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In Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic & Social Council
Associated with the UN Department of Global Communications

C-9: Building Constructive Journalism on Road Safety for Media Professionals Using Digital Platforms

22. Description: Please provide a short description of the project in 150 to 200 words describing the project’s objectives, results achieved, and impact generated. BNNRC has implemented Building Media Professionalism for Road Safety through Constructive Journalism in Bangladesh. The objective was to intensify media interest in and understanding of road safety as a critical health and development issue share the burden of road crashes in Bangladesh [...]

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C-4: Building Capacity of Rural Women on Digital Financial Services through Literacy

22. Description: (Please provide a short description of the project in 150 to 200 words describing the project’s objectives, results achieved, and impact generated.) Female participation in Bangladesh’s labor force has increased to 42.68% in 2022, up from 36.3% five years ago, according to a survey report conducted by the BBS released on 29 March 2023. Despite contributing to household income, they have little or no role [...]

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C-3: Engaging Youth and Youth Women for Fighting Misinformation

22. Description: (Please provide a short description of the project in 150 to 200 words describing the project’s objectives, results achieved, and impact generated.) Bangladesh has historically been subjected to widespread political and communal violence caused by rumors and disinformation hindering the smooth functioning of democratic transitions. The popularity of social media and its increased accessibility to the masses has further complicated the fight against [...]

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Category 15 – C9. Media: Promoting Health Governance through Broadcasting and Dialogue

Promoting Health Governance through Broadcasting and Dialogue Organization: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) Country: Bangladesh The goal of the project Empowering Community People and Promoting Access to Reliable and Timely Information Objectives To promote governance in health in the health sector and ensure quality health support for all To create an atmosphere in media houses for reporting for promoting health governance Description: Please provide a [...]

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Category 14 – C8. ICT Applications: Connecting voicing and empowering disadvantaged communities through community Broadcasting 

Project Title: Empowering left-behind minority communities to effectively participate in the development process of Bangladesh through Community Radio About 11% of the population of Bangladesh consists of minorities who face discrimination due to their religion, ethnicity, gender identity, and geographical location-based differences. Amongst the minority population, the Dalit, plainland Ethnic Minority, Persons with Disabilities (PwD), Tea Labour and Transgender & Hijra communities are [...]

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Category 3 – C3. Access to information and Knowledge: Financial Literacy 

EMPOWERING YOUTH AND YOUTH WOMEN SPECIALLY RADEY MADE GARMENTS WORKERS THROUGH FINANCIAL LITERACY In Bangladesh, a large number of women are the first generation paid women workers in their families. They have also broken certain taboos that had earlier prevented women from working for wages outside their homes. In spite of progress on this front, they often have little control over the money they earn. Despite [...]

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Category 9 – C7. ICT applications: e-health : Campaign for Inclusion of Disadvantaged Communities in COVID-19 Vaccination through Community Radio

Project Description According to the National Vaccine Deployment Plan (NVDP), the government has targeted to bring 80% of the population under vaccination. All people above the age of 5, including the front-line health care providers, are to be vaccinated. The proposed project will initiate advocacy both at the national and local levels to promote vaccines, thus creating an enabling environment where the general [...]

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Category 4 – C4. Capacity Building: Fighting Fake News through Fact Checking and Verification

Organization: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) Country: Bangladesh The goal of the project Empowering Community People and Promoting Access to Reliable and Timely Information Objectives To disseminate reliable and timely information to fight against Fake news through Fact Checking and Verification To teach the techniques of information verification and evaluation before program and content development and broadcast Foster key investigative strategies for techniques specialized for verifying [...]

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