Bombay First uses a variety of
methods to communicate to different audiences on
different issues. The Mission of Bombay First is to
Catalyze, Network, Facilitate and Advocate. To fulfill
these functions Bombay First has developed a well
designed communications structure that reaches different
audiences in the city. The organization attempts to
fulfill its advocacy function through liaison with reporters
and journalists on issues critical to the city’s
survival and raising the public profile of the issue.
Transport is one such example where prominent members of
Bombay First have spoken extensively to the media on the
importance of the World Bank financed MUTP II project.
Bombay First has also formed a Joint Core Group which is
chaired by the Chief Secretary of the Maharashtra
Government and comprises of both Bombay First and
Government representatives. This enables Bombay First to
communicate and advocate for policy changes and
recommendations concerning important areas like land use
policy, transport and other areas. Bombay First has also
organized a number of workshops and seminars on issues
like Solid Waste Management and Citizens Initiatives. It
also organized a seminar which debated current transport
initiatives like the building of flyovers in the city.
Through this mode of communication it aims to fulfill its
function of facilitation networking between various
groups and resource persons and communicating it aims to
fulfill its function of facilitation networking between
various groups and resource persons and communicating
important information. It utilizes networks of Citizen
Groups in the city like the Citizen’s Forum for the
Protection of Public Spaces (CFPPS), AGNI and other NGOs
to disseminate information. In addition, to these modes of
communication, Bombay First also publishes a newsletter
called ‘The City’ which is a quarterly
publication. Each newsletter focuses on a specific theme
which could be Solid Waste Management. Transport,
Research, Land Use and Housing, Financial Services or
Telecommunications. The newsletter contains information
on Bombay First activities and useful case studies of
successful initiatives in different cities to give the
readers a more international perspective and the sense
that solutions can be found to seemingly daunting
problems. The newsletter has a distribution list of more
than 2000 eminent individuals, Corporate Houses, NGOs and
Government functionaries in the city. We urge you to
examine the Newsletter Archive section where you would be
able to find the main articles of each newsletter. Should
any of the newsletters interest you, email us and we will
make copies available to you at a nominal rate.
Bombay First uses a variety of
methods to communicate to different audiences on
different issues. The Mission of Bombay First is to
Catalyze, Network, Facilitate and Advocate. To fulfill
these functions Bombay First has developed a well
designed communications structure that reaches different
audiences in the city.
The organization attempts to
fulfill its advocacy function through liaison with reporters
and journalists on issues critical to the city’s
survival and raising the public profile of the issue.
Transport is one such example where prominent members of
Bombay First have spoken extensively to the media on the
importance of the World Bank financed MUTP II project.
Bombay First has also formed a Joint Core Group which is
chaired by the Chief Secretary of the Maharashtra
Government and comprises of both Bombay First and
Government representatives. This enables Bombay First to
communicate and advocate for policy changes and
recommendations concerning important areas like land use
policy, transport and other areas.
Bombay First has also
organized a number of workshops and seminars on issues
like Solid Waste Management and Citizens Initiatives. It
also organized a seminar which debated current transport
initiatives like the building of flyovers in the city.
Through this mode of communication it aims to fulfill its
function of facilitation networking between various
groups and resource persons and communicating it aims to
fulfill its function of facilitation networking between
various groups and resource persons and communicating
important information. It utilizes networks of Citizen
Groups in the city like the Citizen’s Forum for the
Protection of Public Spaces (CFPPS), AGNI and other NGOs
to disseminate information.
In addition, to these modes of
communication, Bombay First also publishes a newsletter
called ‘The City’ which is a quarterly
publication. Each newsletter focuses on a specific theme
which could be Solid Waste Management. Transport,
Research, Land Use and Housing, Financial Services or
Telecommunications.
The newsletter contains information
on Bombay First activities and useful case studies of
successful initiatives in different cities to give the
readers a more international perspective and the sense
that solutions can be found to seemingly daunting
problems. The newsletter has a distribution list of more
than 2000 eminent individuals, Corporate Houses, NGOs and
Government functionaries in the city. We urge you to
examine the Newsletter Archive section where you would be
able to find the main articles of each newsletter. Should
any of the newsletters interest you, email us and we will
make copies available to you at a nominal rate.