Food Security Communications Toolkit

This toolkit is geared to helping food security professionals develop a communication strategy and communicate more effectively with their chosen audiences. Specific sections of the toolkit focus on policy makers and the media, because of the role they play in implementing and influencing food security policies.

The toolkit also looks at specific information products such as policy briefs, reports, and early warning bulletins and suggests ways to structure and improve them. A section on writing effectively, which focuses on grammar and style, makes sure that written documents are easy to read. Finally, the toolkit gives tips for using the internet, social media, and Web 2.0 tools, as these technologies offer opportunities for engaging in two-way dialogues with global audiences. The toolkit also includes documentation templates and tips.

This toolkit was prepared as part of the European Commission-Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (EC-FAO) Programme on “Linking Information and Decision Making to Improve Food Security” which is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A major part of the materials in this toolkit are based on two e-learning courses also developed as part of the EC-FAO Programme and found on the Improved Global Governance for Hunger Reduction website section Courses on Food Security: i) Communicating Food Security; and ii) Reporting Food Security Information.