• Integration Stories

    Discover some of the trends, successes, and challenges to integrated humanitarian activities during an outbreak in READY’s new series.

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  • Online courses for WASH and Nutrition

    READY’s new eLearning courses—”WASH in Epidemics” and “Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Remote Counseling”—are now available on the Humanitarian Leadership Academy’s Kaya platform.

    WASH in EpidemicsIYCF Remote Counseling

  • RCCE Readiness Kit

    This new Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Readiness Kit, “Communicating with Communities in Epidemics and Pandemics,” guides users through outbreak preparedness and response phases and readiness actions, with links to practical implementation tools.

    Go to the RCCE Readiness Kit

  • Outbreak READY! Digital Simulation: Translations now available

    Strengthen your outbreak readiness skills and knowledge! Designed for national and international NGOs responding to humanitarian emergencies, this serious game illuminates the complex nature of a humanitarian outbreak response.

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    An illustration from the Outbreak READY! simulation, showing a checkpoint near a city border.
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What is READY?

The READY initiative exists to augment global capacity to respond to major outbreaks of infectious disease with epidemic or pandemic potential—such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Link to: Integrated Framework

New Story Series

These new stories (with narrative video and written case studies) share successful examples of integrated action for better community health outcomes in humanitarian settings during outbreaks.

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Link to: Integrated Framework

Online Courses

READY’s new eLearning courses—WASH in Epidemics and IYCF Remote Counseling—are now available on the Humanitarian Leadership Academy’s Kaya platform.

Learn More
Link to: Integrated Framework

RCCE Readiness Kit

This new Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Readiness Kit, “Communicating with Communities in Epidemics and Pandemics,” guides users through outbreak preparedness and response phases and readiness actions, with links to practical implementation tools.

Explore the RCCE Readiness Kit
Link to: Webinars

OUTBREAK READY! DIGITAL SIMULATION: Translations now available

Strengthen your outbreak readiness skills and knowledge! Designed for national and international NGOs responding to humanitarian emergencies, this serious game illuminates the complex nature of a humanitarian outbreak response.

Learn more

More Resources for COVID-19 Readiness

Health training in Uganda. Image credit: Save the Children Uganda
Health training in Uganda.
Image credit: Save the Children Uganda

Webinars

READY webinars are facilitated conversations relevant to COVID-19 planning and response, featuring experts from academic institutions and implementing organizations

Ahishakiye, 64, says that these posters, distributed by Save the Children, will make it easier for the community to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Image credit: Thacien Biziyaremye / Save the Children
Ahishakiye, 64, says that these posters, distributed by Save the Children, will make it easier for the community to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Image credit: Thacien Biziyaremye / Save the Children

Curated Collections

READY’s selection of websites and repositories of critical COVID-19 guidelines and materials

Jojo*, a young child who survived the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, was cared for by health workers and her mother (right), also an Ebola survivor who was allowed to stay in the unit to care for her daughter.
Jojo*, a young child who survived the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, was cared for by health workers and her mother (right), also an Ebola survivor who was allowed to stay in the unit to care for her daughter.

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