Behavioral Science Tips for Physical Distancing
While communication efforts are important, policymakers, funders, and programmers have the responsibility to not just ask people in communities to practice physical distancing, but to invest and innovate in redesigning social contexts and service delivery to make it feasible for everyone to practice physical distancing.
This brief offers some concrete tips for how local and national governments and other institutions can use behavioral design to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities in low and middle-income countries around the world while facilitating social cohesion and the provision of essential services.

- Behavioral Design for COVID-19 Response
- A Guide to WHO’s Guidance on COVID-19
- Tips for Engaging Communities during COVID-19 in Low-Resource Settings, Remotely and In-Person
- Practical Guidance for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) for Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Migrants, and Host Communities Particularly Vulnerable to COVID-19 Pandemic
- Identifying & Mitigating Gender-based Violence Risks within the COVID-19 Response
- COVID-19 Crisis Comms Triage Kit
- Technical Note on COVID-19 and Harmful Practices
- COVID-19: Resources to Address Gender-based Violence Risks
- Guidance for Including People with Disabilities in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Compassion in a Time of COVID-19
- Family Planning IPC Guide
- IAS Conference E-posters
- Malaria-themed Radio Magazine Program
- Addressing Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health and Family Planning Needs of Young, First-Time Parents in the Eastern Region of Burkina Faso
- Improving Family Planning Outcomes for First-Time Parents in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem of Tanzania (Brief)
May 3, 2020