As climate change accelerates and its impact on the planet worsens every day, we, as a species, must act quickly and smartly to bring about massive social and behavior changes that will counter the damage being wrought – and even imagine restoring the equilibrium that is the miracle of planet Earth.
Read MoreRBC is proud of groundbreaking Entertainment Education research in Mozambique just published by two of our Associates, Amy Henderson Riley and Suruchi Sood, with Massimiliano Sani
Read MoreInterview with Tomas Jensen, who will lead our portfolio of Social and Behavior Change Communication projects
Read MoreThe Royal Kingdom of Cambodia is home to one of the largest youth and adolescent populations in Southeast Asia. With one in five Cambodians currently aged between 15 and 24, the need to provide a good quality education is key to achieving national social and economic development.
Read MoreRain Barrel Communications is delighted to announce the appointment of Tomas Jensen as a Senior Advisor for our growing portfolio of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) contracts.
Read MoreIt was an honor and pleasure to offer Special Recognition to two of the 15 outstanding nominees for the 2018 One Minutes Jr. Awards Festival that took place in Amsterdam on Saturday.
Read MoreWe are very pleased and proud to provide open access to this online Participatory Research Toolkit authored by two of our Associates – Suruchi Sood and Carmen Cronin – as well as by Kelli Kostizak. Launched in the context of Rain Barrel Communications’ 10th anniversary, it gathers in one place a wide variety of research tools developed over a 20-year period and used in multiple social and behavior change communication projects around the world. Examples are provided from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, and Sierra Leon. All of the tools presented have been tried and tested in the field. A majority of them have been used with adolescents, but they have also been used by children, women, men, key influentials and, indeed, whole communities….
Read MoreDeeply moved by the devastation hurricane Maria had caused in Puerto Rico in September 2017, I was determined to support the recovery work on the island, hoping that my knowledge of humanitarian assistance operations and my newly acquired method of trauma recovery called Somatic Experiencing could be my small contribution towards the island’s reconstruction….
Read MoreRain Barrel's co-director, Robert Cohen, participated in the excellent 2018 SBCC Summit in Bali. He was honored to have been asked by the steering committee to help draft the Final Declaration, including post-conference feedback and suggestions from participants.
Read MoreIn Taos, New Mexico, our first seminar focused on increasing voter turnout in the 2018 mid-term elections.
Read MoreWe are pleased to learn that the advocacy and communication strategy our team designed to support efforts to end child marriage in Zambia has been endorsed by the Ministry of Gender. According to the country office of UNICEF in Zambia, which commissioned the consultancy, the strategy document will guide national social and behavior change communication-related activities going forward…
Read MoreA significant trend in the corporate world is the mainstreaming of sustainable development concerns into their efforts to become more responsive corporate citizens. Many companies have upgraded their CSR programs, making them more substantial and tied more deeply into their business models…
Read MoreOur Rain Barrel team – Teresa Stuart, Andrew Carlson and Chola Lungu – working with the Government of Zambia through its Ministry of Gender, recently concluded a contract with UNICEF to develop a comprehensive advocacy and communication strategy and a monitoring and evaluation framework. This time it was on “Ending child marriage in Zambia”.
Read MoreThe One Minutes Foundation and Rain Barrel Communications are pleased to announce their new partnership to empower young people around the world to promote social change.
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