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| Sierra Leone: Teenage girls perform a play on teenage pregnancy during a mentoring session at St Joseph Primary school in Makeni. Local, female role-models spend some of their time advising girls on how to conduct themselves, and informing them on health and hygiene practices. |
Communication for Development (C4D) is one of the most empowering ways of improving health, nutrition and other key social outcomes for children and their families.
In UNICEF, C4D is defined as a systematic, planned and evidence-based strategic process to promote positive and measurable individual behaviour and social change that is an integral part of development programmes, policy advocacy and humanitarian work.
C4D uses dialogue and consultation with, and participation of children, their families and communities. It privileges local contexts and relies on a mix of communication tools, channels and approaches. C4D is not public relations or corporate communications.
C4D seeks to accelerate achievement of key results in UNICEF's Medium-term Strategic Plan (MTSP) for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by:
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Inter-Agency C4D
Inter Agency Book on C4D