From choice, a world of possibilities

Linking Advocacy and Services to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Rights:

Some tools developed by IPPF/WHR

RFSU, Annual meeting

June 10, 2014

Contents Who we are? Why we work in LAC? Comprehensive advocacy model Tools developed and to be developed Concluding thoughts

IPPF/WHR

One of Six Regions 29 Member Associations One Affiliated Local

Organization per Country

33 Million Health Services in 2012

Latin America: Paradox of Growth

Strengthencapacities

StrengthenAlliances

Increase political will

Strategy development

Project creation(M&E)

Political Analysis

Transparency

IEC

Social Mobilization

Public Relations

Media

Other tactics

INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING

ANALYSIS AND PLANNING

STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION

FOR POLITICAL CHANGE

ACCOUNTABILITY

Civil Society participation

COMPREHENSIVE ADVOCACY MODEL

Budget monitoring

Strategy development

Project creation(M&E)

Political Analysis

ANALYSIS AND PLANNING

Handbook for political analysis and mapping:The handbook helps analyze the structural and institutional features of the state and the key actors involved and provides activities that guide in the development of advocacy campaigns.

Tools developed

IEC

Social Mobilization

Public Relations

Media

Other tactics

STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION

FOR POLITICAL CHANGE

Tools developed

Handbook for Advocacy Planning:This handbook aims to help build organizations' capacity to design effective advocacy projects that advance sexual and reproductive rights. It explains concepts related to advocacy and introduces the advocacy models used by IPPF/WHR.

Transparency

ACCOUNTABILITY

Civil Society participation

Budget monitoring

Handbook for Budget Analysis and Tracking in Advocacy Projects:This manual helps facilitate the process of incorporating budget analysis and tracking elements in advocacy planning. It offers a way to determine the steps needed to identify and monitor specific areas of expenditure that contribute to achieving the political change.

Tools developed

Tools to be developed for CSOs to hold governments accountable

Transparency

ACCOUNTABILITY

Civil Society participation

Budget monitoring

Some tools in progress

SRH Budget Analysis Guide:This guide will provide technical tools to allow CSOs to participate in the budgetary process by identifying where to look for the specific SRH budget information, to analyze that information and to strategize on what messages can be crafted to ensure funding for the policy change.

Transparency

ACCOUNTABILITY

Civil Society participation

Budget monitoring

Some tools in progress

Handbook for conducting social audits on SRH services:This handbook will provide a step by step guide on how to carry out social audits on SRH services such as YFS and abortion services to assess whether or not the political change is being adequately implemented.

Transparency

ACCOUNTABILITY

Civil Society participation

Budget monitoring

Concluding Thoughts

Providers of SRH services as leaders of political change Build capacity to do political mappings and engage in

advocacy Focus on policy change as well as implementation

Build capacity to carry out budget tracking & accountability

Expand use of social audits models South-to-south approach to knowledge transfer

“we have learned that fighting battles for “all or nothing” is the best way so that nothing changes and all stays the same”…

Jose Mujica, President of Uruguay –March 1, 2010