13,441 What Works? Summit – Conversation Starts and Registration reminder

Greetings – Hi, trust that all is well with your important work. Just wanted to give you a heads-up that the pre-What Works? Summit dialogue has commenced. Please do join the conversation. At this link you can join the Summit group (see top right block) and start a new thread – Create Group News. You can also reply to or comment on posts and comments submitted by others in the network, including the examples that follow.

This is the beginning of a process that will work to expand the Summit beyond the 4 days in Indonesia and to engage as many interested people as possible, whether you can be in Nusa Dua or not. Thanks for actively participating as we all seek to strengthen all of our work.

POSTS – You can access and scroll through all of the threads at this link. Just click on a title, open, start or join the conversation of most interest to you and your work. Themes posted include:

• male engagement
• hearts and minds
• men and gender norms
• unlocking love
• HIV prevention – MSM
• BCC or SBCC
• Incentivizing community health
• family refusals
• edutainment and factory workers
• multiple colours of change
• localization is not translation
• caregiving for working mothers
• Advocacy, gender and rights
• cooking behaviours
• impact of women empowerment
• SBCC and breastfeeding literature review
• evidence base for service communication
• reaching rural women
• demand creation for cord care
• Facebook and smoking
• increasing uptake of family planning
• improving SBCC health indexes
• urban contexts and community conversations
• tools for social and behavior change communication
• role-playing in workshops
• social exchange and social networking
• social entrepreneurship and social determinants
• behavioural economics and gamifying
• RCT – behavioural economics
• democratic dividend – Kenya
• music and the ecology of fear
• social norms and FGM/C
• child marriage – what worked?
• understanding the complex
• There are many more comments at this link – just scroll through.

COMMENTS – You can scroll through all of the comments at this link. Just click on a title and join the conversation of most interest to you and your work. Comments submitted include ideas, analysis and experiences that focus on:

• how community sense of ownership develops
• making technology affordable
• super hero for peace
• no to circumcision
• promotion of essential nutrition
• perceptions of community correspondents
• integrated community voices
• Changer les attitudes et perceptions des communautés
• never judgmental – no victim blamimg
• community level health workers and mobile phones
• Building a Man
• nothing wrong with Jamaica that cannot be fixed with what is right with Jamaica
• radio listening clubs
• sharing histories for CHW training
• offline mobile app that works on basic phones
• when the drone flies
• multi-disciplinary Addis declaration
• healthy masculinity
• Entertainment-Education
• utilizing behavioural economics
• side-by-side with project beneficiaries
• men at every stage
• music, dance and drama
• role models and messages – Zimbabwe
• impossible to make this many goals digestible
• #HeforShe
• Nudge theory and male engagement
• … and much more

Many thanks. Please do engage with your views, ideas and experiences and please do complete the Your Priorities Survey – also available in Spanish here ¿Cuáles son sus prioridades?

Most happy to answer any questions. Hope that you can find a way to attend the Summit. Registration closes March 19th. You can access details through this link.

Warren

Warren Feek Executive Director The Communication Initiative The Communication Initiative

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