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Informing social and behavior change programs using social media monitoring & listening (in English)

Webinar

PHOTO CREDIT: ©Merci Mon Héros   Please join the Breakthrough ACTION and Breakthrough RESEARCH projects for a discussion on informing social and behavior change (SBC) programs using social media monitoring and listening. During this webinar, presenters will provide an overview of social media monitoring and social listening as well as its useful application to inform a youth-led mass and social media campaign currently implemented in Francophone West Africa called “Merci Mon Héros.” Presenters will share findings and lessons learned from these innovative methodologies and their application for adaptive management and evaluation of SBC campaigns. This webinar will inform partners implementing […]

Malaria—Insights for improving malaria, FP, and MCH outcomes in northwestern Nigeria through SBC programming

Webinar

PHOTO CREDIT: Arne Hoel/World Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; No modifications made)   In this webinar, Breakthrough RESEARCH will share findings from its work in northwestern Nigeria related to malaria. We will present new ideational metrics collected and discuss how these metrics are associated with malaria prevention and treatment behaviors. Breakthrough ACTION will present key program design to address malaria prevention and treatment and the programmatic implications of the research. Breakthrough RESEARCH is USAID’s flagship project for social and behavior change (SBC) research and evaluation, led by the Population Council. In Nigeria, Breakthrough RESEARCH is evaluating the effectiveness of Breakthrough ACTION’s […]

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. This webinar is intended for programmers, policymakers, and researchers interested in learning about practical approaches to promote RMC in low-resource […]