Engaging Media in Governance and Legislation
| Project Status: | Grant Agreement |
| Funding Partner: | The Asia Foundation |
| Location: | Countrywide |
| Project Duration: | 1.5 Years |
| Project Cost: | BDT 8,871,362.00 |
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PROJECT PERSONNEL
| Team Leader: | Hasibur Rahman, Executive Director, MRDI |
| Project Coordinator: | Nepal Chandra Sarker, Adviser, Programme Operations, MRDI |
| Programme Officer: | Aktarun Naher, Programme Officer, MRDI |
| Accounts Officer: | Mominul Islam, Accounts Officer, MRDI |
| Coordinator: | Asish Saikat, Managing Editor, Daily Ittefaq |
GOAL
Enhance people’s participation in political governance and legislation process
OBJECTIVES
To identify ways to strengthen role and functions of parliamentary standing committees and establish linkage between parliament and civil society.
To create awareness of people on political governance and legislation process through media interventions
To increase issue based reporting capacity of journalists on political governance and people’s participation
MAJOR ACTIVITIES
Year-1
Rapid assessment and findings compilation
Workshop with parliamentary standing committees and CSOs in Dhaka
Community dialogue/voice over electronic media
Residential training of national journalists
Follow-up sessions (participant selection, conduct sessions
Year-2
Community dialogue/voice over electronic media
Publication on TV programme
Follow-up sessions (participant selection, conduct sessions)
Screening of proceedings of three selected PSCs by journalists and dissemination workshop
