General Objectives of WIN:

•  To empower women to have access to the radio waves 
• To work towards women' rights and equality 
• To change the stereotype picture in media about women
• Guarantee women’s participation at all levels of AMARC structure

Whenever the word ‘woman’ appears in this document, it is inclusive of all: girl-child, rural women, women with disability, elderly women, lesbians and other marginalised women

Activity

Outcome

1. Empowerment and Capacity Building

Organise a capacity-building program for women in Community Radio (CR) so that radio becomes a medium of women’s empowerment.

• Develop and implement a training and capacity-building program for women community broadcasters
• Create a databank of training resources including manuals
• Provide opportunities for sharing information, learning from each other and exchange of ideas and resources
• Encourage and train women to take a leading role in decision-making, policy issues, and advocacy
• Develop a WIN manual for engendering radio programming in CR
• Sensitize men and colleagues on gender perspectives

• More women in decision-making bodies in the CR movement
• Stronger participation of women in the CR stations
• Engendered programming in CR
• Continuation of quality participation from women at AMARC meetings, conferences, training
• Stronger gender awareness among men and women

2. Strengthening the WIN

• To strengthen the WIN regional networks and the Intl. coordination AMARC
• To establish communication strategies

• Support the establishment of WIN-Asia and the re-establishment of WIN-Europe
• Collaboration with WIN Latin America and WIN Africa in accordance with the regional plan of action and common international activities
• Support activities/initiatives of WIN Northern America and Oceania
• Make contacts among women’s media organisation and feminist organisations in the Arab world
• Employ WIN-coordinator in the Intl. Secretariat
• Facilitate decentralised coordination of the WIN’s major engagement by WIN members
• Strengthen WIN’s integrity and autonomy
• Share information and program material, through an email listserve, fax, information sheets, and other appropriate means to ensure information reaches women who do not have access to telephone, fax, and other electronic forms of communication
• Strengthen alliances with the global women’s movement and human rights organisations

• Effective coordination of WIN – Participation and lobbying of international events
• Effective communication with the WIN committee
• Transparent information mechanisms for WIN members
• Up-to-date and informative AMARC-WIN Website and an e-mail listserve

3. Radio Campaigns

Sharing knowledge and doing coordinated efforts for the coverage of events at the international level

• Organise an Int’l WIN workshop sharing knowledge on coverage of events and coordinate efforts in covering international events
• Link with other women’s organisations harnessing technology such as webcasting, cable satellite, (such as OneWorld, APC, etc.)
• Joint campaigns for 8 March, 25 Nov., VSF, and other events at the international level

• Cross-sharing of expertise in ICTs focused on campaigns
• Strengthen alliances
• Celebrate the world wide diffusion of information, outcome, and women’s position

Promote Women’s communication rights and raise the awareness and profile of community radio in the global women’s movement

• Develop a lobbying document for WSIS on women, access to Information Society and the right to communicate.
• Active participation of WIN members in the PrepComs and the WSIS; lobby there for the prominent inclusion of the universal women’s right to communicate
• Joint efforts for a strong and coordinated participation of the WIN in the social forum on local, national, regional, and international levels
• Prominently include women’s right to communicate in AMARCs consultative reports to ECOSOC and UNESCO
• Lobby in other related organisations such as CSW, ITU-GTF etc.

• Women’s right to communicate is generally understood and implemented
• Within the global women’s movement there is an awareness of, support for, and participation in community radio worldwide and the role of community radio in implementing women’s right to communicate

5. Fundraising and resource mobilisation

To generate funds and other resources to support AMARC WIN projects and activities

• Project proposal preparation
• Identification of potential funders and negotiation with funders
• Identification of other resources such as training materials, trainers, and radio equipment
• Promote increased funding for radio among feminist funders such as UNIFEM, the Global Fund for women, etc.
• Establish a database of donors in different regions and what they fund. (e.g. equipment, etc., available to all regional coordinators

• Sustained activities and implementation of AMARC-WIN projects identified in the plan of action