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What drives behavior? Key factors for handwashing in Bangladesh (Alive & Thrive Case Study 2015)

November 5, 2016

Designed for practitioners, trainers, and students of behavior change or social marketing, this case study shows how to take the guesswork out of two critical decisions:

  • What behavior will you promote?
  • What key factors will you address to motivate people?

Use the case study kit to teach or learn about methods for behavior change and view A&T’s final TV spot on handwashing + child feeding.

Click here for full details.

Filed Under: Bangladesh, Behaviour Change Communication, Case Studies, Health, Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Tagged With: Complementary Feeding, Handwashing, Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)

SBCC Pathways for Improved Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition Practices (SPRING 2014)

September 9, 2016

Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) is a behavior-centered approach to facilitating individuals, households, groups, and communities in adopting and sustaining improved health and nutrition related practices. The approach draws upon social science and behavior change theories to address behavior and the environment within which behavior change occurs. SBCC activities can be classified into three basic categories: behavior change communication (BCC), social and community mobilization, and advocacy.

In this paper, SPRING presents pathways between SBCC delivery strategies and improved maternal infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) practices. These pathways are based on a review of SBCC strategies and theories as well as a systematic literature review exploring the effectiveness of SBCC approaches in changing priority MIYCN practices.

This document is part of an occasional series produced by SPRING staff and consultants on topics of relevance to practitioners in global nutrition.

Click here for full paper.

Filed Under: Behaviour Change Communication, Health, Nutrition, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Tagged With: Advocacy, Community mobilisation, Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)

Evidence of Effective SBCC Approaches to Promote Breastfeeding Practices (section 3.2 of ‘Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change Communication for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia: Report from a Systematic Literature Review’ SPRING 2014)

July 31, 2016

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends three primary breastfeeding practices: initiation of breastfeeding within one hour after birth (also referred to as immediate breastfeeding), exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) through six months of age, and continued breastfeeding until 24 months of age (Dyson et al., 2005; WHO, 2008). Evidence associated with the recommendation for immediate breastfeeding is limited and likely operates through the effect of exclusive breastfeeding (Bhutta et al., 2013). The Lancet, therefore, includes only EBF and continued breastfeeding in the modeling of optimal breastfeeding practices cited above.

Despite the promise of optimal breastfeeding practices, rates for the three WHO recommended breastfeeding practices remain low, and negligible progress has been made to increase these rates over the past two decades (UNICEF, 2013). According to an analysis of data from 78 low and middle income countries, rates of immediate breastfeeding range from a mean of 36% in Eastern Europe to a mean of 58% in Latin America, and the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in children one to five months of age is just 30% (Black et al, 2013). According to the UNICEF global database of national surveys from 2007-2011, the current rate of breastfeeding at one year is 76%, while the rate of breastfeeding at age two years is 58%.

This section reviews the effectiveness of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) approaches on improving breastfeeding practices.

Click here for full section.

Filed Under: *INTER-PERSONAL ROUTES, Awareness Raising, Behaviour Change Communication, Early Childhood Development (ECD), Health, Nutrition, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Tagged With: Breastfeeding, Community Health Workers, Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), Mass Media

Community theater for improved nutrition. A guide for programme managers and theater groups (USAID 2011)

May 8, 2016

Community theatre can be an effective way to support positive changes in health knowledge and behaviour as well as related social norms. This is a guide for programme managers and community theatre groups on how and why to integrate maternal, infant, and young child nutrition content into existing community theater activities.  It provides recommendations for strengthening theater performances based on PATH’s successful experience implementing Magnet Theater for a variety of public health topics throughout Africa and Asia, and the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project’s experience using theater to promote optimal infant and young child feeding practices in Zambia.

Filed Under: Behaviour Change Communication, Edutainment, Health, Humanitarian Communications, Nutrition, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), Theatre for Development, Zambia Tagged With: Breastfeeding, Child health, Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), Maternal Health, Public Health

Community Video for Nutrition Guide: Using Participatory, Community-Led Videos to Improve Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition (SPRING, Digital Green 2015)

March 20, 2016

This Community Video for Nutrition Guide is a joint product of SPRING and Digital Green (DG), an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) registered in the United States and India. This guide is based on our organizations’ combined experience in implementing a proof of concept project between January and October 2013, formally known as the SPRING/DG Collaboration and Feasibility Study. This 10-month project focused on integrating content on high-impact maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) practices, including information on key hygiene-related behaviors, into the existing DG community-led video project, which is predominantly focused on promoting improved agricultural practices among small-scale and marginal women farmers. The target audience was pregnant women and/or mothers with children under the age of two participating in existing self-help groups (SHGs) in 30 villages in two blocks of Keonjhar District of Odisha, India. The SHGs also included a wider representation of female community members, who were targeted as key influencers for the recommended behaviors. Given that the target audience included a large number of influencers that wouldn’t be adopting the practices themselves, the project not only tracked adoptions, but also promotions of MIYCN behaviors.

The guide is specifically intended to provide organizations, projects, and practitioners interested in using or testing community video for MIYCN with the critical information and tools needed to initiate, produce, and disseminate a participatory community-video approach for MIYCN. This guide is intended to be used in combination with DG standard operating procedures (SOPs), which can be accessed openly on its website linked here. Although focused on promoting MIYCN, the Guide builds on the DG agriculture focused platform, to which other content can be added or emphasized, such as information promoting sexual and reproductive health and family planning, nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices, community institution building, government schemes, animal husbandry, financial inclusion programs, nonfarm income-generating activities, and a whole range of other topics.

Click here for full guide.

Filed Under: Audio-visual, Behaviour Change Communication, Early Childhood Development (ECD), Health, India, Nutrition, Participation, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Tagged With: Child health, Community mobilisation, Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), Maternal Health, Participatory Video, SPRING

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