This document highlights public health advice for social and religious practices and gatherings during Ramadan that can be applied across different national contexts.
Source: Safe Ramadan Practices in the Context of the COVID-19: Interim Guidance
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The purpose of this toolkit is to offer non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other humanitarian response actors a suite of guidance and tools they can use to rapidly plan and integrate Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) into their COVID-19 response. Given the rapidly changing nature of the pandemic, these tools and guidelines will be updated as needed. This toolkit was developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and Save the Children through the READY initiative, which is funded by USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).
Source: COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement Toolkit for Humanitarian Actors
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This short guide includes important considerations, messages, and resources to support country programs in adapting their FP/RH-focused SBC programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19. Program adaptations and messaging should be adapted in line with country context, available services, and local government response, including that of coordinating bodies responsible for COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement efforts.
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Guidance on Social and Behavior Change for Family Planning During COVID-19 (English)
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The purpose of this I-Kit is to provide a set of key considerations for SBCC activities in emergency situations.
This I-Kit provides essential information and tools for responding to an outbreak using an SBCC approach. It presents a series of nine units, each accompanied by exercise worksheets to help link the SBCC theory to practice.
Each unit builds on the one prior, and they all combine to provide key information for developing an SBCC strategy. It is not essential, however, to work through the I-Kit from start to finish. Users can choose to focus on specific aspects for which they need support in their emergency communication response. The nine units and corresponding worksheets are outlined in the I-Kit Site Navigator.
The worksheets in each section are typically followed by a completed example. The completed examples will likely include information about an emergency that, during an actual event, might not be immediately available. This was done to illustrate the full range of information to inform a strategic communication response.
This kit is also available in Portuguese.
Source (English): SBCC for Emergency Preparedness Implementation Kit
Source (Portuguese): Comunicação para a Mudança Social e de Comportamento para Preparação de Emergência
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This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a particular focus on Sierra Leone as this was the hub of the organization’s response.
Source: Using Media and Communication to Respond to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Ebola
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A communication strategy is the critical piece bridging the situation analysis and the implementation of a social and behavior change communication (SBCC) program. It is a written plan that details how an SBCC program will reach its vision, given the current situation. Effective communication strategies use a systematic process and behavioral theory to design and implement communication activities that encourage sustainable social and behavior change.
Most communication strategies include the following elements:
Source: How to Develop a Communication Strategy (JHU CCP)
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Handwashing with soap, together with other public health interventions, will be key to curbing the transmission of COVID-19.
This technical brief offers guidelines for:
Source: Handwashing with Soap: A Key Part of the COVID-19 Response
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Violence against women remains a major threat to global public health and women’s health during emergencies. It is the most common form of violence.
Violence against women tends to increase during every type of emergency, including epidemics. Older women and women with disabilities are likely to have additional risks and needs. Women who are displaced, refugees, and living in conflict-affected areas are particularly vulnerable. As distancing measures are put in place and people are encouraged to stay at home, the risk of intimate partner violence is likely to increase.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has placed an immense burden on health systems, including frontline health workers, there are things that can help mitigate the effects of violence on women and children.
Source (English): COVID-19 and violence against women
Source (Français): COVID-19 et violence à l’égard des femmes
Source (Pyccкий): COVID-19 и насилие в отношении женщин
Source (中文): COVID-19 和暴力侵害妇女行为
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This fact sheet explains that misinformation about coronavirus and COVID-19 can create fear and hostility that hurts people and makes it harder to keep everyone healthy. It emphasizes that people are stronger as a community when they stand together against discrimination.
Source: Stigma Reduction (Washington State Department of Health
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It is important to remember that people – including those of Asian descent – who do not live in or have not recently been in an area of ongoing spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, or have not been in contact with a person who is a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19 are not at greater risk of spreading COVID-19 than other Americans.
Source: Stigma and Resilience (CDC)
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