Sherpur Upazila Primary Education Officer Joyanti Prava Devi informed in a workshop that there is scopes to provide financial assistance from District Council fund for the meritorious poor students who have no ability to bear the cost of form fill up for SSC Examination. It was disclosed in an Upazila level workshop at Sherpur Upazila Parishad, which was organized by MMC under the project Ensuring Access to Information for better Livelihood.
Joyanti Prava Devi also informed the participants about the process of application for getting the facilities from District Council Sherpur Upazila Primary Education Officer Joyanti Prava Devi informed in a workshop that there is scopes to provide financial assistance from District Council fund for the meritorious poor students who have no ability to bear the cost of form fill up for SSC Examination. It was disclosed in an Upazila level workshop at Sherpur Upazila Parishad, which was organized by MMC under the project Ensuring Access to Information for better Livelihood. Joyanti Prava Devi also informed the participants about the process of application for getting the facilities from District Council Ibrahim Hossain, one of the participants of the workshop kept in mind the information of upazila primary education officer. He informed this message to his daughter Rina Parvin who is a student of Chakshadhi Higher Secondary School and was incapable to provide fees of form fill up for her SSC Examination.
Then Ibrahim Hossain along with the team leader and district contributor of Information Centre of MMC went to the Sherpur District Council Office and applied for the said grant. They also submitted supporting papers including progress report of Rina Parvin and income certificate of her father.
After a few days, District Council Office allocated Tk. 1000 as aid for Rina’s study purpose. Thus a poor student Rina Parvin was able to provide money for form fill up of her SSC examination.
Earlier the general people didn’t know about the information of education aid of District Council. The villagers got this information form Upazila level workshop. This simple information helped Rina Parvin to continue her further study.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
Mass-line Media Center
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a non-profit organization engaged in the development sector since 1995, works for promotion of human rights and democratic values through professionalism in media particularly journalism. Its overall objective is to remain an advocate for freedom of opinion, expression and free flow of information in the media. Access of the rural poor to relevant and affordable information is expected to be the ultimate result of MMC’s work. At present, MMC is implementing projects with the objective that the respect for human rights of women and men, democratic participation of all citizens in the political process and good governance are promoted through a pluralistic, independent and professional media sector.
CVIPS
The project aims to contribute in creating poor and disadvantaged people's access to Local Government Institutes (LGIs) services capacitate journalists and local media houses on specific local governance issues and its concept including RTI Law; uniting the journalists associations to work in a platform on local governance and decentralization issues with mutual cooperation of the government officials; build-up linkage between local journalists and national media institutes; address governance issues of LGIs in local and national media wider and in-depth coverage, educate mass people about RTI Law, sway public opinion regarding LGIs services and schemes on the grounds of legal services, education, health and agricultural extension services. The project intends to capacitate mostly local print media journalists and grassroots journalists to play catalyst role in bridging gap between the poor, disadvantaged people and with the local government institutions.
Radio Lokobetar
The country's first community radio named Lokobetar has begun test transmission in the district town of Barguna to build public opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment.
Mass-line Media Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial since May 27 and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by mid-June.
MMC officials will operate the radio while local community will star in the programmes.
Tarek Mahmud, acting head of Lokobetar, said the radio equipment costs stand at about Tk 10 lakh.
Shishuprokash
MMC as a media focused organization is keen to address child and adolescent rights issues to the people through disseminating information in media, both the national and local level. As an output of its thinking, MMC in cooperation with the UNICEF established a dedicated News Agency for Children named Shishu Prokash on May 2005. The vision was to strengthening children’s participation in the media as well as to enhance both the quality and quantity of child development and rights based news in Bangladesh. It was the first ever children news agency in Asia. Shishu Prokash started its journey as a pilot project on May 2005, and continued till December 2005. Successful completion of pilot project, the first phase started on June 2006 and continued till May 2007. The project’s second phase started on November 2007 and continued to October 2008. Now 3rd phase is going on. It has been stared June 2008 and will be continued to November 2011.
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