Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Advocacy Training Manual

This training manual from the StopTB Partnership, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Constella Futures is an adaptation of Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Supplement (POLICY Project, 1999), a resource for facilitators of family planning and reproductive health advocacy issues.

From the Introduction: "It is through advocacy - a set of targeted actions in support of a specific cause - that a supportive and self-sustaining environment for TB/HIV (the intersecting epidemics of TB and HIV) goals can be created. This training manual was prepared to help representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other formal groups of civil society to form and maintain advocacy networks and develop effective TB/HIV advocacy skills. The manual’s tools and approaches can be used to affect TB/HIV policy decisions at the international, national, regional, and local levels....The training manual includes information on networking, communications, and policy environments; exercises on conceptualizing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating advocacy campaigns; and relevant materials for advocates. Facilitators can use the training techniques employed in the manual in various contexts. However, this manual is specifically adapted for trainings when TB/HIV is the focus of advocacy."

Contents include:

• Overview
  
• Section I. The Power of Numbers: Networking for Impact
• Unit 1 What Are Advocacy Networks?
• Unit 2 Effective Communication: Understanding One Another
• Unit 3 Cooperation Not Competition: Building a Team
• Unit 4 Decision Making: Reaching Group Consensus
  
• Unit 5 Mission Statements: Creating a Common Purpose
  
• Unit 6 Putting It All Together: Managing the Network
• Section II. Actors, Issues, and Opportunities: Assessing the Policy Environment
  
• Unit 1 The Policy Process: Government in Action
• Unit 2 Decision Making for TB/HIV: Analyzing the Policy Climate
  
• Unit 3 Prioritizing Policy Issues: Making the Best Matches
• Section III. The Advocacy Strategy: Mobilizing for Action
• Unit 1 What Is Advocacy?
  
• Unit 2 Issues, Goals, and Objectives: Building the Foundation
• Unit 3 Target Audiences: Identifying Support and Opposition
• Unit 4 Messages: Informing, Persuading, and Moving to Action
• Unit 5 Data Collection: Bridging the Gap between Communities and Policymakers
• Unit 6 Fundraising: Mobilizing Resources
• Unit 7 Implementation: Developing an Action Plan
• Unit 8 Monitoring and Evaluation
• Handouts
• References