Issue Brief No. 2

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected the role of strategic communications is to help organizations, including governments and their multi-stakeholder partners, understand how to effectively deliver their message to key audiences. The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) provides high quality information to the media and daily briefings during response operations, but disaster risk management is a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder issue. To manage and communicate key information across the disaster management cycle requires cross-government and cross-society engagement and strategy. Findings from studies in 2020 note that improvements are needed (i) in how the various and diverse elements of the disaster risk management ecosystem communicate with each other (government, non-government, private sector, communities etc.) and (ii) in the quality, reliability and timeliness of disaster-related information that is shared.