Tag: crisis management

“ShaRe” for bridging Social Capital during Crises

Mar 3, 2018

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Nuwan Waidyanatha

in Blog, Research & Action, Sahana EDEN, SHARE

During the immediate aftermath of a disaster, it’s the neighboring communities or unaffected people in the area that activate to assist the victims with the basic needs of food, water, and shelter. However, the local community response cannot cope beyond the first 24 hours and need to reach out for external support. Often it is…
Beyond text translations for the displaced and marginalized

Dec 19, 2017

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Nuwan Waidyanatha

in Blog, Pictograph Project, Research & Action

Policy and Plans for Linguistically Challenged The European INTERACT project is part of a Migration Policy initiative. The project is studying how nations set emergency communication policies and plans in support multi-linguistics and crisis management. Findings are not promising and there is a severe need for intervention. Observation was that the studies had left out…