Social Media in Emergencies: UNICEF Guidelines for Communication and Public Advocacy

  UNICEF
  English
  2012
  Policy Makers, Practitioners
  Published
  Before
  Social Media
  Starter
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Created: 1 February 2022
Last edited: 31 January 2023

Social Media in Emergencies: UNICEF Guidelines for Communication and Public Advocacy

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Quick Facts

Publishing Organisation:

UNICEF

Year:

2012

Languages:

English

Status:

Published

Covers Thematic

Social Media

Target audience

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...

Audience experience level

Starter Those who are not currently using social media, or the current use is based on providing general information and advice to citizens</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

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• Technologies
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• Use Cases
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The guidelines concentrate on the use of social media to communicate with the general public and the media. They do not cover use of social media for gathering data on evolving crises, ‘crisis mapping’ or needs assessment.