Twenty-one development communication practitioners from nine organisations and institutions including individual consultants participated in the 2-day course held at Ahmedabad.The course was conducted in Gujarati and Hindi, to ensure active participation and clarity in understanding..

The SBCC certificate course was organised in Delhi on 1-2 March 2017 at Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Twenty-four development practitioners from over 14 organisations successfully completed the two-day certificate course.

The two-day sharing workshop was followed by a half-day interaction on 3 November 2016, on understanding social and gender norms, with Lead Trainers of New Concept and eNVisions, which was facilitated by the UNICEF India C4D team. The facilitators led by Mario Mosquera Vasquez and Alka Malhotra presented social norms as a diagnostic tool and discussed different ways for its application in the Indian context.

An “Orientation on Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) for Programme Managers” was held in Delhi on Saturday, 3 September 2016. AND UNICEF has partnership with Ohio University for a five month blended-learning course on Communication for Development (C4D)

The e-hub on “Social and Behaviour Change Communication Capacity Development” was launched by Mr. Mario Mosquera Vasquez, Chief, Communication for Development, UNICEF on 11th May 2016 at the India International Centre Annexe. The endeavor of the hub is to provide a resource that will encourage government and practitioners to communication for change further