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Advocacy

Participants at a communicating for advocacy project workshopAdvocacy is increasingly being used by international development agencies. Such a rights based approach offers a chance for significant positive change in relations between development agencies, governments, and civil societies. It can also reveal difficult issues with legitimacy of action, power, and accountability.

Support for advocacy work adheres to the commitment that people have a right to information, voice, and freedom of media. At Healthlink Worldwide we support information and communication production and dissemination to change policies and opinions that negatively affect people's lives. This is increasingly important as more and more organisations are including an advocacy component in their work as they seek to address the root causes poverty and ill health.

Find out more about our projects below:

Child rights in East Africa

The HIV epidemic - exacerbated by high levels of poverty - is having a devastating impact on communities, especially children, in Eastern Africa. UNAIDS (2006) states that more than 12 million children orphaned or vulnerable through HIV and AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa.


Engaging communities: claiming rights to access health services in Cambodia

visually impaired man advocating for his rightsMany Cambodians, particularly those in rural areas, still lack access to adequate health care. The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of civil society to engage with existing legislation on human rights and its ability to hold government to account.


Communicating for Advocacy Project - Describing a vision

Participants at CFA workshopOver a three year period this unique project developed the advocacy capacity of more than 300 Non-Government Organisations and community groups across Asia, enabling these organisations to influence policy and practice in the region.

Advocacy, awareness and community sensitisation: lessons from Maiti Nepal

Maiti Nepal campaignersMaiti Nepal introduced their work at a Healthlink Worldwide lunchtime discussion. Greater involvement of people who have been affected by trafficking, has proved essential in linking long-term, community-level support with campaigns to implement anti-trafficking laws and policies.