Mexico City, Mexico
November 4-6, 2011
Program at a Glance (PDF)
 The third Advocacy in Action workshop took place in Mexico City November 4-6, 2011. Sixteen participants from eight Latin American national member organizations (NMOs) (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru) gathered for a two-and-a-half day workshop on “Strategies for better advocacy.”
“The workshop sessions were very enriching” said Pilar Gil from the Mexican Federation of Hemophilia, “I feel like I have fine-tuned everything we learned before”.
The main objectives of the workshop were to:
- Support participants in shaping and delivering more comprehensive, strategic, and targeted advocacy campaigns.
- Raise participants’ awareness about how traditional and social media can help advance their advocacy goals.
- Further develop participants’ advocacy skills and reflexes through simulated negotiations with key stakeholders.
- Prepare participants for potential obstacles in their advocacy campaigns by exchanging best practices and alternative strategies.
- Provide participants with the tools to develop a skeletal advocacy project/campaign that they can implement in their countries.
 The Mexico workshop offered participants a hands-on advocacy training that was tailored to their thematic and capacity-building needs. It provided a mixture of short lectures, group exercises, case studies and role-plays, and offered many opportunities for participants to exchange experiences, best-practices and lessons-learned. Throughout the training, participants were engaged on how to use different types of data and media tools to support their advocacy work and to further their campaign objectives. They discussed the importance of working in collaboration with key partners and were given the tools to identify, establish and maintain key contacts that could complement and contribute to their advocacy efforts. Participants were also challenged to think strategically and to tailor their advocacy tactics and approaches to the specific contexts and realities facing their NMOs. Finally, participants developed individual skeletal advocacy campaigns around current threats and received constructive feedback, guidance and advice from the facilitators and their peers.
“This workshop has motivated me to be a better leader,” said Luis Ureña from the National Hemophilia Organization of the Dominican Republic, “and to pursue my goals and objectives with confidence.”
Advocacy in Action program
For more information on the Advocacy in Action program, contact Amanda Bok at abok@wfh.org.
Last Updated November 2011
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