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"...changes in both self-perception and in the relationship between the communities and health workers lead to greater mutual understanding and local prioritization, along with changes in service delivery..." In recent years, social accountability initiatives led by community members and civil society organisations (CSOs) have been brought to bear

"The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the need for public health communication efforts to be more proactive. This is especially relevant given the need to address misinformation to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake..."

It has been seven and a half years since the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals were launched to great fanfare in 2015. A deadline of the end of 2030 was set for achieving all 17 goals. As the SDG

"...highlights that the systemic, long-standing, and population-level challenges faced to improve access to childhood vaccination in Nigeria are well known and widely studied - and begs the question of how Nigeria can operationalize this knowledge to meet its goal of sustainably improving immunization coverage..."

"These findings open up avenues for policymakers to treat communities as less vulnerable and more capable of changing situations and problems that affect them." Interventions that mobilise communities to tackle the social and structural drivers of violence have been found to be effective in some contexts to prevent violence against women (VAW).

Teaching and learning through Hollywood or commercial film productions is anything but a new approach. In fact, it has been a mainstay in the classroom for nearly a century utilizing positive and negative pedagogy.

Save the Children Consultant Scope of Work Agency for All: Early Childbearing and SBC in Bangladesh Period of Engagement We anticipate the consultancy will take approximately 40 days over the period of 9 months starting at the end of September/early October 2022. Project Description/Background

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.

"A campaign highlighting healthy behaviors (getting a vaccine) and making salient the outcome of the behavior from a social point of view (protecting the individual and the community) could be an effective and low-cost strategy to promote behavior changes." When it comes to getting vaccinated, individuals have an incentive to free ride, avoiding th

"Study findings can inform the design of evidence-based community engagement approaches that appropriately target caregivers in these regions and other similar settings." Psychosocial factors, including social, cultural, and environmental phenomena, play a central role in health and behaviour change.