This distance learning program is being transmitted by First Voice International via digital satellite radio technology on the Africa Learning Channel to municipalities in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

The objective is to support local government capacity building and community empowerment through transmission of key information related to anti-corruption, civic participation and fiscal decentralization. The program draws from the lessons learned from the successful broadcast of a pilot project held in Malawi in 2003.

It is against this background that MDP is pleased to announce the Africa Good Governance Program on the Radio Waves, which is comprised of the following four components: 1) Governing Municipalities without Corruption; 2) Civic Participation; 3) Municipal Finance/Participatory Budgeting; 4) Africa Municipal News Magazine; Africa Municipal News Magazine will use a magazine format and serve as an umbrella program to disseminate information, share experiences and provide news to municipal stakeholders in the region. The other three components will be structured as formal capacity building initiatives.