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GUIDANCE FOR INTEGRATING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INTO NATIONAL CHOLERA PLANS
This guide was developed to contribute to the Global Task Force on Cholera Control Interim Guiding Document to Support Countries for the Development of their National Cholera Plans. It focuses on the integration of community engagement approaches.
This guidance has been developed for use by those involved in designing, developing and implementing a National Cholera Plan for Control or Elimination (NCPs) at country level.
Social Science for Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action
In collaboration with more than 70 humanitarian partners across humanitarian practice and academia, the SS4CE in HA project has been aiming to facilitate community engagement of affected and at-risk communities throughout the humanitarian program cycle.
INFORMATION PREPAREDNESS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR EL NIÑO IN THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA REGION
This key considerations brief describes the implications of El Niño in the East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) initiatives, based on previous comparable weather events. Lessons learnt are predominantly taken from the literature on communicating forecast and weather information, but have implications for multi-hazard RCCE response. Some lessons learnt are also taken from beyond East and Southern Africa, but considered within the anticipated El Niño effects in ESAR specifically.
call for applications: Technical Officer – Community Readiness and Resilience (CRR), at who
The purpose of this position is to provide technical coordination and programmatic support to strengthen readiness and resilience of communities and to protect the health of local communities from health crises, epidemic and pandemics like COVID-19. The position will provide capacity and competency assessment, for community readiness and resilience.
HARNESSING THE POWER OF LOCAL JOURNALISM TO SAVE LIVES DURING PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES
With public health emergencies on the rise in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), public officials and emergency responders have a responsibility to ensure communities have access to information that can keep them safe. This case study explores how health experts and journalists combine forces to combat misinformation and brings the ESAR Media Taskforce to life. Co-led by Internews and the Collective Service under the UNICEF/IFRC-led RCCE Technical Working Group in ESAR, the Media Taskforce is providing journalists with the tools they need to report on health crises as they emerge.
Georgia: community engagement and accountability impact research
The overall objective of the research is to identify, understand and document how CEA approaches have changed, impacted and/or influenced Red Cross Red Crescent programmes and community health systems during public health emergencies. This document presents the results of the research in Georgia, a case study on COVID-19.
ESAR – Design for Health Hackathon: Redesigning cholera response challenge
On Thursday, October 12th, UNICEF ESARO, with the support of partner agencies, led the first Design for Health Hackathon on Redesigning Cholera Response Challenge in Nairobi.
The event brought together partners, designers and innovators, researchers and donors to rethink and redesign the cholera health service experience by closely examining behaviours across the journey to health. Participants competed to develop and pitch innovative ideas on reduce cholera-related mortality by improving the cholera service experience to a panel of technical experts and donors.
PUBLIC HEALTH SITUATION ANALYSIS: EL NIÑO, GLOBAL CLIMATE EVENT
This Public Health Situation Analysis (PHSA) identifies the current and potential health impacts that vulnerable populations may face as a result of the global El Niño climate event, and describes health systems’ capacities to respond.
This is the second edition of this Public Health Situation Analysis; it updates the climate forecast for the months of October through December 2023 and re-assesses the health risks in the updated context.
Health Emergency Preparedness & Response at the Onset of El Niño
While the first Africa Climate Summit concluded last month where African governments and donors committed to aggressive steps and funding toward climate change action across the Africa Union, climate change is already knocking on the door of the most vulnerable communities across the continent.
The Collective Service is already answering the call from Ministries of Health and/or partners from 14 countries for support to prepare communities for impending health emergencies likely to be caused or exacerbated by El Niño.
People-centric humanitarian response in conflict: strategies, insights and dilemmas
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), hosted a public learning event aimed at challenging our thinking and approach to the concept of ‘Accountability to Affected People’ in conflict settings.