Institute for Reproductive Health: Using evidence to expand family planning choices, advance gender equality, and involve communities.

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Learn how @IRH_GU—one of the winners of Breakthrough ACTION’s 10 Lives, 10 Lives, One Message competition—uses social network approaches to identify female and male influencers and facilitate the spread of new ideas and behaviors in Benin and Mali. breakthroughactionandresearc…
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men’s #mentalhealth and well-being can affect outcomes across the areas of gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health @Pop_Council @JohnsHopkinsCCP, @IRH_GU, @JohnsHopkinsSPH and @USAID dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh- @GlobalHealthBMJ
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Check out these tips to engage key influencers to improve #reprohealth #programs from a @PassagesProject study we conducted in #Burundi with #adolescent girls and young women. @fhi360 @fhi360research @IRH_GU
A recent study by the @PassagesProject examined social norms impacting the #reprohealth of adolescent girls & young women in Burundi. In this post, we explore how the research findings can be applied in program design to involve key influence groups hubs.ly/Q010Z06Y0
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Ever wish #socialnorms researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and donors could have a common language for frequently-used terms? Now they can with the new #SocialNormsLexicon! Download this resource now for simple definitions and examples: bit.ly/3pTiOAS

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Ever wish #socialnorms researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and donors could have a common language for frequently-used terms? Now they can with the new #SocialNormsLexicon! Download this resource now for simple definitions and examples: bit.ly/3pTiOAS
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Webinar from @JohnsHopkinsCCP: Utilizing Data from the KAP #COVID19 Survey to Increase Vaccine Confidence and Reinforce Prevention Behaviors. Register here: jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/…

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DOT (Dynamic Optimal Timing), was put through an intensive clinical trial by IRH researchers in partnership with Cycle Technologies. Acquired by @clue in 2019, it's now being implemented in a new app, Clue Birth Control. tcrn.ch/3uENwkW
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The stage is set for the #SALC launch on #Gender and #SocialNorms! Join us here 🔗: bit.ly/2XUv7kU @PCI_India_ @IRH_GU

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Do you know organisations in the Global South working on the prevention of #DomesticViolence against women and girls? If so, let them know that @forWomanity have just launched #WomanityAward Call for Proposals. To submit proposals: womanity.org/launch-of-the-w… #TheWomanityFoundation
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The Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET) was developed with funding from @USAIDGH and @gatesfoundation and is a practical user-driven tool for identifying how #socialnorms influence behaviors and actions. Access it here: bit.ly/2RYEZbb
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Check out all you can do with the SNET! You can refine your program design, implementation strategies and materials, program monitoring, and impact evaluation design: bit.ly/2RYEZbb
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Using the Social Norms Exploration Tool (bit.ly/2RYEZbb) can help you refine your: 1) program design, 2) implementation strategies and materials, 3) program monitoring, and 4) impact evaluation design.
Program staff and stakeholders using the SNET discovered that the language in their materials needed to be revised to more realistically reflect how people were talking about intimate partner violence and #familyplanning: bit.ly/2RYEZbb
Flexible and adaptive! The Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET) helps integrate normative change findings into programs, including for #globaldev program planners and implementers interested in scaling for impact: bit.ly/2RYEZbb
Are you looking for new ways to improve your community-based program? DYK that shifting #socialnorms may help reach your goals? Check out the Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET) for guidance on identifying norms and influencers in your communities: bit.ly/2RYEZbb
How can you conduct a #socialnorms exploration? The #PassagesProject outlines the 5 phases in our new Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET): 1) Plan and prepare, 2) Identify reference groups, 3) explore social norms, 4) Analyze findings, 5) Apply findings: bit.ly/2RYEZbb
Dynamic exercises, helpful tips, and case studies all make the newly launched Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET) a useful resource for improving #globalhealth and #globaldev projects. Learn more about and download the SNET here: bit.ly/2RYEZbb