Each year, the 13 October marks International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and ASEAN Day for Disaster Management. The event is an opportunity to celebrate how people and communities are reducing their exposure to disasters, and also raise awareness about the importance of risk reduction. The event encourages every citizen and government to take part in building more resilient communities and nations.

Click here for the summary of International Disaster Risk Reduction Day (IDDR) Events in Southeast Asia 2015

Summary of Communications Pack

The IFRC has created a communications pack to provide guidance to National Societies in the region around their events (and the summary of activities). The materials integrate messaging from the ASEAN Day for Disaster Management, themed “ASEAN is Resilient as One”, the UN-ISDR theme, “Knowledge for Life” (focusing on traditional and indigenous knowledge) as well as the IFRC’s World Disaster Report 2015, “Focus on local actors”, using the overarching theme of disaster risk reduction.

The communications pack contains:

• Key messages
• Facts and figures
• Social media content and tips*
• A template press release
• Photos

Please note: While you are encouraged to use the communications pack as a basis for your communications, all materials should be tailored for your own context. Where possible, we recommend you add specific examples from community-based programmes, or other Red Cross Red Crescent activities. For social media, we encourage you to use your own photos in addition to the ones provided.

*To maximise our regional social media activity around event, we would be grateful if you could reply to this email nominating the officer in your National Society responsible for posting to Facebook and Twitter (or alternatively, ask them to please make contact with me). This is so we can understand your plans for posting to social media, and also find ways to help promote you.

We hope that the materials help support you in your advocacy and community outreach! We would love to hear your feedback on the material and how/if you will use it – please let us know your plans.

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The banners are available to National Societies to download and use in their own country. The PDF files here are ready to print.

To customize them – for example to translate, or change the photos or text – please email katejean.smith@ifrc.org or katherine.roux@ifrc.org