I can’t see, so when my radio was destroyed in the cyclone, I felt very isolated. Now that I have a radio, I feel like I can see!
A blind Monk in Burma who received a radio after cyclone Nargis
Poor information flow is undoubtedly the biggest source of dissatisfaction, anger and frustration among affected people
TEC Thematic Evaluation
If we understand what is going on, we can be patient
A man talking to the CDA Learning Project in Aceh
I would say that registration [of those in camps] would have been almost impossible without the support of the communications teams
CCCM Cluster Coordinator Haiti
“A community without a radio is worth nothing,”....“People have already realized here that without radio the region is dead"
Internews Humanitarian Information Service in Eastern Chad
Rahma Mohamed Ibed
“What they desperately needed was access to local information in a language they understood – could they go home? Where were the local services and who were all these foreigners who said they were coming to help?”
Mark Frohardt, at the time Internews’ Vice President for Africa
“We were trying to be a community safety valve – to sit the two groups down together and find out how they felt about the problems. If we couldn’t get them into the studio we would send the reporters out to the camps.”
CDAC Network Member International Organization for Migration (IOM) held a workshop recently in partnership with the Philippine Information Agency on the right to information for communities affected by last October’s earthquake in Bohol, bringing together 52 local government...
Photo credit: UNHCR
On March 27th, UNHCR convened a regional workshop on Communicating with Persons of Concern in the Syrian Refugee Response in Amman, Jordan. It was attended by around 80 representatives of UN agencies, international NGOs and media development agencies working in Jordan, Lebanon,...
Photo Credit: ALNAP
On 11th and 12th March, Eleanor Monbiot, Head of Learning for World Vision International, and Rachel Houghton, Director of the CDAC Network, attended the 29th ALNAP Annual Meeting in Addis Ababa. The Meeting’s focus was on the engagement of crisis-affected people in...
Primary collection of household food security data is typically both expensive and cumbersome. As a result, decisions on humanitarian assistance are often based on information that is out of date, or...
