Policy Brief - Strengthening Societal Resilience to Disasters: Improving Engagement and Communication among Citizens and Authorities

  Europe
  Societal Resilience Cluster (SRC)
  English
  2024
  Businesses, Civil Society, Policy Makers, Practitioners, Researchers
  Published
  Before
  Community management, Content creation, Policy Brief, Social Media, Social Media Strategy, Social Media Team, Unaffiliated volunteers, Vulnerability, Vulnerable groups
  Intermediate, Advanced
  
  This document aims to provide

decision-makers and stakeholders with relevant, evidence-informed policy recommendations on how to increase the level of resilience to disasters in European communities. Specifically the document focuses on improving engagement and strengthening communication among citizens and authorities in Disaster Risk Management (DRM).

The recommendations are grounded in an all-of�society approach, aimed at strengthening societal inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). This entails broad-based participation in disaster risk management through engagement with different stakeholders including formal authorities and response organizations, businesses and private actors, and volunteers and citizens, including those which are marginalized and most vulnerable. Hence, the recommendations contribute directly to the achievement of the goals and outcomes within the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction around building resilient communities as well as the European Union’s Disaster Resilience Goals and Climate Adaptation Strategy towards increasing preparedness and enhancing a culture of risk prevention amongst the population. The document is based on the outcomes from 9 Research and Innovation projects as part of the Societal Resilience Cluster, an initiative supported by the Crisis Management Innovation Network Europe. The recommendations in this document are the result of co-production processes involving experts, scientists, practitioners, and decision�makers from over 100 organizations. All of the projects involved have received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes for Disaster Resilient Societies (DRS).Property "Synopsis" (as page type) with input value "This document aims to provide</br>decision-makers and stakeholders with</br>relevant, evidence-informed policy</br>recommendations on how to increase</br>the level of resilience to disasters in</br>European communities. Specifically</br>the document focuses on improving</br>engagement and strengthening</br>communication among citizens and</br>authorities in Disaster Risk Management</br>(DRM).</br></br>The recommendations are grounded in an all-of�society approach, aimed at strengthening societal </br>inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). This </br>entails broad-based participation in disaster risk </br>management through engagement with different </br>stakeholders including formal authorities and </br>response organizations, businesses and private </br>actors, and volunteers and citizens, including those </br>which are marginalized and most vulnerable. Hence, </br>the recommendations contribute directly to the </br>achievement of the goals and outcomes within the </br>Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction </br>around building resilient communities as well as the </br>European Union’s Disaster Resilience Goals and </br>Climate Adaptation Strategy towards increasing </br>preparedness and enhancing a culture of risk </br>prevention amongst the population.</br>The document is based on the outcomes from 9 </br>Research and Innovation projects as part of the </br>Societal Resilience Cluster, an initiative supported </br>by the Crisis Management Innovation Network </br>Europe. The recommendations in this document are </br>the result of co-production processes involving </br>experts, scientists, practitioners, and decision�makers from over 100 organizations. All of the </br>projects involved have received funding from the EU </br>Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes for </br>Disaster Resilient Societies (DRS)." contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.

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Created: 11 March 2024
Last edited: 22 April 2024

Quick Facts

Publishing Organisation:

Societal Resilience Cluster (SRC)

Year:

2024

Primary Target Country:

Europe

Languages:

English

Status:

Published

Covers Thematic

Community management Community Management in Social Media is the active component of interacting with your community of followers, fans and target audience across your social media platforms. This includes active listening, which is an important element of engaging with your followers to understand their wants and needs regarding your services.</br></br>Source: www.clearvoice.com/blog/community-management-social-media-management/

Content creation Social media content creation is arguably one of the most important aspects of a social media marketing campaign. Social media content creation is an art, and one that requires an extra amount of patience, creativity, and education around graphic design, copy creation, and color composition.</br></br></br>Source: blog.sociallyin.com/social-media-content-creation

Policy Brief

Social Media

Social Media Strategy A social media strategy is a document outlining your social media goals, the tactics you will use to achieve them and the metrics you will track to measure your progress</br></br>Source:https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-to-create-a-social-media-marketing-plan

Social Media Team Social Media team building comprises the member's roles and competences, training requirements, as well as financial and organizational prerequisites

Unaffiliated volunteers Spontaneous or unaffiliated volunteers are individuals or groups that:</br>*arrive unsolicited at the scene of a disaster</br>*may or may not be a resident of the affected community</br>*may or may not possess skills necessary to respond to the current disaster</br>*are not associated with any part of the existing emergency management system </br></br>Source: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Archive/202852NCJRS.pdf

Vulnerability Vulnerable groups are groups that due to physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, are more exposed and susceptible to the impacts of hazards.

Vulnerable groups Those groups that, due to physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, are more exposed and susceptible to the impacts of hazards.

Target audience

Businesses companies, local business networks, solution providers, suppliers of goods and services

Civil Society Civil society is a target group in LINKS which comprises citizens, civil society organizations, educational institutions, vulnerable groups, social movement organizations

Policy Makers local, national, and European agencies and institutes, public authorities, standardization bodies

Practitioners Practitioners is a target group in LINKS which comprises local, national and European disaster management organizations, civil protection agencies, first responders, NGOs, security networks...

Researchers research institutions and scientific communities

Audience experience level

Intermediate Those who currently use social media to communicate with the public and have developed a draft social media strategy, even if this is not thoroughly documented or communicated across the organisation</br></br>Source: https://www.fp7-emergent.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170529_D7.3_Guidelines_to_increase_the_benefit_of_social_media_EmerGent.pdf

Advanced Those who currently use social media to communicate with the public during all phases of an emergency and have developed a clear social media strategy, even if this is not thoroughly documented or communicated across the organisation</br></br>Source: https://www.fp7-emergent.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170529_D7.3_Guidelines_to_increase_the_benefit_of_social_media_EmerGent.pdf

Disaster Management Phase

Before Comprises 'Preparedness Phase' and 'Prevention Phase'</br></br>Preparedness action is carried out within the context of disaster risk management and aims to build the capacities needed to efficiently manage all types of emergencies and achieve orderly transitions from response to sustained recovery.</br></br>Source: https://www.undrr.org/terminology/preparedness</br></br>Prevention (i.e., disaster prevention) expresses the concept and intention to completely avoid potential adverse impacts of hazardous events.</br></br>Source: https://www.undrr.org/terminology/prevention

Synopsis

This document aims to provide decision-makers and stakeholders with relevant, evidence-informed policy recommendations on how to increase the level of resilience to disasters in European communities. Specifically the document focuses on improving engagement and strengthening communication among citizens and authorities in Disaster Risk Management (DRM).

The recommendations are grounded in an all-of�society approach, aimed at strengthening societal inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). This entails broad-based participation in disaster risk management through engagement with different stakeholders including formal authorities and response organizations, businesses and private actors, and volunteers and citizens, including those which are marginalized and most vulnerable. Hence, the recommendations contribute directly to the achievement of the goals and outcomes within the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction around building resilient communities as well as the European Union’s Disaster Resilience Goals and Climate Adaptation Strategy towards increasing preparedness and enhancing a culture of risk prevention amongst the population. The document is based on the outcomes from 9 Research and Innovation projects as part of the Societal Resilience Cluster, an initiative supported by the Crisis Management Innovation Network Europe. The recommendations in this document are the result of co-production processes involving experts, scientists, practitioners, and decision�makers from over 100 organizations. All of the projects involved have received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes for Disaster Resilient Societies (DRS).

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