The guide is a manual for researchers who will plan and implement a study on care-seeking for childhood malaria. It provides a care-seeking model and research protocol and offers guidance on implementing the research, adapting the protocol to different settings, planning logistical aspects of the study, conducting data analysis, and writing the research report.

The tool box is designed to help managers of health communication programs improve their unit's organization and credibility while simultaneously strengthening staff members' communication skills and confidence in their ability to apply the communication methodology described in the Tool Box. This collection of practical tools includes management ideas, models, concepts, and strategies that have been field-tested under the pressures of real-life and real-time logistical barriers, challenging cultural contexts, human resources issues, and funding problems

Overview of requirement introduced in 2002 that requires Financial Sustainability Plans to be submitted to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).

ALIVE is an advocacy model for saving newborn lives. The model illustrates a process for mobilizing will and resources to reduce neonatal mortality. Through this process, ALIVE helps to create a policy environment supportive of newborn health by stimulating policy dialogues and strategy planning. The model also brings together local champions of child survival and energizes them around a coherent set of goals.

This training guide introduces the concept of advocacy and provides a framework for developing an advocacy campaign. The guide is designed for a workshop setting, but can also be used as a self-teaching device. Divided into twelve modules, the guide presents general information on advocacy training.

This is a workshop manual for the BEHAVE framework, a strategic planning tool for managers of programs with major behavior change components. The workshop manual is designed to assist program managers in accurately defining target audiences, required behaviors to solve health problems, determinants of behaviors that should be reduced, and the best behavior change strategies. Data is collected at each step and used for the strategy decision-making process.

As part of the U.S. Government’s response to avian influenza, the Academy for Educational Development has been tasked by USAID to work with local and international media to orient them to avian influenza - the science and the practice. Following AED’s work with media in several countries, AED developed Avian Influenza: Media Orientation Training Notes. Based on evidence-based information and tested training notes, this document introduces avian influenza to local media to help them cover the story and understand the complexity of the virus and its impact.

This course is designed to train community health workers in behavior change communication skills to improve infant feeding, and to train the trainers of these community health workers. The training takes a practical approach to problem solving related to infant feeding.

This document is meant for those who want to incorporate behavior change strategies in their child survival programs, as well as those who already plan and carry out such activities. It focuses on the key practices associated with child health and what we have learned about these in the context of programs in developing countries. It examines the relative importance and various challenges of these practices, with the overall aim of providing insight into how programs can select priorities and plan effective strategies. Chapters are included on six major interventions: Newborn/neonatal health, Childhood Immunization, Control of Acute Respiratory Infections, Control of Diarrheal Disease, Malaria Prevention and Treatment, and Nutrition. Each chapter is followed by a short summary of Audiences and Actions, Key Issues, and How Behavior Change Approaches Can Contribute.

Limited copies of this document are available in hard copy to those in developing countries. Please contact ghcm@aed.org.

This is a reference document for planners, implementers, and managers of community nutrition programs. Designed to improve the efficacy and sustainability of community nutrition programs, this document presents optimal practices and lessons learned from programmatic experiences in West Africa. In addition, it provides pertinent tools to be used in the various phases of planning and implementation of sustainable nutrition programs.