"The ECV Toolkit was developed to reinforce the IFRC Community-Based Health and (CBHFA) Toolkit, a comprehensive training and resource package for volunteers in community health development and health risk reduction programming. The ECV Toolkit ensures that volunteers have the proper training and essential communication tools (among other materials) before they are engaged in outbreak and epidemic response in their communities. It is known that in the middle of an outbreak or epidemic, volunteers have limited time to remember everything they have learned during trainings, or to develop effective response ? the ECV Toolkit is therefore designed as a set of practical, easy-to-follow tools to be easily picked up and followed."