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Handbook on Participatory Methods for Community-based Projects

This handbook is intended to help integrate more participatory methods into programming for vulnerable populations, especially war-affected young adults and children.

In Liberia, Sierra Leone and Northern Uganda, among other countries in sub-Saharan Africa and throughout the world, communities are poorly equipped to respond in positive ways to returning girl mothers and to other war-affected young mothers in the community who are vulnerable because they may be unmarried, poor, and/or lack family support.

The overall goal is to improve the reintegration and well-being of young mothers by involving them as key actors in changing their situations and building broad community support for this process.

Source: University of Wyoming

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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GREAT Community Action Cycle Implementation Guide

The Gender Roles, Equality and Transformations (GREAT) Project Community Action Cycle (CAC) Implementation Guide was developed to engage community leaders and mobilizers by facilitating a process that focuses on the relationship between gender inequality, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health outcomes.

The CAC is a process of collective dialogue and action based on planning by communities. It engages community leaders and mobilizers by facilitating a process that focuses on the relationship between gender inequality, GenderBased Violence (GBV) and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) outcomes. The CAC is a process of collective dialogue and action based on planning by communities who first define their current status, what changes they seek to achieve, and how to make this community change happen.

Source: Save the Children, Pathfinder

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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How-To Guide for Social Network Diffusion Approaches to Overcome Social Obstacles to Family Planning Use

The Tékponon Jikuagou consortium prepared this guide to encourage others to adopt the package through social networks as a stand-alone initiative or as a supplement to their ongoing health and development programs in West Africa. The guide offers guidance for planning and implementing the five components of a social network diffusion package, and presents the tools, materials, guides and instructions that were developed, tested and used in Tékponon Jikuagou. Throughout, the text explain to the user what the team did and makes suggestions based on lessons learned and outcomes.

The guide is comprehensive — it contains everything needed to replicate the social networks diffusion package in the field — but it is not a rigorous set of instructions. Moreover,the guide focuses on the interface between field staff (called Facilitators) and community members: it assumes that the implementing organization has adequate management and evaluation structures in place to support this interface.

Source: Institute for Reproductive Health

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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ENA Training Guide for Health Workers – Handouts

The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework is an operational framework for managing the advocacy, planning and delivery of an integrated package of preventive nutrition actions encompassing infant and young child feeding (IYCF), micronutrients and women’s nutrition. Using multiple contact points, it targets health services and behavior change communication support to women and young children during the first 1,000 days of life – from conception through the first two years of life. ENA Health Worker Training Guide equips health service providers with the technical, action-oriented nutrition knowledge and counseling skills needed to support pregnant women, mothers with children under two years of age, and other key family members to adopt optimal nutrition practices. This course translates up-to-date international guidelines into action-oriented nutrition practices. Training handouts are distributed to participants at the beginning of the ENA training.

These handouts are designed to provide the heatlh worker with basic information about Essential Nutrition Actions.

Source: Helen Keller International, John Snow Inc.

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Journey of Hope: A Practical Guide for Making Positive Life Choices – Haiti User’s Guide

This user’s guide is part of the Haiti Journey of Hope Kit – a set of practical experiential learning activities designed to address a range of HIV and AIDS related issues, in particular HIV prevention.

It guides participants to develop life skills that can help them deal with different situations, linked to staying healthy and achieving their goals and dreams in life. The Journey is represented by: a mass of water, where there are crocodiles, hippos, and snakes, representing dangers in life including the HIV virus and other STIs; narrow bridges and three boats, representing prevention methods of abstinence, faithfulness, and condom use; and future islands, representing what participants most want and value in life– their future goals and dreams.

The overall aims of Journey of Hope are to:

  1. Help people in Haiti stop the spread of HIV and have a healthy life
  2. Enable people to be in relationships they want, in a way that keeps them safe from HIV infection
  3. Give hope to people for a future that helps them choose to abstain, be faithful, or use condoms to prevent HIV infection.

To achieve the overall aims, Journey of Hope:

  • Promotes open discussions about sexual behavior and issues related to HIV and AIDS
  • Involves people in fun and interesting ways using participatory story telling with interactive visual aids and symbols
  • Provides the choice and helps participants to develop skills that empower them to protect themselves from HIV protection (abstinence, faithfulness, and condom use)
  • Encourages people to plot their own ways to a safer lifestyle to enable them to achieve outcomes they really want and value in life;
  • Applies a range of powerful and practical communication tools for behavior change
  • Enables people to develop skills in negotiating sexual matters in a relationship
  • Clarifies issues around Voluntary Counseling and Testing
  • Promotes support, compassion and positive living for those living with HIV and AIDS

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communicaiton Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Let’s Discuss

This is a manual for a kit which includes a CD, DVD and guide to support group discussion among Tanzanian youth and/or adults around HIV and AIDS.

Specifically, it focuses on issues related to adult-child communication, cross-generational sex, stigma and discrimination, and faithfulness. The kit provides a collection of songs, dramas, discussion questions, and participatory activities that encourage young people and adults to discuss HIV and AIDS and identify ways to protect themselves and their communities against infection. Although the guide can be used as a stand-alone tool, the materials from the larger kit are meant to make discussions more lively and entertaining. Each item in the kit is designed to promote personal reflection and group discussion on how to apply what is learned in the participants’ own lives.

This package or materials is meant to compliment existing life skills and group education interventions and can be integrated into new or ongoing activities. The kit covers the topics of: 1. alcohol misuse and risk-taking, 2. adult-child communication, 3. cross-generational sex, 4. stigma and discrimination, and 5. faithfulness.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, FHI 360, ICF International, WellShare International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Malawi – Moyo ndi Mpamba Campaign Marriage Counseling for Newlyweds Training Manual

The Moyo ndi Mpamba, Usamalireni (“Life is precious, take care of it”) campaign produced these materials for newlyweds. SSDI-Communication worked with the Ministry of Health and faith leaders to develop a booklet for young married couples (the Takunyadirani [“We Celebrate You”] booklet) containing messages on priority health topics especially relevant to couples who are about to be married or who are newly married: maternal and child health, nutrition, family planning, malaria in pregnancy, and HIV & AIDS. The project also developed a training for religious marriage counselors, and conducted trainings in six districts.

Trained counselors reached out to young married couples through counseling sessions, small-group church meetings, door-to-door visits, marriage outreach sessions, mock weddings, and sermons. The Takunyadirani booklet served as a guide for counseling sessions. SSDI-Communication trained over 1,450 marriage counselors in six districts, and distributed 14,000 Takunyadirani booklets to as many newlywed couples, representing over 90% coverage of all marriages that occurred in the catchment areas of trained counselors; these couples also benefitted from counseling sessions.

Learn here about the newlywed booklet.

In the Moyo ndi Mpamba, Usamalireni campaign, the SSDI-Communication supported the Ministry of Health in realizing its ambitious health promotion agenda by developing and running a multimedia, multi-level Moyo ndi Mpamba, Usamalireni (“Life is precious, take care of it”) campaign, from 2011-2016. The ultimate goal of this campaign was to promote positive health behaviors and create demand for available services across six focus health areas – HIV & AIDS; family planning; nutrition; maternal, neonatal and child health; malaria; and water, sanitation and hygiene – and with audiences across the socio-ecological landscape and all targeted life stages.

Source: SSDI-Communication

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Radio Drama Discussion Group Facilitator’s Curriculum

This is a document developed to guide the facilitator of the radio listners group. The group is made up of artisans in the community and other community members who come together on particular day to listen to the NUHRI radio program.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Elements of Family Planning Success Toolkit

This toolkit contains more than two dozen audio and video interviews with family planning experts, up-to-date background and reference materials, job aids and other tools, PowerPoint presentations, books, manuals, briefs, case studies, fact sheets, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, project reports, reviews, and teaching and training materials. Resources listed are from more than 80 organizations.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, FHI 360, ICF International, WellShare International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Messages for the Preparedness Phase Countries Neighboring Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea

This document provides guidelines for messaging during the period when the country is preparing its population for a possible outbreak of Ebola.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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