Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication organized a day-long capacity-building training on ‘Combating Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence' at the BDS auditorium in Barishal on February 18, 2025. Twenty women representatives of women-headed civil society organizations/NGOs, women leaders, and women representatives of human rights protection organizations attended the training.

The objectives of the training were to provide ideas and raise awareness among women representatives of civil society organizations, women leaders, and women representatives of human rights protection organizations about preventing technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV)  and determine and implement an action plan for civil society organizations to prevent TFGBV and to strive to assist victims of gender-based violence through technology at the local level in obtaining legal remedies.

SPEED Trust has provided overall support as a supporting organization in organizing the training in the Barishal region.

The training was included broadly two sessions. At the beginning of the training, Mr. AHM Shamsul Islam Dipu, Mission Head of SPEED Trust, delivered a welcome speech. After the introduction phase, AHM Bazlur Rahman, CEO of BNNRC, conducted the first session. In this session, he discussed the training's objective, including the context and situation of TFGBV in Bangladesh, the definition of TFGBV, its types, the impact of TFGBV on women, what can be done at the individual level to prevent technology-assisted gender-based violence, hotlines and apps for prevention. He also discussed the role of relevant multi-stakeholder partners in preventing TFGBV and assisting victims or survivors of TFGBV in obtaining redress.

Mr. Hiren Pandit, Coordinator of BNNRC, conducted the second session. He discussed misinformation and disinformation and how to prevent it, including public hearings and the process for raising complaints of victims or survivors of TFGBV organized by the local administration) at the public hearing.

The participants were given pre- and post-evaluations. Certificates were distributed at the end of the training.

Through the training, awareness will increase in preventing gender-based violence through technology at the local level. In addition, victims of technology-facilitated gender-based violence will be encouraged to seek remedies from legal aid organizations.

BNNRC’s work effort is to develop the media on both knowledge-based and ongoing media issues, taking into account the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing reality of the media. BNNRC works as a knowledge-driven media development organization in the regional, national, and international arenas. It is a Special Consultative Organization of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society and the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is the winner and champion of the United Nations WSIS Prize in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023.