As part of the SBCC South Asia Conversation Summit, December 9th (Day 3) will be dedicated to COVID 19 related experiences on Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) with emphasis on SBCC and new abstracts are now being solicited.
Please go through the guidelines attached for submission of abstracts for the COVID-19 RCCE sessions on the 9th. The deadline for receiving abstracts is November 8th, 2021. This Call for Abstracts invites members of the SBCC regional community to submit proposals that address any of the three themes:
Theme 1: Catalyzing Transformational Change with respect to SBCC-RCCE – includes most recent evidence and innovations from the SBCC-RCCE field, highlight successes and challenges across disciplines, including but not limited to climate action, gender discrimination and violence, health and well-being, poverty reduction, sustainable consumption, reduced inequality, access to justice and transformations in leadership at all levels in tackling urgent issues at scale as evidenced by the pandemic.
Theme 2: Future Forward with respect to SBCC-RCCE – mobile technologies, social media, new partners are offering new ways to understand audiences and develop personalized and immersive content. We need to share new opportunities and challenges on how our abilities to engage with people has been affected, how inclusive we are in our efforts. To focus on strengthening convergence, importance in new information landscape such as media development, studies on misinformation/disinformation, community media, etc. This again will be across disciplines as mentioned above.
Theme 3: Connecting The Dots with respect to SBCC-RCCE- will explore and demonstrate ways to further increase collaboration, skills sharing and capacity strengthening for SBCC, as well as creative collective action within the field across different sectors, geographies, disciplines, stakeholder groups (donors, government, academic, practitioners, private sector, networks, etc.), and generations (adults and youth), engaging non-traditional players/sectors and expanding interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration
IMPORTANT
- The themes are described in more detail under guidelines. Submitters must also select the format under which they are submitting their themed abstracts; these formats are also described in the Guidelines provided here.
- Please download the form provided here to follow the format for abstract submission
- Please submit your abstract only to southasia@sbccsummit.org
- The deadline for receiving abstracts is November 8th, 2021
- Abstracts must not exceed 350 words in Arial 11 font with space of 1.5 lines.
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