Social and Behavior Change Capacity Assessment Tool for Donors and Networks

The SBCC-CAT for Donors and Networks assists donors and networks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their current programs and those of partners they support. It also helps agencies define activities that strengthen staff’s capacity, refocus programs, and improve the overall quality of their SBCC efforts. Using the SBCC-CAT as a measurement tool over time will allow for agencies to assess their own, and their partners’, increased competencies and capacity in SBCC.

Last modified: July 23, 2021

Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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    Helping Health Workers Learn

    This book provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory education.

    Last modified: July 23, 2021

    Language: Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, English, Farsi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Tamil, Urdu

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      Social and Behavior Change Capacity Assessment Tool for Use with Organizations

      The SBCC-CAT for Organizations helps organizations assess the quality of their SBCC programs and identify the strengths and weaknesses of current programs. It also helps organizations define activities that strengthen staff capacity, refocus programs, and improve the overall quality of their SBCC efforts. The tool walks the user through the process of assessing capacity in situation analysis, designing the strategy, interventions and materials, implementing and monitoring change, and evaluating and replanning.

      Last modified: July 23, 2021

      Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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        Straight to the Point Capacity Building Tools

        “Straight to the Point” is a series of capacity-building tools designed to assist community-based organizations and local NGOs tackle a range of problems in sexual and reproductive health.

        The series is intended to provide guidance in a practical technique, or basic information that permits practical intervention; the language is relatively simple, the guidance makes use of checklists and graphics to the greatest extent possible, and all installments in the Straight to the Point series are relatively short. No effort is made to be exhaustive on any of the topics. Instead the series provides local implementers with what they need to perform important tasks without the technical or literacy burden that often accompanies “gold standard” technical materials. These are all tools that will help in developing a communication program.

        Last modified: July 23, 2021

        Language: English, French, Portuguese

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          Umoja: Transforming Communities [Guides]

          Umoja (Swahili for ‘togetherness’), is a church and community initiative. It helps church leaders and their congregations work together with the local community to bring about positive change for the whole community. Umoja does this by helping these local institutions build on the resources and skills they already have. It is a process that inspires and equips local people with a vision for determining their own future with their own resources. The Umoja process is based on more than 20 years of experience of working with churches and communities throughout Africa and Asia.

          Umoja consists of two main guides, one for facilitators and one for coordinators. The Umoja Facilitator’s Guide contains Bible studies, activities, energizers, tools, advice and a step-by-step process to help a church and community become inspired and start working for transformation in their community. The Umoja Coordinator’s Guide provides everything that an organization or church needs to know to start and manage an Umoja program across a number of local communities.

          Last modified: July 23, 2021

          Language: Bangla, Cantonese, English, French, Portuguese

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            Zandi’s Song Book and Teacher’s Guide

            This is a colorfully illustrated story about a 15-year-old girl who raises chickens to help pay school fees. It includes, woven within the story, messages about handling chickens, handwashing, preventing the transmission of Avian Flu, how to protect a farm’s flock from contracting it, and involving village leadership in Avian Flu activities. The Teacher’s Guide includes questions, exercises, and activities for teachers and students to participate in after reading the book.

            Source: FHI360

            Date of Publication: July 20, 2021

            Gender and Health Hub COVID-19 Buzzboard

            The COVID-19 and Gender Buzzboard covers many topics generated by users, and is a collaborative tool for agenda setting and research initiatives.

            These topics include:

            • Health knowledge, behavior, and status of those directly and indirectly affected by COVID-19 across the life course i.e., mental health, NCDs, SRHR, including health promotion and prevention interventions.
            • Therapeutic, diagnostic & digital interventions, i.e., COVID-19 biomedical, clinical, biology/immunology research and product development.
            • Health service delivery implications and impacts of COVID-19, including utilization, supply chain, workforce, financing, digital health etc.
            • Social & structural determinants of gender dynamics affecting or impacted by COVID-19, including gender-based, intimate partner violence and sexual harassment, social protection, employment, etc.
            • Governance of COVID-19 health systems, including relationships with non-health multisectoral, private, and political actors for health (feminist movements, civil society, parliamentarians, private-sector etc.).

            Last modified: April 7, 2021

            Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

            Gender and Health Hub

            The Gender and Health Hub is a network of policymakers, researchers, and implementers working at the intersection of gender and global health.

            The Hub publishes synthesised policy-relevant evidence and best practices to support gender integration in health programming. Our aim is to bridge the gap between knowledge and action, build a diverse community to share learnings, and catalyse evidence for impact.

            The Hub has a Buzzboard which helps users connect with each other over common interests in the field of gender and health.

            Last modified: April 7, 2021

            Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

            Go Families! Building Adults’ Skills to Communicate with Young People: A Training Manual

            This manual is part of the Go Girls! Toolkit and prepares parents, caregivers, initiation counselors and other concerned adults to better communicate with the young people in their lives about the unique needs, concerns and interests of adolescents.

            The manual helps adults engage in nurturing, supportive relationships with young people through role-modeling and by building communication and relationship skills. The manual covers the following: positive communication, adolescence and puberty, talking about sex, talking about HIV, talking to kids who don’t want to talk, being a role model, talking about money, talking about alcohol, and knowing where kids hang out.

            It is available in:

            Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

            Date of Publication: November 10, 2020

            Go Girls! Visual Brief

            This visual brief is used like a flipchart to teach young adults about HIV.

            It includes the following topics, among others:

            • Spread of HIV
            • Protection from HIV
            • Knowledge and Attitudes
            • Relationships with family
            • Relationships with friends

            There is also a facilitator’s guide to teach health workers and teachers how to use this visual brief.

            The visual brief is available in:

            Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

            Date of Publication: November 10, 2020