Bangladesh Consultation on AMARC10:
World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters
Last Week of October, 2010, Dhaka Bangladesh
Bangladesh Consultation on AMARC 10 World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters will be held on last week of October 2010 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The focus of the consultation is Recovering Memory Building the Future: Community Radio and Poverty Reduction, Social Inclusion, Good Governance and Sustainable Human Development. Bangladesh Consultation will organize by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) with support from UNICEF Bangladesh through Empowering Communities: Strengthening and Building Capacity of the Community Radio in Bangladesh project.
More than 400 community broadcasters and stakeholders from over 110 countries and all regions of the global community radio movement will gather at the AMARC 10 Global Conference from 8-13 November La Plata, Argentina 2010, among other issues, improve good practice in community media; explore strategies to facilitate the establishment of enabling legal environments for community media development, to define knowledge sharing and capacity building models for action-research and mentoring; to reinforce content development leading to social change; to facilitate the inclusion of women and; to encourage the empowerment of communities through appropriation of community radio for social justice and sustainable, democratic and participatory human development.
The Global Conference will be under the sign of recovering memories and sharing knowledge and accumulated experiences of the Latin American community radio movement with Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America and, at the same time to define how can AMARC and the community radio global movement present in more than 120 countries increase the effectiveness of its interventions.
The overall theme of the Bangladesh Consultation will be the progress of community radio in Bangladesh. There are both challenges and opportunities to establish community radio in Bangladesh. Lots of initiatives are under processing and hopes there are 14 Community Radio Station will go on air very soon.
Distinguished Member of Parliament (MP), Policy–Makers and Representatives from Government, Media, Academia, CSOs, and Corporate Sector are expected to join the Bangladesh Pre Consultation. Outputs of Bangladesh Consultation will share with global communities in AMARC10: World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters 8-13 November La Plata, Argentina 2010. We invite you to join our Struggle for Strengthening and Building Capacity of the Community Radio Sector in Bangladesh.
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Bazlu
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AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)
[NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council]
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Head, Community Radio Academy
House: 13/1, Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh
Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
Cell: 01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105
E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net www.bnnrc.net
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