Projects

MSPA attracts a variety of work, funded by the national government, foreign governmental development agencies, and also international organisations and other NGOs.

Current projects include:

BESST

The UNESCO funded project builds on five years work by MSPA in radio-based teacher education (see APEP, below). This is continuing under the USAID funded Building Educational Support Structures for Teachers (BESST), which involves producing ten 12 minute radio programmes each week. 

Straight Talk

The Straight Talk team has secured funding for a third year’s broadcasts from the UK’s Global Conflict Prevention Pool, administered jointly by the FCO, MOD and DFID. The radio programmes, run by a team of four young broadcasters, is broadcast weekly for thirty minutes in both Dari and Pashto and is aimed at a teenage audience.

Future Projects:

Media Support Partnership is a dynamic, forward-thinking organisation, always interested in both searching for new areas in which it can further developmental causes with its expertise in broadcasting, and other services (see ‘services’). This also means participating in new initiatives, being aware of new possibilities, and being open to cooperation with a wide range of partner organisations. Future possibilities include radio programmes on psycho-social issues, and reaching out to conflict affected populations in the south of the country.

Past Projects:

Along with the major teacher education and Straight Talk projects (see above), MSPA has been successful in attracting TV and radio work from a number of agencies including the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (polio immunization TV spots) and Counterpart International, for whom ten radio dramas in Pashto and Dari on aspects of building civil society were written and recorded.

Radio Teacher Education

Media Support Solutions along with Media Support Partnership Afghanistan (MSPA), joined forces with UNESCO in a project to develop the skills of the Educational Radio and TV (ERTV) department of the Ministry of Education. This was geared towards helping improve the training of Afghan school teachers, many of whom have no formal teacher training. All teachers listening on the radio will be able to take part, so few should be disadvantaged by living in remote or in secure areas. 

Afghan Primary Education Programme (APEP) was aimed at raising the abilities of some 70,000 primary school teachers at a time of unprecedented demand for education in Afghanistan. From 2003, radio programmes aimed at teachers were broadcast, at first three times weekly and then daily, for 12 minutes in Dari and in Pashto. They combined child-centred teaching methodologies with subject content based on the primary school curriculum.  By 2005, the programme “Its Great to Learn” were broadcast by 35 local radio stations, Radio Afghanistan and Radio Free Afghanistan,

“Is it worth it?” was a campaign on irregular migration from Afghanistan. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) commissioned Media Support Partnership Afghanistan (MSPA) to design and implement a media campaign highlighting the realities of irregular migration by Afghans to Europe.

Profiles of DFID aid recipients in Afghanistan. Keen to present a more rounded view of Afghanistan at a time when violent conflict in the country is stealing the headlines, DFID asked an MSS team to find sixteen people who had benefited from British development assistance, photograph them and write their stories. The stories and photos were published in a DFID booklet Afghanistan: Development in Action available on the DFID website launched in London in November 2006 by Secretary of State for International Development, Hillary Benn.

Media Support assists the Afghan Transitional Government

During the campaign to select members of the loya jirgah or grand assembly in 2003, a four-person Media Support team headed by John Butt produced over one hundred short programmes explaining the relevance of the loya jirgah process to elect a new government to Afghan listeners.

Media Support manages the revision of Afghan Primary Textbooks

Media Support's involvement with primary education in Afghanistan started in February 2002 when the HEAR team was requested to vet a series of textbooks for Afghan children to ensure they were appropriate for reprinting. Within three weeks, a 12-strong team assembled in Peshawar by Dr Mohammad Akbar (MSPA director) had edited 180 textbooks.

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