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Table of Contents	Who we are Our Vision Our Mission Objectives Our Activities Future Plan Executive Committee Board Of Advisors Our Partner We Need Your Support
Who we are	Centre for Communication and Development- CCD is a non-profit, non-government organization working in the northern region of Bangladesh. It was established in 1999 by the endeavor of some self-motivated professionals of diverse working areas with a common premise of understating. CCD since the time of its inception has been sincerely working for free flow of information, free press, free speech and free sprit of all the people. The organization is committed to utilize the full power and potential of information and communication media for human and social gods and egalitarian society. It is a resources centre that works for ensuring effective use of the mass media and information to achieve good governance, women empowerment and gender equity in all level and a progressive, free and egalitarian society. It is also working for human resources development and enhancement of professional skills of journalists, development activists and other professionals of its working areas. To achieve its set objectives CCD organizes trainings, workshops, seminars, symposiums, conduct research works and publish reports and books related to communication, journalism, gender, environmental and other socio-economic development issues.
Our Vision	CCD is committed to utilize the power and potentials of information and communication media to create a climate that ensures human rights and equitable development for all, enhances peace, democracy and coexistence. It envisages to utilize communication for social good and intends to mean development as a means of human well-being.
Our Mission	The mission of CCD is to utilize the full potential of information and communication media for peoples' sustainable development and to bring integrity among different professionals to use this combined force for people's development purposes.
Objectives	The basic objective of CCD is to ensure availability of all necessary information and use all the available means to meet the peoples' development needs through appropriate programmatic actions. Specifically the objectives are as follows: To establish an effective two way and participatory information and communication system for equitable and holistic development of all level of people. To develop skills of the media practitioners and professionals so that information technology and mass media are used optimally for peoples’ development. To increase the inter-relationship among development workers, media practitioners and other professionals to ensure sustainable development. To conduct communication and social research on necessary areas and publish the results. To empower women and to ensure their human rights and help protect the rights children and handicaps and to stop violence against them. To build-up alternative social organizations for eradicating poverty and to empower the poor, under privileged and the backward people. To enhance inner potentials of the reference people to help them to come-up as the key actors of the development process. To work to reduce psychological insecurity of the religious and ethnic minorities and to better people’s culture and human rights situation. To develop communication and BCC materials, training manuals, modules and play active advocacy roles to stop abuse of drugs, child labor and married, spread of STD/HIV/AIDS, arsenic contamination and other social problem. To create a welfare fund for the working journalists, development workers, poor women and the handicaps.
Our Activities	Human Resources Development AIDS Journalism Training Program Program for Capacity Building of Local Media Women Journalists Training Program Women Journalist Internship and Fellowship Program Rural Journalists Training and Fellowships Program Cyber Journalism Training Program Training Program for Social and Development Workers Local Resource Groups Develop Program Appreciation Program for Rural Journalists Awareness Building Awareness Raising Program for STD/HIV/AIDS Prevention Anti Trafficking Campaigning Program Awareness Raising Program for Arsenic Mitigation Awareness Raising Campaigning for Breastfeeding Awareness Raising Program for Preserving Human Rights Awareness Raising Program for Polio Prevention Awareness Raising Program for DENGUE Prevention Anti Polythene Awareness Raising Campaign Advocacy for Advancement Media Advocacy for STD/HIV/AIDS Prevention Media Advocacy in Combating Trafficking Gender Equity and Women Empowerment Political Empowerment for Women Protect Child Labor, Child Married and Dowry Stop Violence Against Journalist Research and Monitoring AIDS Communication Research Gender Disparity in Journalism Profession Role of Communication Media for Socio-Economic Development Role of Journalists for People’s Empowerment Public Opinion Survey on National and local Election Monitoring on Violence Against Journalists Research on Political Empowerment of the Grassroots people Causes and Consequences of Women Trafficking Networking Bangladesh Anti-AIDS Students Alliance (BASA) Anti-AIDS Journalists Alliance (AJA Anti-Trafficking Journalists Network (ATJ Net)
Future Plan	To Establish Journalism Training Institute To Publish Community Newspaper To Establish Community Radio To Establish Computer Education Centre To Build-up an Effective Network with National and Local NGO’s
Executive Committee	Acting Chairman	Dulal Chandra Biswas Chairmen Dep. of Mass Communication, R.U. and Former Information Officer Caritas Bangladesh & CCDB
	Vice Chairman	Dulal Chandra Biswas
	Member	Tanveer Ahmad Assistance Professor Dep. of Mass Communication, R.U. and Former Training Officer Press Institute of Bangladesh
		Akter Jahan Lecturer, Dep. of Mass Communication Rajshahi University Former Journalist
		Mohammed Zulfiker Prominent Journalist General Secretary Rajshahi City Press Club
		Ms. Shahana Perveen Social Activist
	Treasurer	Nazrul Islam Social Activist
	Executive Director	Golam Mourtoza Media, Public Relation and Development Activist
Board of Advisors	Chief Advisor	Dr. Sultan Ahamad Former Economist The World Bank, Washington Office, USA
	Member	Dr. A. A. M. S. Arefin Siddique Professor Dep. of Mass Communication & Journalism Former Chairman Bangladesh News Service (BSS)
		Ms. Farah Kabir Assistant Director, Governance The British Council Bangladesh Prominent Women Activist
		Saleem Samad Prominent Journalist and Media Specialist
		Kamrul Hassan Monju Executive Director Mass Line Media Center
		Nayeemul Islam Khan Prominent Newspaper Editor Media Specialist, and President, BCDJC
		Ms. Zafrin Jabin Chowdhury Communication Officer UNICEF- Bangladesh
Our Partner	We would be ever grateful to following organization for their continues support and contribution. We did not implement any program without their timely support. They are- CARE Bangladesh UNICEF Bangladesh The British Council, Dhaka, Bangladesh The Thomson Foundation-UK Global Health Council-USA Earthday Network-USA Inter World Radio-UK Rajshahi City Corporation ATSEC Bangladesh Chapter Coordination Council for Human Rights of Bangladesh Urban Primary Health Care Project- UPHCP Bangladesh Centre for Development, Journalism and Communication Mass Line Media Center- MMC Center for Women and Children Studies- CWCS Democracy Watch Khan Foundation Bangladesh Human Rights Journalists Association Department of Mass Communication, Rajshahi University Rajshahi AIDS Steering Committee Rajshahi Human Rights and Development Forum
We Need Your Support	The small amount of funds collected from various local organisation and from the peoples given out of benevolence were being used so far to carryout, CCD programs. Our success and the rising expectations of the people with whom CCD works have been compelled us to widen and reinforce our on-going activities. This requires consisting funding supports for which we are desperately seeking donors. So, we are humbly seeking your assistant and support for human causes that we are fighting for. Please assist us and make our development partner. We would be ever grateful to you for your kind assistance.