Vision: The SBC Working Group contributes to improved maternal and child health outcomes by enhancing the design and implementation of effective NGO social and behavioral change strategies.

2007 Working Group Highlights

• The SBC working group sponsored a five-day training on Designing for Behavior Change in Bamako, Mali. All of the participants who attended expect to train others from their organizations and partners in the Designing for Behavior Change methodology.

• Held a technical advisory group meeting where decisions were made regarding improvements to the BEHAVE curriculum. In 2008, the SBC Working Group hopes to finalize the revised curriculum and conduct an Elluminate session to provide an overview of the updated curriculum.

• Past highlights

Working Group Tools/Resources

• Designing for Behavior Curriculum
• 2005 Behavior Change Interventions: Technical Reference Materials
• Qualitative Research Methods Training Curriculum
• Barrier Analysis Facilitator's Guide
• Applying the BEHAVE Framework: Workshop Guide (French and English)
• Review of CSXVI Detailed Implementation Plans to Assess PVO Behavior Change Strengths and Needs
  • Annexes to CSXVI Review

For additional resources, see Child Health + Development database.

Working Group Meetings and Reports

• Powerpoint: Communication for Social Change (CFSC): Modeling Social Mobilization to Support Development (CORE Spring Meeting, April 2007)
• Designing for Behavior Change Workshop Report - Bamako, Mali (January 2007)
• Social Behavior Change External Analysis Meeting Report 3/31/04

• Measuring Behavioral Determinants Meeting Report 6/11/03
  • Behavioral Derminants Appendix

• Applying the BEHAVE Framework: Cambodia Workshop (February 2003)
• Learn to BEHAVE: South Africa Workshop (February 2002)

Working Group Toolbox

• Working Group Member List

Useful Links

• On-Line Course: Social and Behavioral Foundations of Primary Health Care (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
• About Motivational Interviewing (Food for the Hungry)
• The Change Project
• Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes
• How to Mobilize Communities for Health and Social Change

Photo: Pieternella Pieterse