COMBI Toolkit: Field Workbook for COMBI Planning Steps in Outbreak Response

This toolkit workbook was designed as a hands-on  workbook for using the communication for behavioural impact (COMBI) methodology to plan and implement communication in a structured and systematic way in infectious disease outbreaks. It complements: "Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI): A Toolkit for Behavioural and Social Communication in Outbreak Response". This interagency toolkit was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) with technical contributions from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Children's Fund. It is meant to provide essential information for responding to an outbreak from a behavioural and social communication perspective which contributes to achieving public goals of limiting loss of life and protecting the health of those affected and/or at risk.

The COMBI planning cycle for outbreak response consists of seven steps. This workbook contains tools, templates and checklists which can be used during the seven-step COMBI planning cycle. Each step has accompanying tools.  

Contents include the following:

•  "Overview of the COMBI planning steps
• Tools for understanding the organizational context
• COMBI Planning Steps
  • Step 1: Defining the preliminary behavioural objectives
  • Step 2: Conduct a rapid situational analysis
  • Step 3: Define the behavioural and communication objectives
  • Step 4: Design an overall strategy
  • Step 5: Develop detailed plans of action and a budget
  • Steps 6: Monitoring interventions
• Annex 1: Essential facts about major outbreak-prone diseases"