The remainder of this guide and toolkit is divided into the following sections:
The How-to Guide - Advocacy for Ensuring Reproductive Health Supplies: A Planning Guide is a brief review of key concepts and points to consider when preparing to launch an advocacy initiative. Even those people familiar with the advocacy process may wish to review this section for several ideas and examples relevant to reproductive health (RH) supplies.
Section I of the Toolkit - Advocacy Messages to Support Reproductive Health Supplies Initiatives, describes five global scenarios that depict different contexts in which the Coalition’s country representatives and its partners may find themselves operating while ensuring the availability of RH supplies.
These contexts include situations of limited attention given to FP/RH issues due to competing resource priorities, resulting in high unmet need; countries with high HIV prevalence and diverted attention and funding; countries facing donor phaseout; health systems going through a decentralization process; and situations of high abortion and low fertility rates.
Some Coalition members may find that aspects of each of the contexts apply to their respective country situations. In any case, it may be useful to identify which of the contexts are most relevant.
To expand further on how context shapes advocacy messages, this section includes matrices of the respective contexts and key RH supplies objectives (or "asks"), with recommendations for tailoring the messages depending on context and the particular RH supply objective.
Again, the decisions on how to define and refine the messages are up to the advocate, but knowing the underlying context and ensuring that this is considered in the message is important.
Section II of the Toolkit - Advocacy Tools for Ensuring Reproductive Health Supplies: Overview, Templates, and Examples, includes descriptions of and links to examples or templates for five types of advocacy tools: PowerPoint presentations; policy briefs; fact sheets; talking points/briefing notes; and press releases and media advisories.
The sample templates demonstrate how the different contexts, target audiences, and objectives affect the message.
Recently, various organizations have generated a large body of information related to RH supplies and contraceptive security. This guide includes hyperlinks to many of these resources, which the Coalition maintains in an electronic Information Bank.
