Malaria Safe Initiative

These are materials developed for the Malaria Safe campaign in Tanzania.

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Malaria Safe is a platform that works with the private sector to prevent and reduce the malaria burden on their employees, businesses, and the country by encouraging companies to invest in educating and protecting their staff, families, and surrounding communities against malaria.

Malaria Safe is a platform that works with the private sector to prevent and reduce the malaria burden on their employees, businesses, and the country by encouraging companies to invest in educating and protecting their staff, families, and surrounding communities against malaria. https://thecompassforsbc.org/sites/all/modules/wysiwyg/plugins/break…” title=””>Members of the initiative represent a wide range of private sectors partners committed to investing their own resources in health in order to carry out malaria activities under four guiding pillars:

(1.) Education – Teaching staff and their families about malaria;
(2.) Protection – Making insecticide treated nets, and malaria testing and treatment freely available;
(3.) Visibility – Running malaria campaigns; and
(4.) Advocacy – Inviting other companies to join.

Tanzania’s Malaria Safe initiative has seen tremendous growth from 8 partners in 2012 to 52 partners in 2014. The initiative is overseen by the National Malaria Steering Committee
commissioned by the Prime Minister, and is chaired by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare. The National Malaria Control Program and the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs serve as secretariat.

The attachment includes:

  • Bag
  • Badge
  • Banner
  • Billboard
  • Ad
  • Invitation Card

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: May 3, 2020

Radio Health Program Promotional Materials

The Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP-I) was a six-year (2002-2007) bilateral activity of United States Agency for International Development, Nepal (USAID/N) with the Government of Nepal. Its overall goal was to support the Government’s long-term goal of reducing fertility and under-five mortality within the context of the National Health Policy and Second Long-Term Health Plan 1997-2017.

In order to increase Radio Health Program (RHP) listenership, promotional materials were designed and disseminated to the selected audiences who participated in the unit quiz of Distance Education (DE) or Drama Serial (DS) radio programs and gave the correct answer to the questions asked through lottery system in all three phases of RHP.

The promotional materials included an umbrella, flashlight, table clock, cap, bag, pen and copy with printed of RHP logo and program airing time. This small token of appreciation has been a motivating factor among the audiences to listen to the programs regularly and send their concerns, expression, thoughts and opinions in the forms of letters.

An overwhelming number of letters that the program received from the audiences demonstrated high popularity of the programs among the audiences. During the three years of RHP a total of 54,311 letters were received from DE and DS audiences from 54 districts of the country.

Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/ Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: December 11, 2019

Bhanchhin Aama Radio Program Promotion Materials

Suaahara was a five year (2011-2016) project funded by USAID aimed to improve the nutritional status of women and children in 41 districts of Nepal. The project focused on improving health and nutrition behaviors at the household level through promotion of Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions (EN/HA), particularly Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN), and addressing other determinants of under-nutrition, such as availability of and access to food, hygiene, quality of health care, child spacing and socio-cultural factors including gender and marginalization.

Suaahara was implemented by a consortium of partner organizations led by Save the Children.

The SBCC strategy established an internal quality materials review and production system to ensure that all partners in the consortium had mutually reinforcing, quality materials developed, pretested, produced and disseminated to the end user.

Bhanchhin Aama radio programs were promoted through radio spots and community activities such as food demonstration, PHC/ORC, Home visits, key life events, FCHV meetings, Citizen Awareness Center, Homestead Food Production Beneficiaries meetings and Ward Citizen Forums. Besides, to encourage participants and audiences, various promotional materials included Note copy and pens, T-shirts, Cap, Key ring, Torch light, Bag, Flyers etc.

These promotional materials are for Citizen Awareness Center groups and audiences that directly link to the Bhanchhin Aama (‘Mother Knows Best’) radio program weekly radio drama and reinforce the Suaahara program’s integrated nutrition messages and model behaviors. In the weekly radio program there was also a quiz program and asked audiences a question. Thru lucky draw, among the audiences who gave correct answers in the quiz program are given prizes as token of love among some of these materials.

These materials were produced in three languages (Nepali, Awadhi and Doteli) in order to reach specific audiences.

Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/ Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Get It Together Branded Materials

These are attractive communication materials developed by the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI). They are everyday use items and are conspicuiously branded with the Get It Together Logo and family planning messages to create awareness. Included: bag, T-shirts, umbrella, bumper sticker, pins, danglers, vests.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Getting to Zero – Novelty Items

Tanzania took upon itself a goal to eliminate new HIV infections in children and keeping their mothers alive by 2015. This campaign, Getting to Zero, involved the cooperation of many different sectors and stakeholders. These novelty items were used during the campaign to promote the idea of getting to zero.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

IPC Novelty Items

As part of Tanzania’s program to increase infection prevention and control throughout the country, an SBCC strategy was developed. Part of this strategy was the development of collateral materials which would remind service providers and the general public about the importance of IPC protocols.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

NCPAII for Most Vulnerable Children Launch Materials

In Tanzania, The National Costed Plan of Action (NCPAII) for Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) was developed to guide the implementation of actions and policies during 2013-2017 that aim to enhance the wellbeing of MVC. NCPAII aimed to prevent and reduce health and social risks for MVCs, and protect the rights of MVCs. This multi-sectoral plan was developed by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare through the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) in collaboration with other ministries, development partners and stakeholders.

NCPAII included four strategic objectives:

1. Strengthen the capacity of households and communities to protect, care and support MVC

2. Increase access to effective gender responsive child protection services within a well-resourced child protection system that has the best interest of the child at its core

3. Improve access and utilization of health care, education and Early Childhood Care and Development (ECD) services

4. Strengthen the coordination and leadership, policy and service delivery environment

These collateral materials were produced to publicize the launch of the strategy.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019