Training workshop on Community
Radio: Operation, Management and Sustainable
Planning
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)
organized training workshop on Community Radio: Operation, Management and
Sustainable Planning supported by Free Voice. The workshop was organized from
14-16 June, 2009 in Dhaka.
The objective of the workshop is to clarify
the Community Radio concept and its strategies of operation, different aspects
of CR management and sustainable planning.
Thirty high officials from
twenty eight applied organizations attended the workshop. Mr. Sohel Aurongojeb,
the consultant of Community Radio Academy, and AHM Bazlur Rahman, CEO of
BNNRC facilitated in the workshop.
The issues discussed in the
sessions of workshop are: What CR is and why it is essential; the present
position of CR in perspective of Bangladesh; CR by laws; Structure of CR
Management Committee; CR Station Structure (Administrative); Job Description
Manual-HRD, Gender; Finance (with content list); Regulatory Affairs (license
fee, license renewal, reporting etc.); Programs to be Broadcast/ not to be
Broadcast (on the basis of government policy); Information, Education,
Entertainment, Development Motivation ; Daily and Weekly Cue Sheet; Costing Plan
for Programs; Volunteer Management; Program Resource Management (Human Resource,
Financial Resource etc.) and feedback from audiences; Management Planning;
Financial Planning; and Strategic Planning.
The organizations which
participated in the workshop are: Speed Trust, Bangladesh Scouts, BRAC, BCDJC,
Krishi and Samajik Unnayan Songstha, TMSS, South Asia Partnership- Bangladesh
(SAP- Bangladesh), Young Power in Social Action(YPSA), CDA, D.Net, COAST Trust,
Come to Work, Pirojpur Gono Unnayan Society, LDRO, Srijoni Bangladesh, POPI, CCD
Bangladesh, Sankalpa Trust, Proyas Manobik Unnayan Society, MMC, Gono Unnayan
Kendro, Kiraro No Ki, RDRS, Deep Unnayan Songstha, Jugantor Somaj Unnayan
Songstha, Samadhan, NHRDA, Nolta Hospital and Community Health Foundation.