Communicating with Communities in Epidemics & Pandemics:

Risk Communication and Community Engagement

RCCE Readiness Kit

Orientation Materials: RCCE for Humanitarian Actors

We recommend reviewing these items before digging into the kit itself.

Introducing RCCE

In the simplest terms, risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) means involving communities to make outbreak communications as effective as possible.

Key Considerations

RCCE helps us understand the psychological, social, and environmental factors that explain why people behave the way they do. This helps agencies and humanitarian actors to respond more effectively.

Roles and Responsibilities

Who does what in RCCE? This document describes what kinds of jobs an RCCE effort will take, what each person’s responsibilities might be, and what positions might need recruitment of local staff.

The RCCE Readiness Kit

The image below represents the progression of an outbreak response. Each phase of the response is described in a scenario, and has associated elements (emergency preparedness planning, staffing, training, messaging, etc.) For each element (shown in tabs on the left below), this kit offers suggested actions and tools to build readiness.

PRE-CRISIS

EARLY ONSET

MITIGATION

SUPPRESSION

RECOVERY

Resources

This website is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of READY and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. Led by Save the Children, the READY initiative is implemented in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, UK-Med, and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy. READY is augmenting global capacity for non-governmental organizations to respond to large-scale infectious disease outbreaks.