Initial Analysis USAID Evidence Summit - Health, Development - Social and Behavioural Change Please note that these is a very initial analysis. The deadline was extended to Friday, June 29, The Core Group meeting to review is Thursday 5 July. USAID wished to review prior to the Core Group meeting

Context Proposed by the Core Group Planning the Social and Behavioral Change Evidence Summit Intended to provide substantive input into decisions about the priorities for that Summit – as this field can be broad and amorphous Invited respondents list came from the Core Group – all of whom were asked to nominate 5 to 7 people to receive Core group were also asked to complete Survey was developed by small group within the core group led by Mario Survey itself has been previously shared Survey closed Friday evening 29 June These are initial findings – only a couple of days to assess And the entire survey was intended and designed to be indicative not definitive or even quasi-scientific

Response 167 people were sent the personal invites by Elizabeth to complete the survey 97 people completed all or part of the survey The following charts provide an insight into who responded We were requested not to include names and organisations in the survey

OTHER Programme Chief for Communication for behaviour and social change Public Relations Youth Worker, coordinator Strategic Advisor Advocate Science Policy I combine research contracts with consulting ones. I lead a social and behavior change communication NGO based in South Africa Manager and Academic advocacy and fundraising Policy advisor program manager; administrator, organizational leader

(All 1 each) Senegal Sweden Uganda United Kingdom Uzbekistan Viet Nam Zambia

(All 1 each) Peru Russia Sweden Uganda United Kingdom Zambia

Observations Excellent mix of health issues Overly weighted to Academic, International NGOS and UN agencies (50% of those who completed that Q) Decent range of work roles Poor geographic spread Not much we can do as reflects the respondent selection process of each person in Core nominating 5 to 7 to form the group

Analysis Focus was on Qs 2 to 10 in the survey By design these were all text responses We had about 750 short to long paragraphs to go through First step was to state the question we needed to answer from these contributions Analysis is not complete – just two days really to pull this together This question we stated as: Based on the submissions to this survey what are the priority themes for the Social and Behavioral Change Evidence Summit? Then we decided the overall paramaters for that analysis: 1.The results had to relate to social and behavioural change - we are not in the vaccine development business, for example 2.The results had to be stated in a way that leant themselves to evidence collection and analysis 3.The results had to cut across different development issues – as per the Core and sub-Group discussions and the survey structure we are not looking to choose particular health issues but to identify priority social and behavioural factors that cut across a range of health issues 4.We would state these positively as hypotheses to be examined and tested by the data collection and Evidence summit critical review

Analysis (cont’d) For each question we implemented a Word Cloud in order to give an initial insight into any main themes that emerged. This is the Q3 - Social Norms word cloud as an example

Analysis (cont’d) The word clouds provided us with some starter ideas related to the common themes that may exist across respondents answers to each of the questions The next step was to put every answer for each question into an excel sheet with separate excel sheets for each question For each question we started with the initial common themes from the word cloud, added new themes as they clearly emerged on reviewing responses and allocated each response to one of those themes. Please note that we have not done Q10 – will explain Each individual response was given the number 1 so that we could tabulate and develop charts With charts for each of Qs 2 to 9 we then compiled the results for an overview and identification of the key themes to emerge This was not an easy task. We highly recommend that others also review The full excel sheets are attached for those interested to review in detail Those sheets have all responses so that you can undertake your own theme groupings

Analysis (cont’d) Some more specific details before we outline the findings: a.In some cases there were very general comments provided that were not possible to allocate to a theme b.There were also some comments provided that were very specific to a particular development issue and from which it was not possible to extract some generalisable data c.There were also comments that in effect endorsed the purpose of the Summit d.Where one respondent made 2 or 3 different points related to one question we split those into separate points All of these you will see for each Q in the far right columns of the excel sheets for each question

Question 2: Key themes to emerge (53 people contributed)

Question 3: Key themes to emerge (55 people contributed)

Question 4: Key themes to emerge (51 people contributed)

Question 5: Key themes to emerge (53 people contributed)

Question 6: Key themes to emerge (46 people contributed)

Question 7: Key themes to emerge (39 people contributed)

Question 8/9: Key themes to emerge - responses - 51 (Q8); 46 (Q9)

Overall Analysis We then sought to combine that data into an overall picture in order to preview a possible set of priority themes for the Evidence Summit, including the preparatory literature review. The long list of these follows…..and the specific recommendations we would make follows that as the final substantive slide As with the data previously outlined the “workings” for this can be seen in the Excel sheet.

NB This is one area that needs further internal analysis

Recommendations In order to provide a very specific focus for the Core Group discussion and decision/recommendation, from our review of the data collected we make the following recommendations as the priority themes for the Evidence Summit, including the evidence collection and analysis prior to the event:

Recommendations That the Social and Behavioural Evidence Summit seek to collect and critically review valid data that demonstrates the impact on health status, across a range of health issues, from a focus on: 1.Working with communities and other specific publics to support them advocating, prioritizing and making key decisions concerning their health needs and actions 1.Developing the critical analysis and healthy choice skills and perceptions required by individuals to improve their own health status 1.Gender based dynamics as they affect health status 2.Expanding open discussion on required health services and action, with a broader range of perspectives engaged, particularly from groups experiencing stigma, discrimination and isolation/exclusion 3.Change processes within health systems to improve levels of respect, response, relevance and preventive strategies One key element for the evidence collection and critical review as part of all 5 focii above will be the added value and impact of social networking and shared knowledge technologies

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