Advocacy in Action - International AIDS Society

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Example of Activity 2.6: By NGOs/CBOs based in Burkina Faso Resources available for advocacy for the Ministry of Health to integrate voluntary counselling and testing into sentinel surveillance sites: Resources currently available Financial resources Human resources Other resources Small amount of money from care budget, now available due to extra donation of medicines • Members of the association • Support of the organisation’s secretariat – Initiative Privée et Communautaire Contre le Sida au Burkina Faso (IPC) • Team leaders skilled in advocacy and networking • Good relationships • Space in the association’s office • Source documents • Means of transport Reference: Adapted from an advocacy workshop, International HIV/AIDS Alliance/ICASO, Burkina Faso, October 1999. Section 2.6 Step 6: Identify your resources Participants and facilitators discussing what kind of resources are need for advocacy work. Reference: Photo taken at an advocacy skills-building workshop for HIV/AIDS work, India HIV/AIDS Alliance and International HIV/AIDS Alliance, India, November 2001. 53
ACTIVITY 2.7 Objective: By the end of this session participants will be able to write an action plan of activities to achieve their advocacy aim and objectives Section 2.7 Step 7: Create an action plan Introduction • There are two parts to this step: selecting appropriate advocacy activities, and making a detailed plan for those activities. • The work done in Steps 1 to 6 will help greatly in choosing appropriate advocacy activities to achieve your aim. By now, you know what you are trying to achieve, who your targets are, who your allies are, and the resources available. • The ‘Advocacy in Action’ Cards will also help in selecting activities. • When identifying activities it is important to consider who will be the beneficiary of the actions and involve to them, if possible. For example, it is preferable for a group of street children to be supported to meet a senior police officer, rather than an NGO representative attending the meeting on their behalf. • An action plan consists of a specific set of activities with a timeline and shows who is responsible for implementing each activity. The activities are those that are necessary to address the aims and objectives that have been agreed. • Thinking strategically is very important at this planning stage. Advocacy activities can often have a greater impact if they are timed to coincide with other actions or events that will help your advocacy work. For example, politicians may or may not be more willing to make bold statements during election times. Consider these factors when deciding on the timing of your activities. Instructions Timing: 1 hour 30 minutes 54 1 Explain the objective of the step; introduce the topic and the activity. 2 Lead a plenary discussion on action planning for advocacy, with questions like: ? Who should be involved in developing action plans? ? How do you decide which advocacy methods to use? 3 Ask the groups to decide which advocacy methods to use. To help them, they should look at the: • Venn diagram of advocacy targets they identified (Step 4) • information they gathered or identified in Step 2 • list of advocacy methods from the ‘How do we advocate?’ session • resources available. Give them these guideline questions: • Why does each target support or oppose the advocacy solution? • How can each target be moved towards supporting the advocacy solution? All these things can guide them in choosing possible advocacy activities for one or more of their advocacy objectives. Divide them into their groups. 4 After they have decided on advocacy methods (activities), provide the participants with a choice: • to design their own action plan format that can be used to plan advocacy • to use the format suggested in the completed example. 5 Ask the participants to practise developing an action plan, so that they are familiar with the process. They can plan the activities they listed in Instruction 3. 6 After they have practised action planning, go straight to a discussion with the whole group, without presentations: ? What factors did you consider in planning advocacy work? ? Outside this workshop, what needs to be done before writing an action plan? ? What factors might require you to change your action plan?
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