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…

30 March 2020

Community and organisational perceptions feedback: Cyclone Idai

Type:

Report

Organization:

CDAC Network

A perceptions survey produced by CDAC and Equip Mozambique, with support from the Mozambique Red Cross and UNICEF, to ascertain the perceived levels of community engagement from organisations that responded…

  • Africa
  • Complaints
  • Cyclone
  • Extreme weather

26 March 2020

Community Engagement and Accountability: A learning review from Nepal

Type:

Report

Organization:

British Red Cross

A learning review of the Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) activities implemented in Nepal by the NRCS, with support from BRC, between 2014 – 2018

  • Disaster
  • Earthquakes

3 July 2019

Community feedback bulletin on cyclone preparedness

Type:

Bulletin

Organization:

IFRC

The bulletin provides insights into key areas for improvement around cyclone preparedness in the camps and issues that Red Cross and Red Crescent partners may want to consider when planning…

  • CEA and Migration
  • Cyclone
  • Displacement
  • Extreme weather

3 July 2019

Typhoon Bopha – communicating to save lives

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

IFRC

An IFRC Case Study on Typhoon Bopha, which hit Mindanao Island in the Philippines in December 2012. It details the Red Cross response to the disaster, and the channels of…

  • Communication
  • Extreme weather
  • Response
  • Typhoon

3 July 2019

Regional resilience initiative – infographics

Type:

Infographic

Organization:

IFRC

An IFRC infographic which explains the Regional Resilience Initiative in Southeast Asia. The project is an opportunity for National Societies to promote community disaster risk reduction both regionally and nationally.

  • Disaster
  • Emergencies

3 July 2019

Our commitments to: accountability to beneficiaries and the communities where we work

Type:

Case Study

Organization:

IFRC

An IFRC case study on, ‘Integrating Community Engagement and Accountability into Disaster Risk Reduction Activities if the Maternal, Newborn and Child Healthcare Programme in Rural Myanmar’.

  • Case study
  • Disaster reduction