Community Outreach Broadcast Guide for Bilharzia Campaign, Uganda

This is a simple guide to outline the goals of the community outreach aspect of the Uganda Bilharzia Awareness Campaign, 2016-2017.

The guide states the objectives and content of the outreach campaign, and explains the Quiz Contest which was offered to the community members, including the questions and correct answers for the quiz.

Source: Ministry of Health, Uganda

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Community- Led Ebola Action Field Guide for Community Mobilisers

This Field Guide is a resource book for community mobilizers, field staff, and trainers to support planning, implementing and follow-up of Community-Led Ebola Action (CLEA) social mobilisation activities in Sierra Leone. It provides tools and ideas to empower communities to do their own analysis and take their own action to become Ebola-free.

The CLEA approach recognises that communities alone have the power to stop the spread of Ebola, through their collective decisions and actions. It is intended that community mobilisers using the guide be trained in its use as part of a comprehensive training covering all aspects of working in communities.

Source: Social Mobilisation Action Consortium

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Using ART Grain Sack Charts: A Discussion Guide for Community Liaison Volunteers

This discussion guide was developed for use by Uganda’s Community Liaison Volunteers (CLVs) in conjunction with ART grain sack charts, a set of charts produced to encourage discussion around various thematic areas of concern for people living with HIV, including nutrition, prevention for positives, ART adherence, prevention of mother-to-child infection, and stigma. It is designed to help CLVs facilitate small group discussions with community members to increase awareness of and the importance of adherence. For each grain sack chart, there is a set of Learning Objectives and Group Discussion Questions, as well as suggestions for take-home messages.

The guide’s discussion topics include:

  • What is a good diet? What is a bad diet?
  • Which foods keep you healthy?
  • Choices for safer lifestyles
  • The price of choosing unsafe lifestyles
  • What is stigma and discrimination?
  • Your body before and after HIV
  • When does a person start ARVs?
  • The role of CLVs
  • When can HIV be passed from mother to child?
  • Caring for HIV positive children

This discussion guide was developed for use by Uganda’s Community Liaison Volunteers (CLVs) in conjunction with ART grain sack charts, a set of charts produced to encourage discussion around various thematic areas of concern for people living with HIV, including nutrition, prevention for positives, ART adherence, prevention of mother-to-child infection, and stigma. It is designed to help CLVs facilitate small group discussions with community members to increase awareness of and the importance of adherence. For each grain sack chart, there is a set of Learning Objectives and Group Discussion Questions, as well as suggestions for take-home messages.

The guide’s discussion topics include:

  • What is a good diet? What is a bad diet?
  • Which foods keep you healthy?
  • Choices for safer lifestyles
  • The price of choosing unsafe lifestyles
  • What is stigma and discrimination?
  • Your body before and after HIV
  • When does a person start ARVs?
  • The role of CLVs
  • When can HIV be passed from mother to child?
  • Caring for HIV positive children

Source: Joint Clinical Research Centre, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Community HIV Prevention Dialogue Guide for Change Agents

The purpose of this guide is to facilitate effective and guided community discussion on the issues of cultural and traditional practices that contribute to the spread of HIV in the community, and to help Change Agents in the community to carry out prevention activities in ways that incorporate appropriate and culturally sensitive messages to achieve project objectives.

The guide includes sections on planning the dialogue, dialogue methodologies, and skills needed to carry out guided community discussion.

Source: USAID

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Adobe Corporate Brand Guidlines

This resource is an example of a brand style guide. It shows how a product can maintain its identity through guidelines on how, where, and when to use the logo; color specifications; image use; typography; and other executional elements.

A brand style guide helps ensure the consistent application of all of the executional elements throughout all communication outputs. Everyone who creates communication materials for the brand should use the brand style guide as a reference document.

Source: Adobe

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Communication Guide for Malaria Control Interventions, 2015-2020

The goal of this guide is to provide a framework for guiding Malaria BCC actors and implementing partners in Tanzania for a well coordinated, and sustained quality communication for Malaria interventions.

The objectives of the guide are:

  • To guide advocacy efforts aimed at political leaders, decision makers, private sector partners and community leaders in order to raise the profile of malaria and ensure increased resource allocation at all levels.
  • To ensure consistent and standardized messages among all partners in malaria interventions.
  • To provide a framework to guide the development and implementation of strategic, evidence-based Behavior Change Communication interventions.
  • To create a platform and forum for BCC partners to harmonize and coordinate all malaria behavior change communication activities implemented by different partners in Tanzania mainland.

Source: Ministry of Health Tanzania

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Choose Life: A Guide for Peer Educators and Youth Leaders

This guide was primarily designed for boys and girls aged 10-14 from rural and urban areas of Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique and Rwanda.

This guide is especially geared for peer educators, youth leaders and others working with groups of youth. The guide provides facilitators with games, discussion questions and notes on behavior change. The objective is to enable them to effectively address HIV/AIDS from a values-based perspective. Its 12 modular lessons are progressive, leading participants through the decision-making process that culminates in a commitment to abstinence. Stories run through the curriculum, following the lives of youth and their families dealing with issues such as self-image, peer pressure, temptation, sexual abuse and unwed pregnancy.

The interactive learning sessions in this guide are designed to help create a supportive and positive learning environment. This will allow dialogue about sexual behavior and make group members feel free to ask questions, communicate openly, challenge one another, clarify their values, express concerns, and grow in understanding of relationships with the opposite sex.

Through participatory learning using games, stories and role plays, youth will be encouraged to feel good about who they are, their bodies, their families and their friends. They will then be able to make good decisions, set goals, communicate with parents and friends, care for their bodies and be assertive. These are skills that lower their risk of HIV infection and sexual exploitation. Learning to maintain a healthy lifestyle will protect them throughout their lives.

Source: World Relief

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Branding Guidelines for Bhanchhin Aama Integrated Communication Campaign

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.

Integrated (Unifying Theme-Bhanchhin Aama) Campaign: Suaahara developed and implemented the integrated Bhanchhin Aama (“Mother knows best”) cohesive platform which linked varied messages and reinforced recommended actions through a wide array of channels including mass media (radio programs, radio spots and billboards), print, and social mobilization. The platform involved multiple sectors (nutrition, agriculture, WASH, health service promotion, family planning), linked Suaahara partners, government and others, and had multiple messages for every target audience (pregnant women, husbands, newly married women, mothers-in-law, etc.).

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.

Branding Guidelines for Bhanchhin Aama Integrated Communication Campaign

Suaahara developed this standard Branding Guidelines to use consistently across all publications including Bhanchhin Aama campaign. Suaahara’s standard branding and marking constitutes of USAID logo and Suaahara mnemonic. USAID logo placed on the left side followed by Suaahara mnemonic. English and Nepali logos and mnemonics used for English and Nepali documents respectively.

USING THIS BRAND GUIDELINES

• These guidelines gave an overview of the branding elements and templates developed for Bhanchhin Aama integrated communication campaign to ensure consistency in communications across mediums.

• When artwork is produced, all files were checked by SBCC team for colors, fonts, visuals, etc. before full production/printing commences.

• All visuals/illustrations featured in this guidelines are for indicative purposes only and must be replaced with the relevant visuals/illustrations when developing actual communication materials.

This branding and marking used to position Suaahara across all public communications/materials carried out through any of the Suaahara implementing partners. Same applied to documents produced by local partner NGOs, sub-recipients and consultants.

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

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Brand Personality and Positioning Samples

This resource shows examples of various brands and their associated personalities and positioning.

Source: PSI

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019