A daylong orientation on ‘Gender Responsive Communication for Community Radios’ has been conducted today (Wednesday) in Steps Training Room, Lalmatia, Dhaka. Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) organized the event in collaboration with Steps Towards Development with the support from Free Press Unlimited and European Union.
The event was participated by a total of 18 (Female-5 and Male-13) gender specialist and trainers from different non-government organizations (Borendra Unnayan Prochesta, Parittran, WAVE Foundation), civil society networks (Chuadanga Development Forum-CDF, South-West Informatory Forum for Transformation-SWIFT, Barguna Coastal NGO Forum-BCNF, Kurigram NGO Association-KNA, Borendra Uannayan Forum-BUF, Chittagong Social Development Forum-CSDF, Setubandhan-Bogra), lawyers, cultural activists, teachers as well as BNNRC and Steps Towards Development. This event has aimed to build capacity of the potential trainers of Steps-Knowledge Center on gender responsive communication in line with different activities and programs related to community radios for further intervention. The expected outcomes of this event will ensure quality trainings on the same issue to be held at 14 Community Radio Stations. It will help to enhance knowledge and skill of the community radio stations workforce to promote gender equality, women human rights and gender responsive governance in the targeted communities.
Mr. Ranjan Karmaker, Executive Director, Steps Towards Development-Knowledge Center and the renowned Gender Expert as well as Rekha Saha, Gender expert and women human rights Activist, facilitated the sessions applying basic communication skills, participatory techniques and styles in the light of expected roles and responsibilities of the community media.
Community Radios in the country were launched in 2011 with a vision to express rural peoples’ voices, ensuring women and gender development, Right to Information, Rural development etc. while Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been playing pioneering role from establishment to nourishing community media for effective rural development.
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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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