Suaahara was an integrated nutrition project (2011-2016) that worked in 41 underserved districts in Nepal to improve the health and well-being of the Nepali people by focusing on the nutritional status of women and children under the age of two years.
Breakthrough RESEARCH, with partner Tulane University, has developed a literature review on mass and digital media and family planning (FP) among young people in West Africa. This review documents available evidence of mass and digital media’s impacts on FP outcomes, with a particular focus on youth.
This success story outlines the role of the Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Working Group for the USAID Response.
This success story outlines the role of Breakthrough ACTION’s capacity strengthening activities as well as the importance of enhancing interpersonal communication skills of frontline workers to improve household uptake of Zika prevention behaviors.
This success story highlights Breakthrough ACTION’S experiences implementing a human-centered design (HCD) approach to identify improved behavioral and structural solutions for Zika prevention.
This success story outlines the role of Breakthrough ACTION’s capacity-strengthening activities as well as the importance of enhancing interpersonal communication skills of frontline workers to improve household uptake of Zika prevention behaviors.
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This technical report outlines Breakthrough RESEARCH’s efforts to document lessons learned in social and behavior change (SBC) programming from the USAID Zika response, which consists of a review of documentation, a qualitative evaluation through stakeholder interviews, an online survey assessing utilization of SBC technical guidance documents, and an assessment of data collection instruments.
This peer-reviewed publication documents the evidence-based behavior prioritization process during the 2015 Zika outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This qualitative research report (available in English and Spanish) details the findings of formative research that sought to understand the perceptions of the effectiveness and feasibility of Zika prevention actions in El Salvador.
This qualitative research report (available in English and Spanish) details the findings of formative research that sought to understand the perceptions of the effectiveness and feasibility of Zika prevention actions in the Dominican Republic.
This website is made possible by the generous support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) Cooperative Agreement #AID-OAA-A-12-00058. On-going support is provided by Breakthrough ACTION with support from USAID's Bureau for Global Health, under Cooperative Agreement #AID-OAA-A-17-00017. Breakthrough ACTION is based at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP). The contents of this website are the sole responsibility of Breakthrough ACTION and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Johns Hopkins University.