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SUN Global Gathering| October 22, 2015
Innovations in Social and Behavior
Change Communication for
Nutrition
2. Alive & Thrive
Alive & Thrive is a behavior change
program that scales up nutrition to save
lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy
growth and development.
Alive & Thrive is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
and the governments of Canada and Ireland and managed by FHI 360.
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Session objectives
• To facilitate sharing of approaches, in SUN countries
• To understand how leading communication
practitioners apply findings and theory to design
programs:
– select a priority behavior
– identify “drivers” of behavior
• To recognize a systematic design process and the value
of calling in professionals
• Identify steps and milestones for continued sharing and
support on developing SBCC plans in 2015
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What we’ll do today
• Presentation: 3 lessons to keep in mind when
planning behavior change interventions
• Country examples: Hunting for those 3 lessons
• Next steps for continued sharing and support
on SBCC
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Lesson 1. Use evidence based
processes and principles
Lesson 2. Use data to choose
the priority behavior
Lesson 3. Use data and theory
to identify the “drivers” of
behavior
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• The “drivers” of behavior
– Rational messages
– Emotional messages
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This time you view the spot, hunt for…
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Bangladesh: A&T TV spot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Mz6CFz5EQ
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Refreshed case studies for
behavior change
Research to Action:
Designing communication
on child feeding
in Bangladesh
CASE STUDY #1 CASE STUDY #2 CASE STUDY #3
Dads can do that!
Strategies to involve
fathers in child feeding
What drives behavior?
Key factors for handwashing
in Bangladesh
http://aliveandthrive.org/resources-main-page/case-studies/
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Dear parents and
caregivers
The health and future of
your child depend on you.
The child needs you, your
love and your care. You
are the first teacher and
friend of your child. And
only you can provide the
best start to life.
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Kyrgyz Republic: Brochure
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Kyrgyz Republic: Brochure
Hunt for…
• The behavior
– What behavior is the
material promoting?
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Dear parents and
caregivers
The health and future of
your child depend on you.
The child needs you, your
love and your care. You
are the first teacher and
friend of your child. And
only you can provide the
best start to life.
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Hunt for….the “Drivers”
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Vietnam: Packaging for
mirconutrient powders (MNP)
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Hunt for…
• The behavior
– What behavior is the
material promoting?
• The “drivers” of
behavior
– Rational messages
– Emotional messages
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Myanmar: Poster
Hunt for…
• The behavior
– What behavior is the
material promoting?
• The “drivers” of
behavior
– Rational messages
– Emotional messages
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I give only breastfeeding to my baby up to 6 months.
Don’t give water.
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Malawi: Counseling cards
Hunt for…
• The behavior
– What behavior is the
material promoting?
• The “drivers” of
behavior
– Rational messages
– Emotional messages
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Uganda: Recipe cards
Hunt for…
• The behavior
– What behavior is the
material promoting?
• The “drivers” of
behavior
– Rational messages
– Emotional messages
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Lesson 1. Use evidence based
processes and principles
Lesson 2. Use data to choose
the priority behavior
Lesson 3. Use data and theory
to identify the “drivers” of
behavior
I’d like to welcome you and thank you all for your participation in this presentation, Alive & Thrive: Delivering rapid, large scale increases in child feeding practices. We are very honored to be able to share our learning and results with you.
Alive & Thrive was designed to answer the question: “Can we scale up nutrition?” The question arose at the time of the 2008 Lancet journal series on maternal and child undernutrition, which noted that while much had been studied about small, pilot programs to improve infant and young child feeding, few attempts had been made to deliver interventions at scale.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offered Alive & Thrive the resources and the vision to put the question to the test.
In 2014, Alive & Thrive started receiving additional funding from the governments of Canada and Ireland.
Now I’ll share highlights of the results from our program evaluations in the three countries.
The International Food Policy Research Institute conducted the evaluations, with baseline surveys in 2010 and endline surveys in 2014.
The results demonstrate that rapid, large scale increases in child feeding practices are feasible.
We did change exclusive breastfeeding behaviors at scale. From our 2014 data, here you see that in areas of each country where A&T intensive programs operated, exclusive breastfeeding rates increased. In Bangladesh and Viet Nam, where baseline rates were low, at 48% and 19%, the change is pretty astonishing.
We also changed complementary feeding behaviors at scale. Take a look at the percent of children 6-23 months who consumed foods from 4 or more food groups, the dietary diversity indicator.
In the A&T areas of Bangladesh, the percentage of children who consumed a diverse diet increased by 30 percentage points in three years. In Ethiopia, the country that certainly had the most “potential to benefit”, we are heartened that dietary diversity more than doubled (while still needing significant improvement).
As most of you do, A&T has learned from the best of social marketing, behavioral science, and behavioral economics. We’ve used emotion, we’ve worked on changing the home environment to make it more conducive to uptake of the behaviors, we’ve recognized the importance of shifting the social norms.
Alive & Thrive’s comprehensive framework for large scale programs consists of four main components: advocacy, interpersonal communication and community mobilization, mass media, and strategic use of data. Alive & Thrive’s program design engages various audiences – policymakers, employers, service providers, community leaders, family, caregivers and mothers – and emphasizes partners including country governments, UNICEF, and others.
We have Peter Gottert to thank for this visual. The path down which this particular elephant is working its way is paved. That makes for a pretty clear direction.
Thinking about your experience with exercise, you told us yesterday about some of the things that make up your path – the things in your environment that make it easier or harder to exercise:
Safe, well-lighted , nearby place to run
Gym membership
A festive park around a beautiful lake
Your partner’s encouragement
Your doctor’s advice
For some behaviors, all that’s needed is to Shape the Path. What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem. We call the situation (including the surrounding environment) the ‘Path.’ When you shape the Path, you make change more likely, no matter what’s happening with the Rider and Elephant.”
Can you imagine a situation in which a change to your environment – and only that? – might make you exercise more? When you shape the Path, you make change more likely, no matter what’s happening with the Rider and Elephant.”
For years, nutrition programmers have repeated the mantra: It’s more than knowledge. Yet time and again, the content of training, of counseling, of campaigns, focused on teaching facts.
As most of you do, A&T has learned from the best of social marketing, behavioral science, and behavioral economics. We’ve used emotion, we’ve worked on changing the home environment to make it more conducive to uptake of the behaviors, we’ve recognized the importance of shifting the social norms.
And thanks to at least one or our studies – the evaluation of the “talking babies” media campaign to increase rates of exclusive breastfeeding in Viet Nam – we’ll soon be able to document the roles of some of the most powerful drivers of behavior: what behavioral scientists refer to as beliefs about outcomes of the behavior; perceptions of social norms; and self-efficacy related to exclusive breastfeeding.
We’re lucky to have the data to share with all of you, demonstrating the importance of a systematic look at drivers of behavior.
ANN
Here’s just one way this mindset is manifested. Watch how many characters play a role in this short TV spot from Bangladesh.
For years, nutrition programmers have repeated the mantra: It’s more than knowledge. Yet time and again, the content of training, of counseling, of campaigns, focused on teaching facts.
As most of you do, A&T has learned from the best of social marketing, behavioral science, and behavioral economics. We’ve used emotion, we’ve worked on changing the home environment to make it more conducive to uptake of the behaviors, we’ve recognized the importance of shifting the social norms.
And thanks to at least one or our studies – the evaluation of the “talking babies” media campaign to increase rates of exclusive breastfeeding in Viet Nam – we’ll soon be able to document the roles of some of the most powerful drivers of behavior: what behavioral scientists refer to as beliefs about outcomes of the behavior; perceptions of social norms; and self-efficacy related to exclusive breastfeeding.
We’re lucky to have the data to share with all of you, demonstrating the importance of a systematic look at drivers of behavior.
ANN
Here’s just one way this mindset is manifested. Watch how many characters play a role in this short TV spot from Bangladesh.
The video is part of a case study that is available on our website. The case study also covers our design-and-testing process, including strategic planning, concept testing, and pretesting.
We have two other similar case studies, also available on our website. Each one highlights the principles and processes for designing strategic behavior change programs. They include program materials, handouts, and adaptable tools. The case studies were developed by Alive & Thrive’s senior specialist in behavior change, Ann Jimerson, who could not be here today.
We welcome you to use the case studies as examples when teaching others about strategic behavior change design.
We hope you will enjoy hearing more about the A&T work in Bangladesh at today’s meeting and will track further progress of A&T.
Thank you. And best wishes for a successful meeting.