What is an Advocacy? … an act of speaking in support of an idea or course of action Why Advocate? issue Action = solution situation

What is an Advocacy Plan? It is a guide to plan our actions. It is like a map since it gives direction. You are here Our destination 3 rd Week 4 th Week 2 nd Week 1 st Week Our Goal, Our Solution Given the situation, what is the problem? Our Plan Our time table markers

Let’s Begin our Plan What is the problem? WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE? List all problems (brainstorm). Group similar problems. Rank problems based on their: Importance Impact Urgency Nature Economy Well-being Society

What caused this problem? roots branches fruit How did the problem start? What happened next because of the problem? How did the problem spread? Tree = Problem

What do we want to happen? What can we do to change how things are being done? how people act towards the issue? how things are in the environment? how people think?

Individuals Civic organizations Community Businesses Schools Who can help us?

How would we send out our message? Petition Petition to ban muro-ami

How would we send out our message? Posters Lobbying Parent involvement Phone calls Meet with persons

Let’s make an outline of the following things for our plan: Time Line

Acting Out Our Plan Let us group ourselves and divide the work! Over-all ActivitiesFinancePromotions Talks Trips ClubT-shirtsStickersElectronic Print Website PostersNewsletter

Tasks Week Planning by committee 2. Work out/Implement committee plans 3. Regular meetings for update 4. Etc. Let’s make a list and set our deadlines. * * * *

Let us meet and keep each other posted. What else do we need to do? What have we accomplished?

We now have a plan, it’s time to do our work!