ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Strategy Why comms? Building public awareness fosters an enabling environment and increases political will to invest in trachoma elimination ICTC’s communications strategy aims to guide ICTC and its members to promote the positive impact of its work on the lives of people affected by trachoma ICTC communications and advocacy

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Telling the story of impact, progress Comms & advocacy working group is uniquely positioned to tell the story of progress towards trachoma eliminations. Working on how to improve our access to data and information from the field.

ICTC communications strategy Why comms? Building public awareness fosters an enabling environment and increases political will to invest in trachoma elimination ICTC’s communications strategy aims to guide ICTC and its members to promote the positive impact of its work on the lives of people affected by trachoma

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Importance of internal communications First we all need to know the story internally: Focus on gathering stories and communicating data and data analysis So everyone can own and further profile and communicate the successes of this unique partnership A priority – we are working on it!

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Annual report Collate and celebrate successes internally and externally Demonstrate the diversity of the coalition Promote a sense of community within ICTC Advocate for members’ work

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 ICTC joins the Twittersphere! Promotes the work and achievements of our members Brings the activities of the trachoma together in one account Channel for increasing traffic to the ICTC website

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Speaking of the website….

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 …which links to branding Need to improve and modernise ICTC’s look and feel Consistency needed in: Language Design So that our work is easily identified and engaging Working on this!

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Also working on… Supporting the comms plan of the funded initiatives Providing project support on the update of the 2020 INSight report: Central advocacy tool Inform and guide our work And raise the urgency of the 2020 deadline Recruiting new members Developing the advocacy plan

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Messaging on – Global campaign petitioning a specific target with a call to action – Global hand washing day – World Sight Day Advocacy

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 Stockholm Water Week Good for: Raising ICTC’s profile Making connections Mapping out potential opportunities for engagement with WASH partners Also raised awareness of NTDs tools and the NNN community

ICTC - Celebrating our ten year anniversary in 2014 We want to hear from you! Please share any ideas or feedback you may have on the flipchart during the breaks We’ll be in touch to gather case studies, quotes and interviews to the annual report – looking forward to speaking to you!