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Turn up the volume: empowering women through media (BBC Media Action Practice briefing 2016)

This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action has learned about how media can provide a platform for both men and women to hold their leaders to account, while empowering them to participate in their own communities. After setting out the global picture for gender and governance, the paper outlines BBC Media Action’s approach to supporting women to participate in their communities and hold their leaders to account.  It then unpacks the challenges of creating gender-sensitive governance programmes and weighs up how successful BBC Media Action has been in reaching and impacting women. The paper concludes with some recommendations to inform future programming.

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Malaria Social & Behavior Change Communication National Strategies (collected and mapped by HC3 2016)

HC3 has analyzed, collected and mapped a number of national malaria communication strategies. A number of countries are updating their malaria communication strategies as they prepare concept notes for the Global Fund. The strategies include those written both and after 2010 as well as current strategies.

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Handwashing with Soap Toolkit (WSP 2014)

Improving handwashing with soap practices can save children’s lives by reducing preventable diseases like diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. Despite its effectiveness in reducing disease, handwashing with soap is uncommon in many countries. The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) conducted research with local partners in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam to understand the factors that affect an individual’s decision to practice handwashing with soap.  The research informed the implementation of handwashing project activities in the four countries. Following national and local government implementation, WSP and its partners gathered valuable lessons, which inform this handwashing with soap toolkit. The toolkit, intended for practitioners interested in behavior change, is organized into four modules, each with reports and presentations about the lessons learned from the projects, as well as mass media, direct consumer contact, and interpersonal communication tools used throughout the project.

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Community-based distribution of insecticide-treated nets: A short guide based on recent experience (VectorWorks Project/Tropical Health 2016)

The ‘Community-Based Insecticide-Treated Nets Distribution Guide’ provides a practical guide to community-based insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution. It takes readers through the different steps that planners should consider when implementing this channel and aims to ensure that planners considering community-based ITN distribution benefit from the lessons that have been learned though experiences in the the four countries examined in the report: Madagascar, Nigeria, South Sudan and Zanzibar (Tanzania)

The document aims to present information that will help planners decide whether community-based distribution is an appropriate option for their setting, and to offer practical recommendations for developing a system of community-based distribution.

On the front line: Community nutrition programming (chapter 2 from ‘Nourishing Millions: Stories of Change in Nutrition’, IFPRI publication 2016)

Whatever advances have been made in terms of technologies, interventions, and their delivery platforms in recent decades, it is households and communities that remain on the front lines in combating malnutrition. During the past half century, several significant attempts have been made to initiate and implement community-based nutrition programs. This chapter assesses the evolution and performance of such approaches, highlighting several case studies.

Nourishing Millions: Stories of Change in Nutrition brings together the most intriguing stories from the past five decades to show what works in nutrition, what does not, and the factors that contribute to success.

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