Assessing Behavior Change Solutions

About this course:

This course will provide tools and resources for Assess, one of the eight steps of the Behavior Centered Design (BCD) approach. Assess enables program designers and implementers to measure and report the effectiveness and impact of their behavior change solution.  

What you'll learn: 

• The definition, purpose, and key components of the Assess step
• How to use behaviorally-informed theories of change for enhanced monitoring and evaluation of behavior change solutions
• How to develop indicators for assessing behavior change
• How to plan for monitoring and evaluation of a behavior change solution 
• Best practices for conducting monitoring and evaluation
• Tools and templates for conducting the Assess step

What this course is not: 

This course is not a guide for monitoring and evaluating an entire environmental or conservation program.  It focuses instead on the behavior change components of an environmental program and how to monitor and evaluate them.  

Who will benefit:

This course provides a broad understanding of assessing behavior change solutions to help: 

• Program managers, Project Managers, and Project Implementers manage and oversee monitoring and evaluation processes, make informed management decisions, aid problem-solving, and communicate with different stakeholders;

• Program/Project Designers incorporate behaviorally informed assessment in project design; and

• Funders make informed decisions regarding behavior change project proposals.

Prerequisite to this course:

Before taking this course, you must complete one of our courses on the Behavior-Centered Design (BCD) process. To do so, please select from one of these options: 

• Introduction to BCD for the Environment (free self-paced online course)
• BCD for the Environment  (live virtual sessions)
• BCD for the Environment  (in-person sessions)

Training Costs:

For this course, we offer all applicants the freedom to opt into a course fee tier they feel is appropriate based on their personal and professional capacity. To make this program as accessible as possible for practitioners who lack the means to attend, we offer three tiers of course fees:

The discounted fee and fee waiver tiers are aimed to ease the costs for those from small non-profit organizations, those from the Global South, and those who have limited access to professional development funds. Requests for fee waivers are determined on an individual basis. We take into account financial need, the potential for impact, and access to opportunity, as well as overall cohort diversity.

You should apply to the course fee tier you can afford without burdening yourself or your organization. In order to keep our training offerings sustainable, we are able to offer more invitations to applicants who apply under the full tuition tier. If you have any questions about which tier to apply to please write to behavior@rare.org.