Reach your audience
Most Ugandans live in rural areas. There are many CSOs, government institutions, donor agencies and commercial enterprises who would like to reach rural communities by educational, social and health campaigns, or marketing of consumer goods, mobile communication, agribusiness, fertilisers, construction material, solar power, motorcycles – you name it.
Through COMNETU, your organisation or company can reach 25 rural radio stations and millions of radio listeners in rural communities across Uganda.
The radio broadcasts of our member radio stations currently cover about 50% of the area of Uganda. Many of those covered areas are not reached by the mainstream media.
How we can work together
We can assist your organisation or company to reach rural radio stations and rural communities across Uganda.
- By creating partnership projects
- By sponsored radio programmes
- By airing jingles and advertisements
At COMNETU, we can create partnership projects connecting your organisation with rural radio stations in one particular or several regions, or all over Uganda.
Our professional radio production team can prepare tailor-made sponsored programmes about your campaign topic. Programmes will be produced in a participatory manner, always involving local communities in the programme production.
You can also make an agreement with the local community radio stations that they prepare news or sponsored feature programmes or discussion programmes about the educational, social, health, or other information campaign topics that you plan to focus on.
We can also produce jingles and advertisements and provide you with the most convenient offer reaching as many community radio stations as you need, in the exact locations that you wish to reach.
Rural radios online
Since 2023, COMNETU has been operating the Ugandan community radio portal Radio Comnetu where rural radio stations publish their local news stories and live stream their programmes online. Through the radio portal, community radio stations can now reach audiences outside their local on-air coverage area, since practically anyone carrying a smartphone or having access to a computer can visit the online radio portal, anywhere in the country, both in cities and in rural areas, and even abroad.
By advertising through the radio portal, or sharing your sponsored educational programmes, you can reach news audiences surfing the news or listening to the audio podcasts and live streams from the upcountry community radio stations. You can also listen live to the programmes that your organisation has been sponsoring and monitor the results from your investment. Radio programmes and audio clips can also be shared and listened to via social media channels. So, you can now just go online to reach your target groups in rural Uganda.
You are most welcome to contact us and discuss about partnership projects aiming to reach and empower rural communities locally or across Uganda.