for projects and activities a total amount of 1,064,571.37 USD, which constitute 86% of the total expenses, while 176,268.58 USD was spent for the organization running costs, which corresponds to 14% of the total expenses.

EXPENSES 2019 USD

RUNNING COST 179,298.58

PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES 1,064,571.37

TOTAL 1,243,869.95

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World Family of Radio Maria Africa Plot 125, Mickocheni Industrial Area p.o.box 38655, Dar es Salaam Tanzania Tel. +255 22 2700871 www.wfafrica.org [email protected]

For donations and contributions:

WORLD FAMILY OF RADIO MARIA AFRICA ACCOUNT NO: In EURO A/C 3301085644 In TZS A/C 3300979587 In USD A/C 3300979595 SWIFT CODE: KCBLTZTZ BANK NAME: KCB BANK TANZANIA LTD BRANCH: OYSTERBAY P.O.BOX: 804 DAR ES SALAAM

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