Policy Advocacy Lab and Close-Out Session

What have we done so far?

1. Identify a problem: Lack of Access to Education in Zimbabwe
2. Develop a timeline of the history and scale of the problem: View the timeline
3. Gathering and clustering concerns
4. Identifying existing policy measures
5. Identifying stakeholders

Advocacy Strategy

The session focused on developing an advocacy strategy by framing possible actions to engage the local community, local government and central government. The group walked through 9 steps to create their own advocacy strategy. The full presentation can be found below.

1.  Developing Advocacy Goals
2. Developing Advocacy Objectives
3. Identifying Your Audiences
4. Building Advocacy Partnerships
5. Messages and Media
6. Taking Action
7. Identifying Resources and Gaps
8. Evaluating Your Advocacy
9. Taking Your First Steps