Our main resource is our Epidemic Control Toolkit which provides information for volunteers and managers to prevent and control the spread of epidemics at the community-level, and guidance on appropriate referral and basic care for the sick. Content is available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian.

Other resources:

• Our eCBHFA website contains teaching guides and tools, evidence and operational tools on everything to do with community health and first aid.
• The IFRC's Watsan Mission Assistant offers a wide range of resources for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practitioners. 
• The IFRC and Save the Children have worked together to produce concise and practical key messages to support disaster prevention within communities. Messages cover a wide range of hazards including epidemics and pandemics.
• The Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) is a partnership of more than 50 institutions working to end cholera. The IFRC hosts its Country Support Platform which helps countries to develop and put in place effective National Cholera Plans.
• Our COVID-19 resource compendium provides materials, guidance and contacts for a wide range of health topics within the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Community-based surveillance (CBS) is the systematic detection and reporting of events of public health significance within a community, by community members. By enabling trained volunteers within communities to report unusual health events, we can ensure that the right health support is provided, in the right place and at the right time, to stop epidemics in their tracks.

• The IFRC's CBS microsite is a one-stop-shop for information and resources on Community-Based Surveillance, supported by the Norwegian Red Cross.
• We've produced CBS guiding principles, based on countless years of field experience, to help National Societies and partner organizations support communities to play an essential role in their own health security.
• Our CBS assessment tool is a practical tool to guide National Societies and partners in  how to conduct assessments of health threats within communities.
• Our CBS protocol template offers guidance, design considerations and instructions on how to design an effective community-based surveillance system.

• The Community Engagement Hub, hosted by the British Red Cross, offers practical resources and advice on how we can ensure communities are always at the heart of what we do.
• Our Guide to Community Engagement and Accountability provides staff and volunteers across the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement with a common approach to build CEA systematically into our ways of working. 
• Our CEA Toolkit offers practical tools for National Societies and humanitarian organizations to assess, design, implement, monitor and evaluate community engagement and accountability activities.
• Produced by our partner, BBC Media Action, the Guide for the media on communicating in public health emergencies offers tips for media practitioners on how to support audiences during health emergencies. The guide is available in multiple languages.
• The Collective Service is a joint initiative by the IFRC, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN). It helps partners in the public health, humanitarian and development sectors to increase and improve their risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) activities. 

• This report from the IFRC Disaster Law team offers lessons from the pandemic on law and public health emergency preparedness and response.
• They have also produced guidance on law and public health emergency preparedness and response to support the review and updating of laws, policies and plans relating to public health emergencies.
• The Supporting Health Communities: Understanding the Auxiliary Role of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Health brochure is a useful tool for National Societies to engage their authorities and advocate for a better defined auxiliary role in health. While this report offers a stock take of the auxiliary role in health of several National Societies in Africa and South Asia.
• The IFRC Disaster Law website contains a wide range of other useful resources, including a guide to strengthening the auxiliary role through law and policy.

The IFRC’s Global Disaster Preparedness Center offers a wide range of business preparedness resources, including the Small Business Preparedness Toolkit which helps National Societies engage with businesses on preparing for a variety of risks, and the Business Continuity Planning Help Desk.

Access the full range of resources here.

• The Data Readiness Toolkit helps users to gather and manage high-quality, timely information during humanitarian operations.
• The Data Playbook provides resources for National Societies to develop their literacy around data, including responsible data use and data protection.