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Family Planning for Men [Radio Spot]

Source: Chemonics

This radio spot was used as part of the Mothers Alive campaign to encourage men to get involved in family planning decisions. The spot highlights a man speaking to his friends about his new child’s upcoming birth. His friends suggest he should have many children, but one of the men suggests that being a “big man” does not mean having a big family, rather it means having the number of children one can support. The first man then agrees to consider keeping his family size smaller.

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Family Planning Counselling Kit

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, WHO, UNFPA, USAID, HSSP

Year of Publication:

2009

A guide to family planning counseling for service providers. There are pages with large illustrations for the client, and information / counseling guidelines for the service provider. The guide covers information about female and male reproductive systems, counseling men, counseling young people, post abortion care, double protection, emergency contraception, abstinence, the male condom, the female condom, oral contraceptives, injectable contraceptives, lactational amenorrhea method, natural family planning, implants, tubal ligation, the IUD, and vasectomy.

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Family Planning for Adolescents [Radio Spot]

Source: Chemonics

This radio spot was used as part of the Mothers Alive campaign to help married adolescents recognize the importance of family planning. An aunt and mother visit a young bride. The mother pressures the young woman to have a baby, but her aunt advises that waiting to have children by using family planning is better for the health of the mother and the happiness of the family. The young bride agrees and decides to learn more about family planning.

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#EndAdolescentAIDS Fact Sheets

Source: SafAIDS

Year of Publication:

2014

Fact sheets on adolescent HIV trends, distribution of adolescent AIDS-related deaths, HIV treatment for adolescents, and adolescent knowledge, testing and behaviour related to HIV are available for the following countries:

  • Zambia
  • Swaziland
  • South Africa
  • Malawi
  • Lesotho
  • Zimbabwe

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Diva Centres Project, Zambia

Source: IDEO, Marie Stopes Zambia

Year of Publication:

2016

A teens-only approach to contraception is getting girls the services they need to make the choices that are right for them.

In Zambia, a radical new approach to contraception is giving adolescent girls the information and services they need to make their own choices and take control of their futures. At the Diva Centres, girls do their nails while having informal conversations about boys and sex. They hang out with friends, learn about contraception in their own terms from trained peers, and, when they’re ready, receive counseling and access to a variety of short and long-term birth control methods in a safe and judgment-free environment from a trained professional. In this safe environment, girls begin to connect birth control with their future aspirations and get the information they need to make smart decisions from a safe and trusted resource.

By taking a human-centered approach, and spending weeks immersed in the lives and aspirations of Zambian teens, the team designed a multi-touchpoint approach to getting girls the contraception they need.

For girls who visited one of the three Diva Centres, 82% got contraceptive services and 36% returned for another visit.

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Dissemination Event of Breakthrough ACTION Zambia

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication:

2020

The Breakthrough ACTION Zambia Project developed and disseminated implementation handover packages for Adolescent Wellness Days, Men’s Wellness Days, Ni Zii, GMTk, Emergency Planning Prompt, Co-Created Guidelines and Feedback Mechanism innovations to stakeholders. These packages were disseminated at an event in September 2020.

This is a recording of the event.

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Desk Review and Qualitative Assessment of Case Management SBCC Strategies in Four Countries: Ethiopia, Rwanda, Senegal and Zambia

Source: Johns Hopkins CCP

Year of Publication:

2017

Case management of malaria has undergone profound changes over the years since the introduction and widespread use of rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). Recent years have seen the evolution of home management of malaria, community-based management of malaria and integrated community case management (iCCM) of malaria packages. Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) activities at the community level that address behaviors like prompt care seeking and compliance with complete ACT regimens have been the focus of some interventions. Much less SBCC has focused on service provider behaviors, like adherence to simple and complicated malaria treatment and diagnosis algorithms, and adherence to ACT and RDT protocols.

Countries like Ethiopia, Rwanda, Senegal and Zambia have shown that carefully planned malaria case management pilots, programs and activities can be extremely effective.1234 This research does not, however, include documentation of SBCC components of malaria case management programming that have been measured for impact. While these countries have taken steps to develop malaria communication strategies that include malaria case management messaging, very little has been done to document the impact of resulting national activities and programs.

The purpose of this desk review is to identify promising SBCC practices related to malaria case management at both community and service provider levels in the four focus countries: Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Senegal.

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CSP Creative Workshop Report

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Report from a creative workshop for a campaign in Zambia address Concurrent Sexual Partnerships (CSP). The report includes the following information:

  • I. Introduction
  • II. Overview of Presentations and Discussion Highlights
    • a. What is CSP?
    • b. Literature Review
    • c. Qualitative Research Findings from Zambia
      • i. ZCCP
      • ii. SFH
      • iii. HCP
    • d. What is a Campaign?
  • III. Brainstorming Elements of a Creative Brief (Group Work):
    • a. Primary Audience
    • b. Secondary Audiences
    • c. Branding Ideas
    • d. Potential Channels
    • e. Creative Concepts/Considerations
  • IV. Next Steps

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CSP Creative Meeting Programme Agenda

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication:

2008

This is an example of a creative meeting agenda. The agenda includes welcome, background, developing the creative brief and creative concepts, and developing the campaign.

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Community Health Worker Recruitment Posters

Source: Zambia Ministry of Health

Year of Publication:

2010

The Zambian government launched a Community Health Assistant (CHA) program in 2010. The Ministry’s goal was to train 5,000 new CHAs by 2017—a massive investment in a country with only 6,000 nurses.

Recruited from their communities, trained, and then deployed back to their communities, community health workers are thought to have the necessary relationships, local knowledge, and sense of community responsibility to deliver health services to underserved areas. Informal, small-scale, community health worker programs have existed for years, but recently many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have sought to formalize the cadre and implement national programs at scale. In each community, the district health authority posted these paper advertisements for Community Health Assistant (CHA) jobs in public spaces, such as schools, churches, and the health center.

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