Non-governmental organizations have learnt how to use advocacy and PR tools effectively in order to achieve socially important for patients goals. On August 30-31, 2016 the CF \u201cPatients of Ukraine\u201d conducted under the USAID \u201cCost(less) Medicine\u201d Project training aimed at capacity building of NGOs.<\/p>\n
The representatives of the following organizations took part in the two-day event: PO\u00a0\u201cBat\u2019ky za vaktsinatsiiu\u201d, Ukrainian cancer federation, PO \u201cRozheva strichka Ukraina\u201d, PO \u201cSpark of Hope\u201d, CF \u201cSTOP CANCER\u201d, CF \u201cChildren with hemophilia\u201d.<\/p>\n
Qualified coaches shared their knowledge and experience in the sphere of advocacy. Executive Director of the Charitable Foundation \u201cPatients of Ukraine\u201d Olga Stefanyshyna, expert on advocacy of Reanimation Package of Reforms and the Board Member of \u201cTransparency International Ukraine\u201d Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, the representative of Anti-Corruption Action Centre Anastasiya Krasnosylska were among them. Through the case studies they explained what tasks advocacy can solve, which practices are effective and how to use advocacy tools in practice. Also, participants gained practical skills \u2013 due to grasped theoretical knowledge they managed to develop their own advocacy campaigns for organizations.<\/p>\n
The leading media expert Dmytro Simanskyi and the Head of the Coordination Council of the All-Ukrainian Network of PLWH Dmytro Sherembey shared their knowledge with patients\u2019 organizations on the peculiarities and nuances of PR. They told how to build effective communication between organizations and public, media and officials, explained how to organize press events effectively and present information to the media. Also, representatives of patients\u2019 organizations practiced communication with journalists and learned how to go on cameras.<\/p>\n
The organizers are confident that this experience will help organizations to build effective communication and defend the interests of thousands of patients with various diseases.<\/p>\n
The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for 50 years. In Ukraine, USAID\u2019s assistance focuses on three areas: Health and Social Transition, Economic Growth and Democracy and Governance. USAID has provided around 2 bln technical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine since 1992. For additional information about USAID programs in Ukraine, please visit our website:<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>http:\/\/ukraine.usaid.gov<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>or our Facebook page a<\/em>t <\/em>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USAIDUkraine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Non-governmental organizations have learnt how to use advocacy and PR tools effectively in order to achieve socially important for patients goals. On August 30-31, 2016 the CF \u201cPatients of Ukraine\u201d conducted under the USAID \u201cCost(less) Medicine\u201d Project training aimed at capacity building of NGOs. The representatives of the following organizations took part in the two-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11493,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}