Effective communication is driven by the purpose of the
campaign: what must change and who needs to be reached so as to
bring about change? Within the overall campaign strategy, the
communication strategy defines how to capture the attention of the
target audiences and convey a compelling campaign message.
Amid the battle arranging process, the issue has been
recognized, the circumstance dissected, the partners and target
gatherings of people distinguished, and the crusade destinations or
planned results set. This structures the premise to start creating
an interchanges technique.
The following are the mains steps involved in developing a
communications strategy:
- Set the communication goal and objectives: In a few battles for
conduct change, correspondence objectives and targets might be
indistinguishable to the general crusade objectives and goals (e.g.
to "end the quietness" on abusive behavior at home). All the more
normally, correspondence objectives fluctuate as indicated by
various target gatherings of people. This is the standard in
promotion battles as essential and optional target crowds should be
come to contrastingly and will probably make distinctive kinds of
move.
- Develop key messages that effectively speak to target
audiences: Messages ought to be custom-made to resound with
the objective audience(s) – maybe different adaptations of the
message ought to be set up to contact diverse gatherings of people.
For instance, the message that 'viciousness against ladies is an
infringement of human rights' could be seen distinctively by a
parliamentarian, a religious pioneer, or a town senior. It might
should be balanced – while keeping up the quintessence of the
significance – to be better comprehended. It is likewise vital to
think about who will convey the messages, i.e. the "envoys”. For
example, behavior-change messages resonate better from peer groups
of the target audience, but awareness and advocacy messages might
resonate better from celebrities and politicians. See also Crafting
the Campaign Message
- Identify effective communication channels, techniques and
tools: One can recognize relational channels (one-on-one
contact), network situated channels that utilization existing
informal organizations, and media channels (counting current broad
communications, for example, radio and TV, "new media, for example,
the web and SMS, and "people media", e.g. narrating and customary
social exhibitions). What are the procedures and apparatuses that
are destined to viably come to the audience(s) through these
diverse channels?
- Map accessible communication resources: These incorporate for
instance, media creation abilities, access to free broadcast
appointment or professional bono work by specialists, and
accessibility of appropriate materials from other (e.g. universal
and national-level) battles.
- Set and monitor time-lines, milestones and indicators in action
plans: As portrayed in Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation in
this module, a correspondences activity plan makes an
interpretation of the technique into explicit direction for its
exercises, while checking confirms, at ordinary interims,
regardless of whether the methodology is advancing as arranged, and
whether setting changes call for modifications, e.g. distinctive
strategies.
- Write up a communication strategy document: This is basic to
plainly characterize, format and track all the key advances
referenced previously. A composed report can likewise be shared
effortlessly with all campaigners to guarantee that everybody is
'in agreement', as far as informing and how correspondences
exercises will be directed.