Fact sheets are used for various purposes such as to provide information to journalists, leave with a policy-maker after a face-to-face meeting, or inform the general public.
A good fact sheet conveys in-depth information about a specific topic in a one-to-two page format and breaks down a complicated issue into understandable pieces. Including a few graphs and charts to present supporting data allows for easier comprehension and is visually appealing.
Examples
The Supply Initiative has developed several excellent fact sheets on relevant issues that can be used by Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition partners for advocacy activities.
- Why Reproductive Health Supplies Are Crucial to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (Supply Initiative)
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Undermined by Supply Shortfall (Supply Initiative)
- Access to Condoms and Contraceptives: Vital for the Prevention of HIV (Supply Initiative)
- The Importance of the Supply Chain (Supply Initiative)
- Facilitating Donor Coordination with the RHInterchange(Supply Initiative)
In addition, the POLICY Project, DELIVER, and other partners on the Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security (SPARHCS) activities developed several fact sheets to inform government personnel, civil society, and private sector participants of advocacy trainings, as part of the Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Manual, Contraceptive Security Supplement (POLICY Project/Health Policy Initiative, 2007).
Coalition partners may find the following five fact sheets useful:
- The RHInterchange Brochure;
- market segmentation analysis;
- private sector involvement;
- target resources;
- procurement of contraceptive commodities; and
- the logistics system.
They can be found in the Information Bank under Tools and Templates.
