Advocacy

We do policy advocacy at sub county and district levels.  Our core interventions under advocacy are;

Policy analysis and advocacy:  We identify service delivery gaps with critical evidence from the communities, document reviews, use of key informants and systems or structure assessment findings.  Gathered evidence is well documented, packaged and presented to the duty bearers for their information and action. We closely work with the Sub counties and district line departments and the policy makers both at sub county and district levels.  These serve as our duty bearers.   VVIVA does follow ups on identified and presented advocacy issues to the duty bearers until commitments are made and fulfilled towards improved service delivery.

Community empowerment: We empower communities to demand for improved quality, availability, and accessibility of health and other social services in the communities.  This is done through community awareness of their health and other social service rights and responsibilities to be able to prioritize issues as action plans to the respective duty bearers for their information and action.  Capacity of the women and teenage girl groups is built to ensure that they do effective advocacy which is evidence based.  The groups are supported to meet quarterly to identify gaps in service delivery and come up with action plans for duty bearer engagements.  These groups are empowered to take lead at organizing functional public forums where citizens in the communities are greatly mobilized to participate in a platform where respective duty bearers are engaged to respond to issues that affect service delivery in their communities.