

Assessing Impact: Do We Need to Break the Budget?
blog, Breakthrough ACTIONWritten by: Susan Leibtag, Curator, Compass; Grace Awantang, Monitoring Officer; and Dominick Shattuck, Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Director, Breakthrough ACTION
The development community often strongly focuses on results,…

Can Social Listening and Social Media Monitoring Benefit Your SBC Activities?
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Written by: Rachel Yavinsky, Martha Silva, and Leanne Dougherty, Breakthrough RESEARCH
Social media has increasingly become one of the most popular places for individuals to express their views…

Social and Behavior Change Indicator Bank for Family Planning and Service Delivery
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Informing Social and Behavior Change Programs Using Social Listening and Social Monitoring
Breakthrough RESEARCHThis brief (English and French) offers practical guidance on how to use social listening as a tool to inform social and behavior change (SBC) programs. It is intended for global and regional SBC program implementers, evaluators, and donors in…

New website highlights evidence for social and behavior change impact
blog, Breakthrough ACTIONWritten by: Olivia Carlson, Program Officer, Breakthrough ACTION
Are you looking for peer-reviewed literature that shows what works in social and behavior change (SBC)? Do you need evidence to back up your advocacy work for greater investment…

Is Better Measurement the Key to Increased Investment in Social and Behavior Change for Family Planning in Francophone West Africa?
blog, Breakthrough RESEARCHWritten by: Liselle Yorke and Leanne Dougherty, Breakthrough RESEARCH
Access and demand are crucial levers in family planning programming but “understanding how these two are linked and when each should be prioritized is difficult,” note…

Providing Evidence to Inform Social and Behavior Change for Family Planning in Francophone West Africa
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Compass for SBC “Spotlight” on Breakthrough RESEARCH
blog, Breakthrough RESEARCHAs USAID’s flagship social and behavior change (SBC) research and evaluation project, Breakthrough RESEARCH—a consortium led by the Population Council that includes Avenir Health, ideas42, the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown…