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Aceh Indonesia Tsunami Recovery: Community Outreach Program Beneficiary Communication Case Study

11 Sep 2013
Approximately one year after the 2004 tsunami decimated Aceh province in Indonesia, it was decided that more needed to be done when it comes to communicating with those that were falling through the gaps. Thus, the Community Outreach Program (COP) wa...
Communication As Aid

Beneficiary Communication After the Haiti Earthquake: Radio, SMS, and IVR in Disaster Response

11 Sep 2013
Beneficiary communication was one of the most important tools directly after the earthquake that shook Haiti at a magnitude of 7.0 Mw on 12 January 2010. It allowed vulnerable communities to receive information that they needed most, as quickly and a...
Communication As Aid
Report

Sending a Message of Accountability: SMS Helps Improve Services after Pakistan Floods

11 Sep 2013
This case study illustrates how Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO), a Pakistani NGO, worked alongside the Popular Engagement Policy Lab (PEPL) and Raabta Consultants to implement a Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) using FrontlineSM...
Report, Communication As Aid
Report

Beneficiary Communication and Accountability: A responsibility, not a choice

11 Sep 2013
This IFRC lessons learned report documents the experiences and recommendations emerging from beneficiary communication and accountability (BCA) programmes across three major disaster operations: the 2004 Asian tsunami response in Aceh, Indonesia; the...
Report, Communication As Aid
Assessment or evaluation

Beneficiary Communications Evaluation: Haiti Earthquake Operation 2011

11 Sep 2013
This evaluation assesses the impact of beneficiary communication activities conducted during the Haiti Earthquake Operation from January 2010 onward. Drawing on 626 individual interviews, 19 focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and fiel...
Assessment or evaluation, Communication As Aid
Guidance material

IFRC Beneficiary Communications: Community Engagement, Mobile Technology, and Accountability in Disaster Response

11 Sep 2013
This IFRC briefing note provides an overview of beneficiary communications as a strategic approach to connecting humanitarian programming with affected populations. It defines beneficiary communications as a cross-cutting function that spans the full...
Guidance material, Communication As Aid
Report

Pakistan: Children can play an important role in disaster preparedness

06 Sep 2013
An article by Amir Murtaza published by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the interests and capabilities of children to paly a role in decision-making related to development plans for their schools, playgrounds, and streets. In the last ten years,...
Report, Youth Disaster Preparedness
Report

Managing Disaster Risks: Sendai Report

29 Aug 2013
The Sendai Report argues that the practice of disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated– or ‘mainstreamed’–into all aspects of development. The report outlines how t...
Report
Case Study, Report

No time for doubt: Tackling urban risk

29 Aug 2013
Compilation of case studies on Red Cross urban resilience and preparedness programs from Colombia, Jamaica and Nicaragua. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) is responding to urban plight in the Americas Zone through the...
Case Study, Report, Urban Resilience

Mexico’s Natural Disaster Fund – A Review

27 Aug 2013
“As part of its disaster risk management efforts, the Federal Government of Mexico established the Fund for Natural Disasters FONDEN to support disaster relief and reconstruction. FONDEN was originally established as a budgetary tool through wh...
Disaster Risk Financing

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