The way health authorities and partners communicate about uncertainties can build or break trust. If we fail to establish and maintain it, we will fail to protect health.
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Rain Barrel Communications stands with the peaceful anti-racist protesters demonstrating across the United States in the wake of the horrific killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis – the latest in a long chain of police murders of African-Americans and an example of the culture and structures of racism in this country.
Read MoreOver the last few months, many aspects of our lives have been touched in some shape or form by COVID-19 pandemic. We asked some of our fantastic associate photographers to share their depiction of the pandemic so far. From empty streets, to masks and physical distancing, their photos serve as a memoir of some of the most drastic and rapid changes in norms and behaviours that the virus brought about. What will you remember?
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How differently would we have responded to this pandemic with a globally well-educated population and well-resourced health facilities with proper protective and lifesaving equipment in every corner of our world?
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Whether you are one of our associates or partners, we invite you to be ready to team up with us and rise to the occasion of addressing this monumental challenge, everywhere.
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Rain Barrel Director Robert David Cohen speaks to the Re-thinking Development Podcast, hosted by Rain Barrel Associate Safa Shahkhalili.
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In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we are delighted to share with you two outstanding One Minutes Jr* videos produced in 2019. These works are selected among many excellent productions from around the world and honored with the 2020 Rain Barrel Communications Special Recognition Award. Enjoy!
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Public Service Announcements (PSAs) are one of the tried-and-true mass media tools communicators use to raise awareness and motivate action to address public health crises. The COVID-19 outbreak, now spreading worldwide from China, has quickly given rise to a new crop of PSAs.
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How can Communication for Social and Behavior Change (CSBC) be adapted to various academic disciplines? How will a course in mass communication differ from one in an applied social science? That’s the challenge RBC Associate Dr. David Mould faced in a recent project in India.
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RBC sends warmest congratulations to UNICEF USA on the launch of their Youth Poll Study along with an urgent call on presidential candidates to take a stand on children’s issues. Rain Barrel is proud to have helped pave the way for this initiative by carrying out the first-ever Situation Analysis of Children’s Rights in the United States earlier this year.
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Rain Barrel recently tied the ribbon on an ambitious Social and Behavior Change Communication project to improve the diets and physical fitness of teens in 39 schools in two pilot provinces in Indonesia. Supporting ongoing UNICEF and government nutrition programs, RBC's team designed an evidence-based, participatory strategy to engage and motivate young people to embrace healthier lifestyles amidst growing problems of both undernutrition and overweight.
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Today, 30 years since the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we rededicate ourselves to the cause of children’s rights.
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To mark World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10), the UN launched its
new website under the banner Mental Health Matters…
Dara and Budi*, like many Indonesian adolescents, face the double burden of malnutrition. This means that while many girls and boys in Dara and Budi’s junior high school are stunted or thin, an increasing number of others are becoming overweight or obese – a problem now affecting rich and poor nations alike around the world.
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