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Positive Deviant and your pride campaign. SOCIAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN. POSITIVE DEVIANTS ARE INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS who find solutions to problems through local wisdom, without access to special resources. POSITIVE DEVIANTS are in the same less advantageous situation like their peers
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Positive Deviantand your pride campaign SOCIAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
POSITIVE DEVIANTS ARE INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPSwho find solutions to problems through local wisdom, without access to special resources.
POSITIVE DEVIANTS are in the same less advantageous situation like their peers but they are able to do better
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH Focuses on positive deviants behavior, not the individual Is based on the idea that seeing is believing
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH is based on the premise that if the community self-discovers the solution, they are more likely to implement it
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH • Define a problem, challenges, common practices, desired outcomes (BC) • Determine presence of positive deviance individuals or groups • Discover exceptional but successful behaviors and strategies
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH • Market the PD to tell their stories and demonstrate their behaviors • Design activities to allow community members to practice the discovered behavior • Conduct participatory monitoring and progress to assess the successfulness of executed activities
Jerry Sternin 1990 Vietnam Save the Children Malnutrition
The grave opens its mouth for mother and child for 40 days after birth.”A local proverb Will Rahima’s firstborn Survive overwhelming odds?
The odds stacked against Rashima’s first born One in 4 children die within the first 40 days • PD approach implemented 2001-2004Saving newborn lives, Save the children
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH • Define a problem, challenges, common practices, desired outcomes (BC) • Determine presence of positive deviance individuals or groups • Discover exceptional but successful behaviors and strategies
Young children who beat the overwhelming odds against survival Haripur District, North West Frontier Province of Pakistan
IMPLEMENTATION OF PD APPROACH Build rapport with community to understand context (newbornconcept extended to 40 days) Participatory techniques (FGD, in depth interviews, newborn mapping) Testimonials by people who lost a newborn Exploration of practices using props and dolls
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH PD newborn:A baby who survived despite heavy oddspovertyprematuritymaternal health history
Observable PD practices in Bagra • antenatal consultation & tetanus injection • Ask the daitosee wife in 9th month • Increase food intake for wife • arrange money for transportation in case of emergency • Hand stichedmatress (gadeila) for baby • Clean blade for daito cut ombilical cord • nothing applied to umbilical cord
Observable PD practices in Bagra • Baby fed exclusively on breast milk • No gutti • Baby kept warm • Mother released from household work to take care of baby
IMPLEMENTATION OF PD APPROACH Husband:“ Giving a nutritionally-rich protein bar to the pregnant mother can lead to a healthy baby and also keep mother’s out of danger. If we provide food for the mother it will ensure the health of the baby”
Religious leader: “we don’t need to bathe the baby for azan, when we listen to Azan 5 times a day we are not clean most of the time” => His testimonial was played at a community Fair
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH • Define a problem, challenges, common practices, desired outcomes (BC) • Determine presence of positive deviance individuals or groups • Discover exceptional but successful behaviors and strategies
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH • Market the PD to tell their stories and demonstrate their behaviors • Design activities to allow community members to practice the discovered behavior • Conduct participatory monitoring and progress to assess the successfulness of executed activities
Marketing: • Street theatre • Media • Religious people • Popular leaders • Mock bazar: men/women asked to choose six objects that will be needed in delivery kit • Balloons as newborns game • Role play with dolls (with detachable umbilical cords and placenta)
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH % of mothers giving pre-lactal feeds in first 3 days decreased from 70% to 25% % of fathers who saved money for transport increased from 45% to 62% % of newborns whose cords did not receive unhygienic homemade remedies increased from 7% to 19% % of families that used a new blade to cut cord increased from 19% to 33%
POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH One year after beginning of project:“No newborn has died since the project began”
Determine the positive deviant practices • 1. Find the deviant • 2. Remove TBU (true but useless practices) • 3. Invite community members to meet the PD SOCIAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Involve PD in your campaign • Help PD become informal leader • Develop network by connecting PDs • Introduce PD to key partners • PD & media SOCIAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Involve PD in your campaign • Involve PD in design of activities • PD to invite people to your events • PD as campaign spokesman • PD as facilitator of campaign activities • PD on your materials (? Caution) SOCIAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
“Sternin, you have six months to show results,” noted Mr. Nuu, a high-ranking official in the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “What? Six months? Six months to demonstrate impact?” Jerry Sternin could not believe his ears. “Yes, Sternin, six months to show impact, or else, I will not be able to extend your visa.”
“A thousand hearings isn’t worth one seeing, and a thousand seeing isn’t worth one doing.” PD emphasizes “doing.”
Determine the positive deviant practices • 1. Find the deviant!- poor family with healthy children • Fisher that does not intrude, do illegal fishing- Bantay Dagat / community member that is not afraid to apprehend/report intruders into the MPA • 2. Remove TBU (true but useless practices) • Only some individuals can do it • 3. Invite community members to meet the PD • - Increases trust, highlight what PD does differently SOCIAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN