Closing the Loop — Responding to People’s Information Needs from Crisis Response to Recovery to Development

Closing the Loop, a review of Internews’ humanitarian information radio program launched in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake, argues that information provision should be a core component of any humanitarian assistance or development program. To be effective, the communications program must rely on continual research to identify the information needs of those affected by conflict or disasters, then employ the findings from that research in the selection and production of media programming.

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