Risk Communication and Community Engagement in West and Central Africa

  • Author: IOM- Awareness Raising United
  • Level: Beginner
  • Time: 1 hour
  • Quizzes: 5
  • Assessment: 1
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Course description

Risk Communication is an exchange of information in real-time between experts or leaders and the community facing a threat. In the case of COVID-19, this threat is to their health, economic and social well-being. This course will take you through the principles of risk communication and community engagement through the lens of COVID-19. 

Course content

1. Introduction
  • What is RCCE ?
  • Getting started with RCCE

2. How to communicate
  • What do we need to communicate about COVID-19?
  • Combatting stigmatization in West and Central Africa
  • Combatting rumours in West and Central Africa

3. Learning from practice
  • Examples of RCCE in West and Central Africa
  • Developing an RCCE Action Plan
  • Resources for COVID-19 RCCE in West and Central Africa
  • Safety during RCCE activities 
  • RCCE in Complex Settings


4. Conclusion
  • Resources for RCCE in WCA


5. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
  • How is it going? Will we do this again in the same way?


6. Course Summary 

7. Course Assessment 
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IOM’s Awareness Raising Unit

This course was developed in April 2020 by the Regional Working Group for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) to fight COVID-19 in West and Central Africa.

For more information, visit https://coronawestafrica.info/. The RCCE e-learning course is managed by IOM’s Awareness Raising Unit based in Dakar, Senegal.

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We are a coalition of migration experts, academics and media professionals offering accessible and relevant courses to support people in the fields of media and communication to report factually about migration and bring genuine stories to light.
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