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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

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BBC Media Action - BBC Burma Lifeline Radio Project: “Living Today, Stronger Tomorrow” When UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon visited Burma, three weeks after the category 3 Cyclone Nargis struck on 2 and 3 May 2008, the Burmese regime...	craig	Thu, 2012-04-05 08:55
Irish Red Cross and Palang Merah Indonesia Case Study: Community Outreach Programme, Aceh The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck North Sumatra on 26 December 2004 affected all aspects of life in Aceh Province. The tsunami...	craig	Wed, 2012-04-04 13:17
International Media Support and Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre - Mapping with Mobiles In Zimbabwe, a local NGO – the Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC) – piloted an electronic national survey on access to...	craig	Wed, 2012-04-04 12:16
FrontlineSMS - Using FrontlineSMS for a Complaints and Response Mechanism in the aftermath of the Pakistan floods FrontlineSMS lowers barriers to driving transformative social change using mobile technologies. They build and distribute free and open-source...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 16:57
Health Communication Resources - The Use of Radio in Disasters: 2008 Flood Response, North India. Disasters continue to be of critical concern worldwide, particularly to those who are most vulnerable to them. Relief workers often prioritise...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 16:52
BBC Media Action - BBC Somalia Lifeline Radio Project Following the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia has been without an effective central government. Years of fighting between...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 16:12
The infoasaid-ActionAid Partnership and Communications Initiative in Kenya For ActionAid, the concept of communication with disaster affected communities links closely with its human rights based approach. ActionAid sees the...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 10:34
UNESCO Uses Souktel Online Messaging System Case Study Sending SMS Emergency Alerts to Families in Gaza In 2011, UNESCO began a series of efforts to improve its Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programme within the 1.5km ’buffer zone‘ of the...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 10:20

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