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Vietnam: Lobbying and advocacy

Time

Procedure 

Who?

Materials 

Objectives

08:00

Registration  

08:30 

Welcome and overview of workshop  

 

Facilitators 

Poster with programme

Awareness campaign in project area

08:40

Status quo of work plan and awareness campaign (15 mins)

 

Facilitators  

  • to build up campaigning skills
  • to involve new participants (deaf persons) in the ongoing process
  • to introduce examples of campaign posters and TV ads
  • to develop more ideas and messages for the campaign in Thanh Hoa
  • to motivate and stimulate the participants to develop ideas on their own

8:55

Present and discuss ideas for awareness campaign

Facilitators

Poster and video on notebook 

9:20

Break

Lobbying

09:50

Fill KWL chart with assistance of participants

  • K: What we already know about lobbying
  • W: What we want to learn about lobbying

Facilitators

KWL chart

  • to make implicit (previous) knowledge about lobbying explicit and become aware of the group’s existing capacities
  • to initiate a conscious and self-determined learning process by eliciting the participants’ questions
  • to develop a common understanding of lobbying
  • to learn from practice examples
  • to analyse lessons learnt

10:05

Short introduction to lobbying

Resource person

PowerPoint presentation

10:20

Lobbying in practice

  • How the Hanoi DPO “Bright Future” was established
  • Lobbying activities of the Disability Forum

Resource persons from "Bright Future" and Disability Forum

PowerPoint presentations

11.20

Lessons learnt

  • Collect critical success factors with participants on poster
  • Trainers summarise critical success factors, ways of lobbying and benefits

Facilitators 

Poster

PowerPoint presentation

12:00

Lunch

Important techniques for lobbying

13:30

  • gathering information
  • working with the media

Facilitator

  •  to gain an overview about important techniques
  • to gather information by using different sources of information
  • to use the internet as a source of information and be aware of helpful links

13:45

Overview of and introduction to groupwork:

  • decide on an issue you want to lobby for
  • gather information about this issue
  • prepare a presentation or press release

Facilitator

Written instruction for group work

14:00 

Group work (3 groups): Gathering information
collect topics and let participants choose, e.g.

  • Disability in Vietnam
  • National Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities
  • Self-help groups in Vietnam
  • Women with disabilities in Vietnam
  • Jobs for people with disabilities in Vietnam

Facilitators support and show internet links

  • Computer room
  • Notebooks,
  • Books and brochures on disability issues

14:45

Break

Preparing a presentation/press release

15:15

Introduction to

Facilitator

  • Written instructions for groupwork,
  • presentation boards,
  • paper,
  • marker
  • pens,
  • tools on a large poster
  • to know and practice strategies for preparing a presentation
  • to know and practice strategies for writing a press release

15:30

Groupwork (3 groups)

  • Group 1 and 2: Prepare a presentation about the topic you have chosen. Use the information you have gathered plus the checklist for presentations. Present your presentation along with an introduction of the tool you have used.
  • Group 3: Write a press release about the topic you have chosen for your local newspaper. Use the information you have gathered and the introduction to press release. Present your press release along with an introduction of the tool you have used.

Facilitator  

16:10

Presentation and feedback, reflection on the tools

16:45 

Conclusion

  • Fill KWL Chart with the help of participants: L - What we have learned
  • Outlook: what we will do next

Facilitators

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