STRUCTURAL CHANGE FOCUS - Policy, Strategy, and Investment Argument 5 from the Direct Impact Evidence
Underlying almost every presenting development priority issue is a set of important foundational concerns - poverty, inequity, gender dynamics, and many more. As a field of work, SBC is often asked - and funded - to address the presenting problem.
But the high-quality impact data collected in this process suggest that there is evidence that social change, community engagement, and behaviour change strategies, when designed for that purpose, can have an impact on those underlying structural influences.
Example Data
Policy Implication: That development organisations, local to international and small to large, adopt overall policies that stress addressing the underlying, cross-cutting factors that drive development issues, including their own specific priorities.
Strategy Implication: That development organisations implement strategies that focus staff time and institutional resources on the core roles and capacities required to address the underlying and cross-cutting issues and dynamics through an SBC focus on: analysis of the underlying social, economic, and behavioural drivers; engagement that provides platforms for people in geographic and identify communities to share the realities of their lives across all challenges; support for people and communities to develop their own action agendas on the priorities they identify; and sharing of the SBC perspective, voices, analysis, and ideas on the major challenges that affect all development issues - for example, poverty, equity, and access to decision-making fora.
Investment Argument Implication: That the compelling evidence demonstrating the direct impact of a structural change SBC focus, such as on gender and other forms of equity, decision-making structures, school attendance, and personal and family financial concerns across some core, high-priority development issues - for example, 0.42 adjusted standardised mean difference for gender equity, and school attendance up 5% - are advocated to funding organisations as further input to their data-driven investment decision-making.
Links to other strategic and investment Implications
INTRODUCTION: Policy, Strategy, and Investment Implications - SBC Direct Impact Evidence
DIGITAL NETWORKS - Policy, Strategy, and Investment Implication 4 from the Direct Impact Evidence
OVERVIEW AND GAPS - Policy, Strategy, and Investment Implications - SBC Direct Impact Evidence
... and this specific look at the implications for action on a 2 key child protection concerns.
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION and CHILD MARRIAGE: Impact Data with Action Implications