Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Program Monitoring

Successful Social and Behavior Change (SBC) programs depend on careful and consistent monitoring. Monitoring is an ongoing process to ensure that an SBC program is on track to achieve its goals and objectives. When SBC program situations change, as they almost always do, monitoring can enable program activities to adapt to the new circumstances and identify how well they adapt.

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Explain the role and importance of monitoring in improving SBC programs
• Learn how to develop and monitor output, reach, coverage, outcome (intermediate and behavioral) indicators
• Identify how best to monitor different types of SBC interventions
• Understand how best to develop a monitoring strategy within budget constraints, staff capacity, timeframe, etc.
• Discuss how monitoring data can be used for adaptive management and quality assurance