A two-day long "National consultation on designing an enabling framework for community radio in Bangladesh" to be held from 19-20 November 2005 at LGED auditorium, Agargoan, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The broad base objectives are to share the experience on Community Radio to other campaigners of Asia and Pacific regions and to buildup national and international linkages for strengthening movements on Community Radio in Bangladesh along with to draw the attention of the key players and policy makers to create a positive and favourable environment on community radio.
The National Consultation is being jointly organised by 5 major NGOs working around the issues of communication rights namely, Massline Media Centre (MMC), Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), VOICE, Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) and FOCUS.
The consultation is supported by UNESCO,UNICEF and UNDP Bangladesh.
Community radio practitioners, NGO representatives, media and communication experts and activists, national and regional institutions, donors and UN agencies, key policy players, civil society groups will gather around for two day consultation and address the issues of regulatory framework, south Asian scenario of community radio, importance of community radio for development, experience sharing of community radio practitioners, the role of Government to open up the license for Community Radio in Bangladesh and strategizing further strengthening the advocacy activism.
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