GAPPD advocacy toolkit

This advocacy toolkit is designed to assist civil society organisations (CSOs), nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), and other advocacy groups or individuals to advocate for the successful implementation of the recommendations of the Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) at the national, subnational, and community levels. It also provides information to enable groups to assess opportunities to align GAPPD advocacy with related initiatives in the context of maternal, newborn, and child health including the United Nations Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, Committing to Child Survival: A Promised Renewed, and the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children.
 
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This toolkit contains the following resources that may assist you in developing activities to advocate for the implementation of the GAPPD:
 

• Calendar of GAPPD advocacy opportunities
• GAPPD messaging
• GAPPD slidedeck
• Advocacy Actions—steps to support the implementation of the GAPPD

 
Advocacy tactics:

• Monitoring implementation of GAPPD recommendations at the national, subnational, and community levels  

 
Templates

• Sample press release
• Sample NGO/CSO letter to minister of health to endorse the GAPPD
• Sample policy brief
• FAQs

 
 
This toolkit was developed in partnership by PATH and World Vision International with support and collaboration from the World Health Organization. A special note of thanks goes out to those who reviewed the documents and provided feedback, with special mention to WaterAid UK.