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align=center><SPAN><STRONG><FONT size=5>Bangladesh Consultation on AMARC10:
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Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters </SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Last Week of October, 2010, Dhaka
Bangladesh</FONT></P></FONT>
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align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Bangladesh Consultation on AMARC 10 World
Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">will</SPAN> be held on last week of October
2010 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. </FONT></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>The focus of the consultation is Recovering Memory Building
the Future: Community Radio and Poverty Reduction, Social Inclusion, Good
Governance and Sustainable Human Development. </FONT><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>Bangladesh Consultation will organize by Bangladesh NGOs Network for
Radio and Communication (BNNRC) with support from UNICEF Bangladesh through
<SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Empowering Communities:
Strengthening and Building Capacity of the Community Radio in Bangladesh
project.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>More than 400 community broadcasters and stakeholders from
over 110 countries and all regions of the global community radio movement will
gather at the AMARC 10 Global Conference from 8-13 November <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">La Plata,
Argentina<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2010</SPAN>, among other
issues, improve good practice in community media; explore strategies to
facilitate the establishment of enabling legal environments for community media
development, to define knowledge sharing and capacity building models for
action-research and mentoring; to reinforce content development leading to
social change; to facilitate the inclusion of women and; to encourage the
empowerment of communities through appropriation of community radio for social
justice and sustainable, democratic and participatory human development.
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>The Global Conference will be under the sign of recovering
memories and sharing knowledge and accumulated experiences of the Latin American
community radio movement with Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America
and, at the same time to define how can AMARC and the community radio global
movement present in more than 120 countries increase the effectiveness of its
interventions.</FONT></P>
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face=Verdana size=2>The overall theme of the Bangladesh Consultation will be the
progress of community radio in Bangladesh. There are both challenges and
opportunities to establish community radio in Bangladesh. Lots of initiatives
are under processing and hopes there are 14 Community Radio Station will go on
air very soon. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>Distinguished Member of Parliament (MP), Policy–Makers and
Representatives from Government, Media, Academia, CSOs, and Corporate Sector are
expected to join the Bangladesh Pre Consultation. </FONT><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Verdana>Outputs of Bangladesh Consultation will share with global
communities in AMARC10<SPAN>: World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters
<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">8</SPAN></SPAN>-13 November
</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT
face=Verdana>La Plata, Argentina 2010. <SPAN>We invite you to join our Struggle
for Strengthening and Building Capacity of the Community Radio Sector in
Bangladesh.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Bazlu<BR>_______________________<BR>AHM. Bazlur
Rahman-S21BR<BR>Chief Executive Officer<BR>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and
Communication (BNNRC)<BR>[NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN
Economic and Social Council]<BR>& <BR>Head, Community Radio Academy
<BR> <BR>House: 13/1, Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 <BR>Post Box: 5095,
Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh<BR> <BR>Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501<BR>Cell:
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105<BR>E-mail: </FONT><A
href="mailto:ceo@bnnrc.net"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>ceo@bnnrc.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> </FONT><A
href="http://www.bnnrc.net"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>www.bnnrc.net</FONT></A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>