2009 Past Highlights
- Performed an in-depth review on social change frameworks and began plans for the development of a social change toolkit.
- Presented an Elluminate session on the newest Designing for Behavior Change curriculum. Elluminate Session: Powerful to Change Behaviors: Hand Washing with Soap
- Conducted a meta-analysis to review Child Survival projects with a breastfeeding component to identify factors which make a difference between successful and less successful efforts to improve exclusive breastfeeding rates (most powerful to change). The analysis process includes review of project documents and in-depth interviews with project staff. Preliminary results of the analysis were presented at the CORE Spring Membership meeting. Efforts to Improve Exclusive Breastfeeding Coverage-Findings and Recommendations (2010)
- The Partnership Defined Quality Technical Advisory Group drafted a monitoring and evaluation toolkit for PDQ, including indicators for community capacity. Eleven monographs of PDQ experiences were developed and distributed. The PDQ methodology was also featured in a well-attended presentation at the Spring CORE meeting. In addition, one intra-agency professional development PDQ M and E visit took place: Project Hope/Indonesia and SC/Pakistan went to Vietnam to help monitor SC/Vietnam’s PDQ implementation Save
2008 Past Highlights
In 2008 the Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Working Group unveiled their new Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) curriculum. The curriculum is designed as six day training to build the capacity of NGO staff to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate effective behavior change strategies. Based on the Academy of Educational Development's BEHAVE framework, the DBC curriculum has been tailored for field-based staff to include more tools, case studies, stories and examples. It also includes information on the Barrier Analysis approach and formative research and provides guidelines for selecting appropriate behavior change activities.
The SBC Working Group held a one day technical advisory group meeting on on "Partnership Defined Quality" (PDQ), a methodology to improve the quality and accessibility of health facility services by involving the community in defining, implementing and monitoring the quality improvement process. PDQ practitioners from 15 countries shared their experiences, developed a preliminary list of essential programming elements, defined a draft list of process indicators, and wrote a series of country monographs on the use of PDQ.