Four women speak at at the 2019 CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference in Kenya2019 CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference

Reflections from the CORE Group Conference: How Does Breakthrough RESEARCH’s Work Respond to Practitioner Priorities?

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The blog post discusses three priorities that surfaced during a conference for health practitioners on the frontlines during discussions of community health.
A family planning service provider in Nigeria records information into a records register© 2012 CCP/NURHI 2, Courtesy of Photoshare

New Social and Behavior Change Indicator Bank for Family Planning and Service Delivery

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This blog post discusses the need for standardized indicators for measuring social and behavior change activities and introduces a handy indicator bank.
A provider training by SM360+ mentors

Harnessing Behavioral Design to Improve Maternal Care in Zambia

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This blog post highlights how behavioral design enabled the development of low-cost, feasible solutions to promote respectful maternal care in Zambia.
Zika implementing partners participate in a share fair to discuss community engagement in the USAID Zika responseK4Health

Breakthrough ACTION + RESEARCH Resources from the USAID Zika Response

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This blog post introduces a suite of tools to help social and behavior change practitioners identify priority behaviors when responding to epidemics like Zika.
Volunteers from the Red Cross in El Salvador engage in participatory trainings to strengthen their interpersonal communication skillsSean Maloney/Breakthough ACTION

Cutting through the confusion: Prioritizing behavioral messages and calls to action

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This blog post describes how promoting a harmonized set of behaviors during epidemics like Zika improves the likelihood of behavior adoption.
Au Niger, une femme utilise un téléphone pour saisir des donnéesShani Turke/Photoshare

Faire progresser le champ des mesures pour le CSC

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Par : Erin Portillo, Responsable de programme II, Breakthrough ACTION Mesurer adéquatement les déterminants sociaux et comportementaux est essentiel pour créer de puissants programmes de changement social et de comportement. Cependant, cette…
A woman in Niger uses a phone to enter dataShani Turke/Photoshare

Advancing the Field of Measurement for SBC

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This blog post introduces a set of resources for social and behavior change (SBC) professionals interested in advancing the field of SBC measurement.
Breakthrough ACTION staff engage with local researchers in the Dominican Republic during a participatory data analysis workshopAnne Ballard Sara/Breakthrough ACTION

Richer and Faster Data Analysis to Inform SBC Zika Program Design in an Outbreak

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Breakthrough ACTION used a participatory data analysis process in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador to gather insights on Zika prevention behaviors.
A community health worker providing family planning services and options to a woman in UgandaJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

Answering Critical Social and Behavior Change Questions to Advance the Field and Improve Population-Based Behavior Change

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This blog post offers critical questions social and behavior change (SBC) professionals need to ask to develop effective integrated SBC programming.