How does the Initiative involve young people?
Young people have been involved in every stage from survey to production. We requested the research company to recruit young college students, including potential radio producers, to participate in the “Survey of Teenagers in Nepal”. Several teams were sent to seven districts to conduct interviews. A group of 10 radio producers, between 19 and 26 years old, were selected to undergo training in life skills, and help design the programme, chat topics, create drama and conduct pre-tests (for example, with the young people pictured above). The radio programme is run by young people for young people, the first in Nepal. Since the programme was launched, the producers meet each week to go over the letters from listeners, decide which letters to use for discussion, what skills to emphasize, how to turn the listeners’ problems, dilemmas and ideas into input for the next or future episodes. Q. Can you tell us how you monitor and evaluate the programme? Planning and evaluation were designed toge
