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Advocacy for Injection Safety Guy Scandlen . Annual SIGN Meeting Cairo, Egypt 23 - 24 October 2000. We Need Your Feedback!. So please complete the colourful sheet we have distributed, if you would like to. This is participatory homework. Advocacy: Definition.
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Advocacy for Injection SafetyGuy Scandlen Annual SIGN MeetingCairo, Egypt23 - 24 October 2000
We Need Your Feedback! • So please complete the colourful sheet we have distributed, if you would like to. • This is participatory homework.
Advocacy: Definition • Advocacy is a continuous and adaptive process of gathering, organising and formulating informationintoargument, to be communicated though various interpersonal and media channels, with a view to raising resources or gaining political and social leadership acceptance and commitment for a development programme, thereby preparing a society for its acceptance.
Questions • What is the main topic or activity you will be advocating for? • Whom are you advocating to? • What do you want those people / that person to do?
Participant groups Target group Target group
1.How much does the participant group know about the issue(s) related to safe injections? the health ramifications the social welfare implications the human resource ramifications the economic ramifications the ramifications for national development 2. Profile of 198 Senior Decision Makers in 33 Countries: Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America 3. You badly need Document X
What IS Document X ? • The health ramifications • The social welfare implications • The human resource ramifications • The economic ramifications • The ramifications for national development Nationally Globally
Document X and its Offspring Private meetings / Small groups discussions Study tours Similar countrieswith similar conditions,and where it works well Local settings where there are problems and where it works well
Stress inter-relationships: Everything is about something else • Stress personal benefits of deciding in favour of implementing programmes promoting safety injections • Development Orientation • Mission Statements • Current Programmes Being Supported
Advocacy Plan Activities Time Frame People Responsible Costs Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators X 1. Document X 2. Pre-testing Document