Tagged with: Resilience and Humanitarian
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Supporting media and humanitarian practitioners to overcome communication challenges
Nicola Bailey
Senior research manager, BBC Media Action
Our projects in Nigeria, Somalia and Ukraine are highlighting the challenges humanitarians face in communicating with communities affected by crises. Our approach is to train humanitarian and media practitioners together, to build an understanding that both have a critical role to play in ensuri...
Supporting communities affected by crisis: what we have learned
Nicola Bailey
Senior research manager, BBC Media Action
This blog looks at how BBC Media Action supports communities affected by crisis; how our work has evolved and what we have learned.
The case for communication: COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar
Arif Al Mamun
Head of Research, BBC Media Action Bangladesh
BBC Media Action has been working tirelessly through its Common Service project to support Rohingya and nearby Bangladeshi communities in Cox’s Bazar through the pandemic. Our Bangladesh Head of Research Arif Al Mamun reflects on what we have learned.
Why communication needs to be at the heart of humanitarian response
Jacqueline Dalton
Senior Producer / Trainer – Humanitarian Programming
It has taken the aid community a long time to recognise the importance of listening to those affected by emergencies and providing them with reliable information, says our senior humanitarian trainer.
Motivating ordinary Bangladeshis to respond to extreme weather
Shihan Zuberi
Executive Editor, BBC Media Action Bangladesh
How a reality TV show helped ordinary people cope with extreme weather in Bangladesh.
Three ways of communicating to stop disasters happening
Robert Glasser
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for DRR
Ahead of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference, UN Special Representative Dr Robert Glasser outlines three ways that media and communication can lay the groundwork for warning people about disasters before they happen.
Lifeline programming: bringing together humanitarians, media and governments
Katy Williams
Research Editor, BBC Media Action
Preparing to run ‘lifeline’ programming before a crisis can build relationships between humanitarians, media and the government, facilitating collaboration to get life-saving information to people when disaster strikes.
We need more media coverage of disaster prevention
Marcus Oxley
Executive Director, Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)
Marking International Day for Disaster Reduction, Marcus Oxley argues that we need more media coverage of disasters before – rather than after – they happen. This would make prevention more of a priority, allowing more people to ‘live to tell’.
Who to follow on Twitter if you’re interested in international development, media and communication
Melanie Archer
Digital Editor, BBC Media Action
A list of Twitter accounts covering governance, health and humanitarian affairs that are well worth following.
"You runaway": the challenges of research in South Sudan
Trish Doherty
South Sudan Research Manager, BBC Media Action
Writing from Juba, Research Manager Trish Doherty explains the importance of conducting research in a conflict-affected country like South Sudan – despite the very real risks for both researchers and the people they speak to.
