This learning review of the humanitarian response to Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines in November 2013, examines initiatives aimed at improving communication with communities, and the coordination of these initiatives.

This case study describes how humanitarian and media development agencies collaborated with local media actors to set up the station, and how it contributed to the accountability and effectiveness of the humanitarian response.

This case study describes how Communicating with Communities (CwC) and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) staff worked together through technical working groups to try and ensure community feedback was acted upon in the response to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

This first working paper from CDAC Network explores what is understood by ‘communicating with communities’ (CwC) as an approach, and considers its relationship with accountability. It highlights the synergies and differences between the two concepts and proposes next steps for how the two concepts can coexist to benefit and strengthen humanitarian action.

What are the minimum deliverables in a humanitarian response to meet a community's information and communication needs? This practice brief has been developed to describe the essential elements required to meet a community's information and communication needs during the first six weeks of a response.

A comprehensive suite of common tools to assess the information and communication needs of communities affected by disasters, developed by CDAC Network members.

This case study was written following an event held on 15 April 2014, #CDACLearn: Philippines – Information, Accountability and Media. It describes the role of a humanitarian radio station in getting communities' questions answered, providing psycho social support and building community resilience in the response to Typhoon Haiyan in Guiuan, the Philippines.

This learning review outlines what happened during the Typhoon Bopha response in the Philippines, documents enabling and impeding factors to communicating with communities (CwC) work in this context, and examples of good practice and lessons learned.

This checklist contains a list of questions to help you be better prepared both before and after an emergency breaks

Key learning from expert seminars on humanitarian broadcasting; humanitarian financing; social media in emergencies; using SMS in humanitarian response; and mobile and humanitarian response.

This checklist helps you to decide whether television is an appropriate channel of communication to use with crisis-affected populations.

This checklist helps you to decide whether radio is an appropriate channel of communication to use with crisis-affected populations.

In the aftermath of an emergency, a rapid information needs and access assessment can cross check the community profile and provide a more accurate picture of the emerging needs on the ground. The questions can be inserted into an inter-agency needs assessment or done as a separate exercise.

Community profiles give you a good understanding of the community you are working with. They illustrate the community's socioeconomic characteristics, lifestyle and media consumption habits and can help inform your communication strategy.

This guide provides comprehensive information on the media and telecommunications landscape in Colombia, as at December 2012.

This guide provides comprehensive information on the media and telecommunications landscape in Democratic Republic of Congo, as at December 2012.

In October 2012, over 40 agencies across the humanitarian and media development sectors gathered to take part in the first CDAC Network simulation. The two-day crisis simulation aimed to build the capacity of staff within CDAC Network Member agencies and partners, to be prepared for and plan a coordinated, collaborative, multi-agency response to an emergency.

This guide provides comprehensive information on the media and telecommunications landscape in Indonesia, as at November 2012.

This framework allows you to assess the impact of communications interventions. Indicators cover key components of a communication project including: information provision, dialogue, analysis and verification of feedback and response.

This guide provides comprehensive information on the media and telecommunications landscape in Haiti, as at October 2012.