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I am Devdanam, Working in a NGO called Haath Mein Sehat as a Project manager

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Guest speaker----Miss Usha Rani




Guest speaker-----Miss Usha Rani

Miss Usha Rani did MA M Phil in rural development.Morning at 9:40 madam came to our class to take the session on Advocacy,
Madam explained the three definition about the Advocacy,1) Advovacy is the process of the people partictpating in decision making process which affects their lives. 2) Advocacy is putting a problem on the agenda providing for the acting on both the problems and solutions.3) Ad.startigies can include social marketing,lobbying,information,education and community organizing or many other tatics.
The basic elements what madam explained are .
1.Coalition
2.Objectives.
3.Data.
4.Audience.
5.Messages.
6.Presentations.
7.Fund raising.
8.Evaluations.

After these explanation we learnt Different steps in Advocacy.
1) Selecting Advocacy objective
2) Identifying Advocacy audience
3) Developing and delivering advocacy messages
4) Making persuasive presentation
5) Fund raising
6) Evaluating advocacy efforts
7) These process may be viewed as fluid as they occur simultaneously.

After these session we had case studies where we devided into three groups,each group choose diffferent topic and applying the Advocacy steps we prepared the case study and presented.

Vani the project manager of "SPAD" ,she faced many tuff challanges in her work field and now she is successful in her field.Through her experiences I encouraged and Miss Usha Rani explained Advocacy in simple way.



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