Exploring scalable business models for humanitarian innovation.

Safeguarding tools and guidance for local and community partners.

This report summarises the main themes raised during the 2019 CDAC Network Public Forum and offers solutions to some of the innovation challenges facing the humanitarian system.

Written in advance of the 2019 CDAC Network Public Forum, this background paper looks at the evolution of innovation in the humanitarian sector.

The Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP) Innovation Labs was a two-year programme that fostered innovations that address key problems faced by disaster-prone communities.

This framework for assessing success of national CCE platforms is designed to clearly lay out the different elements that combine to build a complete platform.

Report from the CDAC Network Annual Global Forum in 2018. Participants acknowledged the communication environment is now one where hierarchical ‘business as usual’ approaches are demonstrably less effective and on the wrong side of history.

There are a number of global level frameworks and commitments that have components specific to communication and community engagement. While these spell out what action needs to be taken, they are not consistently and coherently taken on board by humanitarian actors. This paper summarises those existing frameworks.

This evaluation found that the flexible funding that the national multi-stakeholder platforms had access to helped the platforms develop their own capacity strengthening plans based on gaps analyses they undertook, resulting for example in locally adapted tools and skills in communicating with communities.

An assessment of the level and quality of surge capacity available for communication and community engagement in the humanitarian sector.

A description of different communication channels, their coverage and reach, the type of information that is suitable for dissemination in this way, the level of interactivity with the audience, and the cost.  This document is useful in the planning of communication and community engagement activities.

Lessons on communicating with communities in emergencies.

The ‘12 essentials for system change’ came out of a global forum held in May 2017 by CDAC Network and the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, on ‘The authenticity challenge to the Participation Revolution’.

Background discussion papers for the 2017 CDAC Public Forum: (1) Participation and community engagement: the challenge to make it authentic; and (2) Seeing the woods and the trees: the quiet rise of community philanthropy.

This guide offers approaches, practices and tools to working with rumours and misinformation. It is aimed primarily at humanitarian programme managers and field staff to provide them with practical tips on how to work with rumours in their response programmes in a way that is achievable amid competing demands.

This independent review commissioned by CDAC Network confirms that the establishment of collective approaches to communication and community engagement – at national and global levels – is required to be more systematic and effective and has significant support across the humanitarian sector.

This independent review confirms that the establishment of collective approaches to communication and community engagement – at national and global levels – is required to be more systematic and effective and has significant support across the humanitarian sector.

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.

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’.