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Portrait of mother and child in MaliCurt Carnemark/World Bank

Building Behavioral Design Skills: Conversations with Breakthrough ACTION Innovators

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A Niger health official uses behavioral design skills to design and scale up high-impact interventions to improve postpartum family planning uptake.
Four health providers in Sud Kivu, DRC, stand around a desk looking over papersRaissa Rwizibuka

Barriers to Feeding Young Children Well During and After Illness: Insight from the DRC

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This blog post captures insights gained from Breakthrough ACTION’s work to understand the barriers caregivers face in feeding children during and after illness.
Workers digging to make dike repairs in Burkina FasoJHartl USAID

Applying Behavioral Design to Advance Health Outcomes by Improving Livelihoods in Burkina Faso

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Burkina Faso health official uses behavior design training provided by Breakthrough ACTION to improve farmer livelihoods and health.
How do we leverage social and behavior change to address the intersection of family planning and intimate partner violence?

Seeking Breakthroughs in SBC at the Intersection of Family Planning and Intimate Partner Violence

This interactive page has resources for social and behavior change practitioners working at the intersection of family planning and intimate partner violence.
Two women and their babies receiving post natal care at a health center in SenegalJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

New Technical Briefs Highlight Opportunities and Recommendations for Behavioral Economics and Human-Centered Design in Family Planning

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This blog post introduces tools to help family planning social and behavior change practitioners use behavioral economics and human-centered design approaches.
Phase 1 Define: Mine existing knowledge, Intent statement, Deepen understanding; Phase 2 Design & Test: Imagine, Refine, Prototype, Test; Phase 3 Apply: Implement & Monitor, Evaluate & Refine, Adapt & ScaleBreakthrough ACTION

Social and Behavior Change Flow Chart

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Using human-centered design principles, the SBC Flow Chart asks users to adopt a beginner's mind to identify new insights to solve public health problems.
Cover art for Tested Solutions for Quality FP CounselingJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

Encouraging Family Planning Counseling That Promotes Meaningful Choice

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This is a package of evidence-based, low-cost SBC solutions that improve the quality of family planning counseling for postpartum women.
A health provider stands outside a pharmacy in MadagascarMaddie Kau/ideas42

Simple Tools to Reduce Preventable Deaths During Childbirth

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This blog post describes a set of behavioral science-informed tools that can help health workers in low-resource settings prevent deaths during childbirth.
Young mothers receiving family planning information from a community health worker in UgandaJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

When choices don’t match preferences: Better family planning through behavioral design

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This blog post describes programs that have successfully used behavioral design to help people choose family planning options that are best for them.

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Portrait of mother and child in MaliCurt Carnemark/World Bank

Building Behavioral Design Skills: Conversations with Breakthrough ACTION Innovators

,
A Niger health official uses behavioral design skills to design and scale up high-impact interventions to improve postpartum family planning uptake.
Four health providers in Sud Kivu, DRC, stand around a desk looking over papersRaissa Rwizibuka

Barriers to Feeding Young Children Well During and After Illness: Insight from the DRC

,
This blog post captures insights gained from Breakthrough ACTION’s work to understand the barriers caregivers face in feeding children during and after illness.
Workers digging to make dike repairs in Burkina FasoJHartl USAID

Applying Behavioral Design to Advance Health Outcomes by Improving Livelihoods in Burkina Faso

,
Burkina Faso health official uses behavior design training provided by Breakthrough ACTION to improve farmer livelihoods and health.
How do we leverage social and behavior change to address the intersection of family planning and intimate partner violence?

Seeking Breakthroughs in SBC at the Intersection of Family Planning and Intimate Partner Violence

This interactive page has resources for social and behavior change practitioners working at the intersection of family planning and intimate partner violence.
Two women and their babies receiving post natal care at a health center in SenegalJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

New Technical Briefs Highlight Opportunities and Recommendations for Behavioral Economics and Human-Centered Design in Family Planning

,
This blog post introduces tools to help family planning social and behavior change practitioners use behavioral economics and human-centered design approaches.
Phase 1 Define: Mine existing knowledge, Intent statement, Deepen understanding; Phase 2 Design & Test: Imagine, Refine, Prototype, Test; Phase 3 Apply: Implement & Monitor, Evaluate & Refine, Adapt & ScaleBreakthrough ACTION

Social and Behavior Change Flow Chart

, , , , , , ,
Using human-centered design principles, the SBC Flow Chart asks users to adopt a beginner's mind to identify new insights to solve public health problems.
Cover art for Tested Solutions for Quality FP CounselingJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

Encouraging Family Planning Counseling That Promotes Meaningful Choice

, ,
This is a package of evidence-based, low-cost SBC solutions that improve the quality of family planning counseling for postpartum women.
A health provider stands outside a pharmacy in MadagascarMaddie Kau/ideas42

Simple Tools to Reduce Preventable Deaths During Childbirth

,
This blog post describes a set of behavioral science-informed tools that can help health workers in low-resource settings prevent deaths during childbirth.
Young mothers receiving family planning information from a community health worker in UgandaJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

When choices don’t match preferences: Better family planning through behavioral design

,
This blog post describes programs that have successfully used behavioral design to help people choose family planning options that are best for them.

Resources

Portrait of mother and child in MaliCurt Carnemark/World Bank

Building Behavioral Design Skills: Conversations with Breakthrough ACTION Innovators

,
A Niger health official uses behavioral design skills to design and scale up high-impact interventions to improve postpartum family planning uptake.
Four health providers in Sud Kivu, DRC, stand around a desk looking over papersRaissa Rwizibuka

Barriers to Feeding Young Children Well During and After Illness: Insight from the DRC

,
This blog post captures insights gained from Breakthrough ACTION’s work to understand the barriers caregivers face in feeding children during and after illness.
Workers digging to make dike repairs in Burkina FasoJHartl USAID

Applying Behavioral Design to Advance Health Outcomes by Improving Livelihoods in Burkina Faso

,
Burkina Faso health official uses behavior design training provided by Breakthrough ACTION to improve farmer livelihoods and health.
How do we leverage social and behavior change to address the intersection of family planning and intimate partner violence?

Seeking Breakthroughs in SBC at the Intersection of Family Planning and Intimate Partner Violence

This interactive page has resources for social and behavior change practitioners working at the intersection of family planning and intimate partner violence.
Two women and their babies receiving post natal care at a health center in SenegalJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

New Technical Briefs Highlight Opportunities and Recommendations for Behavioral Economics and Human-Centered Design in Family Planning

,
This blog post introduces tools to help family planning social and behavior change practitioners use behavioral economics and human-centered design approaches.
Phase 1 Define: Mine existing knowledge, Intent statement, Deepen understanding; Phase 2 Design & Test: Imagine, Refine, Prototype, Test; Phase 3 Apply: Implement & Monitor, Evaluate & Refine, Adapt & ScaleBreakthrough ACTION

Social and Behavior Change Flow Chart

, , , , , , ,
Using human-centered design principles, the SBC Flow Chart asks users to adopt a beginner's mind to identify new insights to solve public health problems.
Cover art for Tested Solutions for Quality FP CounselingJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

Encouraging Family Planning Counseling That Promotes Meaningful Choice

, ,
This is a package of evidence-based, low-cost SBC solutions that improve the quality of family planning counseling for postpartum women.
A health provider stands outside a pharmacy in MadagascarMaddie Kau/ideas42

Simple Tools to Reduce Preventable Deaths During Childbirth

,
This blog post describes a set of behavioral science-informed tools that can help health workers in low-resource settings prevent deaths during childbirth.
Young mothers receiving family planning information from a community health worker in UgandaJonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

When choices don’t match preferences: Better family planning through behavioral design

,
This blog post describes programs that have successfully used behavioral design to help people choose family planning options that are best for them.