Risk Communication and Community Engagement Preparedness and Readiness Framework: Ebola Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu
Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is an essential part of any disease outbreak response. Risk communication in the context of an Ebola outbreak refers to real time exchange of information, opinion and advice between frontline responders and people who are faced with the threat of Ebola to their survival, health, economic or social wellbeing. Community engagement refers to mutual partnership between Ebola response teams and individuals or communities in affected areas, whereby community stakeholders have ownership in controlling the spread of the outbreak.
This document was developed jointly by the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) incident management team for the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September 2018 by World Health Organization, UNICEF and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, with inputs from GOARN Research (Social Science), US Centres for Disease Control,