RCCE

Integrated Participatory Risk Communication and Community Engagement to Improve Local Decision-Making and Action

Overview of the RLRMC Approach

Following what was described for the CBDRM/CCA category, CBRM then follows the steps described for integrated risk identification, analysis, and assessment toward mainstreamed risk-informed decision-making. Risk identification involves sharing the different stakeholder risk perceptions in a process of community engagement and risk communication. Effective community engagement will empower members of internal subgroups to be able to conduct a participatory capacities and vulnerabilities assessment (PCVA), discuss similarities and differences in the resulting perceptions, and co-create resulting risk knowledge.  Effective risk communication will springboard from effective community engagement.  The monologue approach of top-down communication from external stakeholders can help motivate and empower internal stakeholder representatives to initially consider some aspects of the risk causes and effects based on different model conclusions.  The dialogue approach of participatory communication among internal stakeholders and between them and external stakeholders enables clarity regarding the most important similarities and differences. After resulting assessment has determined the levels of risks that need to be reduced, effective communication strategies can also help decision-makers to identify and compare the potential efficacy of alternative strategies.

Selected Related Consultancies and Tranings

  • Executive Director and Coordinator for the Tikonzekere Arts Contests: Communicating Flood Vulnerability Reduction Good Practices through the Arts in Malawi through the Government of Malawi Department of Disaster Management Affairs, UNDP, and collaborating partners such as the Malawi Red Cross Society, United States Peace Corps, Conservation Arts Malawi, and Music Crossroads Academy
  • Member of the Malawi Technical Working Groups for Risk Communication and Community Engagement for the national COVID-19 Task Force and for Health Promotion
  • Core Coordinating Team, GFDRR & Water Youth Network ‘Risk Communication Pressure Cooker’ Workshop, 2018 World Bank Understanding Risk Forum in Mexico City, including case study resulting from collaboration with Mexico City’s Iztapalapa municipality on a risk communication and community engagement project
  • Co-coordinator and facilitator, ‘Lights – Camera – Risk-Informed Action: Making and Using Videos for Effective Communication of Risks and Good Practices to Address Them’ Workshops in 2018 (World Bank Understanding Risk Forum in Mexico City, GNDR’s Global Summit in Kuala Lumpur, and SASDiR International Conference in Durban)
  • Temporary Advisor to the WHO Global Headquarters toward development of new risk community engagement and risk communication strategies based on lessons learned in the experiences in West Africa during the eBola outbreak
  • Director of Programming Content, Good Practices TV: Internet TV for Risk Communication of Community & Household Well-Being Solution Approaches
  • Senior Advisor for Disaster Risk Reduction and Risk Communication for a UNDP-funded Health Songs International project in Malawi on floor vulnerability reduction good practices communication
  • Researcher through ICPM (the Madagascar National Coordination Platform For Joint Advocacy of DRR for CARE, Médecins du Monde, MEDAIR, FAS FJKM, ICCO and FAO) and facilitated by CARE on effective risk communication to reduce food insecurity and improve disaster resilience

Selected Related Publications

  • “Lights! Camera! Risk-Informed Action!: Making & Using Videos for Effective Communication of Risks & Good Practices to Address Them”, Understanding Risk – Disrupt, Communicate, Influence: Proceedings from the 2018 Understanding Risk Forum, Washington, DC, World Bank, November 2018.
  • “Music for Disaster Risk Reduction” in Routledge Handbook of Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (Eds. Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, C. Gaillard).  October 2011. (https://www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-Hazards-and-Disaster-Risk-Reduction/Wisner-Gaillard-Kelman/p/book/9780415590655)

Selected Related Presentations

  • “Disaster Songwriting: Risk Communication through Song, Video, and Other Participatory Approaches”, presentation for the “Disasters: Deconstructed” podcast of the University of Florida’s Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), broadcast date: 10 August, 2020.
  • “Community Vulnerability Reduction Good Practices through the Arts: Getting People Talking About What to Do to Reduce Personally Salient Damages and Losses”, Webinar presentation for the Research Network on Disaster, Environment, and Society (ReNDES) of the University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, and the University of the Philippines Diliman, 25 June, 2020.
  • “Not the Same Old Story, Same Old Song & Dance: Risk Communication Good Practices toward Dialogue & Action for Disaster Risk Management”, Keynote Presentation at the African Centre for Disaster Studies Disaster Risk Management Seminar, Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 April, 2019. “Good Practices in Videos: Virtual Field Visits to Encourage Effective Dialogue towards Decision-Making & Action”, presentation at the annual International Conference of the Southern Africa Society for Disaster Reduction (SASDiR), Durban, South Africa, 17-19 October, 2018. “Make Good Practices Your Movie Stars: Use Video Effectively to Communicate Risk & Resilience Strengthening”, Workshop Facilitator at the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) Global Summit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21-25 May, 2018.
  • “The Culture of Music for Risk Communication”, Culture Night Presentation with Theme Song Performance at the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) Global Summit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21-25 May, 2018.
  • “Con el Poder de la Gente: Community Engagement & Risk Communication for Proactive Integrated Risk Management Decision-Making & Action in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa”, Presentation at the Risk Communication Pressure Cooker Event at the Understanding Risk Forum , Mexico City, Mexico, 14-18 May, 2018.
  • “Disaster Risk Reduction Is Child’s Play: Uses of Games for Risk Communication”, Workshop Co-Facilitator and Theme Song Writer at the Understanding Risk Forum, Mexico City, Mexico, 14-18 May, 2018.
  • “Ignite-ing Risk Communication with Examples of Music for Risk Reduction”, concluding ignite stage presentation at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Cancun, Mexico, 22-26 May, 2017.
  • “All About the Case (Studies): Evaluating Roles of Music for Risk Communication’ presentation at the Annual International Conference of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Society (IDRiM), New Delhi, India, 28-30 October, 2015.
  • “Hira Rivodoza: Roles of Music in Disaster Risk Communication Tools in Cyclone-Prone Communities in Madagascar”, presentation at the annual International Conference of the Southern Africa Society for Disaster Reduction (SASDiR), Windhoek, Namibia, 6-8 October, 2014.
  • “Should the Song Remain the Same?: Roles of Music in Disaster Risk Communication and Reduction”, presentation at the joint Disasters and Development Network annual Dealing with Disasters International Conference (DwD 2014) and annual Conference of the Disaster Management Institute of South Africa (DMISA 2014), 17-19 September, 2014.
  • “Good Vibrations in Risk Communication: How Music Can Be Used To Engage People In Disaster Risk Reduction” (with K. Clark, D. Paton, A. McSherry, and JC Gaillard), presentation at the Annual International Conference of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Society (IDRiM), Northumbria, UK, 4-6 September, 2013.
  • “Uses and Repression of Music Illuminating Marginalization and Resulting Human Security Risks”, presentation at a Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Group Panel on Marginality, Rights, Risk, and Human Development at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 9-13 April, 2013 (Los Angeles, CA, USA).

Click the link below these words for the Guidance Notes Document for ‘Tikonzekere Arts Contests: Communicating Flood Vulnerability through the Arts in Malawi’ Guidance Notes For Contest Entrants English

Click lthe ink below these words for the Evaluation Report for ‘Tikonzekere Arts Contests: Communicating Flood Vulnerability Reduction through the Arts in Malawi’ Tikonzekere Arts Contests Evaluation Final

Selected Resources

Effective Risk Communications Conceptual Framework
Risk Reduction Songs Youtube Page
Tikonzekele Arts Contests Youtube Page
barefoot bob Risk Communication songs
Tikonzekere Arts Contests Guidance Notes for communicating flood vulnerability reduction good practices in Malawi