Various workshops, seminars, and sessions can be organised in classrooms to enhance media literacy knowledge and skills among secondary and college students (including equivalent madrasas). Researchers and thinkers on media literacy must be involved in these activities. These activities can be undertaken through a combined initiative of the relevant ministries, research institutions/NGOs, and academia.

Year
2025
Reform Domain
Media Media
Sub Domain
Media Literacy
Source of Reform Proposals
Mass Media Reforms Commission
Reform Proposed
Reform Proposed
Reform Initiated
Reform Initiated
Legal and Policy Framework
Legal and Policy Framework
Operationalisation
Operationalisation
Action Implementation
Action Implementation
Stage of Implementation
Reform Proposed
Reform Proposed
Last Update: 14-Dec-25
This reform proposal has been articulated in the Media Reform Commission Report but has yet to be officially initiated.
Reform Initiated
Reform Initiated
Last Update: 20-Jul-26
On 3 May 2026, the Prime Minister’s Information and Broadcasting Adviser stated that discussions had been held with the Ministry of Education on introducing school-level media literacy and that related work was continuing.
Observation
    The Prime Minister’s Information and Broadcasting Adviser stated that NGOs had been engaged to extend media-literacy programmes to schoolchildren and that the government was seeking broader partnerships in this area. He also highlighted the concentration of NGO activities in Dhaka and urged relevant organisations to prioritise remote regions, where gaps in media literacy are more evident. Building on this initial collaboration, media literacy should be integrated into both curricular and extracurricular programmes. Effective implementation will require coordinated participation by relevant government agencies, educational institutions, NGOs and other non-state actors, with particular attention to ensuring that activities reach students beyond Dhaka.
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It is necessary for the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) to conduct annual surveys to verify the expectations and actual experiences of listeners, viewers, and readers regarding the media.
Reform Proposed
a. Eliminating gender discrimination in recruitment, placement, and training to ensure the participation of all genders at all levels of the media; b. Preparing gender-sensitive codes of conduct in each media outlet and establishing systems for providing information, discussion, training, and monitoring for effective implementation of the code of conduct; ensuring infrastructure (e.g., separate toilets, childcare centres) for the smooth participation of all genders; c. Ensuring the utmost caution in the safety and protection of journalists of all genders, prioritising the needs of women; providing transportation arrangements for safe travel; d. Establishing a complaints redress cell in each media office as per the High Court directive on preventing sexual harassment (2009); e. Taking mental health protection measures to cope with various types of pressure in journalism; f. Ensuring that women receive proper maternity leave and do not face any discrimination upon returning to work after leave; g. Formulating clear guidelines and rules for how women will be presented; preparing policies on not publishing or broadcasting stereotypical ideas that create hatred, animosity, or negative attitudes towards women, or hinder their smooth presence in all fields; h. Highlighting the multifaceted roles and participation of women in society; ensuring that the voice and perspective of women are reflected in any news/feature; i. Preparing clear guidelines for language use to avoid direct or indirect humiliation of women through words or descriptions.
Reform Initiated
More research-based knowledge is needed on media literacy’s methods, effectiveness, evaluation, etc.
Reform Proposed
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