radio as they would be best placed to give input into the content requirements of the toolkit. MISA also contracted two consultants to facilitate the process and finalise the development of the materials. With the development of the toolkit MISA hopes to provide the community radio sector with a series of manuals that address issues of self-suffiiency and diversity. Participants recommended that the following issues by taken up in the toolkit, ie: • The Board and Management • Management • Volunteers • Programming • The Local Business Community • The Community • The Donors • Finance • Office Management • Time Management • Training A team comprising of four people at MISA Zambia were mandated to evaluate the workshop and prepare a draft report. This report is completed and logistic s are currently being put in place for its release. 6.3 SADC Broadcast and Telecommunications Research and Information Distribution MISA researches and compiles monthly electronic updates on developments taking place in broadcasting and telecommunications in the region. These updates are distributed to approximately 1000 people, most of whom reside in the SADC region. The monthly broadcasting updates have proved very popular especially among researchers. A recent mini survey revealed that there is a growing interest in this service. It also provided MISA with guidelines to improve the service. As a result MISA will shortly include a new column, entitled ‘Hot Pot’, which will provide critical analysis of broadcasting and telecommunications issues in the region. 6.4 Broadcasting Regulation MISA, in association with the Southern African Broadcasters Association (SABA), with the financial support of FES, hosted a workshop on broadcast regulation in the SADC region in July 2003. The workshop was attended by state broadcasters, broadcast regulators and members of state broadcasting boards and parliamentary committees dealing with broadcasting issues from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This workshop dealt with the state of broadcast regulation in the region and how this conformed to the various SADC regional and Pan-African protocols and charters. The SADC Protocols on ICTs and Culture, Information and Sport and the African Charter on Broadcasting and the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights Declaration on Freedom of Expression in Africa were the central standards used in this assessment. MISA Annual Report (April 2003 – March 2004) 57