Entertainment-Education Inspirations

Produced by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3),  this video is a compilation of 30 years of entertainment-education programming designed to positively impact health and well-being. It premiered June 4 2013 at the conclusion of the Child Survival Evidence Summit sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to examine child survival efforts and the role played by social and behaviour change interventions.

The video highlights edutainment initiatives from the past and present that use soap operas, drama, puppetry, cartoons, and music to address issues such as vasectomy, child spacing, sexual violence, HIV/AIDS prevention, sanitation, and childhood nutrition. Countries covered include India, Ghana, Mexico, Nigeria, Cambodia, Liberia, Jordan, Tanzania, and the United States.  It ends by highlighting some of the ways in which edutainment can be used in the future, such as though mobile phones, social media, games, and simulations, and for data visualision and crowdsourcing.