COVID-19 Resources

Trusted, clear and effective communication and engagement approaches are critical to ensure that fear, panic and rumours do not undermine COVID-19 responses. You can use the tools and resources in this section to incorporate CEA into your COVID-19 operations. All resources can be found in list format here.

6 September 2021

Improving the response to Covid-19: Lessons from the humanitarian sector around communication, community engagement and participation

Type:

Report

Organization:

CDAC Network

This paper distils the learning gained in the humanitarian aid sector which may help to mitigate or even go some way towards solving some of the challenges in working with…

  • Accountability
  • Aid
  • Communication
  • Vulnerable groups

31 August 2021

Building trust and ensuring success through student engagement

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

WHO

This case study looks at how Leuven University created a student-run testing and contact tracing centre, listening and responding to community feedback.

  • Community feedback
  • Contact tracing
  • Engagement
  • Students

31 August 2021

Digital Contact tracing in Europe – Building trust with transparency

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

WHO

This case study looks at how the Austrian Red Cross, in partnership with the ministry of health, developed Stop Corona Europe’s first COVID-19 digital contact tracing APP. Community trust was…

  • App
  • Contact tracing
  • Technology
  • Trust

4 August 2021

Relationships the Key to Risk Communications (A Guyana Case Study)

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

Guyana Red Cross

During the COVID-19 outbreak in Guyana, the Guyana Red Cross saw the vulnerability of remote Indigenous and migrant communities in accessing information and the supplies that could protect people and…

  • Community feedback
  • CEA and Migration
  • Perceptions
  • Vulnerable groups

2 August 2021

Volunteers in every street (A Libyan Red Crescent and Benghazi Branch case study)

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

IFRC

Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Libya, the Libyan Red Crescent Society (LRCS) has been implementing and monitoring community engagement and accountability approaches. This case study analyzes the impact, successes and…

  • Arabic
  • Community feedback
  • Conflict
  • Participation

29 July 2021

Chatbots: A Conversation with the Community (A Kazakhstan Case Study)

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

Red Crescent of Kazakhstan

In 2021, the Kazakhstan Red Crescent Society developed a chatbot based on community preferences to receive information. The chatbot provides information from a trusted source in a forum that people…

  • AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  • Chatbot
  • Information
  • Technology

29 July 2021

Garden to Kitchen: Listening to communities (A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study)

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross Society

This case study looks at the research process that the Trinidad &Tobago Red Cross undertook to understand and address communities’ assistance needs, priorities and preferences of arriving migrants. Through its…

  • Community feedback
  • Livelihoods
  • Migrants
  • CEA and Migration

28 July 2021

Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) assessment on Covid-19 (round 3)

Type:

Report

Organization:

IFRC, Toplum Merkezi, Turkish Red Crescent

This report captures the third round of findings from a KAP assessment carried out by the Turkish Red Crescent Society. The findings of the assessment are intended to inform an…

  • Assessments
  • Community feedback
  • KAP
  • CEA and Migration

26 July 2021

Study on perceptions of risk communication and community engagement for COVID-19 in Lebanon

Type:

Report

Organization:

Anthrologica, British Red Cross, ICRC, IFRC, Lebanese Red Cross

A study exploring community perceptions about the relevance and access to COVID-19 health communication across Lebanon, focusing on the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) approaches by the Lebanese Red…

  • Arabic
  • Community feedback
  • RCCE

19 July 2021

Data synthesis: public perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccinations

Type:

Report

Organization:

RCCE Collective Service

A series of data syntheses from the RCCE Collective Service. It focuses on public perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccinations, bringing together 66 data sources from quantitative surveys across 107 countries…

  • Community feedback
  • Vaccines

15 July 2021

COVID-19 Infodemic trends in Africa

Type:

Report

Organization:

Africa Infodemic Response Alliance, IFRC, UNICEF

This report presents operational recommendations based on monthly COVID-19 online and offline community feedback trends analysis in Africa. It aims to enable evidence-based decision-making at regional and national levels.

  • Community feedback

1 July 2021

Learning about Covid-19-related stigma, quarantine and isolation experiences in Finland

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

SSHAP

This study explores the forms and outcomes of coronavirus and COVID-19-related social stigma and the experiences of people who were home quarantined or isolated in Finland during the spring of…

  • Stigma prevention