National child maltreatment and abuse prevention campaign
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The finding from the research showed that institutions were isolated and working independently, from a more generalized perspective -
the foremost objective was to make the environment where the behavioral change is required, also becomes the source and basis from which the problem is identified -
The regional public institution, Family and Child Service Centers becomes an integral part of the whole communication infrastructure. -
The preventive measure is more coordinated and collaborative, and that every facet of community is involved in the campaign. -
The research collected at community level is shared nationally, to enable greater legislative lobby power at national level -
The strategy was developed by layering the causes and preventive strategy within the perspective of the community's ecological structure. -
The strategy was developed by layering the causes and preventive strategy within the perspective of the community's ecological structure. -
IN the development of the campign, it was required that we had an understanding of how the child throughout its development interact within different aspect of the community structure -
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The campaign was structured, and phased withn 3 distinctive level -
These 3 distinctive level has very specific objectives which at the end will culminate in achieving a more empathetic, capable and highly involved community of people at each ecological level.
This was one of the most complex behavioral change communication campaign plans that I have ever designed. Also one of the most eye opening experiences, in regards to actually seeing evidence of how much the imposition of universal values and standards can negatively impact the indigenous social fabric and the confidence of a nation to rear its own children.
There were huge number of institutions involved in child abuse prevention, be it formal or informal, awareness or prevention, public or private. All were working with the best of intentions but very much in isolation from each other using preventive measures from their individual perspective of what they deem was the causes of child abuse. In affect they were doing more harm than good, by confusing the public, i.e. parents and children with different conflicting messages.
From the very outset it became clear we had to find a way to involve all these individual stakeholders with diverse perspective to work towards a common goal in a more coordinated and collaborative manner. Not only that but it was very important to enable the perspective they use to implement preventive measures, be based on evidence and research from the ground, i.e. the actual community they are imposing it on, rather than generalized research or other wholly foreign perspective. All this had to be done in a way that was sustainable, regionally specific as well as at a national scale.
The behavioral change communication strategy was to implement a communication infrastructure, whereby the community itself becomes the source of research or basis by which any preventive measures or actions from diverse perspectives could be communicated. The model also allows for Family and Child Serve Centers (FCSC), to have a more central role within the community, as a consolidator of the research, sourced from different institutions, as well as facilitator to coordinate and collaborate on preventive measures deemed required from the research findings.
There were three phases to the campaign which would allow this research based, behavioral change communication plan to be fully implemented and be sustained, and required the engagement of every ecological level of society as well as institution. The idea at the end is to acquire a society which is empathetic, to the diversity of perspective in regards to the causes and affects of its societal problems, as well as, ideas on how to provide a worthwhile solution to it.
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Client: UNICEF Maldives & Ministry of Gender, Family & Human Rights of Maldives.
Creative Agency: Mooinc. pvt. ltd.
Marketing Communication & Research Consultant: Ali Saeed
Project Manager & Research Assistant: Shahee Ilyas
Cover Illustration by : Naaisha Hanief
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