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Considerations And Guidance For Using Routine And Program Monitoring Data For Social And Behavior Change Evaluation, Breakthrough Research Feb 2021

Considerations And Guidance For Using Routine And Program Monitoring Data For Social And Behavior Change Evaluation, Breakthrough Research

Reproductive Health

This brief is intended for global, regional, and national social and behavior change program implementers, evaluators, and monitoring and evaluation teams who want to document their program impacts through routinely collected data. Use of routine and program monitoring data for evaluation presents many opportunities for evaluating program impacts on priority health outcomes, with advantages that include their greater frequency, broader geographic range, longer duration, and lower cost of acquisition. Routine and program monitoring data may not be under direct control of evaluators and thus may not always be appropriate for evaluation. Careful consideration of the appropriateness of routine data for …


Orientation Des Programmes Pour Le Changement Social Et De Comportement À Travers L'Écoute Sociale Et Le Suivi Social, Breakthrough Research Oct 2020

Orientation Des Programmes Pour Le Changement Social Et De Comportement À Travers L'Écoute Sociale Et Le Suivi Social, Breakthrough Research

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Cette note de recherche offre des conseils pratiques quant à la manière d'utiliser l'écoute sociale et le suivi social comme outils permettant d’orienter les programmes de changement social et de comportement (CSC). Elle est destinée aux agents de mise en œuvre des programmes CSC au niveau mondial et régional, aux évaluateurs et aux bailleurs de fonds dans les pays prioritaires soutenus par l'USAID. Cette note donne un aperçu de l'écoute sociale et du suivi social et explique comment ces méthodes peuvent constituer des outils importants dans la collecte de renseignements concernant les connaissances et les attitudes de publics cibles, ainsi …


Informing Social And Behavior Change Programs: Using Social Listening And Social Monitoring, Breakthrough Research Sep 2020

Informing Social And Behavior Change Programs: Using Social Listening And Social Monitoring, Breakthrough Research

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This brief offers practical guidance on social listening and social (media) monitoring as tools to inform social and behavior change programs, intended for global and regional program implementers, evaluators, and donors in USAID priority countries. This brief explains how social listening and social monitoring can be important tools for collecting information about target audiences’ knowledge and attitudes, as well as their exposure and responses to particular interventions. Using applied examples in Francophone West Africa, it illustrates social and social monitoring steps, provides examples of lessons, and identifies how these methods can be applied to social and behavior change programming. People …


Strengthening Social And Behavior Change Monitoring And Evaluation For Family Planning In Francophone West Africa, Leanne Dougherty, Martha Silva, Kathryn Spielman Apr 2020

Strengthening Social And Behavior Change Monitoring And Evaluation For Family Planning In Francophone West Africa, Leanne Dougherty, Martha Silva, Kathryn Spielman

Reproductive Health

This report summarizes findings from a mapping of family planning investments, technical approaches and indicators, identifies indicator gaps, and makes recommendations to governments, donors, researchers and implementers to improve social and behavior change activity measurement in Francophone West Africa.