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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.”

Radio Absoun, Chad

CDAC-N RoundUp - May

May 22, 2013

New, Events, Reports and More! The CDAC-N May RoundUp is packed full of news from CDAC-N Secretariat and member agencies. Read about: The UK launch of the Humanitarianism in the Network Age report Appointment of our research & learning officer Our new '101 Series' of workshops...

Research & Learning Officer

May 16, 2013

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...

CDAC-N Communities of Practice

May 16, 2013

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....