Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit: mass gatherings

Overview

This toolkit contains a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) practitioners, decision-makers and partners to plan and implement readiness and response activities for health emergencies related to mass gathering events.

While this is a stand-alone RCCE resource, it is complementary to existing mass gatherings frameworks and operational packages available to mass gatherings organizers, event planners, and relevant stakeholders at global, regional, national, and local levels that help to support the safe organization of events and the overall response to any related emergency. These resources can be found in Sections 5 and 7 of this document.

The toolkit contains: background information about mass gatherings; public health considerations for mass gatherings; Risk assessment tools for assessing overall level of risk associated with mass gathering events and identifying precautionary measures; RCCE considerations on how to approach key issues during mass gatherings methods for collecting data to inform strategy development and bring evidence into the planning and implementation of activities; case studies; and links to other RCCE tools and trainings, including in the context of mass gatherings. This is one of a suite of toolkits on RCCE readiness and response to a range of disease and response areas.