Olusina motiasan is my name from Ejulenen93.7fm igbodigo,okitipupa,Nigeria. Programmer,producer,presenter,reporter and a news caster.I collaborated with palm oil farmers,we discussed with them that they can have program which will serve as an avenue for them to sensitizes their fellow palm oil farmers about their farm and other benefits they can stand to gain if forming a farmers groups which currently give birth to a program titled " palm is a cash tree"
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Rashid Muzungyo is my name from Kapchorwa Trinity Radio in Eastern Uganda.
To me, Collaboration means the practice of working together guided by specific principles to achieve a common goal to benefit all participants in a group.
In this discussion, collaboration means working together with stakeholders especially individual farmers, farmers groups, government extension workers, policy makers at all levels,and experts in the production of sound farmer programmes.
At Kapchorwa Trinity Radio (KTR) we collaborated with IUCN, Farm Radio International, Kween/Kapchorwa District Local Governments, and Farmers in the two districts on a programme titled Forest Land Restoration-FLR. This programme was part of efforts of promoting tree planting among communities surrounding the Mt. Elgon Forest Park.
As part of the team I traveled to the field several times to collect farmers voices that were aired during our programmes. At the station, in collaboration with my Manager, we worked round the clock to ensure that radio programmes were recorded and uploaded on a Memory card that was played to farmers using our Boda Boda radio.The Boda Boda radio was pilot programme that was meant to serve farmers located in areas where our station signal was not accessible.The questions raised by farmers were recorded using the radio (that had a recording system) and brought to the Station, where they were listened to and played in the next programme during which technicians were invited to respond to issues raised by farmers.
At the Station, we also collaborated with Extension workers from the District Local Governments and NGOs who provided the technical advisory services during the talkshows. A timetable drawn by stakeholders was followed and whenever it was not possible to get the extension worker, an alternative person was always ready for contact.
All this work was possible with political support from District Leaders who included Sam Cheptoris who was later appointed Uganda’s cabinet Minister of Water and Environment.
At the moment KTR is collaborating with Kween District on Financial Literacy programme through the office of the Resident District Commissioner. The Station is also running a Its also collaborating with IFDC on farm radio work.
Thanks.
Rashid Muzungyo KTR 94.1FM Uganda.
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Hi everyone, l want to respond to the questions
What is meant by collaboration? - In general, collaboration has many meaning; in our case l can say that collaboration is a process where 2 or more people or organizations work together to accomplish or to achieve or complete a task or a goal. It is a practice where individuals work together to achieve a common purpose. It is a cooperation or an interactive strategy that seeks solutions to the participants’ goals. In our case it requires us to collaborate with stakeholders through use of assertive and cooperative means to achieve the compatible and meaningful to improving our farmers’ income as well as produce.
The collaborations l am involved in include those with extension workers whom l engage to talk to farmers advising them on many crucial matters about what to plant and when; the best fertilizers to use, what is in great demand. The Ministry o Agriculture for the same advise and also the cooperative societies leaders who advice on the market and quality of the produce. I have some buyers/produce business operators who come in with the nuit wits of what they actually require from the farmers. The farmers we collaborate with to lay and implement the strategies of what we need do in order to achieve our goals.
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Thank you for this Topic it very important since we work with other people to
Collaboration would say is the cooperation from one another to make sure you reach the target or goal you intended to reach. You need collaborate with farmers,extension officers,researchers and other key players on Agricultural issues like Agrodealers etc.
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Hello everyone, this is Nkungu Haruna J, Journalist working with Mpanda Radio FM 97.0 Mhz -Tanzania. According to my understanding collaboration is commonly understood as working together with somebody in order to produce or achieve something.
As a journalist and broadcasters I collaborates with local authorities and ordinary citizen (stakeholders) in different aspects
Welcome @Blessing
Thank you for joining us. We are looking forward to the experiences and ideas you will share in this discussion.
Cheers
I am Martin Mwape a broadcaster at Breeze FM in Zambia (Listen at 178.netromedia.com:8000/BreezeFM).
Though late, I would like to contribute to week 2 topic.
I take collaboration to be cooperating to do work together to meet one anothers target or goal. I will give an example of a Broadcaster, a farmer with challenges in farming, a farmer making success in farming, an agriculture reseracher, a policy maker etc. A broadcast (Like me) want comuunicate infomration for the benefit of a farmer who is strugling. But the broadcaster may not know clear what strugles the farmer goes through. The strugling farmer also may want to commnuicate his/her strugles to relevant people to help but may not have a platform to do so. These two must collaborate so that the farmer gives the broadcaster the strugles and the broadcaster porvides the platform. Now in the same scenario, the succesfull farmer may have solutions to the strugles of the farmer and the broadcaster may want these soultions. The two must coperate to relay the information. The reseracher may have discovered new technologies and these may be good for the farmers but with no platform, the messages can not go to farmers and hence the need to wiork with the broadcaster. The polciy aker need to know the farmers needs for them to make poilicies for the farmers and so they have to work with broadcaster to know what the farmers needs atre and communictae the governmnt policies. In the end I just see that collaboration is wokrking togetgher in which every stake holder meets thier goals. A win win situation.
In my farmer programme production, I collabirate with stakeholders like the government Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change NGOs like total Land Care and Conservation Farming Unit, Farmers, Agro Dealer and many more.
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I like this and I think you should add “such that both benefit”
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@rehema
We are together. In collaboration, we all seek to archieve a certain gaol and we all benefit.
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Less I forget, collaboration needs to do with these elements which I named ELEVEN POWERFUL ELEMENTS OF COLLABORATION: vision, communication, brainstorming, trust, support, skill, teamwork, discussion, connection, cooperation and planning.
- Vision: Both stakeholders and broadcasters must have the same vision toward the programme they wants to collaborated on.
- Communication: Regular communication between them should not be overemphasis time to time.
- Brainstorming: This must not eluded on day to day activity of both stakeholders and broadcasters.
- Trust: To achieve effective farming programme production, stakeholders must trust the broadcasters and vise vasa. Faithfulness and loyalty are also needed here to establish the trust.
- Support: Both stakeholders and broadcasters need to support each others to achieve the goal of effective programme production. At times any of them may need transport fare or voucher’s fee for the purpose of the programme, they should be able to provide such support for each other at this time.
- Skill: The skill of both stakeholders and broadcasters is highly needed to achieve a good farming programme.
- Teamwork: They must both work in team to achieve a good farming programme.
- Discussion: Both the stakeholders and broadcasters need regular discussion to know what next in the subsequent episodes.
- Connection: Time to time connection is also vital because this will enhances their planing.
- Cooperation: If maximum cooperation is not with them, nothing effective can comes out of their farming programme production.
- Planning: Effective programme planning brings meaningful programme production. As we all know that programme planning takes 70% of any presentation, if this fail here the farming programme will be fruitless and the listeners will lose interest on such programme.
With the above I think collaboration in farming programme with stakeholders can be successful.
Mike Kuwoye.
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Hello good people in this group.
I am Victor Asumani a producer working with Nkhotakota Community Radio Station in Malawi Central Africa.
Talking of Collaboration simply it means working together in different ways like but with the aim of achieving something good for the targeted people.
for example there can be collaboration in the work for a particular area where there is a need of constructing abridge.
Like in my country Malawi where there is construction project, the procedure is for the right holder should contribute sand and bricks where the duty bearers or government to provide cement, iron sheets , window and door frames and paint or brick force wires.
so for all the concerned team to fully involved there is a need of collaboration to take part.
the same should happen in agriculture programing where all parties involved in the programing should also be available for the work to be easier. for example farmers extension workers, Lead farmers agro dearls Agri- Organizations plus us media.
If all the parties works hand in hand then all things shall move on well.
the collaboration which i have been involved in is about the distribution of Farm In put subsidized product FISP which Malawi Government is implementing so far for a number of years now.
in our district Nkhotakota the, district Agriculture department involved all of us who are members in in the District Agriculture Executive Committee in the exercise so that we should all appreciate the situation in the. district.
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Good day to every body,Olusina Motiasan from Ejulenen93. 7fm igbodigo, okitipupa, ondo state, Nigeria. A programmer,producer,presenter,reporter and a newscaster.I really enjoyed every body in the house and I thank you all.in fact am more than loaded with what you impacted to me on collaboration thanks so much
But my questions are:is it always advisable to be collaborating is collaboration always beneficial.I stand to be corrected
Hello all,
We have come to the end of Week 2. Thank you for all your contributions. This topic was all about your understanding of collaboration and sharing the kind of collaboration you are involved in.
I believe even those that have been confused now are clear on what collaboration is all about. It all comes down to two or more people working together towards shared goals. This means in collaboration there will be teams involved in processes for a certain purpose.
In terms of the kind of collaboration you are involved in, I will quote just one for now, even though a number of you shared as well:
The list shows different ways one can collaborate with a stakeholder. We should note though that there is a difference between collaboration and cooperation. Some of the relationships radio stations form with stakeholders are more of cooperation than collaboration. When you don’t have an agreement (formal or informal) of working together for a particular goal then you are only cooperating. Inviting an expert to share his or her expertise on a certain topic through an interview with no shared vision or goal is asking the expert to cooperate with you as a radio station. They might pitch up or disappoint you because there is nothing binding them to assist in the program. It is until both parties negotiate to partner or work together on a particular program would you consider it collaborating.
I would also like to thank the resource people @Yakubu and @bfiafor for their input.
Enjoy your weekend!
Fantastic lessons have I learnt so far. Thanks be to FRI for the privilege given to us at Ejulenen Community radio, Igbodigo, Ondo State Nigeria
Collaboration means working in partnership with other stakeholders be it government departments, farmers organisations or committees and fellow radios or non governmental organisations. These collaborations can be according to the areas of specialization or expertise of the entities joined together. Therefore, government departments may be good at organising farmers into meaningful groups, NGO bringing new innovations, famers experimenting the new innovations, and a radio or NGO as is in my case publishing the experiments, success stories and progress through radio, social media, television and other channels.
The example of such collaboration that s Story workshop areas is doing with the department of Land Resources of Ministry of Agriculture, agrodealers in areas of seeds, fertilzer and other farm inputs with support from AGRA. This collaboration is promoting area specific fertiliser.
The other collaboration was on under-five child nutrition issues. Was promoting production and utilisation of locally grown nutritious foods that complete s balanced diet. In case of Malawi, we call them six food groups. This was a collaboration of various ministries that are in a concept of Care Group System. Some of these ministries include, Education, Agriculture and other. The other organisations included the World Relief International, Red Cross, and Catholic Relief Commission. The project of Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) was funded by UNICEF.
The advantage of such collaboration is that they respond to farmers needs and demands to easily from input supplies, innovation information, to production of an end product. It can even complete the value chain by simply add market/processers in the partner making the collaboration even more relevant to the farmer.
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@Busi_Ngcebetsha: Good summary and distinction between collaboration and cooperation between stakeholders and broadcasters.
Critical elements for effective collaboration (a binding agreement, the establishment of clear cut aim/goal, targets, roles and responsibilities of parties and honoring of agreed terms).
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Collaboration means joining hands together to achieve a particular target.
We collaborate with NGOs, experts and agro inputs dealers. Even prominent farmers.
How can collaboration be funded jointly? How can you discontinue a partner who is not abiding by the agreement of collaboration?
Jaspher Okello from Radio Pacis in Uganda
Thank you Yakubu for further clarification too.
Thank you Busi for summary, it is now so clear to me.