CEA in Emergencies

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement always works in partnership with communities. In an emergency, it can be difficult to balance time and limited resources with our commitment to engage with the people in a meaningful way. These resources will offer useful guidance. Explore resources on integrating CEA into conflict, earthquake and extreme weather responses below, or discover all CEA in emergencies resources by using the search function at the bottom of the page. If you’re looking for health related emergencies, you can visit our CEA and Health page.

When working on emergency operations, you should be meeting the below CEA minimum actions. An explanation of where each CEA minimum action sits in the below programme cycle can be found here.

Latest ‘CEA in Emergencies’ resources

9 August 2023

Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action Toolkit (CHAT)

A toolkit designed to support with developing effective community engagement strategies for different emergencies with specific tools for…

9 August 2023

Learning from the Ukraine Crisis Webinar Series: CEA for Remote CVA programming webinar

The first webinar in the series aimed to explore how Community, Engagement and Accountability (CEA) minimum actions and…

22 February 2023

Engaging communities to build resilience and accountability mechanisms

A case study on engaging communities to build resilience and accountability mechanisms after the Nepal 2015 earthquake.

17 August 2022

PASSA Case Study in Honduras – Safe Homes, Resilient Communities

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

IFRC

This case study shares the experience of Honduras Red Cross in implementing the Participatory Approach to Safe Housing Awareness and Home Repair Program developed as part of the ETA&IOTA hurricane…

  • Extreme weather
  • Flooding
  • Hurricanes
  • PASSA

25 July 2022

National Society Preparedness: Community engagement and accountability

Type:

Video

Organization:

IFRC

This video talks about the importance of community engagement and accountability when Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies work to reduce risk, prepare for and respond to emergencies.

  • Arabic
  • Bahasa
  • Emergencies
  • French

21 July 2022

CEA in Emergencies Module

Type:

Training Material

Organization:

ICRC, IFRC

This training is a rapid overview of the 10 minimum actions to integrate good community engagement in emergency operations. We are eager to make this training material available for all…

  • Emergencies
  • Training

21 July 2022

CEA in Emergencies Training

Type:

Training Material

Organization:

ICRC, IFRC

This training covers the basics that all sectors need to know to achieve a good level of CEA within an emergency response operation. We are eager to make this training…

  • Emergencies
  • Training

12 April 2022

Better programming initiative, do no harm

Type:

Guide

Organization:

IFRC

An IFRC guide on how to do conflict-sensitive context analysis.

  • Conflict
  • Context analysis

12 April 2022

Trust must be earned: Perceptions of aid in Haiti

Type:

Report

Organization:

Ground Truth

A report capturing findings from a survey carried out by Ground Truth with people affected by the 2021 earthquake in Haiti to compare their expectations of humanitarian workers and programmes…

  • Assessments and surveys
  • Creole
  • Earthquakes
  • French