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Jun 9
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Crisis comms: donations vs. dignity | De...

THE NEW HUMANITARIAN
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NGO ads don't have to be a balance between dignity and donations. A look at the ethics and power dynamics of crisis communications, and how humanitarian agencies can do better for the communities they serve, with Levis Nderitu, a Kenyan DEI specialist, and Marie-Rose Romain Murphy, a Haitian-American community development expert. 

"At the core of your communication should be people, should be dignity, should be: how would I want to be portrayed myself?"

Decolonise How? is a new podcast by The New Humanitarian that examines the stories we tell about humanitarian crises.

 

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