1. Developing a Plan for Getting Community Health and Development Issues on the Local Agenda

2. What do we mean by getting health and community development issues on the local agenda?
Educate people about the existence of the issue.
Make sure people understand the issue and its general importance.
Generate real local concern about the issue.
Get the issue on the local agenda.

3. When is the best time to try and get community health and development issues on the local agenda?
When an important issue surfaces that needs to be dealt with immediately.
When an already-troublesome issue reaches critical proportions.
When an external source calls attention to your issue.
When new information reveals or underlines a serious issue.
When political conditions make it easy or appropriate.

4. Who should plan for getting community health and development issues on the local agenda?
Stakeholders.
Those indirectly affected.
Policymakers.
Influential people and other interested citizens.

5. How do you develop a plan for getting community health and development issues on the local agenda?
Identify and recruit a planning group.
Pick and define your issue carefully.
Plan for a communication campaign, not just for a one-time barrage of information or persuasion.
Address public opinion.
Address unofficial policy.
Address individual responsibility.
Address public policy.
Follow up.