​​Ghana's population of approximately 25 million, growing at a rate of about 2.4% per annum, based on the 2010 population census, "is predominantly rural where 62% of the population reside and where poverty levels are high. (Gender Inequalities in Rural Employment in Ghana: Overview; FAO, 2012). The growth rate is very high taking into account available resources. Indeed, poverty remains a problem of huge proportions of rural people of Ghana.  The rural poor in Ghana fit the 2000/2001 World Development Report description: "Poor people [who} live without fundamental freedoms of action and choice that the better-of take for granted." The report goes further to emphasise that "poverty is also evident in poor people's lack of political power and voice and in their extreme vulerability to ill health, economic dislocation and natural disasters ... [they] are powerless to influence key decisions affecting their lives." The report thus concludes: "poverty encompasses not only low income and consumption, but also low achievement in education, health, nutrition and other areas of human development.

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Such rural and marginalised people comprise the first-level community of Radio Peace; referred to as the Primary Listening Communities (PLCs)

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Radio Peace is therefore operating on the recognition that core development goals like reducing poverty can be more effectively achieved by empowering and givng voice to poor people themselves. In the process, the fundamental human rights of the individual are upheld. The adoption of Ghana's 1992 constitution, which guarantees the freedom and diversity of media, paved the way for the deregulation of broadcasting. It enabled community and commercial radio to develop alongside the public service, Ghana Broadcastiong Corporation, which wielded the monopoly of the airwaves; Radio Peace was thus founded. For specificities on Radio Peace follow this link. 

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With its objective of working closely with rural and marginalised communities, giving voice to the voiceless thus assisting community members in shaping their own development, Radio Peace recognises the need to collaborate with like minded organisations, institutions and individual to achieve it's objectives.

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