By virtue of proper information an economic possibility is prevailing in the village of Dhanpata of Mogban under Sadar upazila of Rangamati. At least 20 families of Dhanpata village of Magban union under sadar upazila of Rangamati converted their local palm tree into high yielding palm this year. The people of Dhanpata came to know from newspaper about the Bau Kul and Apple Kul. But they don’t know how to convert local palm into high yielding palm. They discussed the issue in the monthly and union level meeting as well as district level seminar, which was organized by MMC on “Role of Information to Promote the Livelihood of Farmers” under the project `Ensuring Access to Information for Better Livelihood'. By virtue of proper information an economic possibility is prevailing in the village of Dhanpata of Mogban under Sadar upazila of Rangamati. At least 20 families of Dhanpata village of Magban union under sadar upazila of Rangamati converted their local palm tree into high yielding palm this year. The people of Dhanpata came to know from newspaper about the Bau Kul and Apple Kul. But they don’t know how to convert local palm into high yielding palm. They discussed the issue in the monthly and union level meeting as well as district level seminar, which was organized by MMC on “Role of Information to Promote the Livelihood of Farmers” under the project `Ensuring Access to Information for Better Livelihood'.
In this seminar they asked the agriculture officer about converting and grafting process of Apple and Bau Kul (Palm). At that time the agriculture officer pledged to ensure the regular visit of sub assistant agriculture officer in the locality. The hilly indigenous people sow different types of crops in the high land as well as they follow traditional method of farming. So, they can not produce good harvest as they expect due to lack of proper knowledge on scientific method of cultivation.
The above mentioned seminar held on February 22, 2007. They demanded for information about how to yield rotten free mango, lichi and high yielding palm. Most of the participants came from remote area, raised their voice demanding necessary information on modernized cultivation and service of agriculture extension department.
In this seminar the special guest senior scientific officer of Agriculture Extension Department Abdul Koreshi pledged to ensure service of his subordinate officer (Sub Assistant Agriculture Officer). After this seminar the concern Sub Assistant Agriculture Officer visited the area of Dhanpata where an Information Centre of Mass-line Media Centre was set up in May in 2006. Concern Sub Assistant Agriculture Officer Rakhal Chandra Talukder advised the villagers to transplant local palm tree through grafting high yielding palm. The transplanted palm tree has made a huge production of high quality palm that brought smiling face to the poor indigenous cultivators in this season.
The cultivators who grafted their palm tree are hopeful to earn money by selling this palm. Exposing Joyous mode Shanti Rani Chakma said “My husband Amalendu Chakma came to know about the grafting and transplantation from a seminar. Then he grafted our local palm tree with the help of sub assistant agriculture officer. Earlier we would not know about this information.”
“My husband collected the graft-able high breed tree from Kaptai. Now it is available in this village and I learnt the technique of grafting. I will encourage all the villagers to upgrade their palm tree by grafting their local tree.”
On the other hand Kamdra Chakma who grafted his palm tree said that he would graft a number of palm tree, which would be an income source for him in future. “It is very easy to graft the local palm tree and transplant the tree. We should do it in commercial view to take off traditional cultivation of indigenous people and thus our livelihood may gear up in future gradually” told Mr Kandra adding, “Just some information about grafting can help us to enjoy a lot of benefit and our mind eyes will open.” He claimed.
Chiran Bikash Dewan, team leader of Dhanpata, Natun Bazar Information Centre said, the villagers will transplant the local palm tree in the up coming rainy season. “It is really a profitable process. Just disseminating few information on agriculture we witnessed radical change among the people in our village.” Mr Dewan uttered.
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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