By Lena Fulz | Business Development Officer
As of September 2024, famine conditions have been confirmed in parts of North Darfur state, with at least 500,000 peopleresiding in a displacement camp urgently in need of food, water, healthcare, nutrition and shelter.Humanitarian aid delivery access constraints continue to contribute to the increasing food insecurity levels across the country. Since late July, heavy rainfall and flooding has affected tens of thousands of people across the country, causing damage to homes and sanitation facilities and aggravating the risk of waterborne diseases. As the humanitarian crisis escalates, people need to know how to move safely, to access services and to make lifesaving decisions for themselves and their families. Access to information that is accurate, relevant, timely and coming from trusted sources is a powerful deterrent to the spread of misinformation that threatens the safety of both the community and humanitarian responders.
HOW INTERNEWS IS HELPING
Internews recently launched a Sudan Signpost platform in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council. Signpost is an award-winning network of localized platforms, resulting in digital help centers to empower people impacted by conflict, disasters, poverty and violence, and enablingtwo-way communication for people seeking information on humanitarian services.
Internews’ Sudan Signpost platform – known as Kade Nafham, meaning “We almost understand” - will provide timely information and answer urgent questions in local languages for refugees and returnees in Sudan. Kade Nafhamprovides a crucial two-way communication mechanism for people affected by the Sudan crisis, allowing people to ask questions, express their needs and provide feedback on the aid provided to them.
Internews combines the establishment of the national Signpost platform with forthcoming in-person listening groups with communities via local partners across five states in Sudan - Central Darfur, Northern State, Al Gedaref, North Kordofan, and White Nile.These community listening is crucial in a crisis, channeling feedback to enable the humanitarian response to be more efficient, more responsive to community priorities and needs, accountable to their mistakes and ensuring the community can play an effective role in the decisions that affect their lives.
Internews in Sudan continues to produce regular analysis reports based on online social listening, to update humanitarians about community concerns, priorities, questions and misinformation trends about the response at a national level. Internews has been conducting this listening and sharing analysis since the outbreak of conflict in April 2023, with the most recent publication to humanitarian response agencies in August 2024.
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