This program guidance brief provides evidence-based recommendations to guide family planning programmers in the design, implementation, and evaluation of family planning programs that have a male gender norms component.
This study reports on research carried out in Tanzania to examine the role of gender norms in decision making among young married women and men on issues of family planning and contraceptive use.
This report analyzes formative research carried out by C-Change to understand how culturally-embedded communication about HIV and AIDS and sexual behavior contributes to sustaining the practice of multiple concurrent partners (MCP) in Lesotho.
This report presents the findings from the baseline survey of multiple & concurrent partnerships (MCP) in Lesotho. The objective of the study was to collect population-based data related to the MCP knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Basotho men. The survey elicited information on participants’ demographic characteristics, engagement in MCP, engagement in transactional and intergenerational sex, and knowledge and practice of HIV prevention as related to MCP.
C-Change developed the Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Capacity Assessment Tool to help organizations that work in health and development communication to assess their technical capacity to carry out SBCC programming. The Tool is used to assess standards of quality for three core SBCC program components: planning and design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It is used to identify areas where an organization needs capacity strengthening to more effectively implement SBCC programming and to define the activities needed to strengthen and refocus programs to improve the quality of SBCC programming.
A Portuguese version of the tool is also available for download.
A success story that details the development and use of a simple, scalable gender equity tool that girls and women in Madagascar use in uncomfortable situations with boys and men. Mass media support was a critical component for creating awareness about this tool in the general population.
Final report of the C-Change activity in Madagascar conducted from February 2008 through February 2009.
C-Change conducted an assessment at the request of USAID's Europe and Eurasia Bureau (E&E) to document the experience of E&E countries in motivating health care consumers to take more responsibility for their health, and to recommend how the Bureau and other donors could make their assistance more effective in this area.
