• New Training: Epidemiology and Modeling of Infectious Diseases in the Humanitarian Setting

    Equipping participants with foundational infectious disease epidemiology and modeling concepts for a better command of data interpretation in humanitarian emergencies.

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    A Save the Children-supported health facility in Goma, Eastern Province, DRC, during the Ebola epidemic declared in 2019. Image credit: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham / Save the Children

  • Integrated Framework for COVID-19 Response

    READY’s integrated response framework is designed to minimize COVID-19 transmission in vulnerable communities through multi-sectoral service approaches around specific non-pharmaceutical interventions.

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  • Featured Collection: Kaya COVID-19 Learning Pathway

    This open-access collection aims to enable humanitarians, including local responders, to be best equipped to respond to the global pandemic COVID-19. It includes online courses for strengthening technical capacity and soft skills and a “key documents” library including remote working guides and resilience support.

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    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
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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: Webinars

New Training: Epidemiology and Modeling of Infectious Diseases in the Humanitarian Setting

Equipping participants with foundational infectious disease epidemiology and modeling concepts for a better command of data interpretation in humanitarian emergencies.

Learn more

KAYA COVID-19 LEARNING PATHWAY

This open-access collection aims to enable humanitarians, including local responders, to be best equipped to respond to the global pandemic COVID-19. It includes online courses for strengthening technical capacity and soft skills as well as a key documents library for the COVID-19 context, including remote working guides and resilience support. (Image credit: Kaya / Save the Children)

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More Curated Collections
Link to: Workshops

Integrated Framework for COVID-19 Response

READY’s integrated response framework is designed to minimize COVID-19 transmission in vulnerable communities through multi-sectoral service approaches around specific non-pharmaceutical interventions.

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Resources for COVID-19 Readiness

Coronavirus (COVID-19) awareness raising campaign in Shabelle internally displaced camps, Mogadishu. Image credit: Mohamed Osman / Save the Children
Coronavirus (COVID-19) awareness raising campaign in Shabelle internally displaced camps, Mogadishu. Image credit: Mohamed Osman / Save the Children

Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Toolkit

The COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Toolkit for Humanitarian Actors offers non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other humanitarian response actors guidance and tools they can use to rapidly plan and integrate RCCE into their COVID-19 response.

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

Sahra (a mother of three children who lives in Ceelsoor village east of Adado, Somalia) listens keenly to a Save the Children-supported Community Health Worker who visited her village to deliver immunization services and COVID-19 prevention measures. Image credit: Abdirahman Mohamed / Save the Children

Workshops

Workshop materials are now available for adaptation and use. READY’s workshops aim to strengthen operational capacities and program adaptation frameworks among humanitarian NGOs to support a holistic, integrated response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Grandmother Charity, Joanne and her daughter Phoebe outside their house in Omugo refugee settlement, Uganda. Image credit: Fredrik Lerneryd / Save the Children
Grandmother Charity, Joanne and her daughter Phoebe outside their house in Omugo refugee settlement, Uganda. Image credit: Fredrik Lerneryd / Save the Children

READY Discussion Forum

A community of practice space for humanitarian actors involved in outbreak preparedness and response, READY’s discussion forum includes webinar follow-up questions, workshop materials, and working group support.

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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