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  • 标题:A South African university-practitioner partnership to strengthen capacity in social and behaviour change communication
  • 作者:Nicola J. Christofides ; Sara Nieuwoudt ; Shereen Usdin
  • 期刊名称:Global Health Action
  • 印刷版ISSN:1654-9716
  • 电子版ISSN:1654-9880
  • 出版年度:2013
  • 卷号:6
  • 期号:s1
  • 页码:19300
  • DOI:10.3402/gha.v6i0.19300%40zgha20.2013.6.issue-s1
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Taylor & Francis
  • 摘要:Globally, communication plays an integral role in public health strategies, from infectious diseases to diseases related to lifestyles. The evolution of the field of social and behaviour change communication (SBCC), combined with the need for evidence based practice and multi-level interventions to promote health, and human resource gaps in sub-Saharan Africa have led to the imperative to standardise and formalise the field. Moreover, current practitioners come from different disciplinary backgrounds underlining the need to define common core skills and competencies. This paper describes the partnership between the Wits School of Public Health and the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication and how the partners responded to this need. It highlights the factors influencing sustainable institutional capacity to provide quality assured, accredited training. We describe an unexpected positive response from a number of practitioner organisations that have chosen to send multiple staff members for training, specifically to build a critical mass within their organisations. Finally, we note the interest from (mostly) southern-based academic institutions in setting up similar programmes and postulate that south–south collaborations can contribute to building sustainable context specific and evidence-informed SBCC programmes in the global south.
  • 关键词:SBCC ; competency-based curriculum ; south–south collaboration ; institutional capacity strengthening ; Africa ; practitioner academic partnership ; donor responsiveness
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