Voicing Nutrition Governance

Voicing, Connecting & Influencing Nutrition Governance through Community Radio Broadcasting:

The Community Radio broadcasting are an integral part of the Voicing, Connecting & Influencing Nutrition Governance process in rural Bangladesh. Community Radio

stations are the fastest channels for the broadcasting of knowledge and information across the rural Bangladesh.

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC) have been engaged in using 20 community radio stations of rural Bangladesh as a knowledge tool, community radio offers benefits in the following ways:

Speaking to communities in local languages using terms and phrases that are easily understood;

Providing two-way interactive social learning through listeners' clubs, call-in shows,

and other forms of exchange;

Enabling the communication and exchange of knowledge between people who need it, e.g. rural farmers, in a consumable, deployable and non-threatening way;

Communicating Nutrition local knowledge, needs and demands beyond the community to inform policy, research, and other communities;

Providing the only media available to communities that have little or no access to other methods of conveying information and knowledge;

Now 20 Community Radio stations are broadcasting 160 hours program per day in Bangladesh aiming to ensure empowerment and right to information for the rural community. Around 1000 youth women & youth are now working with those stations

throughout the country as rural broadcasters. In Bangladesh now community radio is not just about broadcast content; it is mostly about the process of community

engagement inline with the promoting Nutrition matter.