Mobilising Communities on Young People's Health and Rights: An Advocacy Training Guide

This 123-page training guide, published by Family Care International, is designed to help programme managers strengthen the advocacy skills of youth groups and other community-based partners in planning and implementing strong and effective advocacy campaigns. The practical training curriculum provides an introduction to advocacy and takes participants through the steps involved in defining goals and objectives, developing effective messages and activities, and monitoring and evaluating an advocacy campaign. The guide is a companion piece to Family Care International's Advocacy Toolkit for Programme Managers.

The toolkit outlines a 5-day training course that contains the following modules:

• Module 1: Introduction - introduces the training objective and schedule and gives participants an opportunity to set ground rules.
• Module 2: Introducing Advocacy and Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and Rights - provides an introduction to advocacy and SRH rights. In this module, participants decide which SRH issue will be the focus of their advocacy.
• Module 3: Analysing Policies - introduces policy analysis and reviews national youth and SRH policies. Participants identify policy commitments related to their advocacy issue that are not effectively implemented in their communities.
• Module 4: Planning an Advocacy Campaign - outlines the steps in planning campaigns, as well as in developing advocacy objectives and goals.
• Module 5: Identifying Target Audiences and Advocacy Activities - looks at identifying audiences and choosing appropriate materials and activities.
• Module 6: Developing Advocacy Messages - reviews and defines effective messaging and guides participants in developing their advocacy messages.
• Module 7: Developing an Implementation and a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan - reviews the steps in planning advocacy campaigns and guides participants in developing implementation and monitoring and evaluation plans.