Building Capacity: Community Radio

11January- 12th July 2011 3rd Knowledge Sharing Workshop

AHM Bazlur Rahman Chief Executive Officer Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication ceo@bnnrc.net www.bnnrc.net

Knowledge Sharing Workshop: Knowledge Sharing Workshop held on 23.02 2011. Venue: IDB. Participants: Community Radio Initiator and Station Managers. Total participants: 36.

Community Radio Surveyors Orientation for Need Assessment 12 March '11 at IDB Bhaban, Dhaka with 18 CR station Manager

Need Assessment Survey on Community Radio (CR): Completed the Need Assessment Survey on 14 CR Stations broadcasting area. Draft report completed. Final report produces under process.

Baseline survey on Community Rural Radio:

Produced CR Code of conduct: Produced Guideline development for community integration and Child CR Club:

Training curriculum developed: 5 Days a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) CR Station Management Skills Production skills Content development skills. Basic Journalism skills. Good governance and Anti corruption content development skills. Program and news production. Technical training. Emergency preparedness and response. Children and women rights.

Organized Training of Trainers (ToT); Organized a ToT for hands on training (3 days training and 2 days refreshers course) at 14 CR level. Total 33 (29 Male and 4 Female) participants attended the ToT.

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Ten Part Drama Serial production for CR broadcasting

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Facts for Life (FFL) FFL content for behavioral change content are going on

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Dialogue with PKSK -RDRS -Srizony Bangladesh -YPSA, -Proyas MUS, -EC Bangladesh Dialogue with BNFE Bangladesh Non Formal Education Ministry of Primary & Mass Education UNESCO

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Organized 4 Divisional Dialogue regarding Community Radio - Rajshahi - Rangpur - Chittagong - Barisal

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Community Radio Funding Support So far Direct Support - CIDA [ Nalta HCHF & ACLAB] - UNESCO Bangladesh [ MMC & CCD] - Japan Embassy [ PROYASH] - PKSK [YPSA, EC Bangladesh, RDRS, PROYASH & Srizony Bangladesh] Under Process - GOB and FAO [ KRISHI Radio] ---------------------------------------------------------------------Own Fund Mobilization - BRAC, Broadcasting Asia, NHRDA and LDRO

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With the Generous Financial Support as a Technical Assistance

From UNICEF Bangladesh (November 2011) USAID/Pragoti project(May 2011) UNESCO/IPDC (July 2011)

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