Bridging Corporate Sector and Media in Promoting Good Governance
| Project Status: | Grant Agreement |
| Funding Partner: | Manusher Jonno Foundation |
| Location: | Dhaka and Chittagong |
| Project Duration: | 32 months |
| Project Cost: | BDT 4,766,572.00 |
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PROJECT PERSONNEL
| Project Mentor: | Moazzem Hossain, Editor, The Financial Express |
| Team Leader, Advocacy: | Inam Ahmed, Deputy Editor, The Daily Star |
| Project Coordinator: | Hasibur Rahman, Executive Director, MRDI |
| Assessment Study Team Members: | Inam Ahmed, Deputy Editor, The Daily Star Shawkat Hossain Masum, Business Page Editor, Daily Prothom Alo Shamim. S. Zahedy, Business Page Editor, The Daily Star (Has left) |
PROJECT GOAL
Create an enabling environment for better corporate governance, CSR and labour, environmental and other compliances, using PR practitioners and media as catalytic and follow-up agents.
OBJECTIVES
Facilitate business community and mass media to set an agenda and adopt an action plan to institute/ improve corporate governance, social responsiveness and labour and environmental standards
Stimulate media and policymakers in favour of those compliances
Capacity building of public relation and media practitioners to help establish a positive environment in the corporate sector
MAJOR ACTIVITIES
Awareness & Commitment Building
Advocacy
Capacity Building
Training of PR Personnel of corporate houses
Orientation of Media Professionals
PR Handbook Publication
