Course 3: Writing and monitoring your advocacy plan

Welcome to this Making Abortion Safe course on Writing and monitoring your advocacy plan.

Activity strategising and planning are critical steps in the advocacy cycle. Once you have identified your issues, objectives and who you will influence, you need to think about how you will turn your vision for change into an actionable plan.

Your advocacy plan will set out what you will do to influence your target audiences to make the changes you have identified. The next step is therefore to think about the ways you will influence your target audiences and the opportunities you can use to do this.

When you have completed this course you will be able to:

• identify opportunities for planning your advocacy

• describe the difference between tactics and activities, and know which to use to achieve your objectives

• identify the resources and skills required when delivering your advocacy plan

• create a simple advocacy-monitoring system to measure your progress and identify where adjustments might be needed.