Recently I had a paper out in Conservation Biology (led by Gabby Salazar) that focused on a qualitative method to evaluate the long term contribution impact of a social marketing intervention. Gabby used General Elimination Methodology, a theory driven qualitative evaluation method, to assess the long-term impacts of a social marketing campaign on human behavior … [Read more…]
Fresh of press is a new article in the journal Animal Conservation (FULL TEXT HERE). In it we describe an intervention to reduce demand for bushmeat in northern Tanzania. The intervention was centered around the 1-h radio show My Wildlife – My Community which included 15-min episodes of the radio drama Temboni, designed by PCI … [Read more…]
Measuring change is hard. But it is also critical to programs hoping to influence human behaviour towards more positive societal outcomes. In a newly published paper, Does It Work for Biodiversity? Experiences and Challenges in the Evaluation of Social Marketing Campaigns, we tackle the challenge of evaluating social marketing campaigns targeting fishing communities in the … [Read more…]