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Access to Information for Greater Participation & Government Accountability

MMC is conducting this project along with partner organization ARTICLE-19, BNNRC and SUPRO. The project has different dimensions of activities focusing on the Right to Information (RTI) issue of Bangladesh. MMC is specifically dealing with the media part of the project besides providing support for the activities of other project partners. Besides, MMC has involved 36 local partner organizations for conducting the field-based activities smoothly..Detail...

Skill Development and Motivational Training for Grassroots Reporters

Raising Community voice through Media for the Restoration of human rights and good governance Project Area: Six district of greater Mymensingh. Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Netrakona, Kishorgonj, Sherpur, Tangail.Detail...

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Agami Project - enabling socio-political & cultural environment for the children

Mass-line Media Centre has undertaken a project titled `Agami’ with the support of Plan Bangladesh. The main objectives of the project are to create an enabling socio-political and cultural environment for the children to ensure their potential growth where the children will have the opportunity to express their fearless freedom of expression through media and to capacitate young journalists and strengthen media networking on Child Rights issue.Detail...


Ensuring Access to Information for Better Livelihood

Grassroots peoples are deprived of information related to health, education, sanitation and safe drinking water, agriculture etc. To implement this project first step would be establishing 21 information centers through out the country and conducting a base line survey on grassroots to identify the effect of information deficiency on their livelihood and the problems and difficulties faced by the people in case of seeking any sort of information. Detail...


Advocacy for Grassroots through Community Participation

The project is addressing participatory approach to increase access to resources and basic services and development of human resources that are needed for better livelihood at community level. It is expected that the RACs will play an important role in mobilizing the rural communities, fostering social capital and advocating for implementation of the pro-poor policies addressed in the PRSP. Detail...

MMC reports on pressfreedom and freedom of expression

MMC has established a good network with some organization who are extending their hands for harassed journalists. Any tortured journalist can get help from this organizations. Journalists can take help in two ways; (i) Legal assistance from legal support services organizations and (ii) Treatment from assigned organizations.  Detail ....



MMC E-News:

Mass-line Media Center has organized training work with support of IPDC/ UNESCO for the grassroots journalist. The reports have been written by the grassroots journalists on the local issues and realities.  grass reports ...





Shishuprokash : A News Agency for Children

MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established Shishu Prokash, a dedicated News Agency for Children on May 2005. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Over the period, Shishu Prokash developed 1265 child journalists in 64 districts of the country. They prepared 1055 issue-based reports on child rights issue, which have been published in both national and local level newspapers in a regular manner, even after the phasing out of the project.  More...


Media Advocacy against the youth violence by the young journalists

Under this project 64 young journalists from 64 districts aged below 25 years would be selected and be oriented on civic journalism on violence issues. After the orientation they would write quarterly report on violence done by the youth in their own areas. Detail...