Bangladesh NGOs Network for
Radio and Communication
Promoting Communication Technology for a Fairer World
www.bnnrc.net

Voices of Change:
Strategic Radio Support for Achieving the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
 
It is our great pleasure to inform you that Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and  Communication (BNNRC) is going to translate in Bengali of the book Voices of Change: Strategic Radio Support for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals published by Information and Communication for Development (ICD) of Department for International Development (DFID). We acknowledge the congenial support from DFID Bangladesh.

The objective of translation the book is to help target audiences to know more on the prospect of the use of Radio as a tool of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to achieve the goals of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). So, NGOs/Community Based Organizations (CBOs) can prepare future project proposals by accommodating the use of Radio to reach mass people including rural and disadvantage people. Moreover this publication will help academicians, researchers, government officials, media activities, policy makers including Parliamentarians to understand the role of radio for the advancement of Bangladesh in various development sectors.
 
The book provides the scope of radio’s involvement in underpinning sustainable livelihoods, realizing rights, human development and the broader goals and targets of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
 
It clearly highlights the relevance of radio in poor communities, its broad applicability to a range of sectoral activities such as health, rights, education, livelihoods etc. It also identifies the need to deepen the capacity of radio broadcasters at all levels to conduct effective monitoring and evaluation, so as to begin the process of developing a rigorous information and communication for development evidence base, which highlights radio’s and other communications mediums strategic contribution to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals.
It is accepted that the knowledge/information divide is the result rather than the cause of poverty and that efforts to bridge it must be embedded within effective strategies that address the causes of poverty. This book details how Radio as on the component of ICTs are being used today, challenges and opportunities presented by radio and it’s potentiality to bridge knowledge divide. It also challenges DFID and other donors to increase support to the radio sector.

The translation is on the way to end. The book will be available at our website www.bnnrc.net.
If anybody likes to get the hard copy of the book, please do not feel any hesitation to contact us through [log in to unmask]



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AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for
Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
&
Member, Strategy Council
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)

House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh

Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105

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www.bnnrc.net