Module 1: Communication Planning

Communication is key to implementing school-based HIV/STD prevention strategies that include sexual health education (SHE), sexual health services (SHS), and safe and supportive environments (SSE).

Take some time to think about how communication can help support your program implementation:

• What do you want to achieve across SHE, SHS, and SSE, and how can communication support your efforts?
• What district-level or school-level activities will you conduct to:
  • strengthen staff capacity,
  • increase student access to programs and services, and
  • engage parent and community partners?

  Communication planning can help you implement these activities.

  Capturing the answers to these questions, and more, in a communication plan will help you define your communication goals. A communication plan also will provide you with an overall communication strategy that can support your program implementation and bring it to full capacity.