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Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints
Geneva: ITU (2020), x, 80 pp.
"In the 1991 cyclones that hit Bangladesh, 90 per cent of the 140 000 victims were women. In the deadly heat waves that hit France in 2003, most fatalities were elderly women. During the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency in New Orleans, most of the victims were Afro-American women and their children.
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Situational Analysis of Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability in Burkina Faso
CDAC Network (2020), 17 pp.
"Burkina Faso is dramatically confronted with the consequences of violence, persistent food insecurity and malnutrition. Five of the thirteen regions of the country are particularly affected, and the humanitarian situation has been steadily deteriorating since 2017 with a peak observed in the second
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ITU guidelines for national emergency telecommunication plans
Geneva: ITU (2020), v, 95 pp.
"The effective management of the risk of disasters depends on communication and information sharing across all levels of government, within communities, and between public and private organizations. In particular, timely and effective information flow is important for early warning and alerting the
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Saving Lives and Changing Minds with Twitter in Disasters and Pandemics: A Literature Review
Journalism and Media, volume 1, issue 1 (2020), pp. 59-77
"Twitter is a major tool for communication during emergencies and disasters. This study aimed to investigate Twitter use during natural hazards and pandemics. The included studies reported the role of Twitter in disasters triggered by natural hazards. Electronic databases were used for a comprehensi
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COVID-19: Orientaciones para comunicar sobre la enfermedad por el Coronavirus 2019. Guía para líderes
Washington, DC: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) (2020), 10 pp.
"En un escenario ideal, se contaría con tiempo para hacer planes, establecer una estrategia de comunicación y una guía de acción. Pero situaciones como estas, requieren aptitudes inmediatas para comunicarse con el público. La comunicación de riesgos es un componente integral de la gestión de
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A Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework for Humanitarian Innovation Programmes
London: GSMA (2020), 18 pp.
Predictive Analytics in Humanitarian Action: A Preliminary Mapping and Analysis
Brighton (UK): Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 47 pp.
Marketplace of Ideas or Little Shop of Horrors? Comparing US News Coverage of Local and Distant Suffering
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 393-412
"While we might blame news audiences for their short-lived engagement with foreign crises, their reactions are far less surprising when we look carefully at what news stories truly communicate to readers. As illustrated above, the subtle lessons the news media teach audiences about foreign crises wo
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2018
Care International (2019), 19 pp.
"Some crises receive less media coverage than others. Displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo rivals that of Syria but has received far less attention. In the Central African Republic widespread starvation has set in, which has gone largely unnoticed. And while the catastrophic 2010 earthqu
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Managing Misinformation in a Humanitarian Context: Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Study
Deep Insights
Internews (2019), 56 pp.
"Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology consists of four key functions: 1. A mechanism to determine and document which rumours are circulating; 2. An effective strategy to fact-check information and rumours; 3. A variety of accessible and inclusive mechanisms to share accurate responses to rumours; 4
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Community Radio and Crisis Communication: A Study on the Reach and Effectiveness of Peridar Kaala Vaanoli 107.8 MHz
Media Asia, volume 46, issue 3-4 (2019), pp. 102-116
"A community radio (CR) station stands as a lifeline for information and communication to the remote, marginalized and the most vulnerable during natural disasters like the Tamil Nadu Floods in 2015. As a result of this, a license was granted to allow the operation of an emergency community radio st
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Communication During Disaster Recovery
Key Guides
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) (2019), 28 pp.
"This Guide provides practical guidance for governments regarding how to effectively communicate with communities during the recovery phase following an emergency. It explains how to identify communication needs, and presents “best fit” communication methods and strategies to deploy to support D
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"We Have Failed as a Continent:" Covering an African Atrocity for an African Audience
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 237-252
"This ethnic conflict frame performs three functions when used by African journalists. The first is that it works to domesticate the conflict [in Darfur] by relying on already sedimented knowledge among African audiences about identity formation … The second function of this frame is based on know
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Using Radio as a Means of Operational Communication and Community Outreach
Lausanne: Fondation Hirondelle (2019), 16 pp.
"From 21 to 23 November 2018, eight communication officers working in French-speaking Africa for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met in Dakar, Senegal, to talk about how they have used radio as a tool for humanitarian communication. They also learned how to evaluate their program
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Communication-Related Vulnerability to Disasters: A Heuristic Framework
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, volume 51, issue 92 (2019), 9 pp.
"The concept of social vulnerability has been increasingly applied in disaster literature, but its communicative drivers have remained understudied. In this article, we put forward a heuristic framework for explaining how communication-related factors may adversely affect people’s capacity to prep
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Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.
"From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and
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"Technology has driven major change in some areas of humanitarian response, but its use can also be biased and blind to risks. A tendency towards techno-optimism risks avoiding fundamental questions around the limits of technology, the role of the private sector (including local and regional technol
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"This guide focuses on the following areas: a brief orientation and perspective on the media for public officials, including discussion of how the media thinks and works, and on the public as the end-recipient of information; techniques for responding to and cooperating with the media in conveying i
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