Enabling sustainability through advocacy: Key principles to better articulate program value and advance program objectives

Enabling sustainability through advocacy: Key principles to better articulate program value and advance program objectives

September 28th, 2016

National Neglected Tropical Disease Programs (NTDPs) have long known that advocacy can be a powerful tool for engaging stakeholders and catalyzing action. Over the past decade, many national NTDPs have used advocacy campaigns to encourage citizens to take preventive medicines for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as trachoma and lymphatic filariasis. Yet all too often

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