Community Monitoring in Health Resources for the Practitioner |
Advocating for Change, Documentation and Improving Practice
Follow up advocacy is an important sequence within the community monitoring process that will help to influence policy and programmatic action. This section focuses on advocacy and the key stages of a successful advocacy framework.
Preparing for Advocacy: Actor Factor Analysis Actor factor analysis is a method for doing a political mapping of stakeholder and situations or circumstances around any issue for which change is desired or advocacy is to be planned. The exercise can be easily conducted in a training/community situation. To read more, click here Alliance / Coalition building Advocacy can rarely be done alone. One of the key responsibilities of the advocate is perhaps to obtain a mandate from the very people whose cause she/he is taking forward. Thus building a partnership with the affected is an important step in the process. To read more, click here Public Sharing/ Hearing of Evidence Public Hearings and Public Tribunals are public fora for sharing rights violations. In a Public Hearing the rights violations are usually shared in front of an official panel of empowered officials like the National Human Rights Commission and its state counterparts or the National Commission of Women and its state counterparts. In the case of a Public Tribunal the panel is not official, however in order to givethe panel credibility it usually comprises of eminent citizens. To read more, click here Meeting with Officials Once the community leadership is aware of the different aspects of the health services that they need and what is available to them today it will be possible for them to discuss these with their health providers. To read more, click here Using media to promote accountability The media- both print and electronic are powerful channels for communicating an advocacy message to the government and to policy makers. It is also an important tool for public education on the issue of concern. Effective use of the media can result in increasing the visibility and credibility of the issue being advocated and making the service providers accountable. To read more, click here Documenting our stories and change: Lessons for the Future To read more, click here Refining / improving community monitoring practice To read more, click here |