BEHAVE Framework (Note. The information in this table will be refined once all formative research is completed.) (Priority Group) In order to (Behavior) To: (Key Factors) We will focus on: (Activities) Through: help: Pregnant women and their families Use health facilities and/or TTBAs to attend births -Increasing access to TTBAs Increasing acceptance of delivery by a non- family member -Increasing acceptance of TTBAs -Informing families of the health benefits of delivering in the facility -Increasing confidence that families can affect birthing outcomes through birth planning -Training and equipping TTBAs -Home visits by Care Group volunteers -Collaborating with CPTs and NHCs to facilitate appropriate community selection of well-respected women to become TTBAs -Training CPTs/NHCs and other community leaders to promote and advocate for facility birth and/or TTBAs -Providing guidance and support to families on how to plan births through Care Group volunteer visits and support from TTBAs Pregnant women and their families Use clean birth kits for deliveries -Increasing access to kits -Increasing access to TTBAs -Increasing knowledge that births should be clean and how contamination is a risk for baby and mother -Increasing support from key maternal health decision-makers (grandmothers) -Working closely with MOH partners to update lists of TTBAs so that more kits are sent to RHCs -Integrating messages about clean births and information about kits in prenatal sessions (both at facility and TTBA visits) -Home visits by Care Group volunteers that include grandmothers and other key maternal health decision-makers Communities Establish emergency funds and transport -Increasing awareness of the necessity of these provisions -Increasing leadership and support for initiatives -Improving relationships between health facilities and communities -Training and supporting CPTs and NHCs in setting up systems -Facilitating meetings between communities and health facilities -TTBAs, Care Group volunteers, and health workers all reinforcing the importance of planning -Working with health workers to improve perceived quality of maternal/newborn care at health facilities Families of pregnant women and newborns Refer neonatal and obstetric emergencies immediately to a health facility -Increasing awareness of danger signs -Increasing access to health facilities -Improving birth planning at the household level -Improving perceived -Home visits by Care Group volunteers and TTBAs to counsel families, assist th...
