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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.

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.

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed highlighted the continued relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), during a meeting with the President of Tunisia, Kais Saied, held on Sunday.

This publication explores how natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be applied to social media text data to map public sentiment and inform development research and policy making.

Responsible for developing and implementing ActionAid Nigeria’s resource mobilisation and innovations’ communications strategy and plan; plan and carry out public affairs, community relations and publicity to influence ActionAid’s stakeholders, staff, partners’ and donors in favour of the organisation’s works through:       Coordinat

"Health workers cannot identify all children for vaccination if they have weak or incomplete data on the number of eligible children and where they live." Strengthening health information systems can foster the timely and evidence-based decision-making needed to provide populations with access to immunisation services in an equitable and inclusive

Two exceptional students--Renata Kamel from Vancouver Island, and Sophie Pavlik from Ontario--are the latest Schulich Leaders to come to UVic to study science and engineering.

"...the field should first reach consensus on the definition and then measure VH [vaccine hesitancy] accordingly. This approach allows for a much-needed comparison between studies to improve our understanding of VH determinants, correlates and consequences on an individual and societal level."

"Multiple behavioural biases affect physicians decision-making around the HPV vaccine..." The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was introduced in 2008 in India for girls between the ages of 9-14 years. But since its inception, the uptake and administration of the HPV vaccine have been low.

"Communication programs for behavior change - in the past, often defined at the individual level alone - are less effective than they should be because the program ignores obstacles to change in the systems in which individuals are embedded." Designing and implementing effective social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) programmes requires a