large numbers of people. outdated and very long. Need to be administered to limit Not dependent on direct what is being sent and to whom. contact, e.g. as in telephone Can overload users with calls, meetings. information that is not always Likely to reach most relevant to them. stakeholders, including the national authority. Enable targeting of specific people. Good alternative to Limited membership size will meetings, since they enable exclude some partners. sharing and storing of High turnover of actors means that information and discussion a lot of administration is needed. between Nutrition Cluster Reliant on reasonably good partners. Internet access. Google Groups, Useful central platform if no May not be acceptable in Yahoo! Groups, inter-agency web platform is environments with strong national online calendars available. authority control. May exclude national/local actors due to poor Internet connectivity, lack of familiarity with this method and language adopted for online discussions (not likely to be the local language and no facility for translation). Reaches national and local May be expensive. partners. Not all stakeholders have access to Enables immediate exchange a phone. Telephone contact of information, discussion, Can be time-consuming. decision-making. More difficult for the NCC to Can be used in most delegate. environments. Reaches national and local Slow, expensive and partners. Delivery of hard Familiar method of Not interactive since there is no copies communication at mechanism to allow people to community level. respond. Easily translated. Reach national and local Time-consuming. partners. In early response, when Familiar method of information changes very quickly, Public meetings communication at it can be hard to capture this community level. through meetings. Easily translated. Can be dominated by powerful interests, strong personalities.
large numbers of people. Not dependent on direct contact, e.g. as in telephone calls, meetings. Likely to reach most stakeholders, including the national authority. Enable targeting of specific people. outdated and very long. Need to be administered to limit what is being sent and to whom. Can overload users with information that is not always relevant to them. Google Groups, Yahoo! Groups, online calendars Good alternative to meetings, since they enable sharing and storing of information and discussion between Nutrition Cluster partners. Useful central platform if no inter-agency web platform is available. Limited membership size will exclude some partners. High turnover of actors means that a lot of administration is needed. Reliant on reasonably good Internet access. May not be acceptable in environments with strong national authority control. May exclude national/local actors due to poor Internet connectivity, lack of familiarity with this method and language adopted for online discussions (not likely to be the local language and no facility for translation). Telephone contact Reaches national and local partners. Enables immediate exchange of information, discussion, decision-making. Can be used in most environments. May be expensive. Not all stakeholders have access to a phone. Can be time-consuming. More difficult for the NCC to delegate. Delivery of hard copies Reaches national and local partners. Familiar method of communication at community level. Easily translated. Slow, expensive and Not interactive since there is no mechanism to allow people to respond. Public meetings Reach national and local partners. Familiar method of communication at community level. Easily translated. Time-consuming. In early response, when information changes very quickly, it can be hard to capture this through meetings. Can be dominated by powerful interests, strong personalities.
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