The Drum Beat 833 - Guides to Inform and Inspire Your Work

• 1.CRS' Social and Behavior Change Guide
• Supporting local communities to adopt new individual behaviours or to shift social norms is fundamental to all the work that Catholic Relief Services (CRS) aims to achieve, across all programme sectors. This practical tool is designed to provide consistent terminology and processes by which different programmes are designed to promote social or behaviour change (SBC). [Feb 2024]
   
• 2.Social and Behavior Change Indicator Bank for Family Planning and Service Delivery
• SBC indicators - or markers of accomplishment/progress - for family planning (FP) are often not standardised, making it difficult for smaller implementing partners to identify indicators as well as limiting cross-project and cross-country comparison of data. Developed by Breakthrough ACTION using a consultative process, this FP indicator bank is designed to provide illustrative quality indicators specifically for global programmes using SBC approaches to address FP challenges. [Feb 2024]
   
• 3.Tools for Designing and Conducting Social and Behavior Change Evaluations
• From the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, USAID Advancing Nutrition, this guide provides practical tools for improving nutrition SBC evaluations. The first 2 tools show how to develop an evaluation statement of work and evaluation questions to guide evaluation design. Tool 3 helps evaluation teams determine the most appropriate respondent(s) for a given activity, taking into consideration the evaluation questions, common evaluation constraints, and behaviours being promoted. [Dec 2022]
   
• 4.SBC Warehouse and Behaviour Change Matters
• SBC Warehouse is an SBC knowledge platform for information, education, and communication (IEC) resources and training materials developed or produced by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) India. Site users can find and share SBC documents, testimonials, reports, and capacity-building resources; the platform also encourages discussion and sharing on SBC evidence and practice. Alongside the SBC Warehouse is an e-newsletter called Behaviour Change Matters that is distributed 6 times per year. In each edition of the newsletter, UNICEF India highlights examples of best practices from the field and human-interest stories cutting across programming sectors. [Ongoing]
   

• 5.Myanmar Journalists' Toolkit in Cultural and Ethnic Reporting
  by Mon Mon Myat and Ramon Guillermo R. Tuazon
• Myanmar is a diverse society with different religions, cultures, ethnicities, and dialects. In this context, the media has been found to reinforce divisions and otherness. From the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), this journalists' toolkit is designed to promote values of tolerance, pluralism, diversity, and inclusiveness and to emphasise the importance of cultural sensitivity in reporting cultural issues and events. It: includes do's and don'ts in cultural and ethnic reporting - from data gathering to content sharing and dissemination; presents prototype cultural and ethnic stories in different formats; and identifies topics or story ideas that may serve as leads in story development, writing, and production. [2023]
   
• 6.Citizen Engagement in Evidence-informed Policy-making [Overview Document and Mini-Publics Guide]
• Published by the World Health Organization (WHO), these resources are designed to support citizen engagement (CE) in evidence-informed decision-making in the health field. The first one is an overview document that introduces the concept and principles of CE and its benefits and challenges. The second one is a guide on how to organise mini-publics, a specific form of CE that involves a representative sample of citizens in structured and facilitated discussions on a policy issue. Both documents examine and encourage contributions that citizens can make to advance WHO's mission to achieve universal health coverage. [Nov 2022 (overview document); Feb 2024 (mini-publics guide)]
   
• 7.Guide to Investigating Disability Issues
  by Emyle Watkins
• This guide from the Global Investigative Journalism Network seeks to help journalists report on issues impacting people with disabilities in a way that is informed and without prejudice. It includes information on some of the various definitions of disability, important data and resources, and key issues for journalists to investigate. It also discusses how disability can differ between the medical world and the communities themselves and offers advice on how journalists can avoid getting tripped up on language, as well as tips on interview accessibility and finding the right sources. [Mar 2023]
   

• 8.Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation
  by Aishwarya Nagar, Vanessa Grégoire, Annie Sundelson, Emily O'Donnell-Pazderka, Amelia M. Jamison, and Tara Kirk Sell
• Misleading rumours, misinformation, and disinformation can make health events more complicated, reduce trust in public health efforts, and lead to negative health impacts. From the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, this playbook for addressing health misinformation provides guidance on ways public health and medical professionals can prepare for health-related rumours, decide when to act to address misinformation, choose which actions and approaches might be useful to their audiences and information needs, develop messages to address misinformation, and gather feedback about those messages. It provides detailed tools, checklists, templates, and examples written in plain language to help in these efforts. [Feb 2024]
   
• 9.Youth Media Literacy Fact Checking Manual
• Created by Africa Check, this dis- and misinformation fact-checking toolkit is designed to equip young African journalism students as well as members of youth-focused non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) with the knowledge and practical skills to stop the spread of false information. The toolkit, which was developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeks to provide an easily understandable overview of fact-checking with a focus on health information. Its goal is to help young people to understand false information, identify it, and decide when and how they can share information. [2022]
   
• 10.Managing False Information in Health Emergencies: An Operational Toolkit
  by Ravi Sreenath
• Infodemic management (IM) is the systematic use of risk- and evidence-based analysis and approaches to manage harmful information and reduce its impact on health behaviours during health emergencies. IM is a crucial part of an integrated emergency public health intervention that also includes risk communication and community engagement (RCCE). The purpose of this toolkit is to provide operational support to national authorities, partners, CSOs, and other stakeholders engaged in IM in the WHO European Region, in the context of health emergency preparedness and response. [Jan 2024]
   
• 11.MIL Heroes and Villains Guidebook: Enhance Your MIL Workshops and Trainings with a Flexible Storytelling Approach
  by Joseph van de Port, Roslyn Kratochvil Moore, and Susanne Glaeser
• This DW Akademie guidebook is designed to provide media and information literacy (MIL) educators with strategies to use the power of storytelling to make concepts around MIL engaging and relevant for learners. The approach is based on the use of five Heroes as they tackle common challenges young people face in both social media and the wider media landscape. These challenges include: cyberbullying, fake news, hate speech, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. The lessons can be adapted for different age groups based on context and media literacy knowledge levels. [Jan 2024]
   

• 12.Communicating with Caregivers about the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: A Tool to Build Confidence in Communication Skills among Health Workers
• Health workers (HWs) play a central role in maintaining public trust in vaccination that includes addressing concerns of caregivers. The WHO Regional Office for Europe designed this training module, with accompanying facilitator's guide, to equip HWs with the knowledge, skills, confidence, and resources they need to start conversations about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, address caregivers' concerns, and ultimately recommend the vaccine. [Feb 2023]
   
• 13.The Little Jab Book: A Playbook for COVID-19 Vaccination in Papua New Guinea
• COVID-19 vaccination uptake rates have been low in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Inspired by the Little Jab book series, this playbook seeks to uncover the underlying reasons for vaccine hesitancy among adults in PNG and to identify localised solutions to increase uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. The 12 evidence-based behavioural interventions outlined in this playbook focus on improving demand for vaccination and building confidence in vaccines, their safety, and their efficacy. It was published by the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics and Save the Children's Center for Utilizing Behavioral Insights for Children. [2023]
   
• 14.Digital Gamification Tools to Enhance Vaccine Uptake: Scoping Review
  by Hina Hakim, S Michelle Driedger, and Dominique Gagnon, et al.
• Vaccine hesitancy is one reason some people are un- or undervaccinated. Along with traditional communication strategies, the use of other strategies to inform and educate about immunisations - for example, with digital gamified tools (e.g., apps) - may help encourage vaccine uptake. Gamification is defined as the use of game design elements (e.g., rewards systems) in nongame contexts. This scoping review describes digital gamified tools that have been implemented or evaluated across various populations to encourage vaccination, as well as any reported effects of identified tools. [Feb 2024]
   
• 15.When a Toolkit Is Not Enough: A Review on What Is Needed to Promote the Use and Uptake of Immunization-Related Resources
  by Samantha Jaffe, Ankita Meghani, and Jessica C. Shearer, et al.
• Global immunisation stakeholders have developed evidence-based resources - including toolkits, guidance, and capacity-building materials - that can be used to ensure routine immunisation programmes are implemented effectively and equitably to meet their objectives. Recognising the challenges associated with implementing an evidence-based resource in practice, the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project partnered with the Measurement, Adaptive Learning, and Knowledge Management Lab (MAKLab) to identify 15 characteristics or factors to consider when designing, choosing, or implementing a resource, as described in this article. [Feb 2024]
   

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