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Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) is a core health systems function that strengthens trust, demand, service uptake, adherence, equity, resilience, community accountability and emergency preparedness. However, in many Member States, SBC remains fragmented, under-costed, under-financed, and often hidden under IEC, health promotion, community mobilization, campaign, or partner-supported budget lines. This work is initiated and led by the Africa CDC SBC and Advocacy Division.
The SBC Costing and Financing work supports Member States to institutionalize SBC as a defined, costed, budgeted, financed, executed, tracked and accountable health systems function. The in-country missions will support countries to assess SBC institutionalization readiness, identify priority gaps, apply the costing tool, explore financing, and budget visibility pathways, and develop practical country roadmaps. This work is being implemented and led by Africa CDC SBC and Advocacy Division, and with technical support from UNICEF, with other partners supporting key components as the work is rolled out.
Each mission will begin with the SBC Institutionalization Scorecard, conducted jointly with in-country stakeholders. The scorecard serves as the diagnostic entry point for identifying priority areas requiring costing, financing, budget visibility, technical support, and institutional strengthening.
To support Member States to assess, cost, finance and institutionalize SBC as a core health systems function through the application of the SBC Institutionalization Scorecard, costing tool, financing pathway analysis, high-level budget code advocacy and 90-day country action planning.
