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.”
New Appointment: Research & Learning Officer
The CDAC Network has recently employed a Research and Learning Officer, Nicki Bailey, who will be based at the CDAC Network Secretariat. UNOCHA have funded the four-month post, which began on 1st May, to support research and learning activities of...
Time to Coordinate
The first meeting of the CDAC Network's Coordination Community of Practice (CoP) was held on Thursday May 2nd. The group was set up to focus on coordination of members at field level, and to look at how members can organise and prepare for a coordinated emergency response....
UK Launch of HINA Report
On 1 May, London hosted two events to highlight the launch of UN OCHA’s ‘Humanitarianism in the Network Age’ report. In the morning, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and OCHA hosted a social media chat involving OCHA, the CDAC Network, IFRC, Internews...
The International Peace Institute (IPI) together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), hosted an interactive discuss...
