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Fidelis during a live radio show at Jirapa FM, Upper West, Ghana.

Thelma Anike

Feb 13, 2025 • 5 min read

Amplio Ghana Celebrates Fidelis Da-uri, Winner of the 2025 George Atkins Communication Award

Amplio Ghana proudly celebrates Fidelis Da-uri, our colleague and a champion for rural communities, as the recipient of the prestigious Farm Radio International 2025 George Atkins Communication Award. This award recognizes Fidelis' exceptional dedication to rural broadcasting, particularly his impactful work as a Social and Behavior Change (SBC) specialist addressing critical issues like climate change, health, and peacebuilding. We sat down with Fidelis to learn more about his journey.

At the bank of the White Volta river in Daboya, travelers wait to catch boats that will ferry them across to Kito. Photo Credit: Toffic Dapilaah for Amplio Ghana

Thelma Anike

Nov 8, 2024 • 4 min read

Amplio and GIZ-REACH Support Climate Resilience for Northern Ghana’s Rural Farmers

Serving remote communities comes with unique challenges, especially in places like North Gonja, where accessing some villages means crossing rivers and navigating rugged terrain.

Students group

Amplio

Aug 30, 2023 • 5 min read

Delivering Health and WASH Education to Burundian Refugees in Mahama Camp, Rwanda

In Rwanda, UNICEF worked with the Rwanda government and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees to establish water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and health facilities at Mahama Camp. However, they needed a way to reach and sensitize over 50,000 Burundian refugees about essential health services. The high population density, language barriers, and low literacy presented challenges.

A Q&A with Revi Sterling, Director of USAID’s WomenConnect Challenge

Amplio

Aug 8, 2022 • 7 min read

Q&A: Addressing the Gender Digital Divide in Sustainable Development

A Q&A with Revi Sterling, Director of USAID’s WomenConnect Challenge

Students going to school

Amplio

Nov 29, 2021 • 11 min read

An interview with Gilbert Nkpeniyeng on How a Talking Book Message Inspired His Education Journey

In June, we posted a message on Facebook to celebrate the Day of the African Child, which commemorates June 16, 1976, when schoolchildren in Soweto took to the streets to protest about the inferior quality of their education and demand their right to be taught in their own language. Our message featured a photo that was taken 11 years ago in Ving-Ving, a village in the Upper West Region of Ghana.

Ghana Health Service and UNICEF

Titus Ayamga

Feb 9, 2021 • 6 min read

Communication During a Public Health Crisis—Building on Ghana COVID-19 Awareness Campaign

In 2020, Ghana Health Service and UNICEF partnered with Amplio on an emergency public health campaign. The work will continue for ongoing health education in rural districts.

Tim Akinbo

Thelma Anike

Jan 21, 2021 • 3 min read

Amplio Welcomes Four New Board Members to Our Leadership Team

Bringing strategic leadership in technology, social enterprise, and sustainable development

TBs

Amplio

Jan 8, 2021 • 5 min read

Thank You for Being Part of the Talking Book Journey

“As we embark on this great collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind… And we will endeavor to reach the furthest behind first.” —UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

women holding talking book

Amplio

Dec 21, 2020 • 6 min read

Why Not Mobile Phones? How Talking Books Help Bridge the Gender Digital Divide

If development projects seek to reach more women with equal access to information, they need to look beyond mobile phones

Mr. Toffic interviewing a man

Amplio

Dec 7, 2020 • 3 min read

Reaching Media-Dark Communities During Lockdown

During our 2020 year-end campaign, software design engineer, Bill Evans, shared a project that gave him hope during the dark days of lockdown.

group of women

Amplio

Nov 20, 2020 • 4 min read

Spreading the Word on Land Rights in Liberia - November 19 Panel with Landesa

Panelists:

Group of people

Amplio

Nov 3, 2020 • 8 min read

Innovation for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Rural Zambia

Young people in Zambia face high rates of teen pregnancy and a heightened risk of HIV. The situation is more dire in Samfya District, an isolated region of island communities but talking about sex is taboo.

The Amplio team welcomes Bea (center row, right) to our Zoom office

Amplio

Oct 15, 2020 • 4 min read

Bea Covington Joins Amplio as Global Partnerships Director

The Amplio team welcomes Bea (center row, right) to our Zoom office

A boy in northern Ghana listens to a Talking Book.

Amplio

Oct 14, 2020 • 8 min read

Lisa Zook, Amplio M&E Advisor, Joins Global Washington's Child Labor and Protection Panel

A boy in northern Ghana listens to a Talking Book.

market women

Amplio

Sep 18, 2020 • 5 min read

Landesa Launches Talking Book Program to Strengthen Women’s Land Rights in Liberia

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Fidelis Da-Uri and Philip Kinyota discuss ways music can be used to engage communities in SBCC campaigns

Amplio

Aug 11, 2020 • 7 min read

Using Music as a Tool for Social and Behavior Change

Fidelis Da-Uri and Philip Kinyota discuss ways music can be used to engage communities in SBCC campaigns

A woman holding a talking book

Amplio

Jun 30, 2020 • 7 min read

A New Talking Book Prototype is in the Works — a Q&A with Amplio's Senior Software Design Engineer

Bill Evans, Amplio's senior software design engineer, discusses our new Talking Book prototype that’s powered by an Arm Cortex-M4 processor and runs on rechargeable batteries

group of women

Amplio

Jun 25, 2020 • 7 min read

Creating Effective Audio Content with Farm Radio’s VOICE Standards

How Farm Radio’s VOICE standards can help you design audio content for Talking Books

Amplio is partnering on a COVID-19 response in the Upper West Region, Ghana

Amplio

Jun 9, 2020 • 5 min read

Talking Book Included in World Bank's List of Technologies for Rural COVID-19 Response

Amplio is partnering on a COVID-19 response in the Upper West Region, Ghana

A woman holding Talking Book

Amplio

Apr 29, 2020 • 11 min read

Q&A: Reaching Media-Dark Communities for COVID-19 Response Webinar Follow-Up

Questions from Amplio’s April 23 webinar on using Talking Books for COVID-19 response in Ghana’s rural remote communities

two people standing with a talking book

Amplio

Apr 14, 2020 • 7 min read

A Talking Book COVID-19 Response in Ghana's Upper West Region

Amplio is partnering with LBG, Ghana Health Services to reach remote rural communities

A woman in Northern Ghana demonstrates proper handwashing.

Amplio

Apr 2, 2020 • 5 min read

Promoting Good Hygiene and Sanitation Practices in Ghana's Remote Rural Communities

A woman in Northern Ghana demonstrates proper handwashing.

A district health director records a message about covid-19. Wa West, Ghana

Amplio

Mar 27, 2020 • 6 min read

7 Considerations for COVID-19 Risk Communication in Remote Rural Communities

A district health director records a message about covid-19. Wa West, Ghana

Fidelis Da-Uri (right) lead the development of audio content for social and behavior change initiatives.

Amplio

Mar 24, 2020 • 8 min read

4 Tips for Creating Effective SBCC Audio Content

Fidelis Da-Uri (right) lead the development of audio content for social and behavior change initiatives.

Hamdiya Imoro (green cap) became a maternal health advocate in her community after listening to UNICEF's Talking Book messages. Northern Region, Ghana

Amplio

Mar 15, 2020 • 7 min read

Q&A: Navigating Data, Donors, and the Gender Digital Divide

Hamdiya Imoro (green cap) became a maternal health advocate in her community after listening to UNICEF's Talking Book messages. Northern Region, Ghana

Amplio Talking Books are included the Niger Smart Villages project. Photo: ITU

Amplio

Mar 6, 2020 • 5 min read

Niger Smart Villages Pilot Launches Digital Services in Borgou-Darey and Sadore

Amplio Talking Books are included the Niger Smart Villages project. Photo: ITU

An old lady

Amplio

Feb 4, 2020 • 7 min read

Giving Communities a Voice on Teen Pregnancy and Other Child Protection Issues

How Talking Book user feedback helped UNICEF Ghana identify and understand local challenges around teen pregnancy and child protection

Gumah Aloysisum Tiah became Literacy Bridge Ghana's country director in 2019.

Amplio

Oct 25, 2019 • 4 min read

Introducing Gumah Tiah, Literacy Bridge Ghana's Country Director

Gumah Aloysisum Tiah became Literacy Bridge Ghana's country director in 2019.

cattle

Amplio

Aug 9, 2019 • 10 min read

Niger Smart Villages: a Nation’s Commitment to Digital Inclusion and Rural Growth

In early July, Amplio's senior program manager Ryan Forbes Morris traveled to Niger with founder and executive director Cliff Schmidt to participate in the planning and launch of the Niger Smart Villages project. A government-led initiative, Niger Smart Villages aims to digitally connect 15,000 villages to the Internet and e-services. The project is being implemented in partnership with multiple UN agencies.

farmland

Amplio

Apr 25, 2019 • 10 min read

Q&A with Karen Walsh on Women Farmers, Soybeans, Talking Books, and Economic Empowerment

An Interview with Karen Walsh, Country Program Director for MEDA's Greater Rural Opportunities for Women (GROW) Project in Northern Ghana

A boy holding amplio talking book

Amplio

Nov 16, 2018 • 4 min read

Amplifying Reach and Impact — Here's Why We Changed Our Name to Amplio Ghana

Literacy Bridge is now Amplio Ghana!

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