This session gives participants practical skills for enabling communities to prioritize, manage and monitor their own behavior change actions and agenda. In a relaxed and experiential learning environment, it enables participants to reflect upon the institutional norms that impede communities from managing their own behavior change priorities and activities. Then it allows participants to familiarize themselves with some inclusive, participative, visual and tangible tools that they can use as SBCC practitioners to support communities in assuming that management themselves. The workshop is facilitated by the CRS Madagascar SBCC team, who have won two important awards for this work.

Participants will learn to use proven techniques for facilitating community SBCC decision making. They will learn by participating in the activities as if they were community members. They will receive a short written guide to implementing the activity learned. 

This workshop is for anyone seeking to learn proven methods of inspiring marginalized, non-literate but resilient and resourceful communities to be key actors in their own behavior change. It is for anyone frustrated that the prevalent rhetoric about 'inclusive' approaches is not consistently applied in the field. It is for anyone who wants to learn some practical activities that can redress imbalances of power and influence in the management of SBCC programs.