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Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability Across the Ukraine Response: A Snapshot

London: CDAC Network (2022), 19 pp.

"Key findings and recommendations on the main communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) barriers and gaps: Finding 1: There is strong rhetoric from international agencies to support local/national CCEA and work on more inclusive partnerships – but progress has been slow Finding ... more

Strengthening Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability Capacity in Papua New Guinea. Training for Managers and Programme Leads, October 2022: Learning Outcomes

London: CDAC Network (2022), 16 pp.

"This report provides a summary overview of the key learning outcomes from a training workshop on communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on 10-13 October 2022. The training was a means to bring together various stakeholders with an intere ... more

Vaccine Crisis Communication Manual: A Step-By-Step Guidance for National Immunization Programmes

Copenhagen: World Health Organization (WHO) (2022), iv, 25 pp.

"This document provides immunization programmes and other stakeholders with step-by-step guidance on how to effectively manage the communication response to vaccine-related events, particularly those with a potentially high impact on public trust, which are therefore considered to be a vaccine crisi ... more

Learning from the Past: The Role of Social and Behavior Change Programming in Public Health Emergencies

Martha Silva, Paula Tallman, Jeni Stolow, Rachel Yavinsky, Julia Fleckman, Kamden Hoffmann

Global Health: Science and Practice, volume 10, issue 4: e2200026 (2022), 11 pp.

"The prevalence of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is rising at an unprecedented rate, and influencing human behavior is often the first line of defense to slow disease transmissions. We synthesize the contributions that social and behavior change research and programming has made in 6 recent EI ... more

Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response

Oliver Lough

London: ODI; Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) (2022), 55 pp.

"This study forms part of the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG)’s wider research on humanitarian ‘digital divides’. Drawing on existing literature, interviews with humanitarian practitioners and research with people affected by crisis in Venezuela and Uganda, it explores how the presence of soci ... more

Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Action: The Case of Refugees in Uganda

Chris Dolan, David N. Tshimba, Gilbert Nuwagira

London: ODI; Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG); Medianálisis (2022), 40 pp.

"The potential benefits of increased digitalisation to refugees, living in situations where access to information and spaces for communication exchange are of the essence, are yet to be realised. Uganda’s forced migrants, both those in refugee settlements and those self-settled in urban areas, hav ... more

Loss of Tonga’s Telecommunication: What Happened, What Were the Consequences and How Were They Managed?

Niels Naghelus Schia, Lars Gjesvik, Ida Rodningen

Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (2022), 4 pp.

"In January 2022 the subsea volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga had a major eruption which also cut the country’s communication lines nationally, between Tonga’s inhabited islands and the outside world. The damage led to a complete halt in international communication (a “digital darkn ... more

The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises 2021

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2022), 18 pp.

"Each year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes a list of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world. The purpose is to focus on the plight of people whose suffering rarely makes international headlines, who receive no or inadequate assistance, and who never become the centre ... more

Making Humanitarian Crises: Emotions and Images in History

Brenda Lynn Edgar, Valérie Gorin, Dolores Martín-Moruno (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xii, 186 pp.

Beyond Borders: Satellite Applications for Humanitarian Emergencies
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Giulia Costella, David Garcia, David Hodgson, Nicki McGoh, Stella Chelangat Mutai, Catherine Lilian Nakalembe, Rhiannan Price, David Taverner

Farnham, Surrey (UK): Caribou Space; UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (2022), 97 pp.

"Satellite applications are being developed by an increasingly complex web of supplyside stakeholders and are being applied across a range of use cases in the life cycle of a humanitarian emergency. However, there is a limited body of evidence to offer humanitarians guidance on where satellite techn ... more

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Capacity Decision Framework for CCE/AAP (Communication and Community Engagement/Accountability to Affected People)

London: CDAC Network (2022), 36 pp.

"The capacity decision framework is designed to inform communication and community engagement/accountability to affected people (CCE/AAP) surge capacity requests at a country level to address inter-agency response-wide CCE/AAP gaps. It considers capacity requirements to deliver CCE/AAP across a huma ... more

The Digitalisation of Armed Conflicts: Three Humanitarian Priorities

Peter Maurer

Brussels: Diplomacy and Strategy Centre for Security Brussels School of Governance (2022), 5 pp.

"States should interpret – and apply – existing rules in a manner that ensures adequate and sufficient protection for civilians and civilian infrastructure, information and communication technology (ICT) systems and data in our ever-increasingly digitalised societies. Academia, tech companies, s ... more

Integrating Information Education and Communication Tools to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Among Social Assistance Beneficiaries: Lessons for Indonesia and Beyond

Asha Williams, Atin Parihatin, Ekki Syamsulhakim, Juwita Nirmala Sari, Rissalwan Habdy Lubis, Shonali Sen

Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 56 pp.

"This note aims to help inform the planned development of a Disaster Preparedness Module for Indonesia’s PKH program [Family Hope Program, Program Keluarga Harapan PKH] and to provide lessons for other countries on the development of IEC (Information, Education and Communications) tools to improve ... more

Digital Technologies and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response

John Bryant

London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2022), 29 pp.

"This paper brings together the key findings of research into digital humanitarian action and inclusion, asking what the impact of new digital approaches has been on how inclusion is understood and operationalised in humanitarian action. The Humanitarian Policy Group undertook three thematic case st ... more

Systems Impact Assessment of the Renewable Energy for Refugees (RE4R) Project

Scott Chaplowe, Taruna Gupta

Practical Action (2022), 19 pp.

"The purpose of this Learning Brief is to share key lessons to inform future efforts to effect systems-level change in humanitarian response, seeking to create positive transformational change. Given that transformation is an unfolding, open-ended process, we acknowledge that our learning is an ongo ... more

Interconnected Disaster Risks

United Nations University (UNU) (2022), 114 pp.

Needles in a Haystack: An Analysis of Global South Roles in Humanitarian Knowledge Production

Campbell Aitken (ed.)

Humanitarian Advisory Group (2022), 25 pp.

Suffering in Silence: Zehn humanitäre Krisen, die 2021 keine Schlagzeilen machten

Stefan Brand, Lukas Kamleithner, Katharina Katzer et al.

Care (2022), 27 pp.

Early Warning Alert and Response in Emergencies: An Operational Guide

World Health Organization (WHO) (2022), xiv, 189 pp.

Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action Toolkit

New York; London: UNICEF; CDAC Network (2022), 178 pp.