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Community-based surveillance
INTRODUCTION SLides
CBS Assessment
This presentation provides users with an introduction to why the assessment process is so important to starting CBS, steps to conducting your own CBS Assessment, and suggested tools and resources to complete the process.
Conducting a CBS assessment (English)Réaliser une évaluation de la surveillance à base communautaire (French)إجراء تقييم للمراقبة المجتمعية (Arabic)Evaluación en el marco de la vigilancia basada en la comunidad (Spanish)Introduction to Community-Based Surveillance
This presentation gives everyone interested in community-based surveillance (CBS) a basic understanding of the Red Cross Red Crescent approach to CBS and how it differs from other surveillance strategies, the role of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers in CBS, as well as tools available to support implementation.
Introduction to CBS (English)Introduction à la surveillance à base communautaire (French)مدخل إلى المراقبة المجتمعية (Arabic)Introducción a la vigilancia basada en la comunidad (Spanish)assessment tools, protocols and resources
CBS Assessment tool
The IFRC CBS Assessment tool facilitates a useful and thorough CBS initial assessment, by guiding Red Cross Red Crescent staff or delegates.
CBS Assessment tool (English)CBS Assessment tool (French)CBS Assessment tool (Spanish)CBS Assessment tool (Arabic)CBS Protocol template
The IFRC CBS Protocol template provides guidance, design considerations and instructions for designing a CBS system.
CBS Protocol template (English)CBS Protocol template (French)CBS Protocol template (Spanish)CBS Protocol template (Arabic)CBS Guiding principles
The IFRC CBS Guiding principles builds on the experience and lessons from implementing CBS across the world, supporting communities to play an essential role in their own health security and contributing to improved resilience of those most at risk.
Community-Based Surveillance: guiding principles (English)Surveillance à base communautaire: principes directeurs (French)IFRC CBS Resources file
Health Risks and Community Case Definitions
This list of community case definitions are intended to act as guidance only, and should be reviewed and adapted alongside Ministry of Health and local partners.
Global List of Community Health Risks for CBS within the RCRC MembershipCBS Guidance for COVID-19
The guidance document has been developed to assist National Societies in deciding if and how they may wish to include community-based surveillance in their preparedness and response plan for COVID-19.
Community-based surveillance (CBS) for COVID-19 (English)Vigilancia basada en la comunidad para la COVID-19 (Spanish)Surveillance à base communautaire du COVID-19 (French)(املراقبة اجملمتعي ة للعدوى بفريوس كوروان املس تجد (كوفي د-19 (Arabic)Public Health ERU CBS Handbook
The handbook intends to be a guideline for understanding a PH ERU CBS, for National Societies that want to build a PH ERU CBS capacity.
Public Health ERU CBS Handbook.pdfNyss - a community-based surveillance platform
Nyss Manual
The manual for all users of Nyss. Covers setup, user overview, all functionalities and more. You can always find the latest, most up-to-date version here.
Nyss User Manual.pdfManuel d'utilisation Nyss.pdfManual del usuario Nyss.pdfManual do usuário Nyss.pdfNyss One Pager
A quick overview of Nyss; its uses, functionalities and technology.
Nyss Key Information (English) .pdfInformations Clés sur Nyss (French).pdfData privacy
Data Protection Impact Assessment
Data Protection Impact Assessment conducted by Norwegian Red Cross in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, to assess and improve data protection in Nyss.
Data Protection Impact Assessment.pdfPlatform Agreement
The Nyss platform agreement defines the responsibilities related to data protection between Norwegian Red Cross (as hosting Nyss) and National Societies (as implementing partners).
Platform Agreement.pdfConvention d’utilisation de la plate-forme Nyss.pdfAcuerdo de plataforma Nyss.pdfGap Analysis
Gap analysis on the Senegalese Data Protection Law and the General Data Protection Regulation
Gap Analysis.pdfTraining materials
TRaining of trainers
Start here: Manual & Agenda
The manual and agenda are aimed at Red Cross Red Crescent facilitators or Public Health Emergency Response Unit (PH ERU) CBS delegates who will organize and conduct Training of Trainers (ToT) on CBS in emergency settings. It will support the responsible individuals within the National Societies to clarify what CBS is, how it could be used in their context, and how to teach this knowledge to others.
ToT Manual.pdfToT Suggested Agenda.xlsToT Examples for Training.pdfDay 1: Presentations
Below are all the presentations that can be used the first day of Training of Trainers. Please refer to the manual for how to use the presentations.
Session 1: Welcome.pptSession 2: The Role as Training Facilitator and Supervisor.pptSession 3: Introduction to Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.pptSession 4: Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment.pptSession 5: Definition of Health Risks/Events and Transmission.pptSession 6: Recap.pptDay 1: Printouts Part 1
Below are all the printouts that can be used the first day of Training of Trainers. Please refer to the manual for how to use the printouts.
CP3 Action Tool: Cluster of Unusual Deaths or Illness in Animals.pdfCP3 Action Tool: Rabies.pdfCP3 Action Tool: Unusual Bleeding.pdfCP3 Action Tool: Avian Influenza.pdfECV disease tool 1: Acute Diarrhoeal Disease.pdfECV disease tool 5: Typhoid Fever.pdfECV disease tool 6: Acute Bloody Diarrhoea.pdfECV disease tool 7: Acute Respiratory Infections Preventable with Vaccines.pdfECV disease tool 8: Measles.pdfECV disease tool 9: Meningococcal Meningitis.pdfECV disease tool 10: Polio.pdfECV disease tool 11: Yellow Fever.pdfECV disease tool 12: Chikungunya.pdfECV disease tool 13: Dengue Fever.pdfDay 1: Printouts Part 2
Below are all the printouts that can be used the first day of Training of Trainers. Please refer to the manual for how to use the printouts.
ECV disease tool 14: Malaria.pdfECV disease tool 15: Zika Virus Infection.pdfECV disease tool 17: Ebola.pdfECV disease tool 18: Lassa Fever.pdfECV disease tool 19: Marburg.pdfECV disease tool 20: Plague.pdfECV disease tool 25: Monkeypox.pdfECV disease tool 28: Unexplained Clusters of Deaths.pdfECV disease tool 29: Acute Malnutrition.pdfSession 3: Assessement.pdfSession 5: Vulnerability to Diseases.pdfSession 5: The story of Transmission.pdfSession 5: Health Risks/Events Illustrations.pdfDay 2: Presentations
Below are all the presentations that can be used the second day of Training of Trainers. Please refer to the manual for how to use the presentations.
Session 7: Welcome.pptSession 8: Introduction to CBS and Nyss.pptSession 9: Data Collection and Protection.pptSession 10: Nyss Training Guide.pptSession 11: Nyss Tasks.pptSession 12: Recap.pptDay 2: Printouts
Below are all the printouts that can be used the second day of Training of Trainers. Please refer to the manual for how to use the printouts.
Session 8: Why Communication Matters.pdfSession 11: Nyss Tasks.pdfDay 3: Presentations
Below are all the presentations that can be used the third day of Training of Trainers. Please refer to the manual for how to use the presentations.
Session 13: Welcome.pptSession 14: Disease Control Actions.pptSession 15: Cases for the Role as Supervisor and Facilitator.pptSession 16: Teaching Session.pptSession 17: Recap and a Way Forward.pptDay 3: Printouts
Below are all the printouts that can be used the third day of Training of Trainers. Please refer to the manual for how to use the printouts.
Session 14: ECV Action Tools.pdfSession 17: Evaluation Example.docTraining of volunteers
Start here: Agenda & Manual
Day 1: Presentations
Day 1: Printouts part 1
Day 1: Printouts part 2
Day 1: Printouts part 3
Day 1: Activities
Day 2: Presentations
Day 2: Printouts
Day 2: Activities
Day 3: Presentations
Day 3: Activities
NYSS TRAINING
Nyss Training Guide
This presentation can be used when training new users of Nyss.
Nyss Training Guide.pptPublications & Infographics
Publications
People-centred surveillance: a narrative review of community-based surveillance among crisis-affected populations
The Lancet, Planetary Health: Community-based surveillance contributes to rapid outbreak detection/response in humanitarian crises. A review of real-world implications for public health practice.
Ruwan Ratnayake, MHS; Meghan Tammaro, MPH and Amanda Tiffany, PhD; Anine Kongelf, MSc, Jonathan A. Polonsky, MSc; Amanda McClelland, MPHTM (2020), The Lancet: Plamnetary Health, volume 4, issue 10, E483-E495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30221-7
Link to article on thelancet.comA community-centred approach to global health security: implementation experience of community-based surveillance (CBS) for epidemic preparedness
Communities have a key role to play in global health security. The Red Cross/Red Crescent epidemic preparedness programme empowers volunteers and communities to: identify risks; recognise and notify epidemic alerts; take early action to control disease. The programme set out to establish community-based surveillance (CBS) as a preparedness model – yielding earlier detection and action to halt outbreaks at the outset. This paper reports on the mid-stage CBS implementation experience and results in Indonesia, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Uganda.
Abbey Byrne & Bronwyn Nichol (2020), Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 5:1, 71-84, DOI: 10.1080/23779497.2020.1819854
Link to article on tandfonline.comRed Cross volunteers’ experience with a mobile community event-based surveillance (CEBS) system in Sierra Leone during, and after, the Ebola outbreak - A qualitative study
The objective of this study was to explore the volunteers’ experiences with and perspectives on the community event-based surveillance system in Sierra Leone.
Larsen TM, Mburu CB, Kongelf A, Tingberg T, Sannoh F (2017) Health Prim Car 1: DOI: 10.15761/HPC.1000114
Link to article at oatext.comA definition for community-based surveillance and a way forward
Results of the WHO global technical meeting, France, 26 to 28 June 2018.
Link to the article at ncbi.nlm.nih.govCase Study: Community-based surveillance in Indonesia
Indonesia is prone to hazards such as floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis. A vast and highly-populated archipelago is also at risk for epidemic and pandemic diseases due to its natural hazard profile, large population and density, high movement of people, limited healthcare capacities and coverage, and low level of health literacy in many communities, among other factors. These characteristics increase the risk of disease outbreaks in communities.
IFRC
Link to case study at at ifrc.orgINFOGRAPHICS
First COVID-19 case in Somaliland
The first COVID-19 case in Somaliland was discovered through the use of CBS and Nyss.
First COVID-19 case in Somaliland.pngAlert Triggering Response to E. Coli Outbreak in Somaliland
An earlier version of Nyss triggered an alert and response in Togdheer region, Somaliland, March 2019.
Alert Triggering Response to E. Coli Outbreak in Somaliland.pdfAlert Triggering Rapid Response to Scarlet Fever Outbreak
An earlier version of Nyss triggered an alert and response in Togdheer region, Somaliland, November 2018.
Alert Triggering Rapid Response to Scarlet Fever Outbreak.pdf