How Can African Women Bridge the Digital Gender Gap?
There is a harsh reality in digital development: Women need much more than a phone to bridge the digital gender gap. They needed to overcome the gender norms...
Is Generative AI Revolutionizing Social and Behaviour Change Programming?
The content generated by Generative AI comes close to mimicking that created by humans, opening up many new possibilities for SBC programming, as well as producing...
How Telehealth is Preserving HIV Service Delivery During COVID-19
Adapting to the “new normal” of COVID-19 digital response has dramatically impacted our daily lives and routines. For HIV programs, this has required shifting...
Apply Now: $150,000 Grant Funding for Digital Social Insurance Solutions
The informal sector is a primary driver of economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 80% of total employment, 55% of total GDP, and 89% of employed...
Improving Tuberculosis Care with Behavior Change Technology
In the last twenty years, an explosion of research in the social sciences has demonstrated that seemingly small changes in the decision environment, such as a change...
Apply Now: $270,000 IBM Funding for COVID-19 Digital Response
The global coronavirus pandemic has radically changed the world in less than a month. We are all facing unprecedented, interconnected challenges and scrambling...
Today: Help WHO Develop COVID-19 Infodemic Response Framework
The coronavirus disease epidemic and COVID-19 response has been accompanied by a massive “infodemic” – an over-abundance of information of varying...
Apply Now: $5 Million from Gates Foundation for Digital Health Projects
Many countries use behavior change campaigns to educate their citizenry on immunization, neglected tropical diseases, nutrition, malaria, and polio to manage the...
Apply Now: $5 Million in Digital Health Grants from Gates Foundation
Countries rely on both routine health systems and campaign-based delivery to extend the reach of important health interventions such as accelerated disease control...
Nollywood: A Secret Weapon for African Social and Behavior Change
Years ago, I remember debating the design of an intervention meant to increase the role of women in Africa society. The budget was relatively small, but the donor...