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Hlatsswayo, Zanele; Klugman, Barbara. 2002. Strengthening Strategic Planning for Advocacy: A Workshop Manual.


Hlatsswayo, Zanele; Klugman, Barbara Barbara

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. 2002. Strengthening Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.  for Advocacy: A Workshop Manual. Johannesburg Johannesburg (jōhăn`ĭsbörg', yōhä`nəsbörkh'), city (1991 pop. 1,574,631), Gauteng, NE South Africa, on the southern slopes of the Witwatersrand at an altitude of 5,750 ft (1,753 m). : Women's Health Women's Health Definition

Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues.
 Project, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Due to the 1959 Extension of University Education Act the school was only allowed to register a small number of black students for most of the apartheid era, even though several notable black anti-apartheid leaders graduated from the university. . 121 p.

This workshop manual can be used by NGOs, governments or any policy activist wanting to strengthen their advocacy strategies. It draws on the analysis and planning methods used by the Johannesburg Initiative in assessing eleven country experiences in advocating for abortion access. The aim of the initiative was to build capacity amongst those engaged in advocacy for improving abortion access, either through legal change or by increasing access to and quality of services.

In the introduction of the manual, the aims of the workshop are briefly explained, followed by notes on preparations for the organisers, as well as notes for facilitators. Nineteen activities are suggested for a three-day workshop. These activities include: developing a group contract, objectives and agenda of the workshop, country experiences, an analytical analytical, analytic

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control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test.
 framework for identifying factors which influence policy and implementation, analysis of data, plan of action, reviewing goals and identifying strategies and tactics, cross-cutting issues, and how to take the process forward.

There are also provisions in the workshop framework for sharing of methodology used for analysis and planning, drawing on the experience of other countries, as well as including time for the group to do some assessment of their own current context and strategic opportunities it faces in relation to its own goals. The manual then goes into more detailed strategic planning, the development of workplans, identifying resources needed and how to access them.

Source: The Women's Health Project, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2000 South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . Tel: 27 11 489 9917; Fax: 27 11 489 9922; E-mail:womenhp@wn.apc.org; www.sn.apc.org/whp
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