Promoting Fact Checking to Counter Misinformation in Bangladesh

Project Status:	Grant Agreement
Funding Partner:	Internews
Location:	Dhaka
Project Duration:	26 months (1 January 2023 to 28 February 2025)
Project Cost:	BDT 18,457,964.00
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PROJECT PERSONNEL

Team Leader:	Hasibur Rahman, Executive Director, MRDI
Programme Coordinator:	1. Atiqur Rahman, MRDI 2. Jannatun Nahar, MRDI
Finance Coordinator:	Sk. Shaniaz Ahmed, Deputy Manager, Accounts, MRDI
HR & Logistic Coordinator:	Mohua Alam Snigdha, Senior Officer HR & Logistics, MRDI

OBJECTIVE
To create a responsive society against misinformation through capacity building of journalists, journalism teachers, and youths on factchecking

ACTIVITIES

ToT content development meeting

Training of trainers (ToT) on fact-checking

Training for peer educator journalists & journalism teachers

Reprinting fact-checking handbook

Experience sharing by teachers

Fact-checking training for newsroom managers

Fact-checking training for university correspondents

Training on fact-checking & misinformation for journalism students and youths