Community Radio: An EffectiveMechanism for Community Education

Sub-Regional Workshop onOrganizing and Managing Literate Environment

06 December – 10 December 2015, Dhaka Bangladesh06 December – 10 December 2015, Dhaka Bangladesh

Organized byDhaka Ahsania Mission

In collaboration withUNESCO Dhaka and Bangladesh National Commission for UNESCO

AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR | Chief Executive OfficerBangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication

[Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC]

ceo@bnnrc.net | www.bnnrc.net

About BNNRC

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communicationpromoting the community electronic media sector toGovernment, Industry, Regulatory Bodies, Media andDevelopment Partners from 2000.

BNNRC strives for the following core intervention toBNNRC strives for the following core intervention tocontribute in achieving 7th five Years Plan of Governmentof Bangladesh, UN World Summit on the InformationSociety (WSIS) Action Plan, and Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) through

- Community Media (Community Radio, CommunityTV & Community Film) for amplifying Voices ofthe Rural People!

Role of Community Radio in Bangladesh

Knowledge SocietiesKnowledge SocietiesKnowledge Societies

Human Needs and Rights

Pluralism

Human Needs and RightsHuman Needs and Rights

PluralismPluralism

Knowledge

Creation Dissemination UtilizationPreservation

Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge

Lifelong learning Through Community Radio in Bangladesh:Changes Within and Beyond the Classroom

Community Radios : 16 Functional &16 will start by June 2016

Total Broadcast Hour : 125 Hours

Coverage : 68 Upazillas of 14 DistrictCoverage : 68 Upazillas of 14 District

Population: 5.5 Millions

Community Broadcasters : 1000Youth Women and Youth

About Contents : Education,Information, Entertainment andDevelopment Motivation

Process flow in Community Radio in linewith Program

information dissemination

↓addressing cognitive orknowledge gains↓addressing formative oraddressing formative oraffective factors↓addressing attitudinal changesanddecision making capabilities↓translating all knowledgegained into concretebehavioural changes

Framework for a Community RadioLearning System

Community Radio: PROGRAM PLANNING ANDPRODUCTION

news & information analysis mobilization

data opinion formation monitoring support

hard facts/events decision-making reflecting on people action

educational inputs process program inter phasing

(planning) mobilization

Results of the Process

Free Flow of Information for SustainableDevelopment in line with GovernmentFive Years Plan and Policy

Scope opened for exchange of dialogue& Social Debate between Locally ElectedBodies/ Policy Makers

Created Scope for the poor & Created Scope for the poor &marginalized to raise their Own voice

Rights to raise voices of the communityand access to Knowledge andInformation

Engaging rural people for productionand broadcasting livelihood contents

Community Radio in Disaster RiskReduction(DRR)

Community Radio in Dalits !

Dalits Population:5.5 MillionsTypes of dalits94Dalits ReligionsHindu, Muslim, Christianothersothers

Challenges and Way forward

Challenges and Way forward

Need-based

Practical behavioral objectives (socialmobilization)

Economic or utilitarian significanceEconomic or utilitarian significance

Resource Availability

Research and Experience-Based

Holistic Integration of Subject Matter

Clear Messages, Concrete Examples