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Behavioural Science Tips For COVID-19 Communications

June 4, 2020

“Human behavior plays a central role in reducing the spread of coronavirus. Communication by

government entities and other trusted sources about desirable or mandated behaviors during the

pandemic is critical. As policymakers, funders, and program staff, it is our responsibility to ensure that communications are clear, concise, and accurate. We can go one step further withmessaging that is behaviorally informed, contextually relevant, and communicated through novel delivery channels. Effective communication will ensure that everyone hears, understands, and follows guidance necessary for COVID-19 mitigation.”

Click here to download the tips on behavioural change communication

Filed Under: *APPROACHES, *COVID MESSAGES & ISSUES, COMMUNICATION ISSUES & MESSAGES, COVID-19, Guidance, Health, Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), TYPE - DATA ITEM TYPE

Slowing down the covid-19 outbreak: changing behaviour by understanding it

May 20, 2020

Changing behaviour is not easy. However, there are many strategies to help people change behaviour that focus on increasing motivation, capability and/or opportunity to perform the behaviours. Here we focus on strategies that improve motivation or capability.

Read more: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/11/slowing-down-the-covid-19-outbreak-changing-behaviour-by-understanding-it/

Filed Under: [A] INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, *APPROACHES, *COVID MESSAGES & ISSUES, *REGION: Global, Article, COVID-19, Guidance, Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC)

LSE: Responses to COVID-19 must focus on communities and not just past epidemics

May 20, 2020

In the current global pandemic, there is a lot that can be learned from past epidemics. What is poignantly missing, however, is acknowledgement of local perspectives to disease outbreak and response. Jeremy Allouche and Dienedort Wandji argue we need to better understand how individuals and local communities in Africa, and beyond, have learnt and developed social, cultural and institutional mechanisms to deal with protracted crises.

Read more: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2020/04/06/responses-lessons-covid19-ebola-focus-on-communities-epidemics/

Filed Under: [F] MACRO LEVEL, *APPROACHES, *AREAS, *COVID MESSAGES & ISSUES, *REGION: Global, *STRATEGY & METHODS, Article, Community Engagement, COVID-19, CWC (Communicating with Communities), Guidance, Participation

Webinar : Digital Activism in Times of Pandemic

May 14, 2020

This webinar is organized by the Centre of Digital Culture and International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Classes & Social Movements. It was filmed in May 2020.

View here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBgHO4iMaQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0NOFeT1Uj-lZiz7_bMu9utYU0CTCzPqUpkhHccN3U0VYMXBV5jesyEg34

Filed Under: *COVID MESSAGES & ISSUES, *ONLINE LEARNING, *REGION: Global, COVID-19, Digital Engagement, English, Guidance, Webinar

Commemorating Smallpox Eradication – a legacy of hope for COVID-19 and other diseases

May 14, 2020

On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: ‘The world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox.’  The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3 000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone.

Read more here: https://worldhealthorganization.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/d/79608C701352D75F2540EF23F30FEDED/0E1BB089696BD24784E5AAD5A6C37FC6?fbclid=IwAR3GNuj9s5nG3ZWNFjHx6n1m3qo0fnwND8B6tI0ams-1Au5jTInWUK_oUVc

Filed Under: *APPROACHES, *COVID MESSAGES & ISSUES, *REGION: Global, Awareness Raising, COVID-19, Guidance, Health, Newsletters, WHO - World Health Organisation

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