Jordan
Advocacy and Supportive Environment
Activity Dates
2002-2007
 Activity Summary
The contribution of this component to the program is through creating an enabling, supportive environment for a normative ideological change to support the messages we need to disseminate and motivate change. Advocacy is a cross-cutting theme that flows through every other component as it streamlines from the lowest levels, such as informal community leaders, to the media and to the highest levels reaching parliamentarians. Through advocacy, leaders are able to create, shape and support the ideas of our campaigns and become norm-setters. Depending upon the specific health issue, national level advocacy efforts may also play a role in influencing policies, removing barriers, and facilitating change regarding health competence within the medical, physical, or social environments in which mass media programs take place.
Objectives, Activities, and Indicators
To invoke and sustain support among leaders, policy makers, stakeholders and decision-makers for an environment conducive to behavior change and adoption of healthy life styles.
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Activities
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Indicators
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Data Sources
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- Establish Community Health Committees at the local level to provide information for all members of the community at different life stages.
- Provide informational sessions related to healthy lifestyles through the Community Health Committees.
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- Increased awareness in the community of local leadership and local participation in health improvement efforts
- Increase in perceived opportunities for community members to participate in health improvement efforts
- Increase in perceived collective efficacy to advocate for improved health conditions at the community level
- Increased equity in access to health information at the community level
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- Partner reports (if implemented through local coalitions, partners could be required to document this)
- Baseline & impact surveys (exposure to, participation in, & impact of community information & events)
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- Train Community Health Committees to use Participatory Rapid Appraisal to assess health problems among community members and explore solutions.
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- Community Health Committees trained in Participatory Rapid Appraisal
- Increased consensus at community level on local health priorities
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- Training reports
- CHC needs assessments
- Partner reports (if implemented through local coalitions, partners could be required to document this)
- Baseline & impact surveys (exposure to, participation in, & impact of community information & events)
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- Provide communication support for the USAID supported programs implemented by Partnerships for Health Reform (PHR), CDC, MACRO, Policy and HPC/GS (communication component of the RHAP).
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- Advocacy materials and seminars developed for national and local policy makers and stakeholders
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- Workshop reports
- CA workplans & annual reports
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- Establish the “Health Parliamentary Allies” Committee and develop an action plan
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- “Healthy Parliamentary Allies” established and action plan developed
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- MOU signed
- Action plan finalized and disseminated
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Note about materials: Some of the materials and resources listed on each page are available in their full form, others are represented by image or citation only. For more information and resources, go to www.jhuccp.org
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