Afghan Social Marketing Organization Campaign Effectiveness Survey

Background:

Although Afghanistan has made gains in child and maternal survival, child mortality remains high and family planning use remains low. In Afghanistan, SHOPS Plus supports the Afghan Social Marketing Organization (ASMO) to market and distribute a variety of health products, including child health and family planning products.

Between March and September 2017, ASMO implemented four mass-media marketing campaigns to increase awareness and encourage use of five family planning and child health products: oral contraceptive pills, injectable contraceptives, condoms, oral rehydration salts, and chlorine water treatment solution.

Objectives/research questions:

SHOPS Plus conducted a survey to understand the effectiveness of ASMO’s mass-media campaigns. The research measured and explored:

• Exposure messaging from the communications campaigns (spontaneous and prompted message recall, frequency of exposure) 
• Ability to recall messaging from the marketing campaigns (spontaneous and prompted message recall, frequency of exposure)
• Perceptions of and reactions to messaging in the marketing campaigns (appropriateness, relevance, familiarity)
• Awareness and use (current use, ever use, and intention to use/recommend) of family planning and maternal and child health products and brands
• Perceptions of family planning and maternal and child health product availability, accessibility, and social norms (i.e. perceived availability of product, perceived ability/comfort to buy, social acceptability of using product)

Methods:

Data collectors visited households to conduct face-to-face surveys to gather the data needed to gauge campaign effectiveness. This survey was deployed in the later months of the campaign. The target group for the first survey was married women aged 18-39 and their male spouses.

Status: Completed
Last updated: August 2020

Relevant Resources:

• Family Planning Barriers in a High Fertility Conflict Setting: Methods and Results from a Household Survey in Afghanistan
• Motivations and Barriers to Health Product Use in Afghanistan

Learn more about our work in Afghanistan, pharmaceutical partnerships and social marketing,  family planning, and child health.

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