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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.

FOLLOW UP ADVOCACY NECESSARY TO INFLUENCE POLICY AND PROGRAMMATIC ACTION

• What Is Advocacy? Why Advocate? Building A Foundation CONCEPT
  
• Influencing Reproductive Health Policy and Programs in the Philippines: Implementing an Advocacy Model for Utilization of Operations Research 
  
• Framework for Linking Data with Action 
  
• The Policy Circle: A Framework for Analyzing the Components of Family Planning, Reproductive Health, Maternal Health, and HIV/AIDS Policies 
  

ADVOCACY PRACTICE ADAPTED TO THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNITY MONITORING- FOCUS ON CITIZENSHIP ENTITLEMENT AND RIGHTS

• Participatory Advocacy: A toolkit for VSO staff, volunteers and partners 
  
• Make a Case for Supplies- Leading Voices in Securing Reproductive Health Supplies: An Advocacy Guide and Toolkit 
  

• The Social Audit Agenda – Primary Health Care in a Stakeholder Society 
  
• Participation and Social Assessment: Tools and Techniques
  
• Methodology for Participatory Assessment with Communities, Institutions and Policy Makers
  
• Shifting Power? Assessing the Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives
  
• Independent Budget Analysis