Advocacy for Injection SafetyGuy 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

• Advocacy is a continuous and adaptive process of gathering, organising and formulating information into argument, 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?

Target group

Target group

Participant groups

1.How much does the participant group know about the issue(s) related to safe injections?

the health ramificationsthe social welfare implicationsthe human resource ramificationsthe economic ramificationsthe 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

M a jo r aca d e m ic w o rk P a m ph le ts B o ok le ts T ra in in g p ro g ram m es T V / R a d io sp o ts

O ffsp ring o f D o cu m e n t X

D o cu m en t X

Private meetings / Small groups discussions

Study tours

Local settings where there are problems

and where it works well

Similar countrieswith similar conditions,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

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1. Document X

2. Pre-testing Document X