Save the Children a global partner to FHI360 on USAID's Flagship Inspire Social and Behavior Change Activity

(December 2024) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) selected a consortium of partners, led by FHI 360, to lead the Inspire Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Activity, the agency's centrally funded flagship SBC award. A five-year cooperative agreement, Inspire SBC will increase the use of theory-informed, evidence-based, locally led SBC programming to support countries in improving health and development outcomes.

Inspire SBC will provide SBC technical leadership and support across a variety of health areas, including global health security; family planning and reproductive health; malaria; and maternal, newborn and child health along with other priority health areas. Inspire SBC is able to work across a range of development areas, such as democracy, human rights, and governance; environmental conservation; education; and agriculture and food security.

Inspire SBC will also support the advancement of cross-cutting USAID priorities such as localization, youth engagement and involvement, health systems strengthening, and the engagement of marginalized groups and communities.

Save the Children will be leading in community health, community engagement programming at scale, including, social accountability, risk communication and community engagement, as well as bringing its expertise in routine immunization, early and forced child marriage, early adolescence, and poverty reduction programming.

The Inspire SBC Activity builds on and strengthens achievements of the previous USAID global flagship program Breakthrough ACTION, which worked in 42 countries, often in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented creative SBC programming by mainstreaming new SBC techniques and technologies, and advocated for strategic and sustained investments in SBC.

Inspire SBC, under the leadership of FHI 360, will be implemented together with global partner Save the Children and local and regional partners including the African Society for Social and Behavior Change (AS-SBC), the Centre for Behaviour Change and Communication (CBCC), Data Science Nigeria (DSN), Fraym, IPE Global, N'weti Health Communication, ONG RAES, and YUX.

For more information, please read the full announcement here.