Advocacy and Coalition Building Workshop

Advocacy and Coalition Building

On day one of the Healthy Caribbean Conference there were three workshops. Workshop 1 Advocacy and Coalition Building was conducted by Lorraiane Fry of Canada and Deborah Chen of Jamaica. The objective of the workshop was to discuss tools and approaches available for change.

A definition given for Advocacy was Active support for a cause, or legislation with the express goal of influencing opinion and mobilising action. The are many different approaches. The key questions are 1. What do you want? How are you going to get it? What do they need to hear? Who do they need to hear it from and How can we get them to hear it? They went into the different steps to communicating effective.