Next Steps from ICHC -- Chitnis

1. Social and Behaviour
Change Communication
and Community Systems
Discussions & Implications from the
ICHC Conference
March 2017
Ketan Chitnis - UNICEF
Spring CORE Group Meeting, April 2017

2. Primary Health Care & Community Health Systems Strengthening

3. Community

4. Social and Behavior Change Communication
and Community Systems – Key Take Aways
Capacity
• Standardized education of CHWs, FLWs, families – via national
digital libraries
Trust
• Softer skills to technical education – IPC that is not didactic but
builds trust, sense of agency
Community-
owned
• Community-based approaches in planning and for social
accountability with SBCC used to stimulate participation and
foster change, esp. to address inequities
Community
@ scale
• Many engagement tools not mainstreamed or not at scale to
strengthen community structures in national systems
strengthening

5. Community-systems & SBCC – Next Steps
Global
learning
agenda for
CHSS
Supporting
Country
Commitments
and Action
Plans on
CHSS
SBCC
evidence
building
including on
community
approaches