Suaahara SBCC Strategy: Earthquake Emergency Initial Recovery Period
This strategy aligned with the larger Suaahara nutrition project was developed in the wake of the Nepal earthquakes in the spring of 2015. The key points of the strategy were:
- Empower families with the knowledge/ skill an and support they need to practice healthy behavior related to MIYCN in emergency setting including breastfeeding from the impact of untargeted donation or distribution of breastmilk substitutes, the risk of using breast milk substitutes protecting and WASH in the emergency period
- Help families to practice small doable actions that lead the continuation of positive behavior
The primary audience was 1000-day pregnant , lactating mothers and their families specially care takers in 10 districts, and the main message of the strategy was the importance of breastfeeding during the emergency period.
Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
SIMILIAR RESOURCES
Tools
Examples
- GESI Toolkit
- Suaahara Training Guidelines and Participant Handbooks
- Maternal Newborn Child Health - Nutrition Quality Improvement Tools
- Suaahara Health Facility Operation and Management Committee Capacity Building Training and Operation Guidelines
- Participatory Action Research for the Development of a National Avian Communication Strategy: A Field Guide
- Global Health Security Agenda Website
- Managing Epidemics
- Communicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies
- The SBCC Emergency Helix
- CERC Manual for Emergency Risk Commuication