This page offers practical guides for adolesecents and young people, parents and caregivers, healthcare providers and implementing partners to keep young people healthy during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Last modified: April 30, 2020
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Swahili
Doctors of the World and British Red Cross have shared COVID-19 fact sheets available in many different languages. Files are in Word or PDF.
Source: Doctors of the World
Date of Publication: April 6, 2020
In this book the author encourages the use of soical marketing techniques to effect behavior change. Social marketing—using marketing tools and techniques to facilitate behavior change—is a proven approach that’s been used for decades in programs addressing public health, social and environmental issues, and international development.
Social marketing helps boost the effectiveness of the programs and campaigns that are the reason SBC programs exist in the first place—to make a positive impact on the lives of people.
The book includes chapters on:
The book is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
Last modified: February 3, 2020
Language: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Interventions to foster changes in behaviors and social norms are an important aspect of efforts to reduce malnutrition around the world. This course aims to demystify SBC design as well as share useful SBC-related resources.
The course assists practioners in understanding some SBC models that explain why people behave in certain ways, how behaviors change, and how SBC strategies apply these models in designing behavior-centered programs
Last modified: November 24, 2019
Language: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
High Impact Practices (HIPs) are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format.
Endorsed by more than 30 organizations, HIPs reflect consensus around our current understanding of what works in family planning. HIPs are identified based on demonstrated magnitude of impact on contraceptive use and potential application in a wide range of settings. Consideration is also given to other relevant outcome measures including unintended pregnancy, fertility, or one of the primary proximate determinants of fertility (delay of marriage, birth spacing, or breast feeding). Evidence of replicability, scalability, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness are also considered.
This seminal brief provides a list of all the HIPs identified by the Technical Advisory Group (TAG). The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is made up of experts in family planning research, program implementation, policy makers and representatives from donor agencies. The TAG meets twice a year to review evidence and make recommendations on updating and implementing HIPs.
Last modified: August 30, 2019
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
These Strategic Planning Guides are intended to lead program managers, planners, and decision-makers through a strategic process to identify the most effective and efficient investments to address the challenge or focus of their program.
Guides are developed by technical experts and are intended to help planners identify which HIP or practice might work in a specific context.
Planning guides are availalbe on the topics of adolescents and engaging men and boys in family planning.
Last modified: August 30, 2019
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
High Impact Practices (HIPs) are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format. HIPs help programs focus resources for greatest impact.
HIPs are identified based on demonstrated magnitude of impacton contraceptive use and potential application in a wide range of settings. Consideration is also given to other relevant outcome measures including unintended pregnancy, fertility, or one of the primary proximate determinants of fertility (delay of marriage, birth spacing, or breast feeding). Evidence of replicability, scalability, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness are also examined.
Last modified: August 30, 2019
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
This mobile phone application is available for both iPhone and Android phones. It offers general information about the virus, suspected complications, and treatment options.
The app is intended for use by the general public as well as by health care workers. For health care workers, there is technical guidance, training, WHO situation reports, and an emergency response plan. For the general public, the app offers key facts, symptoms, and the latest news.
Last modified: March 25, 2019
Language: English, Portuguese, Spanish
This brief describes the evidence on and experience with community group engagement (CGE) interventions that aim to foster healthy sexual and reproductive health (SRH) behaviors.
The distinguishing characteristic of CGE interventions from other social and behavior change (SBC) interventions is that they work with and through community groups to influence individual behaviors and/or social norms rather than shifting behavior by targeting individuals alone. Specifically, community support can shift individual behaviors, including contraceptive behaviors, either by changing norms or individual knowledge and attitudes.
Last modified: March 25, 2019
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
This poster was developed as part of the Mozambique Medical Circumcision campaign. It shows a group of young men addressing their friend, who is the only one of the group who has not yet undergone medical circumcision. The poster is aimed at young men who are considering medical circumciison.
Source: Mozambique Ministry of Health
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
