Welcome to the Compass Country Project Pages. Each page listed below offers brief information about one or more SBC projects in that country, and then offers links to the country's specific projects.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
This mobile application is developed to support rural women and couples to better manage and track their health, mainly during pregnancy, through delivery and after birth.
This mobile application is developed to support rural women and couples to better manage and track their health, mainly during pregnancy, through delivery and after birth. Designed for use on both smart and basic phones, the approach invokes a simple, easy to navigate format containing relevant, engaging, and educational content. Key features of the app include growth-monitoring tool, scheduling for ANC and immunization visit. It is available in three languages (Amharic, Afan Oromo and Tigrigna) and no internet connection required to transfer or use the application.
This is a guide for the Erkab radio program, part of the Ethiopia Communication for Health project, designed to be used by the producers of the program. This document was a result of a content development and drama design workshop.
This is a discussion guide to facilitate group discussion when watching maternal and child health videos designed for viewing in health facilities. It provides step-by-step guidance to potential facilitators such as midwives to organize and facilitate meaningful discussions and reflections based on the issues raised in the videos.
A summary of six maternity waiting home videos developed for expecting mothers to motivate them to seek essential health services for themselves and newborns.
This brief summarizes how health messages were harmonized in the Ethiopia Communication for Health project. It is a tool that was used to help health providers, program implementers, media professionals, and other stakeholders to effectively communicate with their audiences for a better public health outcome.
This is a brief on how the Communication for Health project takes a holistic approach to SBCC capacity strengthening. It includes training, technical assistance, development of strategies and activities to support the national SBCC community.
This guide serves as a reference for health communication interventions, by providing a set of core messages that are accurate and consistent. It enable practitioners to communicate standardized messages to communities and audiences.
This website is made possible by the generous support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) Cooperative Agreement #AID-OAA-A-12-00058. On-going support is provided by Breakthrough ACTION with support from USAID's Bureau for Global Health, under Cooperative Agreement #AID-OAA-A-17-00017. Breakthrough ACTION is based at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP). The contents of this website are the sole responsibility of Breakthrough ACTION and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Johns Hopkins University.