This Reference Document and its Summary were produced as parts of the European Commission’s “ Guidance Package on Social protection across the humanitarian-development Nexus (SPaN)”. It is a common product of an initiative jointly...
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Communication and awarness raising is one of the pillars in the GMES and Africa Support Programme. In order to guide the communication activities and engage stakeholders, the programme has developed its sCommunication and...
This case study applies the SPaN approach to facilitate the transition or transformation of a short-term emergency safety net into a sytemic and longer-ter poverty alleviation mechanism by aligning service provision through NPTP...
Between August and October 2017, the initiative and ASiST assigned Social Protection specialists to identify opportunities to support a transition from current humanitarian assistance to a social assistance approach in Somalia...
COOPI/MALAWI/2018 Half of Malawi was hit by the worst floods on record in 2015. Over one million people were affected. Almost 300 people were killed or went missing and more than 370,000 were displaced. Floods are a constant...
Abstract: It is widely held that social media is a valuable source of information for responders to mass emergencies. However, little is known about how much useful situational information social media data streams contain and how...
Following the announcement by our Commissioner at the European Humanitarian Forum, the new DG ECHO Thematic Policy Document No 3 on Cash Transfers is published! The document provides clear guidance to EU humanitarian partners and...
I used to be the marketing director at small crowdfunding startup. During that time, I wrote this e-book after learning about the trouble business owners were having with setting up a strategy for Social Media to assist with a...
This Case Study on Nepal summarizes the context and main features of the vertical and horizontal expansion (ex post) of social protection programmes in response to an onset natural disaster. Following the earthquake in April 2015...
As part of a 2020 series of Inception Seminars for new DEAR projects, the DEAR Support Team organised a two-hour session on communication for DEAR projects. This presentation gives a brief rundown of the essentials for a DEAR...