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The Regional Advisory Information and Networking System (RAINS) Health Advocacy on Health Behavioural Change in Hot Spot Conflict Communities: A case study of Bawku Municipality, Ghana

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  • Fuseini Ahmed Rabiu

    (Regional Advasory Information and Networking System, Ghana)

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The research focuses on the RAINS health behavioural change intervention in hotspot, conflict-prone settings in Bawku Municipal. A qualitative approach served as a pathway to explore focus group discussions to facilitate an insightful discussion on the phenomenon in the five communities designated for the study through open-ended questions. A purposive sampling technique was adopted to identify five hot spot conflict communities for the study. Thematic analysis was embraced as the source of data analysis. The outcome of the article reveals an improvement in pregnant women and lactating mothers visiting child welfare centres regularly, improved awareness among men about the importance of providing balanced diets for their family, open defecation and malaria prevalence and improvement in the use of treated mosquito nets. On the contrary, movement restrictions, bans on motorbikes, gunshots, and Insecurity continue to tiptoe the work of RAINS in the Municipality. The recent spark of the conflict resulted in the displacement of people. The vacuum of the study is the inability to include statistical backing with a pre-baseline survey therefore, future studies should employ the mixed method to fill the missing gap

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  • Fuseini Ahmed Rabiu, 2025. "The Regional Advisory Information and Networking System (RAINS) Health Advocacy on Health Behavioural Change in Hot Spot Conflict Communities: A case study of Bawku Municipality, Ghana," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(14), pages 1410-1419, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:9:y:2025:issue-14:p:1410-1419
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