The ProCEEd team and its strategic partners have been producing regular environmental radio programs at the national and provincial level which listeners can follow regularly. These nationwide and provincial radio broadcasting activities support ProCEEd’s objective that knowledge, attitudes and behavior related to the environment, biodiversity and climate change in Laos will improve through better access to relevant information. Thus, rural target groups should be empowered to better mitigate and adapt to climate change and risks, and protect biodiversity and the environment in general.
ProCEEd has supported the environmental magazine “Our Environment” of Lao National Radio (LNR) since 2013 through coaching, quality management, and production assistance. The project has also assisted environmental radio through capacity development in relevant journalistic skills. For example, staff from provincial and district radio stations in Khammouane, Houaphan, Sayaboury and Bolikhamxay joined a basic training workshop on environmental radio in late 2015. A local pilot program had been tried out with LNR Khammouane in 2014.
As a result, LNR Khammouane with its radio stations in Thakek and Boualapha and LNR Houaphan with its radio stations in Sam Neua and Houameuang produced a total of 48 15-min features on environmental issues. The provincial and district radio stations are broadcasting the environmental radio programs between 2 Feb and 20 May, 2017. In addition, 12 of these features were broadcast in Khmu and Hmong language by LNR Houaphan.
So far, the following radio programs have been supported by ProCEEd:
Lao National Radio, nationwide program at AM 567 MHZ
weekly environmental radio magazine “Our Environment”, 30 minutes, January 2013 to September 2016,
every Monday starting at 08:00
Lao National Radio, Khammouane program at FM 100.5 MHZ (Thakek) and M 102 MHZ (Boualapha)
weekly environmental radio magazine “Our Environment”, 30 minutes from August 2014 to September 2015,
and 15 minutes between 3 Feb – 19 May, 2017 (Thakek) and 13 Feb – 18 May, 2017 (Boualapha),
every Friday starting at 17:00 (Thakek) and every Monday to Friday starting at 7:15 (Boualapha)
Lao National Radio, Houaphan program at FM 95.2 MHZ (Sam Neua) and FM 100.5 MHZ (Houameuang)
weekly environmental radio magazine “Our Environment”, 15 minutes between 2 Feb – 20 May, 2017 (Sam Neua) and
3 Feb – 19 May, 2017,
every Thursday starting at 16:45 (Sam Neua), and every Friday starting at 17:00 (Houameuang)
every Thursday starting at 18:15 in Khmu language and every Saturday starting at 17:45 in Hmong language
(Sam Neua)
On this website, users can listen in to selected radio features from these programs. Three 15-min episodes make up for a mini-series that focuses on a specific topic, e.g. wildlife or forest protection. Some of the programs produced by LNR Khammouane in Thakek and Boualapha as well as by LNR Huaphan in Sam Neua and Houameuang have even been translated from Lao Lum language into ethnic languages, Khmu and Hmong.
Programs from Khammouane Programs from Huaphan Programs in Khmu & Hmong