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IPDC’s support for community radio in Nepal has been a strategic, defining factor in the growth of the community media sector. The Programme has regularly supported small, distinct projects that have catalyzed the growth of the sector at different times by promoting replicable models, establishing precedents and benchmarks, and building the capacity of key organizational players.

IPDC has conferred a strong sense of legitimacy to the movement for community radio in Nepal, particularly in its early days and subsequently during the period of civil conflict when media operations were extremely difficult to maintain and press freedoms were severely restricted.

Although the sector in Nepal faces many challenges, the IPDC approach of relatively small projects, each building on the outcomes of previous projects and addressing current sectoral needs has contributed to the gradual build-up of national capacity – both of individual stations as well as national organizations and associations - which offers Nepal the best possible chance in facing current and future challenges.