Monday, 23- March

 

8:00 – 8:30

Registration

 

 

8:30 – 10:00

Opening and introduction to the workshop (agenda and objectives)

 

 

 

Ellen Liu, Program Officer, OSI Public Health Program

 

 

 

Introductions of participants (icebreaker and expectations)

 

 

 

Victoria Tymoshevska, Public Health Program Director, International Renaissance Foundation- Kyiv

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

 

 

10:30 – 13:00

Country team presentations: key findings from situational analyses and project update

 

 

 

Groups will present an overview of key findings of their situational analysis and comment on project work to date.

 

 

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 15:45

Developing Budget Advocacy Strategy: Defining Budget Advocacy Objective, Audience, Message, Messenger, Actions

 

 

 

Teresa Guthrie, Director, CEGAA

 

 

 

Learning objectives ~ participants will:

 

Understand the key elements of advocacy Find out about the key elements of advocacy strategy

 

Learn how to develop a strategic budget objective

 

Understand the relevance and importance of developing a budget advocacy strategy

 

Recognize why it is essential to link the budget analysis and budget advocacy component of the strategy

 

 

15:45 – 16:15

Coffee break

 

 

16:15 – 18:00

Basic Research methods & data collection tools: Overview

 

 

 

Teresa Guthrie

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Have an understanding of the key steps in research

 

- Have an overview of the different methodologies to apply and discuss their relative benefits

 

- Have an idea of different sampling techniques so as to select the best option for their purposes

 

- Specify the indicators for collection

 

- Design their data collection tools to collect their indicators

 

- Consider various options for the analysis of their data

 

 

 

Evening work Country Teams develop Project ToRs (one-on-one time with OSI & CEGAA)

 

 

 

Using the Advocacy and Research TOR Framework the country teams will prepare numbers 1-4

 

 

19:00

Group Dinner

 

 

Tuesday, 24- March

 

 

8:30 – 10:00

Intro to Budgets - processes, politics, roles, participation, documents and classifications

 

 

 

Dr. Urbanus Kioko, Programme Manager, CEGGA

 

 

 

Leaning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Become familiar with the budget terminology and classifications

 

- Be able to identify the stages of the budget process and potential points of intervention

 

- Understand the principles of good budgets and apply these in assessing their country budgets

 

- Identify the key players in the allocative/budget processes and which are primary target audiences of their advocacy campaign

 

- Become familiar with the structure, layout and content of budgets and know where to find health budget allocations

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

 

 

10:30 – 13:00

Using Budget Analysis to create the evidence - Budget Calculations I – using specific case studies

 

 

 

Urbanus Kioko/ Teresa Guthrie

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Be able to calculate the rate of increase in the budget allocations, year on year, for their specific issue.

 

- Create graphs to show the allocations and the rate of change.

 

- Calculate the average annual rate of exchange in allocations over a few years (eg. If the budget documents provide past/forward projections for more than one year, such as the MTEF).

 

- Be able to calculate the per capita spending

 

 

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 15:45

Budget Calculations II - using country specific case studies

 

 

 

Urbanus Kioko / Teresa Guthrie

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Be able to measure the relative importance on spending on different sectors through proportional analysis.

 

- Be able to understand the role of inflation and convert nominal figures into real figures (adjusting for inflation)

 

- Calculate the real percentage increase year on year.

 

- Show trends in priorities over time using graphs.

 

 

15:45 – 16:15

Coffee break

 

 

16:15 – 18:00

Budget Calculations III - using country specific case studies

 

 

 

Urbanus Kioko / Teresa Guthrie

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Be able to measure equity in allocations between regions, between groups, across population.

 

- Create a graph showing disparities / inequity.

 

- Make comparisons with other countries.

 

 

 

Evening work Country Teams develop Project ToRs (one-on-one time with OSI & CEGAA)

 

Using the Advocacy and Research TOR Framework the country teams will prepare numbers 5-8

 

 

Wednesday, 25- March

 

 

8:30 – 10:00

Tracking expenditure on your issue: basic principles, methods, steps

 

 

 

Teresa Guthrie

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Become familiar with the different terminology in expenditure tracking and the different sources of data.

 

- Identify the steps of undertaking expenditure tracking and apply these in their planning projects.

 

- Undertake the first step of identifying, classifying and coding all the interventions (activities of spending) for their particular issue.

 

- Get some tips for managing large amounts of expenditure data.

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

 

 

10:30 – 12:15

Using basic costing techniques to estimate expenditure when there is no expenditure data available

 

 

 

Urbanus Kioko

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Identify in which circumstances they could apply costing techniques

 

- Identify which costs should be included in their estimations

 

- Understand the basic steps in undertaking a cost estimation

 

- Understand what assumptions have to be made and how these can be validated

 

 

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch

 

 

13:15 – 14:45

Assessing Outputs of Spending: Social Audits and other Community Tools

 

 

 

Teresa Guthrie

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Have an overview of some of the tools for community level monitoring:

 

- Social audit approach

 

- Citizen report cards

 

- Client satisfaction surveys

 

- Procurement system analysis (DEEM tools)

 

- Consider which method to apply for their purposes/ project

 

 

14:45 – 17:45

Applying methods to country projects: Teams discuss and plan their use of various methods with roving facilitators

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Consider the type of information they require to advance their advocacy agenda, and select the most appropriate research method to collect the data

 

- Facilitators will provide technical information to assist country teams in their understanding and selection

 

 

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee break

 

 

18:00 – 18:30

Wrap up discussion

 

 

 

Evening work Country Teams develop Project ToRs (one-on-one time with OSI & CEGAA)

 

Using the Advocacy and Research TOR Framework the country teams will prepare number 9a-h

 

 

Thursday, 26- March

 

 

8:30 – 10:00

Stakeholder Mapping and Analysis

 

 

 

Helena Puig Larrauri, HBMAP Intern, OSI Public Health Program

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Map and analyze stakeholders by interest, power, support, influence, and relationship to them

 

- Brainstorm possible action steps and ways to apply this to their research and advocacy.

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

 

 

10:30 – 13:00

Developing Budget Advocacy Strategy: Coalitions, networks, other tactics etc.

 

 

 

Urbanus Kioko

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will learn about:

 

Various tactics and actions

 

Essential relationships: alliances & coalition building

 

Media advocacy

 

 

 

Co-operation – Education – Persuasion – Litigation – Contestation

 

 

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 15:45

Presenting Evidence to Create Advocacy Messages:

 

 

 

Images and Graphics/Presentation/Media

 

 

 

Urbanus Kioko

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Have practice turning evidence into useful graphics

 

- Learn media tips

 

- Learn of and practice, new media technologies

 

 

15:45 – 16:15

Coffee break

 

 

16:15 – 18:00

Presenting Evidence to Create Advocacy Messages:

 

 

 

Country teams prepare messages using their specific case study analyses

 

 

 

Learning Objectives ~ Participants will:

 

- Apply their learning from the previous session to create their own advocacy messages in a variety of media/ formats

 

 

 

Evening work Country Teams develop Project ToRs (one-on-one time with OSI & CEGAA)

 

Using the Advocacy and Research TOR Framework the country teams will prepare numbers 10, and use 1 media of your choice to create and present your advocacy message

 

 

Friday, 27- March

 

 

8:30 – 10:00

Professional Report Preparation and Structuring

 

 

 

Teresa Guthrie /Urbanus Kioko

 

 

 

10:00 – 10:30   Coffee break

 

 

 

10:30 – 13:00   Group presentations

 

 

 

13:00 – 14:00   Lunch

 

 

 

14:00 – 17:45   One on one meetings with country teams