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COVID: Access to information in times of crisis through Community Radio

Access to information in times of crisis through Community Radio

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COVID: Access to information in times of crisis through Community Radio

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  1. COVID-19:Access to information in times of crisis through Community Radio AHM Bazlur Rahman Chief Executive Officer Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication

  2. COVID-19: Bangladesh (1st Phase) Mobilizing all community radio stations for developing and broadcasting awareness building programs on COVID-19

  3. Objectives of the broadcast programMarch 1, 2020 to 31 May 2020 Animate CSOs, Government, health service providers and communities for reinforcing collective action in pre and during COVID-19 Response for achieving keeping community people’s daily life normal and livelihood function & Mobilize further cooperation among government, CSOs, local market and communities’ response

  4. COVID-19: Adaptation Phase| 1st June 2020 …. Enhance the capabilities of affected communities through an equity lens for adapting/coping/surviving with the new normal situation Focus on enhanced capabilities of Broadcasters and Stakeholders for exercising new normal and building resilience Accelerate of ICT applications for benefitting community people in all aspects of life Effective access to reliable information for countering infodemicand keeping lives & livelihood easy

  5. Challenges & Way forward Own resources & without emergency grant Cancellation of advertisement Cut down of grant-funded programs Stopped other income sources Increased the challenges significantly Some donor agencies are slowly observing with Bureaucratic Eye lens

  6. Way forward Community Radio sector is calling on the Government to provide support for three target areas to Empower rural people the remain viable and can play their critical role… • Government contribution to Community Radio COVID-19 Crisis Fund; • Strategic use of Community Radio for Government health & Information campaign • Ensuring community radio can access to the Social Obligatory Fund (SOF) tapping 1% percent of mobile-phone operators’ income for connecting the unconnected rural people.

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