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Enhancing People-Centred Early Warning Systems (PCEWS) in Traditional Coastal Communities of Brazil: An Intersectional Approach to Inclusive Risk Communication

17 Dec 2024
About this Paper: This study investigates barriers to accessing and acting on Early Warning Systems (EWS) among traditional coastal communities in southeastern Brazil, focusing on Quilombola and Caiçara groups. These communities face unique challeng...
Research, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Disability Inclusive Disaster Preparedness, Early Warning Systems, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Research

Towards Participatory Flood Early Warning for Early Action: A Situational Analysis of Flood Risk Communication in the Zambezi Region, Namibia

19 Sep 2024
Authors: Deolfa Josè Moisès, and Yong Sebastian Nyam, University of the Free State, South Africa. Flood hazards are complex events with severe consequences, particularly for rural riparian communities that depend on natural resources for their live...
Research, Communication As Aid, Early Warning Systems, Flood
Guidance material

Reporting on Heatwaves and the Health Impacts of Heat

14 Jun 2024
Media representations of heatwaves and climate change plays an important role in how the public thinks about, perceives, prepares for and acts on risks to their health, and how decision and policy makers address the problem. This brief was developed ...
Guidance material, Communication As Aid, Heat Wave
Guidance material

Coalition Building for Urban Community Resilience

29 Apr 2021
LAS TRADUCCIONES AL ESPAÑOL DE LOS JUEGOS DE HERRAMIENTAS ESTÁN AQUÍ Description: Communities worldwide have greater opportunities for growth and connectedness than ever before; yet the number of people exposed to hazards, shocks, and stresses is ...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Manual, Other type of resource

Communication with Affected People during a Nuclear Disaster – Japanese Red Cross – 2017

16 Dec 2020
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (GEJET) triggered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident (Fukushima Daiichi accident) in 2011, radioactive materials were released into the air and the sea. This forced the residents to evacuate...
Manual, Other type of resource, Communication As Aid, Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies
Awareness material, Guidance material

RCRC Prevention and key messages and Risk Communication and Community Engagement

08 May 2020
These documents offer guidance on how to understand prevention methods, the importance of good community engagement, why misinformation and fear can drive people away from living healthy, the key function of hand-washing in minimizing the spread of t...
Awareness material, Guidance material, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Research

Learning from the Ebola Response in cities: Responding in the context of quarantine

12 Mar 2018
As part of ALNAP’s Learning from the Ebola Response in cities, this paper describes approaches toquarantine in urban Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It focuses in particular on how humanitariansnavigated the context of urban quarantine, what ...
Research, Communicable Disease, Communication As Aid, Urban Resilience
Report

Social and Behavior Change Communication for Emergency Preparedness

09 May 2017
During emergencies, coordinated, clear and credible communication aids in minimizing resulting health, social and economic costs. However, the uncertainty that characterizes emergencies typically fuels fear and panic among communities, and spreads mi...
Report, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability
Assessment or evaluation, Research

Enacting Humanitarian Culture: How Technical Communication Facilitates Successful Humanitarian Work

25 Apr 2017
Purpose: Technical communicators should look beyond for-profit industry to develop a fuller understanding of how technical communication can support, enable, and constitute successful work practices. To illustrate, we report a subset of findings r...
Assessment or evaluation, Research, Communication As Aid
Other type of resource

Facebook crisis hubs

13 Nov 2016
Building on the success of its Safety Check tool, Facebook is develop new features to enable local users to connect with each other during crisis events through local ‘crisis hubs’. Wired magazine article — https://www.wired.com/201...
Other type of resource, Communication As Aid

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