Outcomes report from CDAC Network’s joint event with the ICRC and DFID in September 2016. The event brought considerable energy to a complex number of issues around communicating with people living in dire circumstances that must be resolved.

Comprehensive communication and community engagement needs analysis in South Sudan.

An assessment of whether, in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquakes in April and May 2015, people were getting information that was useful and relevant to their needs.

Based on the experience of CwCiE working group, a formal multi-stakeholder platform called Shongjog was formed in 2015. To set the strategic priorities of Shongjog, a gap analysis study was launched later in 2015.

A case study about the interagency information centre for internally displaced persons that opened in Iraq in July 2015.

This case study follows Ground Truth Solutions’ activities through the Ebola Crisis of 2015 where it administered regular surveys to provide decision-makers with regular, real-time feedback from citizens about the aid they were receiving.

As part of their support to the Nepal earthquake response, Translators without Borders translated 10 key questions on information and communication needs into Nepali.

This paper summarises a webinar and online discussion held by the Interaction Results-Based Protection Programme and the CDAC Network on ‘Communicating with communities: analysing the role of information and the flow of communication with affected populations to address protection outcomes’.

This paper charts the story of the CDAC Network from the now infamous ‘pub meeting’ in New York in 2009 to the Network’s first Members’ Council in May 2014. It tells the story of the Network’s formative years: a time of forming and storming as the diverse membership set about building a movement for fundamental change in the way the humanitarian sector operates.

This learning review of the humanitarian response to Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines in November 2013, examines initiatives aimed at improving communication with communities, and the coordination of these initiatives.

This case study describes how humanitarian and media development agencies collaborated with local media actors to set up the station, and how it contributed to the accountability and effectiveness of the humanitarian response.

This case study describes how Communicating with Communities (CwC) and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) staff worked together through technical working groups to try and ensure community feedback was acted upon in the response to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

This first working paper from CDAC Network explores what is understood by ‘communicating with communities’ (CwC) as an approach, and considers its relationship with accountability. It highlights the synergies and differences between the two concepts and proposes next steps for how the two concepts can coexist to benefit and strengthen humanitarian action.

What are the minimum deliverables in a humanitarian response to meet a community's information and communication needs? This practice brief has been developed to describe the essential elements required to meet a community's information and communication needs during the first six weeks of a response.

A comprehensive suite of common tools to assess the information and communication needs of communities affected by disasters, developed by CDAC Network members.

This case study was written following an event held on 15 April 2014, #CDACLearn: Philippines – Information, Accountability and Media. It describes the role of a humanitarian radio station in getting communities' questions answered, providing psycho social support and building community resilience in the response to Typhoon Haiyan in Guiuan, the Philippines.

This learning review outlines what happened during the Typhoon Bopha response in the Philippines, documents enabling and impeding factors to communicating with communities (CwC) work in this context, and examples of good practice and lessons learned.

This checklist contains a list of questions to help you be better prepared both before and after an emergency breaks

Key learning from expert seminars on humanitarian broadcasting; humanitarian financing; social media in emergencies; using SMS in humanitarian response; and mobile and humanitarian response.

This checklist helps you to decide whether television is an appropriate channel of communication to use with crisis-affected populations.