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September 2018
Roll Back Malaria Social and Behavior Change Communication Working Group 5th Annual Meeting
The RBM Partnership's Social and Behavior Change Communication Working Group's Annual Meeting will be held from September 25-27, 2018 in Lusaka, Zambia. Each year, the SBCC WG's Annual Meeting brings together malaria SBCC professionals from around the world to highlight best practices and new approaches, as well as share lessons learned and common challenges. This meeting is a rare face-to-face forum through which the working group can grow and strengthen the network of malaria practitioners who work to implement evidence-based SBCC.…
Find out more »November 2018
Fifth International Conference on Family Planning
The International Conference on Family Planning serves as a strategic inflection point for the family planning and reproductive health community worldwide. It provides an opportunity for political leaders, scientists, researchers, policymakers, advocates, and youth to disseminate knowledge, celebrate successes, and identify next steps toward reaching the goal of enabling an additional 120 million women to access voluntary, quality contraception by 2020. The fifth International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from November 12 to 15, 2018.…
Find out more »February 2019
Francophone Africa Social and Behavior Change Summit: Addressing Barriers in RMNCH+N
The Francophone Africa Social and Behavior Change Summit will provide a much-needed platform to address barriers in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health and nutrition (RMNCH+N). Scheduled for February 2019 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the event will gather social and behavior change (SBC) practitioners and professionals from implementing partners, service delivery partners, ministry and national coordinating agencies, local and international NGOs, local media and marketing firms, research and academic institutions, youth organizations, faith-based organizations, and donors. Hosted by Johns Hopkins…
Find out more »Le Sommet Francophone pour le Changement Social et de Comportement: Surmonter les obstacles en santé reproductive, maternelle, néonatale, de l’enfant, ainsi que de nutrition
Le pouvoir collectif a la capacité de transformer les structures sociales et est au cœur du développement. Le changement social et de comportement (CSC) engage et soutient les personnes dans le but de former un collectif afin de surmonter les défis du développement tels que la pauvreté, l’accès et l’utilisation des soins de santé de qualité. Les programmes de CSC contribuent à générer la demande de services de la santé reproductive, maternelle, néonatal, infantile et de nutrition (SRMNI + N),…
Find out more »March 2019
Malaria SBC Evidence Discussion: Mobilization and Supportive Supervision
How can research findings inform and improve social and behavior change (SBC) programs? What questions can SBC practitioners keep in mind to help sift through research, interpret publications, and apply lessons learned? Join Breakthrough ACTION for the second in a series of online guided discussions following a “journal club” format about malaria SBC evidence on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, from 9:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. (EST). More information about the article and how you can prepare for and participate in the online discussion…
Find out more »June 2019
Advocating for Increased Male Engagement in Family Planning and Reproductive Health: A Skills-Building Session
Join Breakthrough ACTION on the eve of the Women Deliver 2019 Conference for an afternoon side event: “Advocating for Increased Male Engagement in Family Planning and Reproductive Health: A Skills-Building Session” This hands-on session will give participants the opportunity to use a newly released tool specifically designed to increase implementation of, and investment in, male engagement in family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs through advocacy. Engaging men and boys in FP/RH programs has successfully contributed to decreasing unintended pregnancies,…
Find out more »July 2019
2019 Leadership in Strategic Communication Workshop
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs invites you to apply for the 2019 Leadership in Strategic Communication Workshop. This three-week workshop, led by a distinguished faculty of public health, policy, and development experts, is designed for versatile, dynamic individuals who seek to lead within and beyond their organizations. Participants will leave the workshop having developed a scalable communication campaign that addresses a global health or development challenge. Who is this workshop for? Project leaders Global health and development Program…
Find out more »January 2020
Increasing Coordinated Investment in SBC for FP Webinar
Despite a major coalescence around the Family Planning 2020 and Ouagadougou Partnership goals in the last five years, there has been a lack of understanding of how major stakeholders fund and implement SBC programming to meet those goals or what future investment priorities should be. Furthermore, SBC is not yet anchored as a core element of major development organizations’ family planning strategies and programming or government planning mechanisms. Investment is insufficient, particularly at the country level, to support the implementation…
Find out more »June 2020
Insights for improving malaria, family planning, and maternal and child health outcomes in northwestern Nigeria through social and behavior change programming
REGISTER Join us for a webinar on 11 June to hear about baseline findings on key behaviors and ideations in the areas of malaria, family planning, and maternal, newborn, and child health plus nutrition (MNCH+N) from a behavioral sentinel surveillance (BSS) survey conducted in northwestern Nigeria. Breakthrough RESEARCH is USAID’s flagship project for social and behavior change (SBC) research and evaluation. In Nigeria, Breakthrough RESEARCH is evaluating the effectiveness of Breakthrough ACTION’S integrated versus malaria-only SBC programming on priority malaria,…
Find out more »Insights from an evaluation of provider provision of respectful maternity care in Zambia
REGISTER Please join Breakthrough RESEARCH , on 30 June at 10:00 a.m. EDT as we discuss the results of our Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) program in Chipata, Zambia. Breakthrough RESEARCH, led by ideas42 and in collaboration with Safe Motherhood 360+ and the Chipata District Health Office, piloted a package of solutions designed to address behavioral barriers inhibiting providers from consistently providing RMC in Zambia. We’ll be discussing the behaviorally-informed, low-cost solutions we tested and evaluation results on their effectiveness.…
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