Location within Country: Bangladesh
Donor : Canadian CIDA
Duration : 01 July 2006 - 30 June 2008
Narrative Description of Project:
1. Creation of an enabling environment for women voters of 10 unions of 10 districts2. Making the elected representatives accountable to the women voters in the respective unions
Description of Actual Services Provided Objective: Selection and Orientation of journalists of 10 unions:
MMC has strong network in 64 districts. All of them have previous experience of receiving training from MMC and they are well aware about the rules and techniques of investigative reporting. Just to aware them and to introduce the existing scenario of deprived women voters the selected journalists of 10 union would be invited at the central office of MMC for receiving the orientation. They will be oriented on a) how to investigate the level of perfection of voter list, voting procedures, whether the voters are aware about their right to know or not and their level of awareness regarding the importance/ value of their vote. Two experts from outside and MMC’s in-house trainer would conduct the training. Journalists would be oriented on the post and pre election investigative report of those particular 10 unions. Those reports will specifically focus on the above-mentioned issues and other related news worthy matters that hinder their voting rights. These journalists would also be involved in the status assessment survey.
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.
Creation of an Enabling Environment for Women Voters and Making Elected Representatives Accountable For Women Empowerment
