As the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) begin to see implementation, ICTs can play a key role in their achievement. The SDG ICT Playbook, produced by organizations across the public, private and humanitarian sectors, outlines how ICTs can make SDG interventions scalable, measurable and more in ways that only a few years ago would have been impossible. Participants will be taken through the SDG ICT Playbook as they begin to think through their own ICT plan development in relation to their intervention’s objectives.
The Roll Back Malaria Communication Community of Practice (RBM CCoP) brings social and behavior change implementing partners, national malaria control programs, donors, USAID and President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) staff, research institutions, and private sector organizations together to further the implementation of the Strategic Framework for Malaria at the Country Level. This morning session, facilitated by CCoP Secretariat HC3, with support from USAID/PMI and the ACT Consortium, will include a welcome and a short presentation on community based SBCC for malaria in Ethiopia, an introduction to research and resources from CCoP partner ACT Consortium, and an overview of other resources the group and its partners have produced and collected.
SBCC designed to improve WASH programming tends to be informed by quantitative data from baseline surveys and qualitative data from focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. While both of these methods have their advantages, both rely on self-reported behavior or their family’s or community’s behavior. The objective of this workshop is to prepare participants to employ direct observation and additional ethnographic methods of data collection which provide more insight into behaviors beyond what’s reported. Participants will use these methods on-site at the conference venue and report back their findings and assessments.