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Birgitte Jallov
Birgitte Jallov has worked for more than twenty years as an independent consultant for DANIDA, SIDA, UNESCO, UNDP and the ILO in Africa, Asia and the Middle East where she has been involved in planning participatory development and communication strategies for projects that aim to facilitate empowerment, democratization and social change. She was a member of the planning group for the founding conference of AMARC in Montreal in 1983, and of the executive committee of AMARC-Europe’s Women’s International Network for whom she produced Women’s Voices Crossing Frontiers (1996), a directory of women’s community radio in Europe. She co-initiated one of Copenhagen’s first community radio stations in the early 80’s and was a producer in two of the first local TV stations in Denmark.
She furthermore taught at Roskilde University, directed the Baltic Media Center’s Information Department and authored a chapter on feminist radio in Jankowski et al’s The People’s Voice (John Libbey 1992). Between 1998-2004 she worked in Mozambique as Chief Technical Adviser, responsible for the leadership and management of the Media Development Project described in her article. Contact: birgitte.jallov@mail.dk