How-To Guide for a Social Network Diffusion Intervention to Overcome Social Barriers to Family Planning
The Tékponon Jikuagou in Benin developed and tested a scalable package of social network activities to engage men and women in discussion and reflection about unmet need for family planning. The package worked with and through influential and connected network actors who may be more effective in diffusing new ideas and mobilizing public dialogue than formal leaders or health workers alone.
Based on the successful pilot that demonstrated the effectiveness of the approach, this How-To Guide provides detailed instructions for organizations that wish to offer the package. The social network intervention can be used as a stand-alone initiative or as part of ongoing health and development programs.
There are sections on:
- Engage Communities in Social Network Mapping
- Catalyze Reflection in Influential Groups
- Encourage Influential Persons to Act
- Create an Enabling Environment with Radio
- Link Family Planning Providers with Influential Groups
- Social Network Diffusion Materials
- A Field Guide to Designing a Health Communication Strategy
- Overcoming Barriers to TB Control: The Role of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization [Curriculum]
- Effective Communications: Participant Handbook
- Learning Package for SBCC Facilitator's Guide
- Social and Behavior Change Capacity Assessment Tool for Individuals [Facilitator's Guide and Assessment Tool]
- Health Promotion Online Course
- Crisis and Outbreak Communication Pandemic Flu and Other Disasters
- Strategic Communications for Social Change Handbook
- Strategic Communications for Social Change Workbook
- The DELTA Companion: Marketing Made Easy
- How-To Guide for Social Network Diffusion Approaches to Overcome Social Obstacles to Family Planning Use
- Effects of a Social Network Diffusion Intervention on Key Family Planning Indicators- Impacts d’une Intervention de Diffusion via les Réseaux Sociaux sur les Indicateurs Clés de la Planification Familiale
- Overcoming Social Barriers to Family Planning Use: Harnessing Community Networks to Address Unmet Need
- Guide to Social Network Mapping / Guide de la Cartographie des Réseaux Sociaux
- Implementing the Social Network Diffusion Package: Costing Exercise Report
March 25, 2019