Advocacy

Date: 05/03/09
Resource person: UshaRani & Vanishree
Smt. Usha Rani has completed her MA & M Phil in Rural development. She is working in the KHPT (Karnataka health promotion Trust) organization. She begins the session with the introduction of fellows. In the beginning she told about the content of her presentation i.e.
.Defi nition
· Role of Advocacy
· Different steps involved
We learnt the definition of Advocacy; It is the process of people participating in decision making process affects their lives. We were taught about the Basic elements of advocacy, they are;
· Coalitions
· Objectives
· Data
· Fund raising
· Audience
· Presentations
· Evaluation
Some of the steps involved in the Advocacy are;
· Selecting Advocacy Objectives
· Identifying Advocacy Audience
· Developing & Delivering Advocacy Messages
· Making Perusable Presentations
· Fund Raising
· Evaluating the Advocacy Efforts
· These processes may be viewed as fluid as they occur simultaneously.
These things were discussed in detail with some case study example which made us more curious about Advocacy. Next the Q-A session started, many fellows asked questions, some of them are,
· What is the scope of Advocacy?
· How it will help entrepreneurs?
· Is it a nonprofit Advocacy or not?
This was followed by the Group Activity in which we were given a topic & asked to write the steps involved in that.
We got “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN “as the topic. Following were the steps involved in it,
· Objectives
1.To protect the violated women
2. To give free legal advice
3. To promote self confidence
· Audience
1. Women
2. Interested men
3. Other interested groups
4. Women & child health department department
5. General mass.
· Developing & delivering Advocacy messages
1. Provide information’s about Acts & rights
2. Provide information’s about women rights
3. Provide information’s about gender equality
4. Funds from different agencies
5. Audiences

· Make perusable presentations
1. Causes & implications
2. Case studies
3. Medias
4. Acts & Rights
· Fund raising
1. Individual
2. Mass
3. Organizations
4. Government aided agencies
· Evaluation
1. Out put
2. Evaluation during quarterly & six monthly
3. Feedback from target group
4. Internal & external
5. Comparing with other organizations who are working with same goal & same strategies.
Vanishree shared her experiences in working with professional sex workers like approaches, challenges faced, health related programs etc.