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 June 2019

CEA planning template

Type:

Template

Organization:

IFRC

A CEA planning template following the 2015 Nepal earthquake. This document covers the strategic steps of implementing CEA following the disaster, for urban and rural areas respectively.

  • Earthquakes
  • Mainstreaming
  • Project cycle management

17 June 2019

Strengthening community voices in disaster law decision making

Type:

Training Material

Organization:

IFRC

A presentation from the IFRC Asia Pacific about the importance of community influence in decision making; community participation in disaster management in Asia Pacific and a national perspective of citizen…

  • Disaster
  • Emergencies

17 June 2019

CEA leaflet

Type:

Infographic

Organization:

IFRC

An IFRC leaflet detailing what is meant by CEA, why it is important and how it helps to build more resilient communities, both in emergency situations and as part of…

  • Communication
  • Disaster
  • Emergencies
  • Information as aid

17 June 2019

Behaviour change: communication in emergencies toolkit

Type:

Tool

Organization:

Sierra Leone Red Cross, UNICEF

A toolkit produced by UNICEF to promote behaviour change in emergency situations. Tools include guidelines, charts, checklists and monitoring tools.

  • Behaviour change
  • Communication
  • Video

8 February 2016

Are you Listening Now? Community Perspectives on Communication with Communities during the Nepal earthquake

Type:

Report

Organization:

CDAC Network

The CDAC Network’s research, ‘Are You Listening Now?’ considers whether, in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquakes in April and May 2015, people were getting information that was useful and…

  • Earthquakes
  • Perceptions

2 July 2015

Common feedback project – Nepal, 2015

Type:

Report

Organization:

HCT Nepal

An inter-agency report on the ‘Common Feedback Project’, following the 2015 Nepal earthquake. It focuses on the accountability response and how affected people were given access to information and feedback…

  • Earthquakes
  • Participation