TOPS Designing for Behavior Change Country-level Workshop
(Burundi, January 16-21, 2012)
Do you have food security field staff members in Burundi who would benefit from training in the new multisectoral version of Designing for Behavior Change? TOPS is planning toconduct a DBC Workshop from 16-21 January in Burundi in collaboration with FH/Burundi. If you have Ag, NRM, or Health/Nutrition staff members who are fluent in French who would like to attend this training, we would love to hear from you. Support will be available for some in-country costs for about 10-15 participants. (Costs for the consultant, consultant travel, and venue are being covered by TOPS.) We will take equity into account when deciding who will be chosen to attend this DBC Country-level Workshop, assuring that a good mix of food security implementation organizations are represented. Participants should be willing and able to take what they learn at this workshop and train other food security implementers in their organization and area. French-speaking food security staff members from other countries are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to food security staff in Burundi. If you would like to propose field staff participants for this workshop, please send me () the contact information of up to two field staff members per country where your organization has an active MYAP or NEFAP by Monday28 November, COB. Please include the sector or cross-sectoral area in which they work (e.g., Ag/NRM, Health/Nutrition, SBC).
You should propose either (a) two staff members from the Ag/NRM sector, or (b) one Ag/NRM and one health/nutrition sector staff member. (Preference will be given to Ag/NRM staff, but you may propose health/nutrition staff, as well.) A dedicated SBC (cross-sectoral) staff person can be proposed in lieu of one of the two suggested participants, as well. Once we assess the demand for this training, we will contact you with more information. If you are unfamiliar with the DBC workshop objectives, please see below.
The six-day DBC workshop gives field staff and managers the skills and tools to apply a behavioral approach to designing food security programs. (This workshop is a multisectoral modification of the original DBC workshop which focused on health and nutrition behaviors. The original DBC manual has recently been revised, and we will have the multi-sectoral version available in French at this workshop.) The goals of the training are to:
· Build the capacity of PVO staff – especially Ag and NRM staff – to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate effective behavior change strategies;
· Provide an introduction to the tools necessary for identifying determinants that influence behavior change to ensure that behavior change activities are selected based on their potential ability to address these determinants and to effect long-term, sustainable behavior change within the shortest time period possible;
· Increase levels of comfort with planning behavior change strategies; and
· Demonstrate the use of learner-centered adult education methodologies to model how participants can replicate the training for their fellow colleagues and partners.
Mary DeCoster, MPH, MLS, IBCLC ()
FH Coordinator of SBC Programs (TOPS Project staff)