BNNRC believes that gender equality is a core concern of the organizational decree, not being considered as a cross-cutting issue. In this connection, Community Radios constitute a diverse and professional landscape and function as change agents of the people living in rural and remote areas. BNNRC is always giving the highest priority to mainstreaming gender in all CR stations in Bangladesh.
All 18 CR stations have been following gender-responsive communication during developing their content. For their outstanding efforts in empowering the community, providing access in media as a platform to raise voice (especially for girls and women) as well as influencing power groups to response, pursue, protect and prevent in reducing gender-based discrimination and injustice in societies.
BNNRC strategically introduced a gender equality policy for all CR Stations. The policy not only being followed by the management of all CR Stations (CRSs) but also by the CR broadcasters during program productions and awareness-building activities among their rural audiences. This policy also distributed among the concerned policymakers for strengthening lobby and advocacy in creating a gender-friendly environment of all CR Stations.
“Gender Responsive Communication for Community Radio Broadcasters” orientations and workshops for the Community Radio broadcasters helped the Broadcasters in producing and broadcasting gender-responsive content.

Considering the power of social media, the youth community broadcasters are also promoting gender-responsive development agendas among their wider communities. The initiative also helped the CR broadcasters, especially women broadcasters to handle all technological barriers and disseminate their program contents through social media in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

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Gender Responsive Communication through Community Radios in Bangladesh project is replicate to Community radio stations or social media globally and side by side it will also be replicated radio and TV stations for rural communities and as well as broadcasters.

Gender Responsive Communication through Community Radios in Bangladesh project are sustainable because the ability of the rural people and broadcasters is enhanced through the training thus they can take the initiative to cope with the practice and radio station will adopt the concept through behavioral change

Gender Responsive Communication through Community Radios in Bangladesh project will empower the community and broadcasters with relevance to SDGs which will promote of WSIS values in the rural communities.