A daylong training workshop for the trainers has been conducted on “Community Radio Drama in Social Transformation “in the training room of Coast Trust, Dhaka. The training workshop has been organized by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) in collaboration with Free Press Unlimited under the support of European Union.
A total of 11 trainers from 14 Community Radio station participated in this training workshop.
Radio Drama plays a vital role to create consciousness among the people by giving information and knowledge. For this purpose, as part of skill enhancement, BNNRC has planned to organize a series of training for the staffs of CR station and local drama artists. It has been planned that renowned play writers, artist and experienced drama producers in an around the CR stations will facilitate the training workshop. As part of the process, this training workshop has been organized to primarily select the local facilitators.
In the training, there were analytical discussions on Community radio drama, Daily soap and Soap opera. Besides, a discussion session about script writing, producing, editing, recording and dialogue writing in a radio drama were also conducted. The session particularly focused on the main responsibility of a producer. At the end of the training all participants made an action plan for their CR station so that they would contact the respective stations and facilitate the training by following the plan.
Renowned drama personalities of the country- Solaiman Khoka and Pantho Shahriar were the main facilitators in the training workshop. Among others Mr.AHM Bazlur Rahman, CEO, BNNRC, Program Coordinator Md. Kamaruzzaman & Salma Sultana was present. Project Coordinetor, Mark Manas Saha coordinated the training workshop.
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AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR is Chief Executive Officer and founder Secretary of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). He has more than 20 years experience in leveraging community media and right to communication to create successful policy advocacy in Bangladesh in line with community media development. His areas of expertise straddle community media policy advocacy, training, project management especially in the area of community media.
He founded Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). BNNRC Devoted Entirely to Promote Community Media for Development (CM4D). BNNRC Leads Supports and Advocates for the Initiators to actively provide independent community broadcasting in Bangladesh since 2000. BNNRC represent the community electronic media sector to Government, Industry, Regulatory Bodies, Media, Academia and Development Partners from 2000. The BNNRC provides leadership and support for rural initiators to facilitate independent electronic community broadcasting services and to build and strengthen rural communities.
He actively works to improve recognition of the community electronic media sector [Community Radio | Community TV | Community Film] & its work in and involvement with the communities it seeks to serve. BNNRC's outreach extends to local, national and international forums for communicating Knowledge for Development (KM4D). In this backdrop, communication is recognized as an essential human need and, therefore, as a basic human right. Our working strategies are:
1. Communicating on the Public Sphere: The role of communication and media in exercising democratic political participation in society
2. Communicating Knowledge: The terms and means by which knowledge generated by society is communicated, or blocked, for use by different groups.
3. Civil Rights in Communication: The exercise of civil rights relating to the processes of communication in society &
4. Cultural Rights in Communication: The communication of diverse cultures, cultural forms and identities at the individual and social levels.
BNNRC now strives for the following core interventions to contribute in achieving 6th five Years Plan, UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Action Plan and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through:
Right to Information- RTI for ensuring improved livelihood of the marginalized
ICT for Development- ICT4D for Bridging the Digital Divide in rural areas &
Community Radio/Community TV/ Community Film for amplifying voices for the voiceless and Amateur Radio for Disaster Risk Reduction
He graduated from University of Dhaka and Post graduated from Asian University of Bangladesh in the field of Social Science (MSS) in Government & Politics and Participated in certificate course on Development Management by Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) New Delhi, India
He currently founder member of Bangladesh Working Group on UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) headed by Bangladesh Government, Community Radio Monitoring Committee of Ministry of Information, People’s Republic of Bangladesh, founder member of Bangladesh UN Internet Governance Forum( UN IGF) Headed by Minister, Ministry of Information, Multi-stakeholder Steering Group Members of Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (AP-RIGF) & Distinguish Fellow, Center for e-Parliament Research. Contact: ceo@bnnrc.net www.bnnrc.net
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