Advocacy Skills Course 25th - 29th October 2004 AMREF International Training Centre, Nairobi - Kenya Target audience This course is for senior and mid-level programme/projects man- agers, medical and health personnel and government officers. Purpose The purpose of this course is to empower the participants with advocacy and lobbying skills in order to advocate for health and health related issues. The course will include following: Content * Meaning of lobbying and advocacy and how to identify advocacy issues. * Building constituency for support and mobilization. * Networking and coalition with other similar organizations. * Identifying advocates for a particular issue. * Designing and pre-testing messages for identified target Groups before going public. * Using materials to lobby and support the campaign i.e. flyers, pamphlets, booklets, position papers, fact sheets etc. * Use of media in advocacy and lobbying. * How to reach and lobby the policy makers i.e. parliamentary- ans, religious groups, senior government officials etc. * Building consensus and dealing with divergent views (address- ing / countering the opposition). * Fundraising for advocacy How to apply Please write to the course administrator and request for an ap- plication form: The Administrator, Training Directorate of Learning Systems AMREF P O Box 00506 27691 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254-20-605220 ext 224 Fax: +254-20-609518 mailto:joycek@amrefhq.org The mission of the AMREF Directorate of Learning Systems is "to strengthen the capacity of health and health related profes- sional so that they can effectively address the challenges of health in Africa"