MainDBDraft: Community climate airwaves through Community Radio in Bangladesh
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Community climate airwaves through Community Radio in Bangladesh
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Asia
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Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners
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Date of submission:
28/07/2020
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DVJ9bP_ZgBVNx6Pn96wRr6_PkLLTXjsi/view
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Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication
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Geographic scope:
National
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Communication and outreach/awareness; Education and training; Socio-economic data and information; Technology support
Adaptation sector/theme:
Agriculture; Coastal areas/zones; Disaster risk reduction; Health
Climate hazard:
Floods; Salinization
Implementing partners:
Community Radio stations
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Civil society
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Bangladesh
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Eight coastal community radio stations are broadcasting altogether 60 hours program per day on information, education, local entertainment and development motivation activities. Around 80 youth women & youth are now working with those stations throughout the coastal areas as coastal community broadcasters. The Community Radios are becoming an active ground for organizing dialogues at rural level. These dialogues are helping the rural mass to find out their own voice and ensure leverage their free opinion in respect of social, economic, political, cultural and environmental issues.
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www.bnnrc.net
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Technical document/report
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Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council, accredited with World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of the United Nations and UN WSIS prize winner 2016, Champion 2017 and 2019. BNNRC’s approach to media development is both knowledge-driven and context-sensitive, and it takes into account the challenges and opportunities created by the rapidly changing media environment in Bangladesh including community radio development giving voices for the voiceless. BNNRC is actively working to improve recognition of the community electronic media sector & its work in and involvement with the communities. BNNRC represents the community electronic media sector to Government, Industry, Regulatory Bodies, Media, Academia and Development Partners from 2000. The Community Radio stations are an integral part of the disaster risk management and climate change process in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Community Radio stations are the fastest channels for the broadcasting of knowledge and information across the coastal areas. Community Radio programs are quite supportive to the intervention reflected in 7th 5 year plan of Government of Bangladesh, UN World Summit on the Information Society Action Plan, UN SDG‘s, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, Bangladesh on the March Towards Prosperity 2018 & Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan. Program broadcasting of the community radio stations aims to reduce or avoid the potential losses and damages caused by hazards, or climate change assure prompt and appropriated assistance to communities achieve rapid and effective recovery in line with the Building Back Better.
Outcome:
BNNRC have been engaged in using eight community radio stations of coastal areas of Bangladesh as a knowledge tool, community radio offers benefits in the following ways: Speaking to communities in local languages using terms and phrases that are easily understood; Providing two-way interactive social learning through listeners’ clubs, call-in shows, and other forms of exchange; Enabling the communication and exchange of knowledge between people who need it, e.g. rural farmers, in a consumable, deployable and non-threatening way; Communicating local knowledge, needs and demands beyond the community to inform policy, research, and other communities; Providing the only media available to communities that have little or no access to other methods of conveying information and knowledge;
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