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

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.

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…

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…

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

4 April 2022

Ukraine emergency: Key informant interviews

Type:

Report

Organization:

Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC)

A summary of findings from Key Informant Interviews (KII) conduced by the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) between 3-5 March 2022 in order to better understand key information and communication needs…

  • Assessments
  • Conflict
  • Emergencies
  • Information needs assessment

17 March 2022

Information is aid, Ukrainian crisis

Type:

Factsheet

Organization:

ICRC

A factsheet providing information for affected people in Ukraine. For more information visit https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/europe-central-asia/ukraine/help-useful-information-affected-people

  • Conflict
  • Information as aid
  • Russian
  • Template

17 March 2022

How do you talk to children about war?

Type:

Guide

Organization:

IFRC

A one-page guide for parents and caregivers on how to talk to children about war. This can be used for children either directly or indirectly affected by conflict.

  • Children
  • Conflict
  • MHPSS
  • Ukraine

1 March 2022

CEA during the Beirut blast response

Type:

Video

Organization:

Lebanese Red Cross

In this video, Pamela Saab, CEA Coordinator for Lebanese Red Cross, explains how, after the Beirut port blast, CEA was used by the Lebanese Red Cross to recognise and value…

  • Arabic
  • CEA and Cash
  • Lebanon
  • Shelter