How to Manage Refugee Helplines - A Few Tips to Help Organisations Cope with Emergency Calls

Publication language
English
Pages
2pp
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Comms, media & information, Protection, human rights & security, Forced displacement and migration

n refugee emergencies, humanitarian organisations usually experience a sharp increase in the number of telephone calls. If they continue managing calls like before, this will invariably overwhelm the staff and frustrate the callers. A few simple and inexpensive measures suffice to create a call centre. With an efficient helpline in place, organisations can reduce the number of people coming to their premises and save themselves and the refugees time and money.