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Presenting InformationPresenting Information

for Advocacy


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We make:We make:

Survey Data Advocacy Tools

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PURPOSEPURPOSE

Ask first

Why ?

What is the purpose?

What is your message?

Who will see it?


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What is the purpose?What is the purpose?

Advocacy is about change.

What do you want to change?

People understand an idea

Get funding

Get help, change policy

Training


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What is your message?What is your message?

What do you want people to know?

An overview?

Detailed picture?

Reference?


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Who will see it?Who will see it?

Think about who will see it.

What is their ability:

How educated are they?

What is their training?

What do they know before?


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Get your message acrossGet your message across

If it is too detailed people wont read it

it was pages and pages of numbers from all

these villages, I fell asleep at page 14


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If it is not detailed people wont believe it

We need food for flood relief in Ratanakiri

What food, who for, where? Is Ban Lung

flooded?


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If they cant understand it they wont learn

It has become manifest from intra-sessional

observations that a sufficient quorum of

compelled attendees are noncognisant of the

elucidation of the topic contingent on ones

recalcitrant usage of obfuscation.


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DifferentWaysDifferentWays

Here are three ways of giving the same

information

Exercise: If you cannot read English cross your

arms


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ExampleExample (1)(1)

Do people in your community getDo people in your community get

information on how not to getinformation on how not to getpregnant?pregnant?

Andong

Meas

Bor

Keo

Lum

Phat

Oyadav Taveng Voeun

Sai

Total

Yes 90% 67% 78% 76% 73% 79% 77%

No 10% 33% 21% 24% 27% 21% 22%

N/A 0% 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0.3%

Total 59 51 85 79 45 52 371


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Do you get information onDo you get information on

birth spacing?birth spacing?

0

0

20

30

40

50

6070

80

Ratanakiri Pi ot Vi ages

Yes

No

Don't Kno

?


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Yes No ?

Do villagers learn

birth spacing?


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QuestionQuestion

Which one was better and why?

First, people with arms crossed answer

What was the message?

Which was easiest to understand?

Which gave most detail?


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Styles ofWritingStyles ofWriting

Imagine if you have one lot of information

(e.g. your survey data)

You will show this in many different ways

to different groups


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Types ofWritingTypes ofWriting (1)(1)

Annual Report to Head Office / Donor

Has a lot of detail

Activities done Outcomes

Lessons Learnt

Plans for next phase

Budget discussion

Assume they know the background


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Report to NGO Group

Short

What we did and where

What needs to be done and where

Assume they know the area


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Press Release

A single point

Assume they know nothing

Short sentences

Lots of quotes


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Magazine article

Must be easy and fun to read

Only has numbers if they tell a story

More detail or more topics than press release

What is the magazine? You may be able to

assume they know the subject a bit


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Letter to NGO Sector or Government

Must cover the whole subject

Has lots of numbers

Depend on the reader, may assume they

know the subject a bit or a lot


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Public Education - IEC materials

A simple clear message

Has picturesAssume they know nothing, not even Khmae


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Proposal

A full story

What is thereWhat needs to be done

How it will be done

How it will be monitored and evaluatedHow much it will cost

and more (each donorhas needs)


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Have a LookHave a Look

Here are examples of different styles

We will talk about the same information

but with different people to see it


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TopicTopic

Only 13.7% of women in Ratanakiri have

access to skilled attendance during

delivery, compared to 44% across

Cambodia as a whole.

How many of theHow many of the

pregnant women in yourpregnant women in your

community deliver in thecommunity deliver in the

health centre?health centre?


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Research ReportResearch Report

Executive Summary:

A Baseline Survey was conducted by CENTDOR Consultants andHU staff in February 2009. A sample of 371 women of child bearingage was surveyed with the question How many of the pregnantwomen in your community deliver in the health centre?

The results showed that women in Ratanakiri have much lessaccess to skilled attendance during delivery (13.7%) than theaverage for Cambodia (44%).

Introduction

Methodology

esults

Conclusions


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Quarterly ReportQuarterly Report

Activity 2.1 A Baseline Survey was conducted inFebruary by CENTDOR Consultants and HUstaff. Staff spent two days with threeconsultants training in PAR methods. Then

teams visited 33 villages in 8 communes in thethree districts and a total of 371 women of childbearing age were surveyed.

The draft report was circulated within the

contract deadline and the final report is due on10/5/09. A total of 24 staff-days were spent oninterviews and 6 staff days on data entry andanalysis.


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NewspaperNewspaper

Ratana iri Mothers At Ris

A new report by Health Unlimited (HU) hasshown that women in the north-eastern province

of Ratanakiri have much less help deliveringbabies than most Cambodians.

Only 13.7% of women here have skilledattendance during delivery, compared to 44%across Cambodia as a whole said Sok Chanda,HU Maternal Health Rights Team Leader.

This puts them and their babies at high risk if there are complications.


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MagazineMagazine

Sunty sits back and hugs her growing stomach.Yes, I want to have my baby at a clinic, but its just toofar away. A worried look crosses her sun lined face.My husband needs me here.

Sunty is one of the 86% of mothers in Ratanakirisvillages who give birth at home, according to a recentHealth Unlimited study. Only one in seven womenhere have skilled help during delivery, said SokChanda, HUs Maternal Health Rights Team Leader

much less than Cambodian average of three in everyseven.

When things go wrong, the result can be tragic forboth mother and baby


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Remember..Remember..

Always ask Why?


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THANK YOUTHANK YOU

Produced by Tony Hobbs

Health Unlimited,

Ratanakiri, Cambodia

www.healthpovertyaction.org

With the support of

Australian Volunteers International

www.australianvolunteers.com

2010 HU. Use with Acknowledgement

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