POCKET GUIDE - For planning disaster risk communication to support early warning and early action

Media and communication can increase the effectiveness of early warning systems by: • Making them people-centred, enhancing their design and reach7 • Improving people’s understanding of natural hazards and their vulnerability to them, while respecting local priorities and perspectives8 • Challenging misplaced or ill-informed beliefs, perceptions and practices to support better disaster risk manage. [...] Pillar 2 – Detecting, monitoring and forecasting hazards Media and communication can provide a way to widely share and discuss locally-observed information, insights and possible actions to increase understanding and trust in monitoring systems and boost community involvement in designing early warning systems. [...] Pillar 4 – Preparedness to respond Risk communication can help improve individual, group and organisational preparedness to take action by providing a platform to discuss and address barriers to action, such as perceptions and beliefs about risk, livelihood concerns and the availability of resources, local risk management, risk governance and public investment. [...] • Objective 1: Organisations and collaboration - To improve the connections among practitioners from different sectors, including government (Met Services and Emergency Management), media (public and private), and civil society (fisher associations) to identify ways of improving communication and early warning with fisherfolk • Objective 2: Organisations and skills – To improve practitioners’ abil. [...] Also consider the time you have to conduct and analyse the research, your budget, and the complexity of the research (who has the expertise/skills to conduct it – a research agency, an academic or a researcher).