Nairobi, Kenya

The Center for African Family Studies (CAFS) is facilitating a two week course which aims to provide hands-on experience in designing, developing and setting indicators for monitoring and evaluating an advocacy campaign and strategy aimed at influencing policy change. According to the organisers, advocacy has become a requisite tool for reproductive health and HIV & AIDS programme managers and service providers throughout the continent. As competition for scarce resources increases, advocacy skills become important tools in influencing the decision-making process regarding resource allocation.

This course is targeted at people who wish to improve and use advocacy skills to achieve their personal and organisational goals in reproductive health policies and programmes. They will be programme managers and staff of government departments and Non Profit Organisations (NGOs) who wish to influence policies in their agencies and or communities, professionals in institutions, associations and networks involved in advocacy, researchers interested in promoting the utilisation of their findings, trainers and lecturers who work with advocates.

The course aims to focus on the following:

• Identifying problems, policy issues and solutions
• Setting advocacy goals and objectives
• Identifying and researching audiences
• Developing and delivering advocacy messages
• Using data to advocate for health policy development and planning
• Formal and informal decision-making processes
• Building alliances, networks and coalitions
• Self-development skills
• Effective presentations
• Resources mobilisation
• Monitoring and evaluating advocacy efforts

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply advocacy skills as a tool for change
• Increase the effective use of available data for the advocacy process
• Design and implement a strategy for resource mobilisation
• Encourage a democratic process by providing people with the skills to make their voices heard
• Influence policy

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Cost: US$2,000

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