• Call for Stories: Integrated Outbreak Response

    Do you have a story to tell about integration in an outbreak response? We want to hear it! Submit your story by December 20, 2021.

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  • Operational Readiness Training Program: Deadline has passed

    The submission period for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) has closed for READY’s new collaborative and co-created training program. Thanks to all who submitted an EOI!

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    Distribution of Hygiene Kits and PPE, including handwashing stations, soap, masks and googles to Langata Health Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of the COVID-19 outbreak response. Image credit: Mark Wahwai / Save the Children

  • COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement Toolkit for Humanitarian Actors

    READY’s RCCE Toolkit offers the latest guidance and resources for cross-cutting essentials, operations, and special considerations for the humanitarian response context.

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

Operational Readiness Training Program

The submission period for Expressions of Interest has closed for READY’s collaborative, co-created training program offers simulation, customized training, tailored technical assistance, and ongoing mentorship.

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Link to: Integrated Framework

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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Link to: Webinars

Toolkit: Risk Communication and Community Engagement

READY’s RCCE Toolkit offers the latest guidance and resources for cross-cutting essentials, operations, and special considerations for the humanitarian response context.

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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 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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