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Last week the 1st Africa Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Virtual Summit took place (2-4 July, 2024) and I have had the honor to participate as the Egypt Country Chapter Lead for AS-SBC. Speakers from all around Africa and around the world convened to discuss, explore and share the latest SBC knowledge and experience with a local African context. Egypt 🇪🇬 had a strong representation starting Day 0: (Pre- Youth summit) with our youth Farah Korayem being the overall facilitator for the day, then on Day 1: Dina Heikal (Social and Behavior Change Specialist, UNICEF Egypt) giving her keynote speech diving into “UNICEF’s pathway towards the institutionalization of SBC, successes, challenges, and lessons learnt” along side Massimiliano Sani (Senior Advisor, Social and Behavior Change, UNICEF HQ) and on Day 2: Mostafa Mamdouh; Social and Behavior Change Communication Director at JSI Egypt giving his presentation “Empowering Youth Voices in Family Planning and Reproductive Health”. Job well done by all 👏 👏 👏 My Key takeaways: 1. Prioritizing collaboration across disciplines to achieve sustainable and impactful social and behavior change. 2. Advocating for long-term programmes rather than short term projects as Kojo Lokko has mentioned in his keynote speech. My due thanks to the African Society for Social & Behavior Change (AS-SBC) secretariat and team for their relentless effort to bring together SBC practitioners and academics from diverse backgrounds across three consecutive days from all over Africa! Kenneth Mulondo Mabel Naibere Adebayo Fayoyin Daudi Ochieng Kemigisha Elizabeth, MPH @michellemuhumuza Emmanuel Kayongo amazing effort all 👏 👏 👏! Looking forward to the 2nd Africa Social and Behavior Change Summit in 2026! _______________________ If you have missed it- check out the recordings on the AS-SBC You Tube Channel: https://lnkd.in/dNcshMBB #AfricaSBSSummit24 #SBC #Socialmarketing #socialimpact #socialvalue #cocreation #Africa #Egypt
