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Advocacy for <strong>Health</strong> As we saw earlier, advocacy is a set of actions targeted at decision-makers to support a specific issue. For example, members of the VHC may convince traditional leaders (chiefs, queens), assembly members, elders, health authorities, and political authorities to bring development to their community. Such development activities include building of houses, schools, pit latrines, bringing electricity to the community, paying fees for children to go or remain in school, or buying clothes and food for their families. In the long run, the VHC must help the community to stay healthy and think about development. As a VHC member you need to be able to convince community leaders about all the things that make the community healthy. This should be done over and over again to keep reminding people to promote health. Exercise 3.2.2: Advocacy Skills Objective To discuss effective advocacy skills Time: 20 Minutes Questions 1. Why did you select it as an advocacy issue? 2. Which decision-makers should be advocated to? 3. What are the arguments that can/should be raised to your case? Topic 3 Advocacy for family planning Key advocacy issues in family planning Instructions to the Facilitator 1. Guide participants to identity an advocacy issue in their community. 2. Role-play how they will advocate this issue to one of these decision-makers. In this topic participants will get to know the advantages of family planning and the challenges to family planning promotion. Everyone likes to take control of their life. It is up to the individual to decide whether to have children, when to have them and how many to have. Anyone who is able to make these decisions and act accordingly is practising family planning. The VHC must be able to assist people (especially women) to practise family planning. The following exercise will help us know the key advocacy issues in family planning promotion. 161
Module 3 The Work of the <strong>Health</strong> Committee 162 Exercise 3.2.3 Objective 1. To discuss key advocacy issues in family planning Time: 30 minutes Question 1. What are the key advocacy issues in family planning? Instructions to the Facilitator 1. Guide participants to brainstorm the key advocacy issues in family planning 2. List them on a flip chart 3. Compare with responses in Box 3.2.1 and update accordingly. Family planning has often been misunderstood to mean limiting child birth. But family planning is not about that at all. Family planning is about being able to decide whether to have children or not, when to have children and how to space them, which means allowing the mother to rest before she has another child. Family planning has a lot of advantages. What are the advantages or benefits of family planning? These need in order to be made known so as to ensure that people have all the information they need to practise it. Other issues that have to be advocated in family planing e.g. male involvement and access to Family Planing are listed in box 3.2.1. Box 3.2.1 Key advocacy issues in Family Planning 1. Misconceptions 2. Purpose/advantages 3. Access 4. Choices 5. Side effects 6. Cost 7. Consent of spouse 8. Male involvement 9. Manner of promotion 10. Timing 11. Benefits (mother, child, father, in-laws, community). Challenges to family planning promotion In spite of the advantages of family planning, there are serious challenges facing family planning promotion. These have to do with misconceptions and fears of side effects.
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