BNNRC has been implemented the project for empowering, voicing & connecting Transgender community through resilience, awareness on the rights. The radios are broadcasting altogether 142 hours program per day on information, education, local entertainment, human rights and development motivation activities.

The goal of the project is to sensitize for social inclusion and recognition of and empowerment of Transgender community.

The Objective of the project is to e-enable, e-engage & e-empower of Transgender Community for promoting rights increasing skills and access to social safety-net.

The Transgender community are socially excluded. At present, there are 10,000 Transgender people are living in Bangladesh. These radio programs have been contributed to make aware about transgender community as well as multi-stakeholders for access to health education and media as well as involve them under social safety-net program. It is important to create employment opportunity for the community.

After implementation of the program now the Transgender community are raising their voice to the local administration through community media which promoting and increased their participation as well as access to health services and social safety net.

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The project has been implemented through the engagement of listeners, local media, social media users and community media broadcasters for developing and broadcasting radio programs. So, the project is replicable all over the world where Radio waves and Social Media (SM) is available and functioning. The project activities can be run by the trained up local community broadcasters

In the era of Forth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and rapid change of global context, Radio program becomes a tool to reach wider audiences for building awareness on human rights towards reducing inequalities of the society. So, the hard to reach and untouched rural audiences especially the multi-stakeholder need to know about the rights of Transgender community and let them free from the social man-created obstacles.

Hence Community Radio can play a vital role to make the people aware to minimize the discrimination of the society and for coping with the competitive global challenges collectively. As the radio and social media is the most popular media, cheaper, portable and easily accessible so with the contribution of the community the program could be run to remove the social barriers and stigma.

Through this intervention, WSIS values in Bangladeshi communities is strongly adhered and promoted extensively. This is done through increasing community awareness especially for taking appropriate actions and preventive measures to reduce this discrimination and promote the rights of the Transgender community collectively.