Programming that aims to facilitate changes in behaviors and social norms—referred to as Social and Behavior Change (SBC) — is an important part of efforts to reduce malnutrition around the world. This course aims to demystify nutrition SBC design as well as share useful SBC-related resources.
Anyone who works with people in any system or sector can improve their work by building a strong foundation in SBC. Nutrition is no exception!
Note: We suggest you first complete Nutrition: An Introduction, as this course builds on concepts introduced in that course.
Objective
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define social and behavior change (SBC) for nutrition
- Identify what it means to take an SBC approach to nutrition
- Recognize the process of prioritizing evidence-based nutrition behaviors to focus program design and maximize resources
- Define the SBC process which applies social science and behavioral science to design, implement, and measure effective nutrition SBC programming
- Identify the role of formative research to inform nutrition SBC program design
- Recognize elements of an SBC strategy using a range of activities and a monitoring and evaluation section to improve nutrition behaviors for specific groups of people and programming contexts
- Identify a case example of a nutrition program that influenced nutrition behaviors.
Time
- 2 hours
Published/Updated
- Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Course Authors:
Emily Vance, USAID Advancing Nutrition
Ashley Aakesson, SPRING
Andrew Cunningham, SPRING
Course Managers:
- Lisa Sherburne, USAID Advancing Nutrition