Breakthrough RESEARCH gathered, analyzed, and shared evidence on the costs and impacts of social and behavior change (SBC) interventions, making the case that investing in social and behavior change is crucial for improving public health. This approach included synthesizing existing evidence, generating new evidence through cost-effectiveness analyses, and fostering evidence generation by others, including developing social and behavior change resources and tools to support implementing partners.
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Guidelines for Costing
Costing is the process of data collection and analysis for estimating the cost of a health intervention. High-quality cost data on SBC are critical not only for developing budgets, planning, and assessing program proposals, but can also feed into advocacy, program prioritization, and agenda setting. To better serve these data needs and increase the quantity and quality of SBC costing information, Breakthrough RESEARCH developed costing guidelines for SBC health interventions.
Featured Resources
Creating a Social and Behavior Change Cost Repository and Costing Tool
These resources allow users to examine prior SBC cost findings for program planning, budgeting, and benchmarking purposes.
Evaluating the Impacts of Cross-sectoral Social and Behavior Change in Sahel/RISE II
These resources discuss research to assess successes and challenges of integrated social and behavior change programming in a climate-stressed setting.
Making the Business Case for Social and Behavior Change
This brief and associated resources describe business case models that are being applied to specific health topics, including malaria and nutrition.
