Other training centers

ALER
ALER offers training in radio production and management, through workshops, internships, and via Internet, aimed at training instructors and specialists (producers, journalists, sound technicians, researchers, technicians, experts in advertising). In addition, the ALER research team executes, trains, and provides consulting in conducting studies to enhance the radio work and improving relationships with audiences. In countries where there is an ALER coordinator ALER, training planning is done with the Coordinator according to national needs. Where there are no Coordinators, the treatment is directly with the affiliates. Other training activities are conducted in coordination with communication institutions, Episcopal Conferences, and international NGOs.

AMARC
AMARC forwards its activities in different areas: organizing regional and global conferences and seminars on community radio and the democratization of communications. It provides training and consulting services in topics associated to community radio. Upon the request of the members, AMARC offers radio production workshops, training methodologies, setup of small broadcasting stations, consulting in management and on the legalization of community radio stations.

AULASUR – Latin America
This initiative is aimed at offering training, update, and distance learning to directors, professionals, and technicians working to fight the rural poverty existing in Latin America. It operates through Internet and e-mail. It is a flexible and interactive teaching system, based on learning communities that allow the flexible design of each program. Simple tools are used for the dialog between instructors and users (i.e. plain text), as well as sophisticated tools (i.e. scanned text).

Centro de Comunicación Voces Nuestras – Costa Rica
"Voces Nuestras" (Our Voices) works to facilitate the access to media for given social sectors, through training, organization, and production in media processes. Since it was created in 1989, the center has mainly supported the production of radio programs, by training communication groups and organizations, and providing assistance to rural radio stations. The methodology of Voces Nuestras gives priority to participative communications and emphasizes on the perspective of the gender and human development.During the last years, Voces Nuestras has been involved in education through entertainment - with the production of soap operas as a genre - immigration and the environment.

Centro de Mujeres Comunicadoras Mayas Nutzij - Guatemala
Women Communicator's center whose activities are determined and coordinated by native women. Its objective is to train women in media management, especially Internet, to benefit their communities in topics such as the environment, education, agriculture, fishing, etc. These women seek to promote unity, communication, self-definition and purpose clarity, and to obtain a better representative position in the world and the media. The center develops a series of skills amongst its members through participative methodologies such as conferences, workshops, and groups. The purpose is to train women, mainly in the area of video production and access to Internet to benefit the community, in topics such as the environment, education, agriculture, fishing, etc.As tools, videos and photographs are shown for the research and for reflection. The teams receive training in photography, video, and use of computers and Internet. The center promotes and supports projects in all the media.

Centro Latinoamericano de Capacitación y Desarrollo de los Gobiernos Locales, Celcadel – Latin America
The main purpose is to work in training and technical assistance programs and projects, aimed at national associations of municipalities and local governments. CELCADEL currently combines its policy executor role to achieve financial self-sufficiency with that of a regional consulting organism that specializes in local development and municipal administration topics. To meet specific demands by the local Latin American governments, CELCADEL provides technical assistance services in topics such as municipal institutional development, municipal utilities, municipal financial management, local development project evaluation, participative strategic planning; inter-municipal communication; promotion of policies for equity among genders in local governments, and local economic development.

CETE – Mexico
This is a space provided by Mexico's Public Education Secretariat focusing on training, coaching, and updating professionals working in producing radio, TV programs, and videos, as well as new information and communication technologies; and for those involved in audiovisual documentation and educational activities with support from the media. CETE offers educational services in three different fronts: traditional class-attending education, distance learning, and mixed learning. The attending classes are provided at the Center's facilities. Other classes are held at CETE affiliate centers; these are institutions located in different zones of the Mexican Republic that in coordination with this center provide their educational services with the teaching staff of both institutions; and other educational institutions or audiovisual producing companies that request training programs. The distance learning services are implemented based on TV programs broadcast via the Network Red Edusat, and although any institution having a decoder for this signal can receive the broadcast, CETE has over 400 TV classrooms distributed throughout the Mexican Republic and other Latin American countries.

Diploma in Audiovisual Documentation
Diploma in Scripts for Educational TV
Diploma in TV Production and Educational Videos
Refresher (update) programs

Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) - Colombia
The "Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI)" was created in 1994 based on an initiative by the Colombian journalist and writer, Gabriel García Márquez, due to his desire to share experiences and promote the vocation of young reporters, as well as his conviction of how effective teaching is through practical and participative workshops, where expert teachers can discuss with their students the carpentry of the trade. The central project of this Foundation is the Iberian-American Journalism Workshop a traveling program that holds workshops and seminars with the institutional and financial sponsorship of UNESCO – United Nations Education, Science, and Culture Organization.

Fundación Redes y Desarrollo (FUNREDES) - Dominican Republic
Starting on July 2000, the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) began promoting a technical and independent program seeking to elevate the professional profile of communicators in this country, including at each event an associated ethical content. Since that date 18 classes and workshops have been held on writing style, research journalism, TV, and radio (selected topics according to the gaps that are identified with editors in chief, directors, and journalists themselves); 18 conversation (dialoguing) encounters, that assist students in analyzing and extending knowledge on national interest topics. This project has been supported by the Denmark Program for Human Rights in Central America (PRODECA). In the remaining part of this year, two programs will be provided in Communication and Development, one in Tegucigalpa and the other at San Pedoro Sula and both the training and dialoguing programs will continue in the central part of the country. FUNREDES offers also training, workshops, and seminars in Internet awareness, initiation, and proficiency, its use, functions, and impacts. Consulting and technical assistance to academic networks is also offered without profit purposes as well as Design and Implementation of Projects to Use New Information and Communication Technologies.

INDES – Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Social – América Latina
This Institute forms part of the BID - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, and operates as a training center for the design and management of national and regional policies and programs. INDES works with organizations from the social sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean with the purpose of promoting initiatives to simultaneously enhance management efficiency and equity. INDES gathers either in presence or via electronic media, professionals from several countries to share and exchange experiences and lessons learned. Furthermore, it supplements the training efforts with updated publications, innovative methods to promote learning and lessons learned from the Bank's experience in the design, management, and evaluation of the social policies and programs.

Programa Regional y Nacional de Capacitación en Desarrollo Rural – FIDACIARA – Latin America and the Caribbean
This program has the main objective to build a network of training institutions in the field of rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Universities, ministries, and other institutions, as well as public agencies or NGOs belong to this network. It takes place in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.In a 3-year period, the program intends to have a multinational network that is able to hold seminars, workshops, technical meetings, encounters, electronic conferences, etc. in fields such as rural development project management; sustainability, competitiveness, equity; decentralization and participation of the rural civilian society.

Proyecto Regional de Cooperación Técnica para la Formación en Economía, Políticas Agrarias y Desarrollo Rural, FODEPAL – Latin America and the Caribbean
The general purpose of the FODEPAL project is to contribute to a sustainable agriculture and rural development in Latin America through a training program that combines distance learning with traditional classroom learning.The purpose of the project is to incorporate specific characteristics distinguishing from conventional university education. It applies an educational methodology allowing remote working places and homes of the participants at remote sites to be reached. It is based on network learning and intensive international and national involvement amongst students and between students and tutors. Finally it promotes the distribution of educational materials. This training Program includes virtual training as one of the main training activities. With the use of new information and communication technologies (TIC) it provides an advance in training with these methodologies: videoconference, satellite, Internet and others.

Servicio de Capacitación en Radio y Televisión para el Desarrollo, SECRAD - Bolivia
The SECRAD Service: Servicio de Capacitación en Radio y Televisión para el Desarrollo, is a service provided by Universidad Católica Boliviana in charge of providing training services in planning, production, and evaluation of communication materials and strategies targeting audiences that leverage this training to improve their living standards. SECRAD's activities focus on audiovisual management and production (radio, video & TV), promotion in different sectors of the society, development of a «culture belonging to and for the media» placing emphasis on training resources for a defense of communications (training in critical reception of the media).

Telemanita – México
Telemanita is a center that for nine years has been promoting the use of videos as an educational, organizational, training, and expression tool. The training workshops are divided into four modules: Production – how to make a video; Pre-production; Visualization of the project, Script and Planning. Post-production; Evaluation and scoring the Material; Edition; Promotion and Distribution Channels. The entertainment that is held at Telemanita's facilities as well as in different spaces of hosting organizations, cover the following topics: analysis of different video formats (documentary, fiction, reporting, etc.), basic principles to use a video camera and its implications; the human body; and brainstorming to make a video, just to mention a few.

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