Evaluation and Monitoring Toolbox for Community Radio

Community radio stations can monitor and evaluate their health and social development programming despite being small, with limited funds.

That's the message of an evaluation and monitoring Toolbox created especially for a UNICEF-supported youth radio project in Kyrgyzstan.

The Healthy Airwaves for Youth project (HAFY) is a health communication strategy to minimise risk behaviours amongst Kyrgyz youth aged 10-19 years. HAFY, which was initiated in 2002, aims to increase the level of knowledge and awareness of the dangers of HIV/AIDS/STI, drug use and reproductive health among young people in five rural and remote regions of Kyrgyzstan: Batken, Osh, Naryn, Karabalta and Karakol. The radio stations working within the HAFY network are directly involving young people as message-makers through community-based participatory health-promoting radio programming. Visit the HAFY network website: www.hafy.kg

The Toolbox is not meant to evaluate all activities undertaken by HAFY but it does give guidelines on planning and evaluation, writing objectives, setting indicators for evaluation, sampling procedures, designing evaluation tools, and gathering data, analysing it and reporting it.

The Toolbox is designed for the specific use of the radio stations involved in the HAFY project in Kyrgyzstan but could inspire other community-based radio stations working to reduce risk behaviours among young people and other vulnerable groups.

Download Toolbox: English-language PDF file(2.53MB)

Download Toolbox: Russian-language PDF file (3.02MB)

More radio resources from UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/magic/resources/radio_resources.html