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Sector: Public Health
Title: How to Mobilize Communities for Health and Social Change
Organization(s) Involved: Save the Children
Date: 2003
Summary:Produced by the Health Communication Partnership with support from the United States Agency for International Development, this field guide was developed under the Population Communication Services 4 project by Save the Children Federation in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Communication Programs. It was written by Lisa Howard-Grabman and Gail Snetro, edited by Charlotte Storti, and designed by Cecilia Snyder.

  • 1 How to MobilizeComm cover.pdf
  • 2 How to MobilizeCommTable of Contents.pdf
  • 3 How to MobilizeComm Acknowledgments Introd pdf.pdf
  • 4 How to MobilizeComm chapter 1 Prepare to Mobilize.pdf
  • 5 How to MobilizeComm chapter 2 Organize Comm for Action.pdf
  • 6 How to MobilizeComm chapter 3 Explore Health Issue Set Priorities.pdf
  • 7 How to MobilizeComm chapter 4 Plan Together.pdf
  • 8 How to MobilizeComm chapter 5 Act Together.pdf
  • 9 How to MobilizeComm chapter 6 Evaluate Together.pdf
  • 10 How to MobilizeComm chapter 7 Prepare to Scale Up.pdf

     

     

     

    Sector: Public Health (Maternal and Newborn Care)
    Title: Maternal and Newborn Health, 2005
    Organization(s) Involved: Save the Children
    Date: 2005
    Summary: Between 2002 and 2004 Save the Children used Positive Deviance to improve maternal and newborn care in Pakistan. The following modules detail the newborn pathway to survival and the use of PD in improving maternal and newborn care.

    Part One

    • Module 1: Maternal & Newborn Care Practices – Pathway for Newborn and Maternal Survival
    • Module 2:  Orientation to the Positive Deviance Approach and it application to Maternal and Newborn Care
    • Module 3: Tools (PLA methodology) and Communication Skills to Carry Out the PD Process
    • Module 4: Preliminary Visits and Community Orientation Meeting
    • Module 5: Practice of PD Steps – Situation Analysis
    • Module 6: Practice of PD Steps – PDI & Community Feedback Session

    Part Two

    • Module 1: PD-Informed Project
    • Module 2: Activist Training For Monthly Mohallah Sessions
    • Module 3: Village Health Committee (VHC) Workshop: VHC Creation and Project Monitoring
    • Module 4: Monitoring the Project, Healthy Baby Fair (HBF) and Participatory Evaluation

     

     

    Sector: Public Health (Maternal and Newborn Care)
    Title: Pregnant Women Support Group Program – Training of Trainers
    Organization(s) Involved: Keller International and Africare
    Date: 2006
    Summary: This manual was used by Helen Keller International and Africare to support positive prenatal care seeking and infant feeding practices in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Positive deviants were identified in the community, given further health training, and then acted as group leaders in classes for other pregnant women in the nearly 100 communities.

     

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