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Friday, February 12, 2010 - 13:43
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Haiti: Partnership between Internews and Radio France Internationale

A partnership agreement between Internews and Radio France Internationale (RFI) is making possible the broadcast of a daily programme in Creole on RFI’s FM relays in Haiti since 13th February.

Thanks to this partnership the Internews broadcast, already aired by 27 stations in Haiti, cans also be heard additionally now via RFI’s six FM relays on the island, which cover the whole Haitian territory.

The 20-minute broadcast, "Enfomasyon nou dwe konnen" ("News you can use") can now also be heard via RFI relays in Haiti between 0810 and 0830 local time, Mondays through Sundays.

The programme is aimed at giving Haitians information enabling them to find food, shelter and water, helping them connect to loved ones who survived and eventually to rebuild.

The development of this broadcast was made possible thanks to the close cooperation of the teams of both organizations in the field, to RFI’s technical setup and to the close collaboration between Internews Europe’s management and RFI’s International Affairs Directorate.

RFI, first international French language round-the-clock news broadcaster, broadcasts throughout Haiti from the following towns:

  •  Port-au-Prince: 89.3 FM
  •  Cap-Haitien: 100.5 FM
  •  Gonaives: 90.5 FM
  •  Jacmel: 96.9 FM
  •  Jeremie: 92.7 FM
  •  Les Cayes: 106.9 FM

    Internews in Haïti:

    Internews was one of the first organisations assessing the damage sustained by local broadcasting outlets following the 12 January earthquake.

    Within a few days it had deployed a team of six specialists and two mobile broadcasting units to the field and ensuring several stations could go back on air.

    Internews is one of the founding members of the "Communicating with Disaster Affected Populations, CDAC" group that brings together OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and various agencies and organsiations such as the Red Cross, Save the Children, the BBC World Service Trust, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Inter Media Support (Denmark).

    OCHA asked Internews to be the main agency coordinating the activities of CDAC members and initiatives aimed at supporting local media in order to ensure the most effective impact on the country’s ravaged media landscape.

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