Behavior Change Programming News Today

Convening the communication and media (for) development, social and behavioural change community through a social networking and shared knowledge strategy. Focus on health, governance, HIV/AIDS, children, media development, conflict management, environment, rights, disasters, gender and other major Development issues.

"...some of us working in social and behavior change have perhaps overemphasized in some cases individual behavior change when in fact so much of individual behavior change is shaped by...social norms, gender norms, or the more structural factors and policies that really contribute to intersectional marginalization and...inequitable health outcomes

"...some of us working in social and behavior change have perhaps overemphasized in some cases individual behavior change when in fact so much of individual behavior change is shaped by...social norms, gender norms, or the more structural factors and policies that really contribute to intersectional marginalization and...inequitable health outcomes

As one aspect of the Breakthrough ACTION initiative, funded by USAID, there is a focus on social norms, social change and social determinants; "Most effective SBC [social and behaviour change] frameworks and process models...aim to include and review many social determinants....Despite these and other efforts to call attention to the deep structur