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HUB - COVID-19 Communication and Community Engagement

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To: People engaged with the SBCC Summit

From: The Communication Initiative Network

COVID-19 - HUB - Communication and Community Engagement

Hi - hope that all is well with you and your loved ones in this crazy time. As you may now be addressing COVID-19 in the course of you work I wanted to share the newly launched the COVID-19 Communication and Community Engagement HUB developed by and for the SBCC community. There are 5 main elements: COVID-19 knowledge and strategic insight; Critical review and dialogue; Strategic lessons learned from other major health crises, for example Ebola; Change Theories and Planning Models; and Blogs.  As with the normal The CI process everything is in summary form for quick review with links to the full documents and network contacts. Apologies if you receiving this in duplicate.

 
Before the introduction to the HUB below a request to please send us any links, PDFs, papers or in any other form outlining and providing insight into your communication and community engagement initiatives. Would be honoured to profile and share that work in support of the strategic thinking and actions of others. Please just reply to this email.

COVID-19 Communication and Community Engagement HUB - Introduction

1. Specific to COVID-19 knowledge and strategic insight - for example Community Engagement, Digital/Mobile, News Media, Gender, Marginal and Vulnerable.

2. Critical review and dialogue - 70 plus contributions to date across the full range of themes. Recent contributions include: Poor and Marginalised Communities?: Urban Informal settlements; Open communication, Shared data, Free access; Traditions; and Poverty rather than Culture    

3. Strategic lessons learned from other major health crises (on a smaller scale of course)  - for example: Ebola; H1N1, SARS, Avian Influenza; Polio; and HIV/AIDS.  

4. Change Theories  and Planning Models  - from the extensive The CI summaries of a range of change theories and planning models we have chosen a few that seem relevant. Please do advise if we should include others.

5. Blogs  - Some people in the network have commenced blogging (many thanks) on COVID-19 related themes. There are some initial blogs here. We thank them. Please do send us your contribution.

We are also commencing a focus on Latin America in Spanish  and hope to attract resources for a full Spanish language COVID-19 HUB.

This is just the early stages. But there have already been 25,000 user sessions from 15,000 unique users in 198 countries across those 5 elements of the HUB. There is regular shared knowledge and critical dialogue posted on a very regular basis so do please check back at this link.   

Many thanks for reviewing. Simply reply to this email with your COVID-19 related links,  PDFs, papers, blogs and proposed planning models and change theories for inclusion.

All feedback on this HUB would be very much appreciated. How can we make it better for you? And if you wish to help sustain and grow this process please let us know!

 

Hope that this helps. Many thanks.

Warren

Warren Feek
Executive Director
The Communication Initiative
wfeek@comminit.com

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