Kamka Kura

Kamka Kura

Kamka Kura (KK), Youth and Livelihood based Radio Program produced by Equal Access Nepal, is the radio program that is meant for the youth who are seeking for better opportunity and for good and secure future. With a tagline of Exploring Livelihoods, Kamka Kura is a distant learning job skills training radio series designed with the objective to help youth of Nepal, especially for those young people who are most disadvantaged regarding education and opportunities, to understand how to identify, prepare for, participate in and benefit from locally available skills training programs and more importantly, how to seize opportunities without need of a new training.

Kamka Kura disseminates information regarding livelihood issues (i.e. Agriculture, technical vocational education and skills, Livestock, Education) through the means of drama, chat, interview, success stories, feature, reports, letters etc. It also creates linkages with local services providers.

KK began broadcasting on May 16, 2007 and broadcast its final episode on September 1, 2010 through Radio Nepal and in first week of September through other FM stations. It was broadcast over 36 local radio stations nationwide, both in urban and rural areas including State radio, Radio Nepal.

From October 2009 - March 2010, with support from Internews Europe, Kamka Kura produced and broadcast programs on themes of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and Micro-finance. The program aimed to encourage information seeking behavior among micro finance/small and medium enterprises and build awareness and capacity among micro finance institutions to simply critical business information.

From June - August 2010, Kamka Kura incorporated issues related to Skills for Employability with support from British Council. Issues like importance of vocational skills, information on some vocational and technical areas, importance of skill testing and other skills like entrepreneurship, communication skills, presentation skills etc. were included along with the "Learning English" section which aimed to teach English for work to its listeners.

Till date, more than 20 listeners' clubs of Kamka Kura have been formed spontaneously by its listeners. It also receives around 200 letters and emails every month on different livelihood issues.