Advocacy

On 05^th March Usharani and Vanishree had took Advocacy session, Smt.Usharani has completed her M.phil in Rural Development and she is working with KHPT.

She started her session with our introductions then she told about her presentation contents those are like. Definition of Advocacy, Role of Advocacy, Different steps of Advocacy,

Basic elements of Advocacy

coalitions, Objectives, Data, Fund raising, Audience, support, Goal, influences by all the angels, messages, investing time, money and energy, effective Advocacy, Presentations, Evaluation etc.

Advocacy :

·         Advocacy is a process of people participating in decision making.

·         Putting problem on the agenda, providing a solution to the problem and building support for acting.

·         Strategies can including lobbying. social marketing, information education and community orgnisation or other trends.

Objectives:

Protect the women

Provide free legal advice

Promote self confidence

Prevent by stigma and discriminating.

Steps in Advocacy:

§  Select Advocacy objectives

§  Identifying advocacy audience

§  Develop and delivering Advocacy Messages

§  Presentation

§  Fund raising

§  Evaluating the Advocacy efforts

Later we had Group Activity on given topic of Stigma and Discrimination Who is living with HIV/AIDS. In my group Me,meenakshi,savita,Usha,Chandrashekar were discussed and wrote and present our views, in presentation we used following steps in our topic.

Objectives

To provide good condition in Society.

Preventing by stigma and discriminating.

Identifying advocacy Audience

Family members,

 neighbors,

same Community,

 other similar community,

society people.

Develop and delivering Advocacy Messages

Media,

demonstrations,

 networks,

Presentation

Live examples,

 heart touching slogans,

 mela of products.

Fund raising

Funding Agencies( national and international),

 Health departments Ex- ICHAP,KHPT,KASAPS.

 Volunteers.

Evaluating the Advocacy efforts

Regular Fallow ups,

 

Feedbacks

Improvements needed

Preparing successful case studies

Confident level

 

In the last session Vanishree from SPAD orgnisation shred her work experiences, challenges, approaches, IGA and other programs conducted for Sex worker.