Publications & Social Media: Communication to Combat COVID-19, Guides

Publications: Guidance about Communication to Combat COVID-19, C4D Network (2020).

The guide aimed to address questions about how we can face local communication challenges presented by the pandemic, and how communicators respond effectively to the situation through supporting our communities to cope and to protect themselves. This guide aimed to provide insights for a wide range of local communicators on the community level. It covered the need for knowing and communicating the facts coronavirus, understanding the pandemics’ timeline and accompanying communication phases, and accessing resources and materials; it also contained information about what needs communicating and key messages, and consideration about communication design options for appropriate communication routes and methods and essential communication planning.

A supplementary publication mapped resources for communicators that were arising in the first weeks of the pandemic; these were researched worldwide and presented for use in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

In addition a Facebook group for communicators was created for sharing and support in the first few months of the pandemic before major resource sites where created in the sector.