Social and Behaviour Change

Also available in: French

When can it be useful?
This practical toolkit will help you understand what social and behaviour change (SBC) is about, how can you identify and tackle the key barriers to adopting various behaviours (including guidance on conducting Barrier Analysis), what common mistakes you should avoid and much more!

Language: English, French

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This website offers practical tools helping relief and development practitioners understand and tackle the barriers that prevent people from following the desired behaviours.

Language: English, French, Arabic, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials, Templates

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This brief and practical document present the key SBC lessons learnt from GIZ's food and nutrition security programming. It allows you to avoid not-so-good practices and take advantage of what has worked.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

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This site provides the most useful and up-to-date guidance on conducing Barrier Analysis, including a short description of its main steps (included in the Behaviour Change Toolkit), training of trainers module, checklists, data analysis tool, and more.

Language: English, French, Arabic

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Training Materials, Templates

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

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This brief document provides step-by-step guidance on how to code the Barrier Analysis data and how to enter it in the Tabulation Sheet.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
At this site you can find the templates of Barrier Analysis questionnaires in various languages. Contact us please if you can help with translating the template to a currently unavailable language.

Language: English, French, Arabic, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Templates

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

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This site brings you the most useful resources on preparing and conducting key informant interviews.

Language: English, French

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This publication provides guidance on the use of customer journey mapping - a formative research technique helping us understand people's experience with using (or trying to use) certain service, taking into account not only what happens to them, but also their responses to their experiences.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This site brings you the most useful resources on preparing and conducting observations.

Language: English, French

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This site presents the most useful and up-to-date guidance on using the DBC framework.

Language: English, French

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
Explore frequently asked questions about using the DBC Framework.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Templates

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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The second chapter of this toolkit provides lots of examples and practical guidance on designing behaviour change activities.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
The second chapter of this toolkit provides lots of examples and practical guidance on designing behaviour change activities.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This site provides useful guidance on using peer education approach in your behaviour change programming.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This site provides resources that help you to understand how to use the Positive Deviance approach in your programming, especially related to health and nutrition.

Language: English, French, Portuguese

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes