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Advocacy Skills Course (Oct 13-17 2008)

Start Date

October 13 2008

End Date

October 17 2008

Event Summary

The purpose of this course is to empower the participants with advocacy and lobbying skills in order to advocate for health and health related issues. It is intended for senior and mid-level programme/projects managers, medical and health personnel and government officers.

The course aims to include following:

  • Meaning of lobbying and advocacy and how to identify advocacy issues.
  • Building constituency for support and mobilisation.
  • Networking and coalition with other similar organisations.
  • Identifying advocates for a particular issue.
  • Designing and pre-testing messages for identified target groups before going public.
  • Using materials to lobby and support the campaign i.e. flyers, pamphlets, booklets, position papers, fact sheets etc.
  • Use of media in advocacy and lobbying.
  • How to reach and lobby the policy makers i.e. parliamentarians, religious groups, senior government officials etc.
  • Building consensus and dealing with divergent views (addressing / countering the opposition).
  • Fundraising for advocacy

 

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Registration Information

Fees: US$240

To register for this training, please use the contact details below.

Contact


Ms.Mette Kjaer
Country Director
PO Box 30125
00100
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: +254 20 6994000
Fax: +254 20 606 340
info@amrefke.org
AMREF website

Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site January 14 2008
Last Updated January 16 2008

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