AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BRChief Executive Officer

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)

ceo@bnnrc.net ceo@bnnrc.net www.bnnrc.net

Conference on Right to Information (RTI): Law, Institution and Citizens

21-22 June, 2009

Organized by: Right to Information Forum, BangladeshSupported By: Manusher Jonnoy Foundation (MJF) and Word Bank

Institute (WBI)

Role of Community Radio in Establishing Good Governance

through Right to Information at Rural Areas

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Role of Community

Radio in Establishing

Good Governance

through Right to Information

at Rural Areas Human Needs and Rights

Knowledge Societies

Pluralism

Human Needs and RightsHuman Needs and Rights

Knowledge SocietiesKnowledge Societies

PluralismPluralism

Knowledge

Creation Dissemination UtilizationPreservation

Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge

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Good Political Governance To enhance participation of rural people and

civil society members for accelerating the work of local government system

To create awareness in rural community

regarding local government’s budget and Local level planning.

To monitor the budget of local government and provide information regarding things to be done by the members of civil society

To arrange question- answer program among Member of Parliament & other LEB and local people through Community Radio.

To identify service rendering department of GOB and broadcast regularly regarding all information of services (what services, for whom the services are, price of service etc.)

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To broadcast program on citizen education to involve themselves in role of state, market and society

To provide information regarding the procedures of legislature, executive and judiciary;

To broadcast program how the community people can get good result in achieving access of family and village court.

To bring the local administration aside from

colonial gesture and attitude and broadcast awareness raising program for keeping the community people in the role of ownership.

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Good Social Governance To broadcast program relating to building

strong civil society at rural level.

To broadcast regular program on the situation of human rights in the locality.

To broadcast issue based program for the community people to participate in development process.

To encourage the business community for spending a portion of their profit in social service.

To do active participatory program planning, making and broadcast regarding different problems, potential and remedy of minor community and disabled people.

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Good Economic Governance

To broadcast program at community level about budget increase in social development sector.

To broadcast development related program by means of interaction of both the local government and community people so that the rural people can pay tax regularly and the local government can carry out its program

To broadcast analytical program so that the poor people can avail themselves of Credit facility and they may not fall into trap in getting Credit ; to collect best practices from home and abroad for making the micro credit pro- people .

To broadcast informative programs so that the poor people can establish rights in their land as per government policy.

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Think Globally !

Act All Level !!!

But VERY VERY Carefully !

Thank you very much