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Gender Equality and Socialization

Guidelines for
Community Radio Stations 2013
(National & International Context)

Editor
Mark Manash Saha
Tamanna Rahman
1st Published
March 2012
2nd Edition
January 2013

Design and Print

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Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and

Communication (BNNRC)
House : 13/1, Road : 02, Shamoly, Dhaka 1207
Phone: +88 02 9130750, 9138501, 9101479
Fax: +88 02 9138501-105
E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net
Web: www.bnnrc.net

Supported by Plan Bangladesh

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Preface

Prologue

Gender guidelines for operating community

radio station
(International Context)

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Introduction

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Representation of women in radio waves

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Access of women in radio waves

Special representation of minority women

Women representation at all stages of station management

Uses of appropriate technology

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Financing and skill development for women in radio

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Gender equality and socialization in community radio

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Background

1 Purpose of this guideline

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2 Need and basis of this guideline

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2.1 Need of this guideline

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2.2 Basis of this guideline

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3 User of this guideline

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4 Implementation process

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5 Fields of implementation of this gender guideline

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5. 1 Fields of practice and exercise of this gender guideline

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5. 1. 1 Gender guideline for good governance

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5. 1. 2 Organization and management

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5. 1. 3 Capicity development

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5. 1. 4 Creating gender-friendly atmosphere

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5. 1. 7 Encouraging the gender guideline and related matters

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5. 1. 8 Partnership with the radio stations and

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5. 1. 10 Gender-based budget and survey systems

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5. 1. 9 Appointing a Chief Coordinator on gender guideline

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Community Radio is playing a vital role

in South Asian countries along with the
world and Bangladesh is not far behind
in this movement of right to
information. The Community Radio
installation, broadcast and management
policy 2012 has been formulated by the
information ministry of Bangladesh,
and we thank the government for it.
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio
and Communication, since its inception
- has been in dialogues with the
government along with other
organizations, on establishing
community radios in Bangladesh. After
12 years of earnest efforts, 14
community radio stations are now
carrying out their broadcasts in the
country and are strengthening the voice
of the terminal population through
ensuring their right to information.

For the poor people of Bangladesh, the

state is a distant entity that is hard to
reach and even harder to exchange
opinions. Similarly, the people within
the low-income community do not
listen to each others stories. Prosperity,
expansion and strengthening of
community radio can increase

availability of information, and thus

play a crucial role in poverty alleviation.

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AHM Bazlur Rahman

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The third target of the millennium

development goal (MDG) is gender
equality and womens empowerment.
Taking ownership and participation
in information technology as
examples, it is clear that gender
discrimination in use of technology is
massive. The scenario is even worse
in the broadcast sector. Since
community radios are now
operational and if the issue is taken
seriously from the beginning, then
gender equality can be ensured in the
administrative, management,
program and inancial planning
departments in running a radio.

The target of publishing the guideline

formulated by The World Association of
Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC)-Women International
Network Asia is to create mass
awareness among entrepreneurs in
private and public sectors in
eliminating gender discrimination in
radio program broadcasting.
I hope that community radio initiators
will follow this gender guideline while
makeing a gender guideline for their
own stations, and will follow them, to
bring gender equality in broadcasting
programs on community radio. Let
community radio be the tool for
development for the deprived populace.
Finally, I would like to extend my
heartfelt thanks to Plan Bangladesh for
helping publish the Gender Equality
and Socialization Guideline in operating
community radio stations 2013.

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We are happy to know that Bangladesh

NGOs Network for Radio and
Communication (BNNRC) is publishing
a English & Bangla version of the
Publication of Gender Equality
Guideline in Operating Community
Radio Stations, formulated on March
8th, 2008 by World Association of
Community Broadcasters
(AMARC)-Women International
Network (WIN).

The peoples republic of Bangladesh has

formulated the community radio
establishment, broadcast and
operations regulations-2008, and so far,
14 community radios have begun
broadcasting, after getting approval
from government. Therefore, this
publication on gender policies will play
an important role in male-female
equality and womens empowerment at
the community radio stations in
Bangladesh.

In this proposed Gender Equality

Guideline, based on surveys by
AMARC-WIN Asia Paciic and ISIS
International, the importance and need
for womens participation in community
radio have been brought up. The survey
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volunteers at the stations are women,

but only 28 per cent are in leadership
positions and 30 per cent are doing
technical work. The concerns they
expressed include lack of technical
skills, insecurity and violence, and
limited scope to express views and
make decisions. They also complained
about male-dominated radio structure
that impedes their participation and
intimidates them.

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Participants of the survey urged for more

entrance of women in leadership,
management and inancial management
and also suggested for improving
womens participation in determining
contents of radio programs, and
producing of the programs. The
recommendations made in the
regulations include training for women,
formulation of anti-sexual harassment
regulations, reserving of a 30% quota for
women leadership and special radio
program for women. Suggestions have
also been made for space for child-care,
lexible working hours, broadcast
schedules suited for women, ample light
and security measures at radio stations
and transportation for those women
works that live far away from the stations.

I urge all radio stations of Bangladesh

to accept this gender guideline to
ensure equality of men and women at
all stages of community radio
broadcast at the grass-root levels of the
country. Heres to hoping for a
powerful awakening of womens voices
through community radio.

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In the Universal Declaration of Human

Rights, rights of all human beings
irrespective of gender, sex, religion and
race have been recognized. Moreover,
governments have recognized womens
rights through the Convention on
Elimination of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW). Under the
convention, states are obligated to take
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All over the world, in international

organizations, national constitutions
and in society, equal opportunities for
women and their roles in every aspect
of human life have been recognized.

The role of mass media in ensuring equal

rights for women is crucial. It has been
acknowledged in the Section J of the
Beijing Womens Platform undertaken on
basis of unanimity. Although active
involvement of women in mass media
was drawn attention to in this section, the
absence of women in the decision making
process in all kinds of mass media prevail.
It also emphasized on need for
reformation, and on the governments
duties to increase womens participation
in decision-making by training, research
and womens development. It also vested
two responsibilities on mass media
workers in assisting to fulill two tactical
targets one being womens participation
in expression of opinion and
decision-making through new
technologies in the mass media, and the
other was to uphold a balanced and
non-stereotyped image of women in mass
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Internet and online communication

systems have made it possible for
women to network and communicate
from a justiied position. However, most
women have very limited access to such
technologies in developing countries.
Its not enough to bring to the attention
of community radio professionals - the
limited access of technologies of
developed countries by women and
their demands. It needs to be made
visible to policymakers at local
governments to international
organizations. Unfortunately, decision
making processes are ignoring womens
online demands which are creating a
male-favored atmosphere, which is
increasing information gap, negative
presentation, public commercialization,
and specially the tendency of presenting
women in sexually attractive ways in
advertisements. Community radio can
play an important part in raising these
speciic concerns in policymaking
meetings, in increasing womens roles
in use of information and
communication technology, and in
eliminating the political
discriminations.
Womens roles in establishing peace
and resolving conlict are
internationally recognized by the
agenda 1325 of the UN Security
Council. Community radios have the
special responsibility to help womens
voices be heard and womens peace
process during times of conlict.

Community radios should also help in

making womens participation easier in
all anti-discrimination movements and
decision-making, ensuring that
womens voices and issues are included
in everyday news, creating a positive
image of women as active members of
the society and assisting women control
their communication networks through
gaining conidence and technological
skills. Community radio is part of a
progressive social movement so the

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stations should establish and

strengthen linkage with other
like-minded progressive womens
movements. The stations should also
formulate and implement policies that
have respect for women and equality at
its bases. This gender guideline will
help in realizing gender equality at
community radios, and thus should be
included in the organizational structure
and policy.

Section 1: Access of women in

radio waves

Women should have access to the

radio waves so that they can make
their own political, social, economic,
cultural and entertainment-based
programs on women.

For this, there should be a positive

mindset to train and make space for
women to produce programs, while
creating a safe and suitable
environment for women to work. There
should also be anti-sexual harassment
regulations and a complain-raising
mechanism to prevent any kind of
sexual harassment. It is womens right
to be able to work without fear. The
main basis of access of women to radio
waves will be training for self-defense,
zero tolerance against assault on
women, and ensuring assistance to help
women tackle threats from inside and
outside the station.

Sometimes, it gets dificult for women

to access radio waves due to their
limitations of traveling alone or late at
night. Initiatives should be taken so that
women can overcome these obstacles,
by providing transport through mobile
radio stations or by providing
security.Special trainings are needed for
women to overcome lack of trust, and
separate workdays for women may also
be declared. Unless gender equality is
not ensured, arrangements should be

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made to set up special

department/desk to create favorable
condition for participation of women
and to eliminate all discriminations
inside the station and in broadcasting.

Section 2: Representation of
women in radio waves

Women representation at various

sectors should be encouraged,
instead being limited to one set
pattern. In everything that is
broadcast on the radio, starting from
editorials to commercials, equal
respect and honor must be shown to
all irrespective of gender, race, and
class. Which means they must not be
physically or in any other way
offensive to either men or women. All
the programs should relect womens
empowerment. Moreover, special
programs for women must be
broadcast, and women cannot be
restricted to just women-based
programs.
Women are often neglected in expert
evaluations and opinions in the mass
media. Multiple sources and
representatives from all classes of
society must be included for
participation in news and
analysis-based programs. To make the
process easier, a directory of women
experts in various professions and
ields may be made that can be used
as a reference.

Section 3: Special Representation

of minority women
The diversity of womens experiences
must be addressed, and women who
have been victims of discrimination,
assault and neglect in public and
commercial mass media, must be given
a platform to speak. This means there
should be special arrangements for
disabled, religious and racial minorities
and hermaphrodites.

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Equal access for men and women from

all sectors and levels of society to the
community radio broadcasts must be
ensured. Especially, women from
minority communities must be given
airtime on priority basis, so that they
can comfortably bring up their issues
in a non-discriminative, safe and
empowered environment.
Arrangements to train these women
on skill development will be a great
initiative, and the organization
concerned must make necessary
inancial allotments to meet such
demands.

Section 4: Representation of
women at all levels of station
management

Worldwide, women representation is

more in community radio than in
government-owned/controlled or
commercial radios. However, women
are still often deprived, especially in the
decision-making process and in terms
of technical skills. There are even
stations where there are no effective
womens representatives.

In all sections of a community radio,

there should be a quota for women in
technical management, ownership,
administration, management, program
and inancial planning and production
to ensure meaningful participation of
women. The ultimate goal of this is to
ensure equality between men and
women (In this case, to temporarily
secure at least 30% positions for
women). To achieve this goal, it is
important to invest in womens skill
development, leadership development
and management training. Womens
participation cannot be measured just
in terms of the number of women
associated with the station. There
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that women can be meaningfully

connected to the policymaking process
in favorable environment. The matters
that make womens participation easier
are ensuring care for children, lexible
working days and broadcast schedules
that are on cohesion with other
responsibilities of women, ample light
at the station during meetings and
broadcasts, issue of transportations to
and from the station during night and
on government holidays, and reserving
of at least half the seats for women in
training rooms.

Section 5: Uses of appropriate

technology

Although some women are skilled in use

of technology, but in most cases women
are very limited in their skills when it
comes to technological matters, and most
women cant use it. In the use of even
prevailing technology, like radio studio
management, women are often sidelined.
This gender discrimination must be
addressed in terms of technology, and it
must be overcome establishing new
technology by and for women.
There should be promises of using free
and open-source softwares. One
example can be the studio must be set
up such that its convenient for women
to use. One thing that can be considered
is that women are generally shorter in
height than men, so the studio must be
designed such that even a disabled
person can use it. Besides, the training
material should be understandable by
all, and they have to be translated to the
local language if necessary. It should
also be ensured that little-educated men
and women can also use them.
One other very important matter is
research. It has to be done in a way that
it can fulill the demands of poor and
low-literate people, and use of low-cost
equipment must be ensured by making
them available and ensuring
technological development.

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Section 6: Financing and skill

development for Women in Radio
Skill development is a basic element of
ensuring equality. It doesnt mean that
the skills of only those who work at the
radio must be developed, but skills of
men and women must be developed so
that they can work together in creating
a safe, supportive and learning
environment where their efforts
continue for the stations success.

At the same time, all men and women

associated with the radio station must
be given workshops on gender
sensitivity, so that they can identify
male-dominated behavior and
discriminative characteristics, build
relations on basis of gender equality
and follow techniques of gender-neutral
presentation.

Although many stations are willing to

bring about gender equality, inance and
initiatives to improve womens skills are
rare. Therefore, deinite amount of
funds must be allocated for bringing
equality between men and women. This
fund must be used in technological,
program related and
management-related trainings. Such
environments must be created that
women feel safe, such as: enough lights,
security equipment, separate toilets etc.
and an environment helpful of
establishing networks for women must
be created.
Thinking from an organizational
structure point of view, it is important
to appoint a woman member in the
workers, advisors or management
committee, who can assess the
demands of the station and implement
programs to bring gender equality
through a womens desk.

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Gender Equality and Socialization Guidelines for Community Radio Stations 2013
(National Context)

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Background

The target of this guideline is to

strengthen community-radio related
programs, to ensure and secure
professional rights of broadcasters and
to continue democratic environment
and practices, and besides, to give an
institutionalized form to gender
equality and socialization.

Chapter 1: Purpose of this guideline

The purposes of this guideline are as
follows:
1. To aware broadcasters,
policymakers and those involved
with production and broadcast, so
that they are motivated to follow
this guideline at their
organization.
2. To ensure participation of women,
and small ethnic and other
minority community
representatives in community
radio, and to broadcast news and
program about their rights and
responsibilities.
3. To effectively broadcast the
techniques for gender equality
and socialization in community
radio, in order to achieve social
empowerment.

Chapter 2: The need and basis of

this guideline
2.1 Need for this guideline
The Bangladesh government has
primarily approved 14 community
radio stations to operate in speciic
places of the country. The stations
have already begun producing and

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broadcasting their own programs.

Men and women employees,
volunteers, local students and artists
are working together there. But till
date, there are no gender guidelines
in the stations. If theres no
applicable gender guideline, the
chance remains for women workers,
volunteers and artists to face various
obstacles at the workplace, and
socially. This may hamper the
community radios prime purpose.

One other main reason behind

publishing the gender guideline is to
preserve human rights overall,
eliminate discriminations between
men and women, and to play a positive
role in the development of the country.
The other targets of the guideline is to
work for peoples access to
information, participation of
democratic people, preserving public
interest, to uphold human
rightsespecially womens rights,
stopping violence against women and
establishing good governance.

Besides community radio, there are no

speciic guidelines on preservation
and institutionalization of democracy,
demands of preservation of rights of
the deprived and social change, that
give a clear idea about gender equality
and socialization. The purpose of
forming this guideline is to fulill that
requirement.

2.2 Basis of this guideline

1. To create unanimity on the
proposed gender guideline at
community radio stations and to
implement it at respective
organizations and radio stations.
2. To create balance among radio
stations in exercising this guideline.
3. To create a cooperative
environment between community
radio broadcasters and
stakeholders.

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4.

Empowerment and preservation of

rights of women and backward
communities.

Chapter 3: User of this guideline

3.1 The main users of this guideline
are community radio stations and
other organizations connected to
this program.
3.2 All other organizations that are
not directly involved with
community radio stations but
work on gender equality can also
use this guideline.

Chapter 4: Implementation Process

4.1 To accept and realize the gender
guideline, relect it in the programs
and encourage realizing it.
4.2 To introduce radio broadcasters to
this guideline through organizing
information meetings, trainings and
workshops, and give importance in
realizing it.
4.3 To establish a network to ensure
quality control of programs,
following of regulations and
upholding of values at community
radio stations.
4.4 To take initiatives to
institutionalize gender equality
and related programs at
community radio stations.
4.5 To inalize an effective gender
policy as a change agent and
follow it in making programs.
4.6 Create a positive image by
broadcasting information on the
gender equality guideline by
broadcasting them on the
community radio stations.

Chapter 5: Fields of implementation

of this gender guideline
5.1 The ields of practice and exercise
of this gender guideline are
5.1.1 Gender guidelines for good
governance
To form and implement a
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participation, and void of

discrimination.

5.1.2 Organization and management

5.1.2.1
To take the following steps
to increase participation of
women and disadvantaged
rural population.
5.1.2.1.1 To take and exercise policies
that can increase
involvement and activity of
women and socially
deprived populace in
eliminating discrimination.
5.1.2.1.2 To consider the matter of
women and socially
deprived populace while
formulating employment
policies.
5.1.2.1.3 To ensure presence of at
least one representative
from women and socially
deprived populace.
5.1.2.1.4 To establish an
institutional supervision
method to assess whether
the matter of women and
socially deprived populace
is being taken with
importance.
5.1.3 Capacity development
Create opportunities for
representatives of women and
socially deprived populace in
training and other
skill-developing initiatives.
5.1.4 Creating a gender-friendly
environment
5.1.4.1
Set working hours for
women, considering their
security
5.1.4.2
Create gender-friendly
working environment
5.1.4.3
Use gender-friendly
language in ofice and
during broadcast
5.1.4.4
To ensure easy and quick
communication in
situations of emergency

5.1.4.4
5.1.4.5
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5.1.4.6

To ensure gender-friendly
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To make gender-friendly
organizational code of
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5.1.5 In radio activities/programs

5.1.5.1
To consider with
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stakeholders and those
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guidelines (womens and
childrens rights, assault on
women, gender-related
violence).
5.1.5.2
Allocate enough time to
broadcast programs on
women and disadvantaged
populace.
5.1.6 In dialogue with beneiciary
populace
5.1.6.1
To ensure direct
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beneiciary populace in
installation, broadcast,
supervision and evaluation
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5.1.6.2
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to gender equality and
deprived community, and
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mutual cooperation.
5.1.7 In encouraging the gender
guideline and related matters
5.1.7.1
Make men and women
workers aware on gender
equality and socialization,
and encourage them to
relect it in their activities.

5.1.8 Partnership with radio stations

and local stakeholders on the guideline
5.1.8.1
To take the following steps
to create partnerships
between local committees
on community radios and
stakeholders:
5.1.8.1.1 Coordination: To discuss
with local committees on

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5.1.8.1.3

5.1.8.1.4

community radios and

stakeholders to set plans for
cooperation on gender and
socialization.
Technical assistance: To
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quality programs on
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5.1.9 Appointing a Chief

Coordinator on gender guideline
Appointing a Chief Coordinator
on gender policies, who will
oversee the gender- related
issues, and look with
importance on issues of the
recruited women from the
backwards populace.
5.1.10 Gender-based budget and
survey systems
5.1.10.1 Making gender-dependent
budgets, giving
importance to gender and
socialization.
5.1.10.2 To check at regular
intervals whether the
gender-related issues
taken in the budget and
program are being
followed properly.