At Advocacy Accelerator (AAC), we are intensely curious about how to achieve the greatest gains for health and development advocacy. We keep our ears to ground and our eyes on the newest, most effective developments in the field of advocacy. Download and read the resources that we have gathered to help inform your thinking, keep apace with current trends and drive your advocacy to the next level.

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December 8, 2022
The State of Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Report of the Africa Health Agenda International Conference Commission
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November 21, 2022
Amplifying the experiences of young feminists conducting advocacy in Africa in the Challenging Patriarchy Programme: The case of South Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Kenya
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November 15, 2022
The Role of Patriarchy in the Roll-back of Democracy
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November 3, 2022
Strategies for Building an Organisation with a Soul
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October 26, 2022
Indigenous made in Africa Evaluation Frameworks
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October 17, 2022
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Education
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Youth Resources

June 27, 2022
Advancing SRHR for Climate Adaptation and Resilience
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July 14, 2021
African Youth SRHR Scorecard Research Report
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March 14, 2021
Youth Advocacy Guide (Unicef)
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August 3, 2020
Policy brief: The Impact of Covid-19 on Children
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February 28, 2020
SRHR Advocacy Toolkit for Young People
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October 30, 2019
Creating Spaces for Youth-Led Advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Guatemalan Case Study
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African Advocacy Resources

July 14, 2021
African Youth SRHR Scorecard Research Report
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July 6, 2021
Financing a transition to Climate Resilient Green Economies
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July 6, 2021
Lessons Learned And Good Practices In Natural Resources Management
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July 5, 2021
Monitoring government policies: A toolkit for civil society organisations in Africa
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June 16, 2021
Voice and Choice in the time of COVID-19 Barometer 2020: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR)
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May 7, 2020
CCD Social Protection Working Group: Advocacy in Response to COVID-19
CCD Advocacy Response

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December 8, 2022
The State of Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Report of the Africa Health Agenda International Conference Commission
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November 21, 2022
Amplifying the experiences of young feminists conducting advocacy in Africa in the Challenging Patriarchy Programme: The case of South Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Kenya
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November 15, 2022
The Role of Patriarchy in the Roll-back of Democracy
patriarchy
November 3, 2022
Strategies for Building an Organisation with a Soul
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October 26, 2022
Indigenous made in Africa Evaluation Frameworks
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October 17, 2022
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Education
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October 14, 2022
Integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Health Programming
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October 14, 2022
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Child Protection
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October 13, 2022
Immunization Agenda 2030 Scorecard
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October 6, 2022
Comprehensive Sexuality Education We Can Count On
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October 4, 2022
Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Universal Health Coverage
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October 4, 2022
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: Literature Review
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September 30, 2022
10 Essential Facts About Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
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September 24, 2022
Participatory M and E
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September 24, 2022
Applying Feminist Principles to Program Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
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September 21, 2022
Feminist Approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
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September 21, 2022
Making Feminist Evaluation Practical
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September 21, 2022
Meet the Moment: A Call for Progressive Philanthropic Response to the Anti-Gender Movement
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September 20, 2022
Manufacturing moral panic:Weaponizing Children to Undermine Gender Justice and Human Rights
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September 19, 2022
Fault Lines: Global Perspectives on a World in Crisis
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September 16, 2022
Effective social justice advocacy: a theory-of-change framework for assessing progress
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September 12, 2022
Strengthening Citizen Action: Communication for Civil Society Organisations Toolkit
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August 26, 2022
The Beginner’s Guide to Digital Community Engagement
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August 26, 2022
Be a Standout: 10 Tips for Writing Grant Proposals that Get Funded
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August 25, 2022
Measuring Youth Engagement: Guidance for Monitoring and Evaluating Youth Programs
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August 25, 2022
The State of Youth Civil Society Report: Youth Power in a Pandemic
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August 17, 2022
Young Peacebuilders Handbook
Young peacebuilders resource
August 9, 2022
A Pocket Guide for Clinical Management of Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies in Africa
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August 5, 2022
Community Health Worker Reference Toolkit- A Toolkit for Integrating CHWs in the Formal Healthcare System
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July 25, 2022
Self Care for UHC Advocacy Toolkit
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July 22, 2022
The Mobilisation Cookbook
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July 4, 2022
Influencing for Impact Guide: How to deliver effective influencing strategies
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July 1, 2022
Advocacy Entry Points for Self‑care in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
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July 1, 2022
Multisectoral Collaboration and Resource Mobilization for AYSRH Programming
AYSRH TOOLKIT
July 1, 2022
Smart Advocacy: Achieving Policy and Funding Change
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June 27, 2022
Advancing SRHR for Climate Adaptation and Resilience
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June 27, 2022
Together on the Path to Change: A Young Advocate’s Guide to Advancing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
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June 26, 2022
Approaching Implementation of Respectful Maternity Care in Humanitarian Settings
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June 26, 2022
Status of meaningful adolescent and youth engagement (MAYE)
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June 26, 2022
Rise, Respond, Recover: Renewing progress on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in the era of COVID-19
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June 18, 2022
What Women Want: Demands for Quality Reproductive and Maternal Healthcare from Women and Girls
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June 18, 2022
2022 Youth Advocacy Guide (UNICEF)
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June 17, 2022
The Power of Advocacy: An Impact Report from Advance Family Planning
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June 13, 2022
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Integral to Transformative and Gender-Responsive Universal Health Coverage
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March 3, 2022
Diversifying Strategies for Feminist Digital Activism in the Global South
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February 16, 2022
Alliance digital event: A global conversation on the future of philanthropy
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February 2, 2022
2021 State of Civil Society Report
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February 1, 2022
A world without violence is possible.
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July 14, 2021
African Youth SRHR Scorecard Research Report
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July 6, 2021
Financing a transition to Climate Resilient Green Economies
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July 6, 2021
Lessons Learned And Good Practices In Natural Resources Management
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July 5, 2021
Deepening Good Governance: Inclusion, Democracy, and Security
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July 5, 2021
Toward a Feminist Funding Ecosystem
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July 5, 2021
Mobile nudges and financial incentives to improve timely neonatal vaccination in Ghana
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July 5, 2021
Monitoring government policies: A toolkit for civil society organisations in Africa
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June 25, 2021
Advocacy Works: Securing positive change in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) policies, laws and practices
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June 18, 2021
Moving more Money to the Drivers of Change: How Bilateral and Multilateral Funders Can Resource Feminist Movements
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June 16, 2021
Voice and Choice in the time of COVID-19 Barometer 2020: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR)
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June 2, 2021
WE MUST DO BETTER: A Feminist Assessment of the Humanitarian Aid System’s Support of Women- and Girl-Led Organizations during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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June 2, 2021
Where is the Money for Feminist Organizing? Data Snapshots and A Call to Action
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March 14, 2021
Youth Advocacy Guide (Unicef)
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March 10, 2021
The Feminist Disruptor Series: A Handbook
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March 4, 2021
What is Community Philanthropy? by Dana RH Doan
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March 4, 2021
Guidebook on Alternative Funding Models for Civil Society Organisations in Africa (I4C, WACSI)
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March 4, 2021
The Africa Funding Landscape: A Profile of Funders Focused on Africa and Perspectives on the Field provides a snapshot of the current interests of Africa funders
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February 28, 2021
Sustainable Health Financing Advocacy (Global Fund Advocates Network)
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February 28, 2021
Social Accountability Guidebook 2nd edition (WACSI)
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February 25, 2021
The Third Sector – Maimed by Covid-19 by Nana Asantewa Afadzinu
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February 5, 2021
Optimising the WHO Covid-19 Interim Guidance: Working Recommendations for Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy During and Beyond the Pandemic
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February 5, 2021
Covid-19 and its Impact on Youth Participation in Development in West Africa
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February 5, 2021
Exploring Faith-Based Giving as an Alternative Funding Model for Civil Society Organisations in Ghana: Experiences, Prospects and Challenges
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February 4, 2021
Simple Methods of Monitoring and Evaluating for LGBTQI Advocates Everywhere
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February 1, 2021
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Youth of the Lake Chad Basin
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January 6, 2021
Exploring new funding approaches for civil society
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December 26, 2020
Connecting Contraception to Girls’ Lives and Aspirations in Southern Nigeria: The Case of 9ja Girls
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December 24, 2020
Period Tax Advocacy Guide
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December 24, 2020
Magazine: Réalités féministes
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December 24, 2020
Magazine: Feminist Realities
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December 10, 2020
Report: State of Commitment to Universal Health Coverage: Synthesis, 2020
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December 9, 2020
L’Impact du Covid-19 sur le Plaidoyer en Afrique
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November 24, 2020
Impact of COVID-19 on violence against women and girls and service provision: UN Women rapid assessment and findings
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November 24, 2020
Fact Sheet: Covid-19 Global Gender Response Tracker Sub-Saharan Africa
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November 24, 2020
Guide: Global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2020
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November 24, 2020
Better4Kenya #16tozero Social Media Toolkit
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November 3, 2020
Report: The Impact of Covid-19 on Advocacy in Africa
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November 1, 2020
COVID-19 and Child, Early and Forced Marriage: An Agenda for Action
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October 11, 2020
Evaluating advocacy initiatives: what works?
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October 5, 2020
Digital Advocacy Toolkit
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September 28, 2020
Report – Going online for sexual and reproductive health: Meaningfully engaging adolescent girls and young women for smarter digital interventions
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September 28, 2020
Toolkit: Writing a funding proposal
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September 25, 2020
Toolkit: #Humanitarian4her How to use your power to advocate for women-focused civil society organizations
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September 15, 2020
Plan Your Power: A Toolkit for Women’s Rights Advocacy Planning
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September 9, 2020
Women and Girls Health and Rights Power Model
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August 24, 2020
Advocate for Family Planning
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August 3, 2020
Report: Rekindling the Beijing Fire of Revolution
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August 3, 2020
Caught in the Covid-19: women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health in the context of UHC and the SDGs
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August 3, 2020
Adding it Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health 2019
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August 3, 2020
Policy brief: The Impact of Covid-19 on Children
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July 30, 2020
Report: VAWG in the Horn of Africa During Covid-19
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July 20, 2020
Technical Guidance: Family Planning During COVID-19
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July 7, 2020
Desk Review Report: “Beyond Criminalization – A Feminist Questioning of Criminal Justice Interventions to Address Sexual and Reproductive Rights Violations.”
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July 4, 2020
App connects vulnerable communities and donors in Covid times
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July 4, 2020
Vaccination hesitancy: the Achilles heel of the war against Covid-19
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July 2, 2020
The Impact of COVID-19 on African Civil Society Organisations
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June 5, 2020
Delivery of CSE and SRHR during COVID 19
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June 5, 2020
The Coronavirus Is Cutting Off Africa’s Abortion Access
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June 5, 2020
How to take your activism online in the time of COVID-19
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June 5, 2020
Unchaining the Mind: Its COVID not CONVICT
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June 5, 2020
Protecting the Rights of Women and Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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June 5, 2020
Violence against Women and Girls in the Shadow of Covid-19: Insights from Africa
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May 22, 2020
African Adaptations to the COVID-19 Response
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May 22, 2020
Advocacy to Improve Health for Women and Children: Strategies and Stories From the Field
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May 7, 2020
CCD Social Protection Working Group: Advocacy in Response to COVID-19
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July 28, 2020
DISINFODEMIC: Deciphering COVID-19 disinformation
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April 14, 2020
Psychological Effects of Quarantine During the Coronavirus Outbreak: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
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April 14, 2020
Mental health and psychosocial responses to COVID-19
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April 14, 2020
Advocacy for Mental Health
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April 14, 2020
Coronavirus and your wellbeing
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April 13, 2020
Mental health and psychological resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
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April 13, 2020
‘Vjiana Tustawi’: A new initiative aimed at managing mental health problems
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April 13, 2020
South Africa’s other Covid-19 pandemic – our silent mental health crisis
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April 10, 2020
Fierce advocacy: what it takes to improve the health of women and girls in Kenya
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March 31, 2020
COVID-19 in Africa: A call for coordinated governance, improved health structures and better data
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March 31, 2020
Using lessons from Ebola, West Africa prepares remote villages for Coronavirus
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March 31, 2020
The COVID-19 Outbreak and Gender: Key Advocacy Points from Asia and the Pacific
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March 31, 2020
Coronavirus in Africa tracker
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March 31, 2020
Coronavirus myths put most vulnerable in Africa and Asia at risk
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March 31, 2020
COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Content: Free to Access
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March 30, 2020
Amref COVID-19 Africa Information Centre
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March 17, 2020
Stay Safe- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Information Toolkit
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March 8, 2020
Women’s Rights Advocacy Toolkit
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February 28, 2020
SRHR Advocacy Toolkit for Young People
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February 6, 2020
Monitoring & Evaluation for Advocacy Work
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January 28, 2020
Tools for advocacy
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January 20, 2020
NOT WITHOUT US! A Tool for AYRH-Responsive Planning
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December 2, 2019
Increasing Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Young Persons with Disabilities in East and Southern Africa
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November 18, 2019
Informing Advocacy and Communications Capacity Building Efforts
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November 18, 2019
Guide to Digital Activism
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November 18, 2019
Advocacy Toolkit: Towards the national implementation of the Istanbul Convention as a tool to end Female Genital Mutilation
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November 12, 2019
Advocacy on Human Rights Work
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October 30, 2019
Creating Spaces for Youth-Led Advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Guatemalan Case Study
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October 30, 2019
Effective SRHR Advocacy Using the 2030 Agenda
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October 24, 2019
When the Best Offense is a Good Defense: Understanding and Measuring Advocacy on the Defense
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October 24, 2019
Monitoring and Evaluation for Human Rights Organizations: Three Case Studies
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October 11, 2019
Advocacy in Action to Achieve Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals in Kenya
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October 4, 2019
ICPD25 launches toolkit to engage youth at Nairobi Summit
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September 26, 2019
Scaling Up Lifesaving Commodities for Women, Children, and Newborns: An Advocacy Toolkit
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September 24, 2019
Perspectives on Global Advocacy Campaigning
Moblab Resource
August 28, 2019
A Policy Advocacy Guide on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for Young Key Populations (YKPS)
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August 28, 2019
Cancer Advocacy Training Toolkit for Africa
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August 19, 2019
SRHR Advocacy Webinar: Report
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July 24, 2019
Youth Advocacy Guide
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July 17, 2019
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies and Family Planning
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July 16, 2019
Manual for Global Advocacy Practitioners
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July 8, 2019
Vancouver Coastal Health Population Health: Advocacy Guideline and Resources
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June 26, 2019
Improving Access to Health: Learning from the Field
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June 20, 2019
From Theory to Practice: Utilizing the Joint General Comment to Intensify Collective Efforts towards Ending Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Africa
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June 20, 2019
Statecraft and Pursuing Women’s Rights in Africa
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June 11, 2019
The 21st-Century Advocacy Playbook
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June 6, 2019
How to Build Strategic Partnerships & Relationships
Building Capacity of Partneships
May 21, 2019
HIV Vaccine Science and Advocacy Priorities this HVAD
Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention
May 17, 2019
Ready to Advocate: A guide for Young People Living with HIV
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May 14, 2019
EQUALITY WORKS: The Global Health 50/50 2019 Report
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May 8, 2019
Invest in advocacy
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May 3, 2019
Children and Youth Advocacy in Africa: Context, Approaches and Lessons
Children and Youth Advocacy
April 25, 2019
Spotlight on malaria
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April 17, 2019
What can policymakers learn from feminist strategies to combine contextualised evidence with advocacy?
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April 16, 2019
Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence Against Women: International Perspectives
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April 11, 2019
UNFPA Maternal & Newborn Health Thematic Fund (2008-now)
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April 10, 2019
Gender Responsive Budgeting in Kenya
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April 6, 2019
Global Financing Facility Advocacy Toolkit
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April 4, 2019
Why advocates for health in fragile settings should get behind UHC
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April 4, 2019
Accelerating Political Momentum for Universal Health Coverage: UHC2030 Framework for Advocates
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April 3, 2019
Ensuring African Women’s Access to Justice
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April 2, 2019
No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation – Podcast
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April 2, 2019
No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation
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April 2, 2019
Advocacy Planning, Part 3
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April 1, 2019
Advocacy Planning, Part 2
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March 29, 2019
Advocacy Planning, Part 1
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March 28, 2019
A Toolkit to Sustain Global & National Advocacy
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March 28, 2019
International Women’s Reproductive Health: Supporting Local Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
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March 25, 2019
Pan-Africanism and Youth Advocacy
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March 20, 2019
Beyond Dividing Lines
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November 16, 2018
Webinar: Youth led advocacy: Understanding the potential of youth as advocates
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September 24, 2018
Sexual and Reproductive Health in Kenya’s Big Four Agenda
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September 24, 2018
The Real Price of FGM in Kenya
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September 18, 2018
Top 5 tips for digital security & privacy
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September 18, 2018
Data Security
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September 18, 2018
HOLISTIC SECURITY: A Strategy Manual for Human Right Defenders
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September 18, 2018
The Digital First Aid Kit
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September 17, 2018
Girl empowerment through self defense skills
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September 17, 2018
Girl Connected
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September 16, 2018
Measuring Up As Men: Mobilising To End Child Marriage In Kenya
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September 16, 2018
Leave No Woman Behind
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September 16, 2018
The Horror of Child Marriage in Kenya
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September 16, 2018
Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights Animation
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September 16, 2018
Neither Seen nor Heard: Kenyan Youth Voices on Reproductive Health Services
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August 9, 2018
Every Hour Matters Youth Engagement Toolkit: Kenya
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August 9, 2018
UN World Youth Report: Youth Civic Engagement
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August 2, 2018
Social Accountability: Community Driven Action for Improved Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Delivery and Outcomes
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