By sunrise Day 2, I was
bright and breezy this morning. I thought it was so lucky for me to attend the
conferences in DC because I would just drive and easily get there. For the next
year in Spring, Core Group Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon, so far
way from here. From CCIH in June to CORE Group in October, I might have not
been grateful enough to attend conferences just because the places were located
too close. Okay, so I have only one day left for the conference, and I will
absorb all kinds of information! Day 2 was for “Behavior Change in the Age of
Complexity: Implications for Monitoring and Evaluation” all day long.
It was interesting topic
for me to understand how to approach to monitoring and evaluating (M&E) Social
and behavior change (SBC) in an alternative way. You know, it must be very hard
to measure subtle and indefinable changes in people’s emotions, so SBC M&E
needs to be more adjusted for effective measurement of impact and generation of
learning. The new way of approaching SBC M&E would be strengthened mixed
methods coming from various disciplines, anthropology, sociology, history,
psychology to embrace complex interactions and transformative change. For
example, social/gender norm has been shifted, and the human right of
underserved population, such as LGBT and MSM has been improved, so adapting and
optimizing behavior change interventions would be fundamentally necessary to
integrate community member’s engagement and feedback.
Through the conference,
people’s efforts to share the new approaches to SBC M&E and applying the best
local systems framework will improve the quality of life on the opposite side
of the earth sooner or later. I met a few people from Johns Hopkins; they are
from Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and Jhpiego. Though we did not talk
much with each other, it was good to see people from the place that I am well
aware of attend the conference to share their experience with global health
practitioners from other organizations.
See you all in Portland!
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