Distribution by Region

Distribution by Organisation Type, Document Type, Region and Year

Communication occurs mostly in documents published in Europe, followed by North America and Asia with comparatively smaller contributions. Overall, the top five contributors in terms of occurrences are NGO, RC, IGO, NGO_Fed and Net organisations.

NGO documents provide the greatest number of occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Europe and Asia, with a minor contribution from European strategy documents. In second place, occurrences from RC were mostly obtained from activity reports published in Europe, followed by Africa but to a much lesser extent. Occurrences from IGO were mostly found in European, North American and Asian activity reports as well as general documents.

Occurrences from NGO_Fed were obtained primarily from activity reports published in Europe, Africa and Oceania. Lastly, Net generates a minor contribution occurrences from strategy and general documents.

As with so many things in life, good communication is a key to success and the path to understanding.

Because communications is a social and cultural process international expertise alone is unlikely to be sufficient.

Partly because – as Lars Ericsson, founder of the communications company Ericsson, noted in 1897 – communication is a basic human need.

" It urges aid workers to "remember that communication is a two-way process, requiring that all parties get to know one another.

Includes the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, licence fees and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal and government services.

They are better equipped to develop life skills such as communication, cooperation, problem-solving and setting personal goals, and they are supported whilst they build their self-confidence, determination and resilience.

The global Steering Committee is comprised of prominent individuals with diverse areas of expertise, including child protection, communication, strategic partnerships, and resource mobilization.

These teams participated in advocacy and campaign activities including door to door communication of hygiene promotion.

Communication about fraud and corruption BTC communicates transparently about fraud and corruption because communication is an effective tool in the fight against fraud and corruption.

Although many agree that communication with communities in the right language is critical, translation is not always considered a priority by governments and aid agencies.

Communicating with individuals, not a community: No community is homogenous, meaning that there can be no one-size-fits-all solution for communication and community engagement.

Language can compound communication challenges and increase people's vulnerability to the impact of disasters and other crises.

The majority concerns internal risk management, with only a relatively small part oriented towards the urban planning community. As shown in Box 8.13, a review of this literature from the perspective of natural disasters argues that risk communication should be a central pillar for building resilience and response capacity.

The turbidity of the policymaking environment and the high turnover rate of ministers, senior officials and others can make communication challenging, partly because shifts towards managerialism in public administration have seen expertise and content knowledge diminish over recent decades. At the same time, information overload is challenging knowledge-building and policymaking processes, while policy complexity and interlinkages continue to grow.

Dialogue – as opposed to one-directional communication – increases people's readiness to provide information themselves; tangibly augments the effectiveness of responses and programmes; and raises the feeling of ownership and the satisfaction/degree of identification with the action taken.

The chart below represents the distribution of communication between 2005 and 2019 in terms of the number of occurrences and relative frequency of occurrences. It also allows you to view the distribution across Regions, Organisations and Document types.