Breakthrough RESEARCH, in collaboration with resource partner M&C Saatchi, is using social listening as a research strategy to understand the types of health information shared through social media in Francophone West Africa.

The Transform/PHARE project developed innovative approaches to enhance health-related behavior change programming and family planning outcomes by adapting novel techniques from marketing, advertising, human-centered design, and behavioral economics.

Le projet Transform/PHARE a développé des approches innovantes pour optimiser la programmation du changement de comportement en matière de santé et les résultats de la planification familiale (PF) en adaptant de nouvelles techniques issues du marketing, de la publicité, du design centré sur l’humain et de l’économie comportementale.

In RISE II, the Resilience Food Security Activity partners use a variety of social and behavior change (SBC) approaches, including community mobilization, interpersonal communication through peer group activities, and mass media, to address priority health behaviors.

The Pere Burkinbila taught fathers how to educate their sons on reproductive health and also challenge male-oriented social norms and practices. 

This summary served as pre-reading for the Innovations Lab workshop conducted in Ouagadougou in October 2017. It provides an overview of Family Planning with special emphasis on the role of men in Burkina Faso.

Transform/PHARE (PHARE), a USAID-funded and PSI-powered social and behavior change program, worked across Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Niger to break down social barriers as an entry point to generate demand for voluntary family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) care.

This webpage introduces the concept of audience segmentation and provides examples of how it was applied in the Transform/PHARE project.

This webpage introduces the concept of male engagement and provides examples of how it was applied in the Transform/PHARE project.