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Published By: USAID Advancing Nutrition Publication Date: December 2022 This short document provides practical tools for improving nutrition social and behavior change evaluations. It complements Measuring Social and Behavior Change in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluating Social and Behavior Change Components of Nutrition Activities: A Design Guide for USAID Staff. This resource and the description above were developed by the amazing communications and kn

Program evaluations play a critical role in improving the quality and determining the effectiveness of the social and behavior change (SBC) strategies and approaches needed to achieve nutrition program goals. However, SBC is often not well understood by those designing or conducting evaluations. Photo Credit: SPRING Evaluation teams are typically composed of specialized technical experts who may not have experience implementing or evaluating SBC interventions. Without strong

Published By: USAID Advancing Nutrition Publication Date: April 2022 Social and behavior change (SBC) is an effective tool for improving nutrition programs and outcomes across a range of sectors from agriculture to markets to health systems. This guide supports USAID staff who are involved in planning an evaluation, identifying evaluation objectives, and building an evaluation scope of work for an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes. It is not

Published By: USAID Advancing Nutrition Publication Date: August 2023 Program evaluations play a critical role in improving the quality and determining the effectiveness of the social and behavior change (SBC) strategies and approaches needed to reach nutrition program outcomes. This guide supports implementing partners who are involved with conducting an evaluation of an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes. The document focuses on enhancing sk

The Care Group Model (CGM) serves as a community-based platform for delivering essential health and nutrition programming. Care groups typically include 10-15 community-based volunteers who convene regularly to discuss health and nutrition topics; these individuals are then responsible for supporting household level behavior change in their communities by educating other community members on important health and nutrition practices (TOPS 2016). To-date, this strategy has been

Published By: USAID Advancing Nutrition Publication Date: January 2024 USAID Advancing Nutrition partnered with Amalima Loko, a USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance-funded Resilience Food Security Activity, to facilitate a participatory design process and to test transferable solutions to improve the quality of peer support groups using human-centered design. This brief shares prototypes and lessons learned from the process with Amalima Loko participants that may be usefu

Published By: USAID Advancing Nutrition Publication Date: December 2023 This document shares considerations for planning formative research within USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded Resilience and Food Security Activities (RFSAs) within the Refinement period. Formative research plans in this period typically aim to generate practical and timely findings across multiple studies to fill information gaps and guide the design of social and behavior change (SBC)