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 Listening 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.”
The CDAC Network is pleased to announce that it is launching a new website on 22 Jul 2014 at 3pm BST!
The development of the new website has been led by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and made possible through a grant from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)....
Image credit: HAP
On 4th June the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) Accountability Peer Learning Group held a learning event on interagency Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) in the Central African Republic (CAR), at the Save the Children office in London.
The two panellists...
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...
