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Emergency Information Project in Pakistan

Disseminating emergency information to earthquake victims
Context and Issue: 

When Pakistan’s worst earthquake struck on October 8, 2005, over 80,000 people died, more than 100,000 sustained injuries and 3.5 million were displaced, according to official estimates. Along with schools, hospitals and homes, government and newspaper offices, broadcast houses and press clubs were destroyed, and dozens of journalists were killed or went missing.

Affected communities urgently needed information — but they found themselves stranded, unable to communicate with the government and emergency relief response. The disaster presented the classic paradox: news about the calamity and its impact was going out to world at large but those affected — at least 3.5 million — had no means to access traditional sources of information, to learn what was going on, what to do and how to get help.

Having little capacity in reporting on humanitarian responses in the aftermath of large disasters, most journalists from the affected regions had no idea what angles they could explore, that could lead to effective response. Because of this lack of capacity, local media did not go beyond event coverage or push for organised and greater coverage of emergency response.

Project's activities: 

Within one hundred days of the quake, with funding from the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of Switzerland, Internews under its Pakistan Emergency Information Project (PEIP) helped broadcasters go on air by providing small equipment grants for radio production studios. PEIP also trained broadcasting staff in post-disaster reporting. This was augmented by content generation — a daily one-hour programme called Jazba-e-Tameer produced by a group of ten journalism student-volunteers who would span out every day across the quake-affected regions to report on relief efforts, including feedback from the affected populations, the humanitarian community and government authorities.

Participants and Beneficiaries: 

PEIP aimed to improve the quality and quantity of information reaching earthquake-affected communities and to facilitate the flow of information between these communities, the Pakistani government, and relief operations.

Outcomes: 

The Pakistan Emergency Information Project improved timeliness, accuracy, relevance and credibility of information flow to the affected population and increased the reach of information to isolated areas. It also helped to create two-way communication flows between local communities and the relief operations. The PEIP project resulted in the empowerment of local populations by including their voices in local and national media and increasing the understanding of their needs in public and policy circles. Under the PEIP project, Internews succeeded in enlarging the space for independent media and professional journalism.

"What we were saying was that people have a need and a right to know what’s going on. They have a right to survive."
A journalist responding to the Pakistan earthquake.

PROJECT TEAM

  • Manisha Aryal

    Internws Network
    Resident Adviser

PROJECT NEWS

 
2007.10.16
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AFD and Internews Photo Exhibition and Conference in Paris

two years after Pakistan earthquake…

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2007.10.16
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Remembering the Pakistan Earthquake

8th October 2007: Two years after Pakistan earthquake Internews and AFD organise photo exhibition and panel discussion in Paris Le 8 octobre 2007, soit deux ans, jour pour jour, après le séisme du Pakistan, l’AFD a organisé une conférence-débat sur le thème « Comment intervenir après une catastrophe naturelle ». 

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2007.09.25
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Remembering the Pakistan Earthquake

Internews photo exhibition…On October 8, 2007, two years after the devastating Pakistan earthquake, Internews Europe and the French Development Agency (AFD) will host a panel discussion entitled “How to intervene after a natural disaster”, in Paris. An exhibit of photos of the disaster taken for Internews by Mark Edwards (Still Pictures) will be on display.

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2006.09.22
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The Jazba-e-Tameer Exhibition in Berne

Internews launches a photo exhibition on media in disaster zonesThe headquarters of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is hosting an exhibition of world class photographer , Mark Edwards, of the work of Internews in emergency response support at its headquarters in Berne.The exhibition, named Jazba-e-Tameer (The Desire to Rebuild) after a daily hour long radio programme of that name, features in depth Internews work in the earthquake zones of Pakistan to support the information needs of affected communities.

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2006.09.05
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Radio set distribution in Pakistan

Internews–UNHCR launch partnership to bridge the information gapThe UN refugee agency completed the distribution of 10,000 multi-power radio sets in the last October earthquake hit areas of Pakistan to help keep quake survivors informed of issues affecting them. The radio sets, a donation by Internews, are run on dynamo, solar, battery and direct electric current power. They feature AM, FM and shortwave bands with a flash light, thermometer, siren, storage compartment and a compass. In a statement issued here, UNHCR’s Senior Emergency Coordinator in Islamabad, Kilian Kleinschmidt said that the multi-power radio set distribution is part of UNHCR and its partners’ endeavors to maximize the information outreach to the earthquake affected population of Pakistan. “We know that timely and

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2006.05.28
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DfID reports on Pakistan radio

The UK aid agency features Internews work responding to the Pakistan earthquake in its magazine ’Developments’In an article entitled ’News You can Use’, reporter Louise Tickle profiled Internews’s Pakistan Emergency Information Project (PEIP), funded by DfID in December 2005 to provide a local information loop to the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless in last October’s earthquake in the North West Frontier Province and Kashmir.’Developments’ is distributed to 100,000 aid and development workers in Britain and around the world.PEIP created a team of journalists on the ground who produce a daily hour-long radio program called Jezba-e Tameer which is distributed to some 17 radio stations in and

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